Elden Ring, building a legion of ashes

Chapter 49 Corpse Hill

Another explosion rang out, and Xia Tong narrowly escaped death once again.

He then leaped off Torret, patting Torret's rump to signal it to quickly take Irena away from the vicinity.

"Ring ring—"

Xia Tong rang the soul-summoning bell in mid-air.

Ghostly ripples spread out.

The headless knight Ruthel emerged from the void.

Without uttering a single word, she vanished instantly, reappearing beside the golem's enormous foot.

The flaming spear in his hand pierced the golem's vulnerable ankle!

Xia Tong landed and rolled to dissipate the force, then drew the King's Army Greatsword, roared, and slashed fiercely at that spot!

"Bang! Bang!"

Two muffled thuds were heard.

The golem guard seemed to be in pain.

Once the enemy gets close, its huge bow becomes a burden and cannot be used to fight back.

It could only angrily raise its massive stone feet and stomp on the ground incessantly, trying to shake off the ants at its feet.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

However, it was too huge.

The sluggishness caused by her enormous size seemed rather clumsy and laughable in front of the agile Xia Tong and the teleporting Ruthel.

"Thump! Thump!"

As Xia Tong and Ruthel relentlessly attacked his ankle, the crucial support structure finally broke.

The golem guard could no longer stand; its massive body swayed, and its knees slammed to the ground.

It dropped the great bow and instead tried to strike with its giant hands.

But this was just a last-ditch effort.

Not long after, the golem guard finally crashed to the ground, kicking up a cloud of dust.

It stopped moving, and the flames that had been churning like lava on its chest gradually disappeared, turning from a dazzling gold to a dark red, and then completely extinguished, becoming a cold, desolate charred black.

Then a stream of runes flowed into Xia Tong's body, adding 1091 points!

......

After the battle ended, Xia Tong looked up at the sky, which was now completely dark.

Before me, the majestic city of Moen stood silently.

"Captain Ruthel, please protect Miss Irena." A battle is inevitable in the city later, and Ruthel, who has the ability to teleport, is the perfect person to protect the frail Irena.

Ruthel has no head, so she cannot nod in response to Xia Tong.

She simply raised the tower shield, which was decorated with an eclipse pattern, and tapped it lightly, producing a dull, reliable metallic sound.

That means you've agreed.

Xia Tong then walked to the blessing point at the entrance of Moen City, sat down and drank two sips of medicine, and summoned all the ashes.

Then he gently touched the blessing, allowing the power of the golden tree to fill his body.

The Holy Grail was then filled, and the spirit was replenished once more.

With everything prepared, Xia Tong finally led his Ashes Warband into Moen City.

The lower-level corridors of Moen City were piled with all sorts of miscellaneous items.

It was either piles of corpses or stacks of heavy, rotten wooden barrels and crates.

They crisscrossed haphazardly, the blood long since dried on the ground, and everywhere was filled with an atmosphere of chaos and disorder.

Xia Tong held the torch and slowly walked forward.

Very strange.

This is clearly the entrance to the first floor of Moen City, yet there is not a sound of any living person.

Only noises and strange cries came from above.

That sound must have come from the city square.

Ahead of him, three lone wolves twitched their noses, lowered their bodies, and wagged their tails, wary of any movement in the surrounding darkness.

Miss Irena stayed close to the headless knight Ruthel, never leaving his side.

"Da, da, da."

The only light in the corridor was the torch in Xia Tong's hand, and the only sound was the footsteps of him and the Ashes Battle Group.

But even after reaching the end of the corridor, not a single hybrid jumped out to attack Xia Tong.

Kara!

Xia Tong activated the mechanism, and the huge wooden elevator slowly descended.

Xia Tong and her group went up.

As the gears turned, the friction sound of the rusty chain echoed in the empty shaft, sounding particularly jarring.

Xia Tong's heart began to race.

He had no idea what kind of hellish scene lay ahead.

Will hundreds of hybrids gang up on him at the exit?

To be honest, what Xia Tong fears most right now is being surrounded and attacked.

With a "thump".

The elevator slowly came to a stop, having reached the top floor.

As soon as Xia Tong stepped out of the elevator, she smelled an extremely strong, burnt odor.

That wasn't the aroma of roasted meat, but the stench of burning corpses.

The firelight shone from the plaza above the steps, casting a faint red glow on the faces of Xia Tong and her group.

"It smells awful... there's a burnt smell in the air."

Irena frowned, covered her mouth and nose, and whispered something.

Xia Tong sensed that something was wrong.

He waved his hand, signaling Ruth and Irena to stay in the shadows at the elevator entrance and not to move around.

He then led a lone wolf up the steps, intending to scout ahead first.

He walked very lightly, trying not to make any noise.

The higher you go, the more intense the frenzied noise becomes.

Xia Tong gently peeked out and looked at the square above the platform.

The sight before him made his pupils shrink.

In one corner of the square, a huge mound of corpses had been piled up.

It was an "altar" built from rubble, broken barricades, and the corpses of countless human soldiers.

A raging fire burned atop the earthen hill.

Several human soldiers dressed in Moen City uniforms were hung on wooden stakes and roasted alive.

They were long dead, turned into twisted, charred, dried corpses, swaying gently like pendulums in the wind with the heat.

Beneath the fire lay countless hybrids.

These winged, scale-covered monsters, wielding rusty iron swords, were leaping and roaring wildly around the pile of burning corpses.

Some of them were gnawing on fallen limbs, while others were striking their shields with their weapons, producing a primitive rhythm of "bang, bang, bang".

"Awooo! Awooo! Awooo! Awooo—!"

Led by several strong, scaled hybrids, they howled loudly and danced wildly, as if they were holding some kind of evil celebration.

The ordinary winged hybrids, however, danced and howled around the fire to the rhythm, like a chaotic dance of demons.

Xia Tong had excellent eyesight and spotted a huge creature draped in a tattered green cloak lying in a dark corner of the square.

That was a crazed pumpkin-headed soldier.

His massive body was curled up on the ground, while his iconic flail was carelessly tossed aside.

Even from this distance, Xia Tong could still hear the muffled snoring coming from that huge metal helmet.

There were probably fifty or sixty hybrids reveling in the square, plus this pumpkin-headed soldier.

It's important to understand that hybrids are not demi-humans; they are far more powerful.

If they all rushed in, they could completely overwhelm Xia Tong's ash-filled battle group in an instant, leaving not even a trace.

Oh no, Barbie Q is gone!

Xia Tong's heart sank to the bottom.

Unfortunately, although the headless knight Ruthel can teleport, that ability only works on herself and cannot take others with her on spatial jumps.

Furthermore, teleportation also has strict distance limitations.

Otherwise, it would be so much easier to have Ruthel teleport her and her group directly to the entrance on the other side of the plaza.

"etc……"

Xia Tong looked at Ruthel, and a sudden inspiration flashed in her mind.

Since moving our own side is not an option, why not make the enemy move instead?