Elden Ring, building a legion of ashes

Chapter 55 Father and Daughter Reunion

They are soldiers from Moen City who are guarding the city!

"Father?"

Elena suddenly raised her head; though she couldn't see, her blind eyes accurately pinpointed the direction of the sound.

"Father! I'm here! I'm here!"

Elena's ears were so sharp that she clearly distinguished the loudest voice among the shouts of battle—it was the voice of Edgar, the lord of Moen City!

Her voice echoed in the stairwell, through the mixed-race group, and reached the platform at the top.

Edgar, who was charging and fighting, heard that familiar voice, which was tinged with tears.

He trembled instantly, stopped abruptly, and could hardly believe his ears.

"Could it be that Grek's reinforcements encountered his daughter on the road, and Elena brought them along?"

He guessed that way.

Immediately afterwards, another shout of "I'm here!" clearly reached my ears.

"Elena! It must be Elena! There's no mistake, it's my daughter Elena!"

Edgar suddenly charged forward like a madman.

The physical pain seemed to have completely healed at this moment, and the surge of adrenaline made him feel no fatigue at all.

That's great!

Hearing the deafening roar of the soldiers from Moen City behind him, and seeing Xia Tong in front of him who looked like a god of death.

The mongrels in front of Xia Tong completely broke down psychologically.

They immediately turned and ran, and as soon as they rushed out of the stairwell, they spread their wings and fled in panic into the dark sky.

The mixed-breeds below Ruthel did the same, screaming and running downstairs.

In an instant, not a single hybrid dared to linger around Xia Tong's entire Ashes Battle Group.

"That's... all?"

Xia Tong was at a loss for words, not knowing whether to laugh or cry.

They were fighting to the death just moments ago, but in the blink of an eye, the enemy had all fled.

"Clang, clang, clang!"

The chaotic and rapid clanging of plate armor came from above.

In the distance, the light from a large number of torches gradually illuminated the dimly lit corridor.

When Xia Tong and her group finally emerged from the dark stairwell and arrived at the spacious upper platform of Moen City, they breathed a long sigh of relief.

The cool moonlight poured down from above, illuminating the mess on the ground.

The mixed-race creatures in the distance flapped their wings and fled, a dark mass seemingly retreating towards the beach behind Moen City.

Nearby, a large group of Moen City soldiers, accompanied by the clanging sound of their armor rubbing together, quickly approached Xia Tong.

The first person was a tall man covered in blood.

The man immediately spotted the petite figure next to Xia Tong, covered in dust.

"Elena! Elena! It really is you, Elena!"

"Oh! Queen Marika, thank goodness! It really is you!"

When Edgar saw Elena, he was overjoyed and his eyes instantly welled up with tears.

Then he realized his daughter was covered in blood, and he rushed over to check her carefully, asking anxiously:

"Are you hurt? Does anything hurt?"

Although Elena couldn't see, the familiar voice made her burst into tears instantly.

"I'm not injured, Father. It was Lord Xia Tong who protected me along the way; that blood wasn't mine."

Edgar then suddenly looked up at Xia Tong beside him.

Xia Tong looked unremarkable; she was even wearing only a plain piece of Grik armor.

But the resolute look on his face and the intense, palpable aura of bloodlust emanating from him made Edgar realize that this warrior was no ordinary man.

"Hello, I am Edgar, the lord of Moen City."

"Hello, I am a faded person named Xia Tong."

"The Faded One? The Faded One?"

Edgar paused for a moment, then became respectful.

"Legend has it that every faded one who can return to the border is a brave and skilled warrior, and now it seems that the legend is indeed true."

As he spoke, Edgar's gaze passed over Xia Tong and fell upon the tall, headless knight beside him, who exuded an aura of death.

"Is this your ashes?" Edgar asked hesitantly.

"She is my friend."

Xia Tong answered calmly.

"Oh, oh, I see."

Edgar took a deep look at the terrifying figure wielding the Eclipse Shield, but didn't dwell on the matter.

He then led Xia Tong to the temporary camp above Moen City.

The other soldiers were sent to patrol the surrounding area and find out the specific details of the mixed-race retreat.

……

"What? You're saying you and your...friends fought your way all the way from the plaza below?"

Beside the campfire.

Edgar, Xia Tong, and Elena were sitting around resting.

Upon hearing Xia Tong's description, Edgar was so shocked that he stood up from his chair and stared at the young man in front of him in disbelief.

"No, to be precise, we did not fight in an open square."

"Instead, they were brought up through the narrow, right-hand spiral staircase inside the castle."

Xia Tong took a sip of hot soup and offered an explanation.

Before coming to Moen City, he was thinking about how to break through the mixed army guarding the city.

If Xia Tong and his group were to face a large-scale siege in an open area, they would definitely not be able to withstand it.

That's why Xia Tong said "We're doomed" when she came up from the elevator and saw the mixed-race people gathered in the square.

The only chance of winning is to limit the opponent's numerical advantage in narrow terrain.

"You mean, you killed your way through nearly a hundred hybrids in that narrow stairwell to get here?"

Edgar found it hard to believe and checked it again.

After receiving Xia Tong's affirmative answer, he fell silent, his eyes filled with overwhelming shock.

Edgar, as a knight who had lost his homeland, was a man of great knowledge and experience.

The use of cremated remains is rare in border areas, but not unheard of.

He remembered the old general, Neo, who was far away in the northern city of Sol.

Edgar couldn't help but get teary-eyed when he thought of General Neo.

After the former Storm King was defeated by Gopher, it was General Neo who gave many displaced knights who had lost their homeland a place to belong.

Unfortunately, he was old, and in exchange for the release of the captured knights, he gave up his leg and remained in the distant northern ice plains.

General Neo could summon the spirit of the Lost Knight to aid him; it was a powerful force that Edgar had witnessed firsthand.

Legend has it that there is also a magical creature called the Spirit-Calling Snail.

They are born with the ability to summon various powerful spirits, including even the terrifying Forge Knights.

That's a Forge Knight!

Edgar had fought against the Forge Knights in his early years but suffered a crushing defeat, and knew their terror all too well.

In addition, he had heard that the Full Moon Queen of the Reyallucalia Academy, as well as some very powerful magicians and prayer masters, were all experts in summoning spirits.

However, spirits are ultimately only auxiliary.

The powerful spiritual strength a person leaves behind after death is limited.

Even if summoned from ashes, their strength is unlikely to surpass that of their living self, unless they are enhanced through some kind of magical means.

However, Edgar was unaware of this enhancement technology.

Of all the ashes of Xia Tong, the one that truly made Edgar's heart tremble was that of the majestic and tall headless knight.

The large shield in her hand, painted with a solar eclipse pattern, and the yellow-black flames swirling around her spear, instilled a sense of fear in Edgar, who was also a knight.

That's the smell of death.