Elden Ring, building a legion of ashes

Chapter 92 The Calling Ship of Tibia

Xia Tong rode the Torret to a stop at the edge of Shuihuan Village.

Considering the unpredictable high maneuverability of the Tibian call ships and the inconvenience of naval warfare,

Xia Tong left the stolen black horse with D, and also entrusted the defenseless demi-human Burke to D for the time being.

Although it was their first meeting, Xia Tong knew from her understanding of D that this upright hunter was willing to protect the weak, even if Burke was a demi-human.

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The village before me had been completely transformed into a lifeless, desolate swamp.

The murky shallow water submerged the ruins, and a thick, grayish-white fog hung in the air, reducing visibility to a minimum and giving off an eerie, deathly atmosphere.

"Waaah—"

A mournful and long horn blast pierced through the fog, sending chills down one's spine.

Xia Tong quickly turned her head.

On the water in the center of the village, a dilapidated purple ghost boat was gliding silently.

On the boat sat a skeleton ferryman draped in rags—the Tibian Calling Boat.

It held the huge horn in its hand and was slowly playing it.

The music was so awful that it gave Xia Tong goosebumps.

As it played, the water began to boil.

Countless pale arms stretched out of the water.

Behind them, a gigantic, even taller than a house, phantom skeleton was slowly taking shape at the stern of the ship!

"Holy shit!"

Upon seeing that colossal, sky-covering behemoth, Xia Tong couldn't help but swear, instantly feeling a chill run down her spine.

"Was I a little too pretentious just now?"

He's starting to think about going back.

And in the distance.

D and the demi-human Burke, who were located on the hillside, were watching Xia Tong from afar.

The enormous skeletal phantom was clearly visible even to them, and it exuded a powerful sense of oppression.

"Th-th-what is that?!"

The demi-human Burke was almost completely stunned.

This was the first time he had ever seen such a huge monster.

Even the mountain demons he had seen before were far smaller than that skeletal phantom.

"Tong... Brother Tong, can you really defeat it?"

Burke looked at D with concern, and mustered his courage to ask:

"Can you help Tong-ge?"

D stared intently at the distant battlefield, his answer cold and decisive:

"cannot."

After all, he had already given advice.

Moreover, he was genuinely curious about just how powerful this faded one was.

If he can't even solve the current predicament, then there's no need for me to introduce him to the Beast Priest.

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"Rutil, don't worry about us! Just teleport to the ship and fight that skeleton ferryman!"

Xia Tong issued the command directly to Rutil.

The latter tapped the shield lightly with his spear, making a thud, indicating that he understood.

Xia Tong's staff lit up.

Three brilliant meteors sped toward the skeleton ferryman in the distance!

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

The pyroxene meteor was fast and accurate, hitting the ferryman directly.

The latter staggered from the blow, but the horn-like calls from his mouth continued, still summoning the dead.

Ruthel, however, went directly above it.

Yellow-black flames suddenly erupted from the knight's lance in his hand, surrounded by swirling black mist.

The spear, carrying a whistling aura of death, pierced fiercely towards the skeleton ferryman on the boat like a black lightning bolt!

However, after several spears were fired in succession.

Xia Tong received feedback from Rutil through the mental link:

"It has strong resistance to death spells; my attacks weren't very effective!"

Xia Tong suddenly felt a bit overwhelmed.

Only then did he realize that the Calling Ship was originally related to the Dead Root and belonged to the Deathborn faction.

Ruthel's death curse is also related to the root of death.

This is why people struck by death curses will have gnarled tree roots grow inside their bodies once the cursed power accumulates to a certain threshold.

The power of the same origin will naturally reduce the damage.

Just at this time.

The enormous, skeletal phantom lying in the water moved.

It raised one arm high and then slammed it down heavily on Xia Tong.

"boom!"

Xia Tong lightly kicked the horse's belly, and Toret made a double jump, narrowly avoiding it.

Then, the shallow water surface was subjected to a huge impact.

In an instant, a waterless vacuum area was created, with water waves splashing high and the surrounding water rushing in to fill the void.

"Splash!"

Xia Tong was soaked.

The jets of water pelted him like water bullets, some hitting his face and making his cheeks burn.

Just then, the sound of a storm arose beside Xia Tong.

Ingwell then brandished his halberd.

Beneath the halberd, an invisible whirlwind arose, which engulfed the approaching water, forming a wall of water.

He swung his halberd horizontally.

The several ordinary skeleton soldiers that rushed over were all knocked down and their limbs were smashed.

The lone wolves then take advantage of the situation to tear at the animals in the water, preventing them from reviving.

Because the water is shallow, their movement speed is somewhat hampered, but they are still very fierce.

far away.

Ruthel's death curse was ineffective.

However, the physical attacks of its eclipse shield and spear were still repeatedly inflicted on the ferrymen on the ship, either stabbing or smashing them!

It was beaten until it was knocked over and sprawled out.

At the same time, Xia Tong had also arrived.

With a wave of his staff, three or four more Radiant Stone Great Demon Gravels were hurled at the Skeleton Ferryman.

Because of the swaying of the water, only two shots hit the skeleton ferryman; of the other two, one hit the hull and the other slammed into the water.

The giant shard of the sapphire was already large and extremely fast, and it exploded like a small cannonball, causing the water to surge.

They were surrounded and attacked.

The ferryman sounded the horn again.

Then the entire calling ship began to fade away, and finally completely dissolved and disappeared.

He teleported!

When it reappeared, it was already beneath the giant skeletal phantom.

Indeed, it was the safest place on the entire battlefield.

With a loud "boom!"

Xia Tong was about to turn his horse around and charge towards the new location of the call ship.

Suddenly, a figure flew backward.

It then crashed violently into a dilapidated building in Shuihuan Village, causing the walls to collapse and water to splash everywhere.

Xia Tong then realized that it was the lost knight Ingwell!

Faced with the enormous size difference, he was sent flying by a single palm strike from the giant skeletal phantom!

Even when Xia Tong looked back at where he had originally stood, a lone wolf had been swatted and vanished.

The summoning ship teleported to the side of the enormous skeletal phantom.

Ruth also disappeared from Xia Tong's sight.

When she reappeared, she had already used teleportation to catch up to the vicinity of the call ship.

The flames of death on the spear in her hand had been completely extinguished.

This way, we can preserve our strength to the greatest extent. Since death spells won't work on it anyway, we might as well use physical attacks directly.

Its spear thrust straight out, and it charged toward the ferryman once again!

"Clatter!"

Just then, the water beneath Ruthel stirred.

The other arm of the giant skeletal phantom, which had been hidden underwater, suddenly emerged and grabbed Ruthel.

Everything happened so fast that Ruthel didn't even have time to react!