Nidhogg withdrew Bloodhound's Fang from the ground and stood still.
RUMBLE—!
The storm of death above the sky shook almost instantly. Everything exploded!
The raging wind transformed into a shockwave and spread, sweeping away everything on the surface of Stormveil City!
The wind dispersed. Nidhogg raised the visor of his Vagabond Knight helm and looked up.
The previous storm of death had vanished, replaced by a clear blue sky with white clouds, as if everything that had happened before was merely speculation.
Nidhogg lowered his head and saw the beastly spirits, which had been retreating under the attacks of Melina, Nepheli, and the others, fall one by one.
Their entrances and exits to the Dark Realm had been closed as the storm of death dissipated.
At that time, they were simply abandoned sons. There was no exit. They were surrounded and suppressed by everyone again and again until they finally died.
The bodies of the beastly spirits everywhere could be considered proof of the existence of the dark storm just now.
Another piece of evidence was the body now exposed at Nidhogg's feet.
It was the body of a young man, probably younger than thirty, with brown skin, clearly from the same ethnic group as Slan and the others. At that time, his limbs had been cut into pieces and no longer resembled anything.
Level Up: LV 95 → LV 96
It seemed that the effect of the "Pickled Golden Bird's Claw" earlier had brought Nidhogg close to LV 96 after the upgrade to LV 95. Now, he was being leveled up again after killing the Daredevil and destroying the Storm of Death.
After the last beastly spirit fell, Slan retracted his lightning weapon and approached this side, also looking at the young man's body.
Is the Daredevil truly dead?
Truly dead.
"Rakshas." Slan once again spoke the Night Devil's real name. "Happy killer. Maybe you really are a killer, but for the Bakiraka clan, this is very deadly."
"Assassins are those who answer to death, not those who are controlled by fate!"
Then Slan and the Dabasha standing behind him solemnly saluted Nidhogg and said, "I will report to my people that it was you who killed the Daredevil. You have earned the friendship of the Bakiraka clan."
"Good." Nidhogg put away Bloodhound's Fang.
Of course, he didn't mind having many trustworthy friends. Most of the Bakiraka people were very professional assassins. There was nothing wrong with their friendship.
Slan carefully examined Rakshas's body on the ground, then gathered all the fragments of the mask that belonged to him.
As proof to convince people that the Daredevil was dead, his prestige and these mask fragments were sufficient.
"Now that the Daredevil is dead, our part of the matter is concluded." Slan said to Nidhogg. "We're leaving. This journey has been very meaningful. Nidhogg, I hope we meet again soon."
"Goodbye," Nidhogg replied calmly.
Slan put away the mask fragments, led the Dabasha, nodded to Melina, Nepheli, Azan, and Serpico, and left, quickly disappearing into the corner of the courtyard porch.
"It seems the battle here is over."
Another voice sounded. A figure dropped from the sky onto the wall—it was the "spellblade" Rogier.
Rogier lowered his magic hat to keep it from being blown off by the wind as he jumped down. Then he glanced at the bodies of Godrick and the beastly spirits everywhere, and then smiled at Nidhogg.
"Why are you here?" Nidhogg asked.
"D and I finished investigating the 'Face of the Death Prince.' But he doesn't want to share it with me and is about to leave." Rogier spread his arms.
"I thought about leaving with them, but we were stopped by the sudden dark storm and these little monsters that suddenly appeared in the atrium."
"After that, whether D wanted to or not, we fought side by side, destroying the swarm of little monsters until the storm just recently dissipated and they stopped pouring out."
"D left immediately. I was going to come and see. Judging by the situation, Godrick was defeated by you. And these little monsters should be the forces of the God Hand you mentioned earlier, right?"
Nidhogg nodded and said, "You guessed correctly."
Rogier was still a little surprised that Nidhogg could defeat Godrick so quickly.
However, he remembered the scene when they fought together against the "Fell Omen" Margit and the Tibia's Caller Ship, and he could accept it again.
Thus, Nidhogg had in his hand a fragment of the Elden Ring—that is, a Great Rune.
Rogier didn't want to become the Elden Lord, but he couldn't help but sigh.
In fact, a demigod had died at the hands of a Tarnished. This was the first time since the Golden Lineage had ruled the Junction. Its significance was comparable to the death of the demigod Godwyn during the "Night of the Black Knives."
As for the existence of the Abyss and the God Hand, Rogier accepted it faster.
In the land of the Junction, there was no lack of everything, that is, no lack of faith in various gods.
The Greater Will of the Erdtree's power, the Scarlet Rot of the corrupted kin, the Fire Giants' fire gods, the stars and moons of the Carian royal family, and so on—there were always outer or inner gods at the Junction.
Now that this intersection overlaps with another world, it was no surprise that a new god had appeared with new beliefs and new believers.
Rogier was still a little excited. He looked at Godrick's body and said, "It seems you no longer need help. In that case, I need to leave."
"Where are you going?" Nidhogg asked.
"I'm going to learn more about Godwyn the Golden and the 'Night of the Black Knives.'"
Nidhogg thought that one of the main masters of the "Night of the Black Knives" would remain in his body. But at this moment, he didn't create a branch.
"Then we are destined to see each other again."
"Well, goodbye."
After bidding farewell to everyone, Rogier also left here after Slan and the others.
Nidhogg turned to Nepheli and asked, "What about you? Are you leaving now?"
Nepheli looked at the ruined Stormveil City, thought for a moment, but shook her head: "I've decided to stay here for a few more days. My foster father shouldn't be angry."
"I will persuade the surviving soldiers of Godrick, the exiled soldiers, and the residents to help clean up the bodies throughout Stormveil City, to prevent the spread of plague, and also to give peace to the victims turned into 'puppets.'"
"If there are still those who stubbornly resist, or if there are monsters you call 'beastly spirits' that survive, I will kill them."
When Azan heard this, his eyes lit up. He raised his visor and said to Nidhogg, "Nidhogg, if possible, Serpico and I want to cleanse Stormveil City with this female warrior."
After seeing the corpses all over the city, especially the "puppets" that had been so defiled, he felt compassion. He couldn't do nothing and just leave peacefully.
Serpico quietly complained beside him, "Why do I have to..."
Nidhogg didn't mind delaying a few days. He said, "Alright. Then you can act together."
"Come to me and Melina after everything is finished. Then we'll leave together, and I'll fulfill my promise and take you to Farnese."
Azan gratefully nodded and dragged the reluctant Serpico towards Nepheli.
Nepheli was, of course, glad to have someone who could help. So the three of them began by disposing of the bodies in the courtyard.
Nidhogg and Melina walked through all of Stormveil City. They also helped deal with stubborn people who were still trying to attack them at this time.
They looked around. The back door of the castle leading to Liurnia of the Lakes, and the tower gate leading to the portal of the Divine Tower for Godrick, were closed.
Indeed, Stormveil City had become independent. One couldn't just leave for other areas.
After another round, as they approached the inner city gates of Stormveil City, Nidhogg and Melina unexpectedly saw a woman in a red cloak at the door.
The "spirit tuner," Roderika, had indeed come.
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