[dark souls iii]: This is great, time to start learning again. Once we learn Soul Smelting, we can smelt others' souls into weapons. What kind of weapons will the varied souls of people become? I'm really looking forward to it.
[marvel]:...Your words sound like a big villain who manipulates souls.
[dark souls iii]: What gave you the illusion that we are good people?
[marvel]:...[nier: automata]: Don't talk nonsense, I'm a great person who saved the world. Don't make sweeping generalizations.
[dark souls iii]: He's flustered, he's flustered.
[nier: automata]: (_)
[elden ring]: Brothers, I've returned after mastering my studies!
[elden ring] sent a [Skill Memory] Red Envelope.
[elden ring] @[the talos principle]: Good brother, please help copy and distribute the memories. These are the combat techniques I painstakingly learned, I'm exhausted.
[dark souls iii]: You finally drained Bernahl dry?
[elden ring]:...[elden ring]: Get lost, you hentai!
[dark souls iii]: Ehe~
[elden ring]: Ehe your head, I ###########!
[the talos principle]: Why is there censorship... [dark souls iii]: Who knows what he said, perhaps the Chat Group couldn't stand it anymore, so it automatically censored him.
[the talos principle]: I think if the Chat Group really couldn't stand it, it should have muted you first... [elden ring]: Damn! This Chat Group actually censors swear words! I ###!
[dark souls iii]: Alright, alright, that's enough. You're a grown-up, why are you acting like a child?
[elden ring]: (#▼dish▼), you ############################!
After a furious rant, Tarnished Xia Yu looked at the continuous string of black bars and felt terrible. Why would the Chat Group have something as outrageous as black bar censorship?
After some thought, Tarnished Xia Yu decided to be more civilized.
[elden ring]: Ashen One, you rat, you are utterly despicable. How can a dog, pig, rat, and insect like you stand alongside me? Nine out of ten people despise you!
[marvel]:...Awesome.
[clash of clans]: What are you playing? Count me in.
[elden ring]: We're still scolding a self-important, boastful rat.
[dark souls iii]: Hey, hey, that's enough. You're the only one here scolding me, don't mislead others. Also, are you that idle? I'm already learning Soul Smelting techniques, and you're still messing around in the group chat!
[dark souls iii]: Go study! You're always wasting time in this group chat. A rotten wood cannot be carved, and a wall of dung cannot be plastered!
[elden ring]: I ############################!
Despite the black bar censorship, Tarnished Xia Yu continued his furious rant. Only when the entire screen was filled with black bars did Xia Yu finally stop.
Then he let out a long sigh of relief, feeling his heart lighten considerably. Indeed, a good rant can make one feel much happier.
However, thinking of Ashen Xia Yu starting to study again made Tarnished Xia Yu grit his teeth in frustration. Compete, everyone compete!
So, it's a competition, huh? Then let's see who can compete harder. No rest, I'm going to find Teacher Sellen right away!
Sorceress Sellen is the magic teacher in elden ring. When the Tarnished comes to her requesting magic lessons, Sellen will not refuse. She is much gentler than dark souls iii's magic teacher, Orbeck.
Thinking of this, Tarnished Xia Yu suddenly wanted to mock Ashen Xia Yu. His magic teacher is the gentle Sellen, much better than your Orbeck.
But the next moment, Tarnished Xia Yu thought of another teacher from dark souls iii, Karla, who was also a gentle female sorcerer.
Damn it, that guy also has a female teacher. Although he has another teacher besides Sellen, it's a big turtle. Even though Teacher Turtle is also very good, he just couldn't accept it!
Tarnished Xia Yu ground his teeth in frustration, once again activating the black bar spam mode!
[dark souls iii]:???
[dark souls iii]: What did I do to provoke you again? Still ranting here.
Finally, Tarnished Xia Yu, feeling refreshed again, ended his black bar spamming and set off in high spirits to find Teacher Sellen.
According to in-game information, Teacher Sellen is hiding in the Waypoint Ruins located along the road in Limgrave, where a crazed Pumpkin Head Soldier is also imprisoned.
However, he didn't know whether that Pumpkin Head Soldier was imprisoned because he went mad, or if he was originally a soldier guarding the sorceress.
Xia Yu first used a nearby site of grace to teleport to the closest site of grace to the Waypoint Ruins; he couldn't teleport any closer.
These dense sites of grace spread across the land require one to leave their presence at them before they can be used for teleportation.
Therefore, if Xia Yu wanted to teleport between sites of grace, he needed to first "activate" the site of grace before he could use its teleportation.
After teleporting to his destination, he would need his good brother Torrent. Good brother Torrent travels a thousand miles a day, consuming only a handful of Rowa Fruit, naturally and without pollution.
After summoning Torrent with the spectral steed whistle, Xia Yu vaulted onto its back, then nudged its flanks and galloped away.
The surrounding scenery rapidly receded. Because the spectral steed is a manifestation of a soul, Torrent could traverse even the most treacherous terrain as if it were flat ground.
If he encountered any Undead or Godrick's soldiers along the way, Xia Yu would unhesitatingly kill them and absorb their Runes.
He had to admit, the Rock Sling magic was really useful, but it consumed a lot of FP. After galloping for so long, half of his Cerulean Flask had already been used up.
The Cerulean Tears in the Flask are condensed pure magic; drinking them can restore most of one's FP.
Correspondingly, there is the Crimson Flask, a Flask that restores HP. As long as a person isn't completely dead, it can heal all injuries.
Tears are blessings produced by the erdtree, sacred items that can automatically replenish over time. Of course, they can also be replenished directly with Rune energy.
After a long while, even the sun had completed a cycle, before Xia Yu finally saw the Waypoint Ruins in the distance.
It was a collection of dilapidated ruins. Perhaps once, the Waypoint Ruins had people, but ever since the elden ring shattered, The Lands Between also became dilapidated.
The Scourge of Death ravaged The Lands Between. The dead could not return to the erdtree, only surviving with withered bodies, repeating the pain of dying and living, living and dying. In Soulslike games, immortality is never a blessing, but a curse.
After returning Torrent to the whistle to rest, Xia Yu drew out his two staves: a Astrologer's Staff and a meteorite staff.
Now, call him the Dual-Wielding Berserker Mage!
Although he couldn't go up and smash enemies' heads, he could use magic to crush them!
Later, when he learned Haima Gavel, he would apply all buffs to himself, then use his staff to conjure Haima Gavel and smash enemies to death.
Every mage has a melee dream, and Haima Gavel can fulfill that dream!
Haima Gavel, essential magic for melee mages!
Holding two staves, Xia Yu stealthily advanced through the ruins without making a sound, because the Waypoint Ruins were home to a patch of moving poisonous flowers, the "Sick Flowers" Miranda.
But rather than calling those creatures sick flowers, it would be more accurate to call them poisonous flowers. They were poisonous flowers that emitted toxic pollen, which could easily blend into the air, making them impossible to guard against.
Moreover, within the flower cluster, there was also a Miranda Main Flower, significantly larger than the ordinary poisonous flowers, and it could emit holy light beams, akin to scattered lasers.
It was incredibly absurd; a flower could actually emit lasers, and lasers that descended from the sky at that!