Chapter 238: Lands Between

Meng Bai had never before encountered the Secret Realm of Miracle City, nor did she know the style and characteristics of Miracle City.

But perhaps due to her own talent, she was better at feeling and capturing information; she could still easily distinguish between what was pretentious and what was genuine.

Just a few seconds.

Only a few short scenes were presented.

She had already sensed the vast amount of information and the weighty story contained within this Secret Realm, from the sound of the hammering filled with contradictory will, the undulations of the aura at the moment the Elden Ring shattered, and the display of the golden giant tree and the city war.

“Miracle Lord has incorporated many implications and foreshadowing in these short scenes!”

“Who are the man and woman who are constantly hammering?”

“The same pose, the same scene, both half-naked, the pants are the same, could it be the same person? Why does this person have two performances, this is too strange, what exactly is it implying…”

“And the Elden Ring and the golden giant tree that contain the power of law…”

Meng Bai’s mind was simultaneously filled with many ideas and thoughts.

Hundreds of thousands of adventurers were simultaneously exploring this Sick Realm story in the hall.

【The message brought by the fallen leaves…】

【At the other end of the mist, our hometown, “Lands Between,” the great Elden Ring has already shattered… The Eternal Queen Marika has vanished!】

【On the night of the black knives filled with conspiracy, “Godwyn the Golden” became the first of the dead.】

【And Marika’s children – the various Demigods – seized the Elden Ring Shards, but because of that power, they fell into a wrong path, fell into madness, and triggered the Shard War… In the end, in this war without a king, the Greater Will banished them!】

The narrator slowly narrated.

The scenes were constantly changing.

Qi Ji did not completely copy the original opening.

Instead, he incorporated some promotional CG clips and self-made parts.

From Prince of Death Godwyn, the mysterious Dark Moon Ranni, to the Blasphemous King Rykard swallowed by the snake, to Mohg, Lord of Blood, who abducted the Godman Miquella… all were briefly displayed, but without further explanation.

Among them, there were some scenes with a very grand amount of information.

It gave people a feeling of being impressed.

The final scene was the moment of the duel between Malenia, Blade of Miquella and General Radahn.

Malenia at the same time emitted a sharp sword intent that could break through everything and the aura of rot that could not be kept away from anything, while the giant figure of General Radahn was filled with a sense of pressure like a great mountain, two greatswords and a purple energy representing gravity surrounding his body.

“Wow, that’s amazing, judging from the aura of these two, I’m afraid they are at least not below the fourth stage!”

“Who are these two? They look so powerful!”

“Why are they dueling?”

“The combat strength of this Secret Realm is indeed not low, there are many essence souls worth brushing, it is a world worth exploring!”

“…”

At this point, only half of the opening had been shown.

It only took a little over two minutes.

The amount of information contained in this was enormous, every scene, every detail, was worth studying with a magnifying glass by the adventurers.

Newcomer Meng Bai was completely immersed in this very unique narrative style.

She had not been without seeing excellent story-type Secret Realms in the past, but this creative way of playing the opening had only been seen in Miracle City so far.

Of course.

This is not the key point.

The most important thing is the way of storytelling. Other underground cities usually enter the Secret Realm, then through a guiding figure, or a paragraph of text, or even entering the way of issuing the setting text for explanation, so that the adventurers can fully understand the theme.

Simply put.

General story-type Secret Realms.

The Lords are often afraid that the amount of information they convey is not enough, and they are also afraid that the adventurers cannot fully understand their creation, so they will express themselves very actively.

But the first Sick Realm story of the Nightmare Sick Realm, “Elden Ring”.

Meng Bai felt an extraordinary restraint!

The Miracle City Lord was only displaying, but did not provide any extra explanations. He didn’t worry at all whether the adventurers were confused, and this seemed to be a more advanced and confident approach.

The second half of the opening continued to be released.

A statue of a goddess stood in a high place with outstretched arms.

The Great Plaza in front of this statue was piled with tens of thousands of coffins and cold remains.

And the background narration voice, which had always been low and slow, suddenly became high-pitched and excited:

【Oh, so, Tarnished, the dead who still cannot be eternally at peace!】

【The blessings we lost long ago are calling out…】

【”Warrior of the Wastes” Hoarah Loux… the shining golden mask…”Fia, the Deathbed Companion”… the despised “Foul Eater”… “Knight of a Hundred Minds” Gideon Ofnir…】

A corresponding scene was given for each name or title mentioned.

Golden bright lights appeared around those who seemed to be dead.

When the high-pitched recitation gradually fell into silence, the scene in front of the adventurers also fell into darkness, and such silent darkness lasted for about three seconds.

Another golden light appeared.

The light illuminated a small patch of darkness.

It slowly fell like snowflakes on a nameless corpse.

【The lost blessings have once again returned to the nameless Tarnished…】

【Please advance towards the other side of the mist, arrive at the Lands Between to pay respects to the Elden Ring… and become the Elden Lord!】

All explanations were finished.

After the nameless corpse was blessed.

He was resurrected and slowly stood up from the mist.

Meng Bai, upon seeing the figure and appearance, immediately showed surprise and excitement.

Wasn’t this the character she had personally created bit by bit? Before she could think more, a perspective switch suddenly occurred, and at the same time, she gradually gained various senses.

Meng Bai officially entered the body of the character she created, which meant that the adventure had officially begun!

The new Secret Realm never lacks topic popularity.

The two latest Secret Realms in Miracle City are the “Nine Realms Tree” from Foreign Lands Ten Kingdoms Chronicle and this “Elden Ring”!

Although Kratos’s adventure had only just begun not long ago.

But the Nine Realms Tree was already the third kingdom unlocked in Ten Kingdoms Chronicle.

Elden Ring was the first Sick Realm story!

Adventurers will connect the Elden Ring story with the worldview of “Nightmare Sick Realm” for research and conjecture.

Because of this, the Elden Ring story is not only very attractive in itself, but will also attract many adventurers who are interested in the Sick Realm world to come and study.

Black Stone Hammer King said: “The fourth Secret Realm ‘Nightmare Sick Realm’ feels so eerie!”

Pig King: “Understanding from the literal meaning of Sick Realm, this worldview seems to be diseased by some kind of pollution, what does nightmare mean? It seems to be a completely different worldview!”

Lone Wolf nodded: “Yes, the biggest feeling this Secret Realm world gives me is crazy and obscure, and the distorted starry sky presented on the login interface is not sure how it was formed.”

“The Elden Ring story must have a connection with this diseased world, but what exactly is going on, we have to explore it slowly.”

“Another world worth exploring!”

“Old Thief Qi is awesome!”

“…”

After the opening was broadcast.

The adventure in the Lands Between officially began.

Adventurers inside and outside the Secret Realm Crystal launched a series of discussions about this.

Everyone was not only very curious about the story of Nightmare Sick Realm and Elden Ring.

South Mountain Guest: “What does this opening plot mean? Although I can feel that there is a lot of information, it is vague and unclear.”

Time Traveler said: “I think the basic information is still not difficult to understand.”

Cat Mengmeng: “Please, Traveler Boss, analyze it for us!”

Time Traveler nodded and said: “The most straightforward and shallow information in this display is that there is a character named Marika, nicknamed ‘Eternal Queen’, who shattered something called the Elden Ring.”

“The Elden Ring was broken into many fragments.”

“Each piece contains powerful power of law.”

“These fragments seem to not only contain powerful power, but also have special meanings, so Marika’s children, a group of Demigods, launched a war to seize the fragments.”

“There shouldn’t be a winner in the process of the war.”

“In order to pay homage to the Elden Ring again, some kind of power resurrected a large group of powerful figures.”

“The protagonist we are playing is not a famous person, but one of the many figures who have been resurrected, and there may be thousands upon thousands of people like us.”

“…”

“If I analyze from the current information.”

“If I’m not mistaken, the main story of this story itself should not be complicated.”

“It’s nothing more than competing and fighting with various competitors, and then challenging the Demigods who hold the Elden Ring Shards, and finally going through the process of recasting the Elden Ring to become the king…”

“…”

Time Traveler expressed his guess based on the current information.

He continued: “Of course, the main quest may not be difficult to guess, but this story and this world still have too many mysteries waiting to be solved.”

“For example, why did Marika shatter the Elden Ring, and who is the man who hammered the Elden Ring with Marika?”

“Is Marika a human or a god?”

“Why are her children called Demigods?”

“Why was Godwyn the Golden Prince assassinated, and for what reason was he called the first of the dead? After all, there have already been countless dead people in the plot display, and this world seems to have a very long history of civilization, he shouldn’t be the first dead person anyway.”

“What does that golden tree symbolize?”

“What is the Greater Will?”

“I always feel that the laws and systems of this world are very special, and the various Demigods and famous Tarnished also seem to have a lot of stories, and these have to be gradually explored and decoded during our adventure…”

Time Traveler’s interpretation.

Made all the adventurers open-minded.

The opening narration only had a few sentences in total, and most people just went in one ear and out the other, not noticing so many details. But at this moment, being pointed out by Time Traveler, they all felt impressed.

Lord Ren Wanxiong said: “Amazing, so few scenes and narration, but it hides so much information?”

Lord Gao Yue: “And this is probably only a part of it, after all, Time Traveler is not a worm in Lord Qi’s stomach, he is only more careful than ordinary people, and it is impossible to discover all the information.”

Ran Tianyun: “Amazing, Lord Qi really has no bottleneck. I have a premonition that this Nightmare Sick Realm will be built into a very unique world!”

Li Jianhan: “The Demigods and big shots displayed at the beginning of this story are probably luxurious heavyweight materials. I don’t know how many precious people or monsters there are in this Secret Realm.”

Everyone could feel it.

This worldview is definitely not simple.

This first Sick Realm story is definitely quite rich. From various essence souls, skills to various equipment and local specialties, it is estimated that there will be a lot of harvests worth looking forward to!

…

At this moment.

Lord’s Mansion.

Qi Ji was also paying attention to and continuing to improve the world of Elden Ring.

Although the Elden Ring original work was already a very excellent classic, a grand plot, a world full of epic feel, but there were still great differences between video games and the real world.

The remade Elden Ring world in Miracle City has a considerable gap compared to the original.

The first is the area. Elden Ring is an open world game with a very large area. According to some players on the Internet from the previous life, according to the map scale and calculation, it is generally believed that the total land area of the Lands Between is 79 square kilometers.

This does not include the “Shadowlands” area of the DLC and the “Nymgve” area outside the Lands Between in the derivative work Black Night.

Qi Ji estimated that it would be around a hundred square kilometers in total.

This is indeed big enough for a game, because the game map will definitely be scaled down.

For example, relatively repetitive wilderness areas without information density will be compressed, so two regions with completely different local customs, power structures, and weather environments may be separated by several kilometers.

The Secret Realm of Miracle City.

Is undoubtedly a more vivid and real world.

When the Inspiration Crystal is formed, it will automatically complete the missing content and logic of the original work.

Qi Ji also hoped to create a more vivid and real world, so the Lands Between under his creation would be much larger in area and scale.

He assumed that the planet was similar in size to Earth, and as the capital of the Golden Order Dynasty and the center of all rights and struggles, the area known as the Lands Between was similar in size to Switzerland and Denmark.

Increasing the area is just the basis.

Just having an increase in area is too empty.

Qi Ji must also make a lot of supplements in the details.

During the adventure of adventurers in this Lands Between, they will not only experience all the main and side quests of Elden Ring, but also come into contact with a large number of original NPCs, Tarnished who chase kingship, and various settlements that fit the worldview.

In this way, the ecological system of this world can be improved.

Thus making it look more real.

In short, while ensuring that the main plot is authentic.

Qi Ji also arranged more original content for exploration, discovery, and unlocking.

After completing all the main story, it is expected that challenges will be further opened, allowing various Elden Lords to have the opportunity to challenge the Outer Gods and even the avatar of the Greater Will, and in this process, a part of the worldview of Nightmare Sick Realm will be revealed.

As for the battle?

First of all, it can be confirmed.

The Miracle City Secret Realm does not have invincible frames for rolling.

It is impossible for the Elden Lords to roll on the ground after hitting twice!

Among the initial identities, the person without any use has an initial strength of one-star first order, and the other nine initials generally have a five-star first order strength.

But the weakest of any main story BOSS is the four or five stars of third order.

Among them, the particularly powerful even start at the fourth order, the difficulty of this adventure can be imagined.

But fortunately, in this adventure in the Lands Between, the protagonist can upgrade by collecting Runes and learning various skills, so it has a high growth potential and growth speed.

“Jill, Mai Shiranui, you are responsible for monitoring the Lord’s market.”

Qi Ji gave orders to the two assistants and maids: “If you find a third-order Training Tower blueprint, tell me immediately.”

“Yes!”

The two Lord’s Assistants quickly took orders.

Qi Ji wants to build the Miracle Cinema, he must create a special fourth-order Training Tower “Illusion Enlightenment Tower”, and if he wants to create this kind of fourth-order special Training Tower, he must first build a third-order Training Tower.

Miracle City Cinema project.

But it is a project that the Lord takes very seriously.

But Qi Ji has limited energy, and things like monitoring the market can be completely left to his subordinates.

He also arranged a batch of creation tasks in the Lands Between for his Secret Realm scriptwriting team, and asked them to create another thousand character settings for the Tarnished, and then he turned his attention back to the Secret Realm Hall to understand the adventure progress and situation of each Secret Realm.

Currently.

The progress of the Nine Realms Tree Secret Realm is steadily advancing.

The adventurers have already passed through several original Northern European towns, and have gained a deeper understanding of this worldview, and at the same time, they have come into contact with Freyja, who claims to be a forest witch.

This, Odin’s ex-wife, perceived Kratos’s hidden divinity and helped them begin their adventure.

Qi Ji’s enriched and optimized Kratos’s story is more vivid and interesting than the original, and now the bald man holding an axe’s popularity in Miracle City is also constantly increasing, and the accumulated number of role-players has reached two thousand five hundred.

Arad world.

Because it is the first role-playing online game.

And only Golden Creek City and Thousand Lake City regions can enter this Secret Realm.

The popularity of the Arad Continent is always very high, and now there are dozens of adventurers who have reached level twenty-five or six, and they are full of fighting spirit and are joining forces to challenge the City Lord’s Palace, the final area of the Sky City.

“Not bad.”

“Very energetic!”

Qi Ji’s gaze turned to Elden Ring again.

He turned his attention to a special adventurer.

This adventurer is none other than Meng Bai… The transforming ability of this little dragon is indeed seamless, but she can deceive others, but it is impossible to deceive Boss Qi.

Did she come to Miracle City too?

This is earlier than expected contact.

The third guardian also seems to have a home!

…

At this moment.

Lands Between.

Meng Bai had completely adapted to the body of the Wandering Knight.

This body has an initial strength of five-star first order, and its initial equipment includes an old armor, a sword, and a shield.

“Eh, in my mind, there is actually a remnant of a memory!”

This memory remnant is incomplete.

But Meng Bai also understood the origin of this body from it.

This Wandering Knight was once a person from the Lands Between, a ordinary soldier under Godfrey, the first Elden Lord, the Warrior of the Wastes, and the Golden Order Dynasty War King.

Many years ago.

In order to conquer places that refused to be ruled by the Golden Order.

This warrior followed War King Godfrey on an expedition, and killed all the way outside the Lands Between.

With the blessing of the Erdtree, every soldier had infinite power, and could instantly absorb power and recover from any injury in the blessing, so the war was very smooth at the beginning, and even could be said to be crushing.

But when the dynasty’s army was about to unify the world.

To completely cover this world under the Golden Order.

For some unknown reasons, from Godfrey to ordinary soldiers, everyone was suddenly deprived of blessings. This unexpected change caused the army to suffer a crushing defeat and be nearly annihilated.

The warrior played by Meng Bai narrowly escaped, but the golden eyes deprived of blessings lost their color in an instant and could no longer return to the embrace of the Erdtree, so he was expelled from the Lands Between, and such people were called the Tarnished.

From then on, he became a Wandering Knight.

Not long ago, the blessing suddenly returned to his body, and at the same time, the Wandering Knight learned the news of the Elden Ring’s fragmentation, so he traveled thousands of miles from the outside world to return to the Lands Between, and in this process, he met his own witch.

This witch took a fancy to the potential of this nameless knight.

So she combined with the Wandering Knight, hoping to assist this Tarnished, help him absorb the power of Runes, and eventually be crowned as the new Elden Lord, so the two embarked on this adventure filled with dreams and fantasy.

“So that’s how it is…”

Although the memories in Meng Bai’s mind were very fragmented, she couldn’t even remember the names of the Wandering Knight and the witch, and most of the memories of the past were also gone.

But she could also understand through these remaining information.

This is a world with very peculiar worldviews, power systems, and institutional systems!

For example, the Elden Lord is different from the monarch in the secular sense. This identity seems more like a guardian, and its main task seems to be to defend the law.

Although the Golden Order ruled this world.

But this world does not only have the Golden Order, but also many laws.

There is often a mysterious deity behind these laws, and there seems to be a relationship of competition and game between the laws.

When the world is ruled by one of these laws, the order and rules of the entire world will change, which means that law is not only a legal system, but also a power of law that can shape the world and change the physical rules.

“This is so amazing!”

“Even the power of law has become a Secret Realm material?”

“But how is such a world made? This is completely beyond my cognition!”

Meng Bai is now only playing an ordinary Tarnished, a Wandering Knight who has returned from another place. Her information is limited and not necessarily all correct, but this is enough for her to recognize the magic and uniqueness of this world.

“Witch… where is my witch?!”

When Meng Bai understood enough, she realized the importance of the witch.

The Elden Ring is broken.

The king no longer exists.

There are so many strong people, Tarnished, who are rushing to the Lands Between and embarking on the road to becoming king.

A small, nameless Tarnished, if he doesn’t have the witch’s help to improve his strength, it is absolutely impossible to stand out in this adventure, and it is even less possible to defeat so many powerful competitors and become the new king!

This is the abandoned small chapel.

And there is a corpse lying in the corner of the door.

She had a pretty face, with long golden hair, and was wearing a black witch robe, but at this moment, her face was pale and her body was already stiff.

“Witch, she is my witch, my witch… is dead!”

Meng Bai’s heart trembled.

A strong feeling of sadness, despair, and guilt welled up…

This is not the emotion of the adventurer, but the emotion from this body.

This beautiful and pious witch chose the nameless Wandering Knight and guided him all the way to the Lands Between, but the great journey had not yet begun when she died here, and the Tarnished could not protect his witch.

She left a will written in blood:

“Even if the guidance has been broken, please become the Elden Lord!”

Meng Bai silently read the words left by the witch at her last moments, and felt the deep expectation of this nameless witch from it, and a strong sense of responsibility welled up in her heart.

“Thank you, please rest assured, I will never let down your trust, I will definitely become the Elden Lord!”

After Meng Bai made an oath.

The sadness in her heart dissipated somewhat.

Although she knew that losing the witch was a very serious matter.

But no matter what, let’s leave this place and figure out a way!

Thinking of this.

She pushed open the church door.

The outside light was dim, dark clouds were covering the sky, and the storm was also blowing non-stop, giving people an ominous premonition, which also seemed to foreshadow the bumpy future of this small Tarnished who had lost his witch.

The moment she walked out of the church door.

An information awakened in her mind.

With this, she understood that the name of this church was: Royal Chapel.

“The chapel waiting for the king to reign, the meaning is very good, after all, I am the protagonist, no matter how difficult, I will eventually become the existence of the king!”

Meng Bai only felt her confidence boosted and she walked out with big strides.

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