"..."
On the southern plains of Limgrave, a Banished Knight rode a silver-armored warhorse, leading a dozen or so former soldiers of Godrick's in a leisurely routine patrol.
This had originally been the area patrolled by a Tree Sentinel, who had been responsible for it for many years and knew it much better than they did.
But...
That lucky bastard had recently been sent to put down a rebellion on the Weeping Peninsula.
So, with no other choice, they had been dispatched here. Their main duties were to patrol, snipe, and intercept the Tarnished who only knew how to cause trouble and still dreamed of visiting the Elden Ring and becoming Elden Lord.
And today, this patrol had barely left camp when they really did run into an Astrologer Tarnished!
For some reason, the other fellow had started attacking and taunting them with magic from far away. What was more, when he fired those Glintstone Pebbles at them, he stood brazenly on a ruined platform, making no effort to hide or lie in ambush. He just stood there, showing off at them?
"??"
"Whoosh!"
"Tell me, what's with that guy?"
After easily dodging the Glintstone magic fired at them from a distance, the Banished Knight on his silver-armored warhorse looked at the soldiers beside him with an incredulous smile and asked.
"He..."
"He's alone. Why does he think he can challenge our entire patrol?"
He really couldn't understand what was going through the mind of that Tarnished, who stood on the high platform and kept firing magic at them from afar.
"No idea..."
"Maybe he thinks we can't climb up there?"
"Commander, you know what the Tarnished are like. They're exiles, and they're all a bit crazy!"
One soldier glanced at the crater in the ground where a Glintstone Pebble