Just as Ian was flying towards Stormveil Castle, a golden flying sword struck him, forcing him to land. At the top of the castle, an ugly man with deformed horns on his face was looking down at him calmly. Ian recognized this person - "The Evil Omen Demon" Malkit. He also knew that this was just a projection of the "Evil Omen King" Mengt, and Mengt himself was a Demigod, as well as the child of Queen Marika and the first generation Elden Lord Godfrey.
"Four Tarnished, intending to pursue Elden Ring+. Driven by the flame of ambition." Malkit jumped from an altitude of more than fifty meters and landed in front of Ian. "Someone has to extinguish your flame... Let Fell Omen Margit do it for you."
Ian knew that this projection was worthless before defeating the opponent's true form. Therefore, he did not waste time. Malkit rose into the air and condensed a huge light hammer to hit Ian head-on, while Ian deployed a shield to resist. Just as Ian was about to counterattack, he found a crack in his force field.
"What's going on?"
"The enemy has the ability to break defenses and offset energy, which is given by a fragment of power that is highly similar to sacred energy," Morgana analyzed.
"It seems that destroying all Demigod is not as simple as imagined," Ian thought to himself.
After Malkit landed, he waved his weird tail Cleansweep towards him. Ian neither jumped nor dodged, but directly formed a thin earth wall to block it, which surprised Demigod who had never seen such strange magic before.
Ian took advantage of this flaw to take the initiative. The armor used Alchemy to extend two sharp blades, and he then unleashed a storm of slashes, which should have severely injured or even directly killed the opponent. However, these attacks only left some skin injuries on Mengt's body.
"The resistance is so high?"
"I think you might want to use weapons from this world, or focus on spell damage," Morgana suggested.
"Got it."
Malkit condensed a light dagger and threw it over. Ian used earth magic to push himself upwards. In mid-air, he summoned two swords obtained while hunting merchants in the church, and then condensed a floating wall of earth under his feet as a leverage point, and dived down suddenly. Malkit reacted very quickly, and was about to fly back to dodge.
However, a group of purple light appeared above his head, releasing a terrifying gravity that locked him in place. Ian relied on the power of the armor and the blessing of the planet's gravity to rush towards the opponent at an extremely fast speed. With several sharp blades flashing past, he neatly chopped off Malkit's head and body.
This projection then turned into a point of light and dissipated, but before the main body left, he still left a stern warning: if they meet again one day, he will completely cut off Ian (or Tarnished)'s ambitions.
"Has the data been collected?"
"Yes, I am building a model of this world Demigod."
"Very good. Let's get our first fragment of Elden Ring+." Ian passed through Stormveil Castle like a speed passer, trying to refresh his game record. He did not hide his whereabouts, directly wearing Elden Armor, and pushing several Doom Bots all the way to the lord "joint" Ge Rick.
This person is a direct descendant of Golden Lineage, with blood originating from Queen Marika and her first partner Godfrey. However, Ge Rick's bloodline has become so thin that he can hardly be considered Demigod. He is despised by other Demigod and even his own servants. The only thing he could use was a Great Rune that he inherited after Elden Ring+ was broken. Moreover, what he inherited was Anchoring Rune, which was located at the core of the magic ring.
As soon as the battle started, Ian used dozens of ground thorns to pin the bastard to death, causing him to be seriously injured. However, the reason why Ge Rick was called "Extended Limb" was because he practiced a forbidden magic and gained strength by sewing other people's body parts to his own body. This despicable behavior gave him extremely high vitality, making him barely fit the identity of Demigod.
In desperation, Ge Rick cut off his own arm with a knife and attached the remains of a dragon head to his body. Then, he began to spit dragon flames frantically in an attempt to burn Ian to ashes. Ian moved around him and easily avoided the opponent's attack. But this Demigod did not notice that Ian had left delayed activation spells on the ground in every corner around him.
After the arrangement was completed, Ian calmly lured him to the center, then took off and activated the spell. Four towering stone walls rose up around Ge Rick and quickly closed together, trying to crush him like a bug. His dragon flames were useless, and Ge Rick under Extremis could only make the only logical choice: jump into the air.
Sadly, there was only death waiting for him. Copying the last blow against Malkit, Ian carried terrifying speed and impact, cleanly cutting off Ge Rick's head and body. "Get one," Ian said, slowly taking off the Great Rune from the corpse.
"Did you find anything?"
"There is nothing of real value, except Ge Rick's extreme desire for power."
"This explains why its effect is to improve attributes," Ian commented. "Let's go to Divine Tower to purify and activate it. That should reveal more information." This tower is near the castle, with a corpse of Two Fingers standing on the top of the tower, and a glowing Rune floating quietly next to it. After placing it on, Great Rune changed from its original gray color to a brighter gold color.
"Although it is very weak, it does contain a trace of Law Force," Morgana analyzed. "However, we cannot fully understand its power before completely reshaping Elden Ring+. Wait, I sense something familiar. I think this Elden Ring+ may be this version of Primordial Runes."
"Are you sure?"
"The scale is very small, but it has the energy signature of Primordial Runes," Morgana nodded. After studying such items in several universes, she has mastered the method of identifying them.
"Can you see what its unique properties are?" Not all Primordial Runes are exactly the same. For example, the core of Primordial Runes in the world of "Harry Potter" lies in extremely efficient energy conversion; the Primordial Runes in the "Destiny" universe is biased toward universality and can be directly driven by all types of energy such as magic, Divine Power, Battle Aura, and chakra.
"My current guess is--Law Manipulation."
"If this is true, the value of this thing is higher than expected," Ian commented. He had already begun to develop the concept of spell laws or legendary spells. These spells are specially designed to utilize the power of laws.
They are supposed to be more powerful than ordinary spells, and more importantly, they can greatly reduce the load when invoking the power of laws. However, the Arcane Runes currently mastered by Ian is not enough to support him to reach the ideal level. After studying the Primordial Runes and Age of Gods magic in the world of "Destiny", he already has some clues, and Elden Ring+ may become another key piece of the puzzle.
Ian put away Great Rune, then took off and flew towards the Raya Lucaria Academy. The next Great Rune is in the hands of Queen of the Full Moon Rennala. This is also an opportunity for him to make second contact with Ranni. The other party will be a key part of his overall plan, and he must prepare in advance.
After all this is completed, he will actually go to Roundtable Hold. With two Great Rune in hand, he will be qualified to meet Finger Maiden and Two Fingers, and this is one of the biggest problems in his entire plan.