Setting out from Leyndell for Mistwood meant passing through Caria's territory and going through Stormveil Castle.
Zhao Si and the others could rest at Stormveil Castle and replenish their supplies. More importantly, Godrick had not been back to Stormveil Castle for some time, and it really was time he paid a visit.
It was their ancestral home, after all. It still needed looking after.
Zhao Si also had special feelings for this place. He had opened his eyes in the Chapel of Anticipation, met Helena, and been dragged kicking and screaming into the selection of an envoy for the Two Fingers.
In the open space before Stormveil Castle's Throne Room, Zhao Si had met Blaidd? and caught Godrick's attention.
Zhao Si knew nothing about fate. He only knew that from that moment onward, he had finally stepped onto the proper course of Elden Ring's story.
He dared say that, up until now, he had been following his own storyline. He had killed some strange things and saved some of his own people.
If Godrick had not been such an amusement-seeker back then, wanting to see the Two Fingers and the Tarnished embarrass themselves, he would never have forcibly treated Zhao Si as a free extra, tossed him into a carriage, and sent him to Roundtable Hold.
A strange twist of events had produced the opposite of what he wanted.
Who could have imagined that Zhao Si would be granted the Cipher Pata by the Two Fingers, become their most capable envoy, and gain the right to act freely?
Perhaps this called for the saying: everything was predestined.
"Truly, all the stories..." Leading his horse, Zhao Si stood before the gates and gazed up at the towering Stormveil Castle.
Stormveil Castle felt completely different from Leyndell.
One glance at Leyndell was