The player stared at the title screen, fell silent for a few seconds, then pressed Start Game again.
Blood Moon? Reported? Tracker?
He refused to believe it.
The cheat program was still running in the background as the Tarnished rose at the site of Grace.
This time, he had learned his lesson.
First, he tried interacting with the Grace-sure enough, he could adjust the time.
He set it straight to daytime, and that eerie Blood Moon disappeared.
Step one toward safety.
Next, he picked a target: that lone Demi-Human.
He controlled the Tarnished, sneaking closer, locking on, then executing it from behind.
Before the Demi-Human's phantom flooded into the site of Grace, the Tarnished had already turned and sprinted in the opposite direction without looking back.
Almost at the exact moment the Demi-Human's phantom flooded into the site of Grace, the player seemed to catch that line of white text flashing in the corner of his eye.
He (she) ran at full speed without looking back.
Only after running far enough and hiding in a small patch of woods did the Tarnished dare look back.
The air over there seemed to warp and ripple for an instant. Several dark, heavily armored figures vaguely emerged, but soon dissipated again.
They had appeared exactly where he had just attacked.
They hadn't followed? Or had they failed to immediately locate him (her) after he (she) fled so far away?
The player was delighted. "Ha! Just as I thought! There's a delay before they appear! Kill and run, then kill somewhere else!"
He felt as though he had found a loophole.
For a while after that, he controlled the Tarnished in a guerrilla campaign across the grasslands of Limgrave.
He locked onto an isolated monster, rushed up, and hacked at it a few times.