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Episode 92 – The Knight of Perfection (1)
When I ran the game, the location was still the audience room.
“Oh, it starts again right after the cutscene at the end.”
Lee Kyung-bok looked at the giant figure that had collapsed in front of him, Aiden, and said.
-My heart swells when I look at it again… …
-I really wondered how I would wake up lol
-You proved that even a broken sword is a sword.
-Because that's Elden's only sword (nods)
-I only had a day off, but why does it feel so old?
The viewers also recalled the time of the clear. Lee Kyung-bok approached Aiden's broken stone.
Control disappears with it.
[Acquired 'Decisor, Aiden's Soul'.]
When the protagonist touched the pyroxene, the light that had been there was absorbed. Alicia, who had been trapped with him, was released.
"iced coffee……"
She sighed.
He shook his shoulders as he hugged a shard of pyroxene several times larger than himself.
“Decision maker, why… … ”
Soon she looked back at the protagonist.
“I’m glad you’re safe.”
“… … Don’t you hate me?”
“It was you who decided to attack first and refuse to talk. It’s sad, but I have no reason to blame you.”
-Gogun, the eldest son
-As expected, it's Mini Nunaya!
-Isn't Aiden really unfit to be a father?
-Really lol I just kicked you out and kept silent
Viewers also agreed with this.
The protagonist knelt on one knee and approached Alicia.
“One, I have something to ask.”
“Go ahead.”
“How could Aiden be your father?”
Lee Kyung-bok also opened his mouth to that question.
“Oh, I was wondering about this, so I guess you’re going to tell me.”
-Isn't she your adopted daughter?
-Well, maybe he picked it up after recognizing some kind of talent.
-First of all, he's not a human, so he's definitely not the biological father.
-Ah haha I'll tell you now
Alicia nodded at the question.
“Actually, I don’t know how I was born. I’ve been living in the palace ever since I can remember. The Decision Maker ‘decided’ that I was his daughter, and everyone around me accepted it that way.”
“I see.”
“Of course, I knew that the decision maker wasn’t human. So it also means that he wasn’t my biological father… … ”
She trailed off. The protagonist didn't ask any further questions.
A moment of silence.
Alicia raised her head again as if trying to clear the silence.
“You want to find Elden Soul, right?”
“Yes. But since Aiden has become silent forever, I have no choice but to find him on my own.”
The chat window was abuzz with the protagonist's answer.
-Oh, that's right.
-Don't they say that only the Decider knows Elden Soul?
-Then what happens?
-No;;; I caught the final boss but the path is blocked
So the viewers' worries were only for a moment. Alicia approached the broken pyroxene again and said.
“No, there is a way.”
"method?"
“I will know when I become the decision maker.”
With those words, a thin aura rose from Alicia like a thread. Then, the runes engraved on the broken stone began to rise.
-Oh, that's right! Nunaga was originally the successor.
-That's why if Nunaga dies, it's a bad ending
-Regardless of the development, if there is no mini-nuna, it is a bad ending?
-Oh lol That's the eldest one too lol
Runes began to appear on Alicia's body, almost as if they were being copied. At the same time, her auror also began to take on a golden hue, just like Aiden's.
As the thin threads stretched out like that became tangled, the protagonist asked.
“Is it a success?”
"ah……"
Alicia didn't hide her embarrassment.
“I cannot tell you the location of Elden Soul.”
“Is this a failure?”
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“No, I know. I know, but I can’t say.”
A question mark appeared not only in the main character's chat window, but also in the chat window. What on earth does this mean?
“Isn’t this the ending? What is it?”
-Really lol It's the ending, why am I so frustrated!
-It seems like you can't do it regardless of your will?
-No;;; Then what do you want me to do!
-Elbungies, explain quickly!
That reaction was short-lived, as viewers' attention was quickly drawn elsewhere.
It was because the door to the audience room opened with a bang and someone appeared.
“There were restrictions on the runes.”
“… …Alicia?”
It was none other than Alicia, who had regained her real body.
-Nunaaaaaaa
-Kya ㅋㅋㅋ Here, real snow is coming out
-Real ok lol
-Mini Nunna is cute, but real Nunna is pretty.
The atmosphere in the chat room changed at the sight of her, a lively woman made of flesh and blood rather than a small golem.
“What happened?”
“This golem is just a projection of my soul. While helping you, I was creating my own body. As soon as I finished it, I set out from the Forest of Fog to the castle, but I’ve only just arrived.”
“But what about restrictions… … ?”
“The Decider’s Rune is engraved on this body, not the soul. The same goes for the restrictions.”
Alicia said that and grabbed the protagonist's hand. A warmth that she had never felt from the golem was transmitted to her.
“I will tell you the location of Elden Soul.”
With those words, the vision went dark.
The chat window responded immediately.
-Huh? You're really going to tell me?
-Wow lol It's so different from the Orthodox route
-Wow lol The ghost golem snowball rolled all the way here.
-Oh, I see lol. If I hadn't caught the chosen boss, the spirit golem, wouldn't the ending have been different?
-What's surprising is that Godple didn't even know what he was doing lol
-Is there really a god of broadcasting?
-Ah haha this is a unique broadcast!
Most of them had already seen the ending. Lee Kyung-bok and other viewers couldn't understand why they were reacting so strongly.
“The ending is very different?”
Laughter spread throughout the chat window at Lee Kyung-bok's question.
-Is this the quality of the first round?
-Eldest ㅋㅋㅋ Got the 1st turn
– Information) You can't find the location of Elden Soul at all in the Orthodox route.
-What? So there are only bad endings?
-There is also an ending where you become the decision maker instead of Alicia.
-There is also a route to rebuilding the kingdom by helping the Orthodox Church!
-King Chiman Orthodox Church was a pseudo-religion.
-The ending where the wanderer sets out to find Elden Soul alone was a happy ending, lol
Although the player's goal is to find Elden Soul, there was no ending where the location of Elden Soul was discovered.
As the chat window became noisy, my vision returned.
The changed background was a familiar place to them too.
“Huh? This is the starting point, the graveyard?”
The starting point of Elden Soul, the 'Graveyard of the Broken'. Alicia brought the protagonist there.
“There is a tombstone in the basement here.”
The chatter surged as she continued her explanation.
-A tombstone? Could it be that tombstone?
-That place you found after breaking through the 941 section?
-Ah haha, I thought it smelled a bit! (I didn't know)
-It's so obvious~(I forgot)
-Really lol, do you think Fromm would have made that for nothing? LOL!
-I knew there would be something, but in fact the starting point was the end point.
-They say it's dark under the lamp, but it was so darkㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
Most viewers were satisfied, but those who saw the ending of Elden Soul had different impressions.
-Wow… …There was a reason why they made it so you could continue playing the game even after clearing it.
-You can find Elden Soul by clearing the Orthodox route and finding the tombstone.
-Yeah, I got goosebumps
-This is why I can't stop playing From Game ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Huh! Let's go quickly! If someone sees this, they might steal the first public release!
-Getting stolen lol Do you think anyone can pass the 941 section?
-Do you have enough time?
This was because it was set up so that Elden Soul could be found not only through the Silk Knights route but also through the Orthodox route.
Lee Kyung-bok smiled at the chat window reaction and walked away.
“I opened the secret passage last time, so I’ll go right away.”
Lee Kyung-bok headed to the gravedigger's warehouse. There was no need to go through the trap section again.
* * *
Coming down the spiral staircase, I arrived at the tombstone again. As I stood in front of it, a cutscene started again.
“Yes, this is it.”
“This stone slab… … ”
At Alicia's words, the protagonist looked at the stone tablet with a serious voice.
Then he carefully placed his hand on the stone slab.
[Would you like to use 'Decision Maker, Aiden's Soul' and 'Unknown Soul'?]
The message that appeared with it.
-Ah haha of course I should use it
-Wow haha …
-Ah, but I should have gotten Aiden Soul.
-But you won't tell me the identity of the unknown soul?
-Isn't this bait for Promnoe?
-Please just tell me!
Lee Kyung-bok naturally pressed confirm. With that, the soul left the protagonist’s body and seeped into the stone tablet.
The runes began to rise with him. The protagonist stepped back to take in the letters at a glance.
“This is… … ”
“Broken one, why are you doing this?”
But strangely enough, Alicia didn't look surprised.
“Can’t you see this?”
“Can you see… … ?”
She looked back and forth between the stone tablet and the protagonist, her expression filled only with questions.
“What? I only see the main character.”
-What? Is this another teaser?
-I'm going to burst from all the rice cakes!
-Ah haha, you synchronized it with Godple
-Motivational lol
-Really ㅋㅋ He's a perfect match for the god player who can see everything that the trolls can't see
Before the protagonist could explain anything, the runes were intertwined to form a larger rune.
At the same time, the light from the stone slab was emitted, filling the field of vision. But that was only for a moment, and when the light died down, the surroundings were completely black.
Alicia and the stone tablet, of course, are a space where nothing can be felt.
-??????
-What? What happened?
-Where did Real Nuna go!
-Is this a trap?
-What the heck lol Are you going to set a trap in the ending lol
-Hey! There's something over there!
The viewers' screams soon died down as a silhouette radiating brilliant golden light appeared in the center of the black space.
"you are……?"
As the distance gradually grew closer, its shape became clearer. There was no answer to the protagonist's question.
However, Lee Kyung-bok and the viewers were able to guess the identity just by looking at its appearance.
“Huh? Isn’t this the Elden Knights from the mural?”
-Oh lol, I guess it's real this time?
-The force is definitely different from that of the Salty Knights ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-But Elden Knights is a 1-player game, right?
-What? What are you implying?
As the protagonist approached the eldest, primordial knight Elden Knight, a reply came a beat late.
“I am you.”
Surprisingly, the voice was Lee Kyung-bok's.
-?
-Isn't that what you said?
-It seems like voice synthesis lol
-Oh my gosh lol I thought you suddenly said that
-Ah haha I was going to try it after the broadcast ended but it didn't work out
-I worked really hard to get to level 941 at dawn, but when I hear the voice of the teacher, I get dizzy ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-I guess I'll just have to be satisfied with this
– Does this seem to imply that the protagonist of Part 1 is the player?
The protagonist furrowed his brows.
“What does that mean?”
“It may be confusing, but it is true. I was a part of Elden Soul.”
Elden Knights said as he extended his hand. The golden particles scattered, creating another silhouette.
“I shared my soul with humans. Those who received the power of Elden Soul contained in me became saviors. And the fragments of the souls of those saviors are the ‘Broken Ones.’”
“… … I am a fragment of the savior?”
The chat window lit up again at that explanation.
-Oh lol, this is how you tie all the main characters of the series together
-Elden Knights = Savior = Broken One
-The setting is that they are all players?
-How did you know that I like this kind of meta element? Haha
-Ugh… As expected from Prom!
-Elbungies, your brains are starting to roll ㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-This is not Promnoe, this is Kingly Godsim!
As Lee Kyung-bok, who didn't enjoy the previous work, it was hard for me to sympathize, but I was glad that the viewers liked it.
“But the fact that you came here means that Aiden has failed… … ”
"failure?"
Meanwhile, Elden Knights continued speaking in a sad voice. Thanks to this, the viewers' attention was focused on the cutscene again.
“Try it out.”
Elden Knights took the protagonist's hand.
[Data for 'Elden Kingdom' does not exist.]
[Uses baseline data.]
Viewers couldn't hide their surprise at the message that appeared next.
-Huh? There's an element that connects with Elden Kingdom?
-What the heck lol
-Does the result differ depending on the content of Part 2?
-What's the big picture!
-From Big Picture has arrived lol
If you're a fan of the series, you couldn't help but be happy. Soon, the view changed and it turned into Wangseong.
“Huh? It’s the audience room.”
The audience room located in the palace.
However, the throne was of a different size to a human, and sat upon it a knight in armor.
“Savior… … ”
A man was kneeling on the carpet in the center and calling out to him. Judging by the title, the one sitting on the throne was definitely the protagonist of Part 2.
“Please protect the kingdom, the country of our people.”
With those words, scenes pass by like a slideshow. Monsters and aliens lurking outside the kingdom, and people falling to the ground all over the city.
-I think it was after the ending of part 2
-I built a kingdom, but it all fell apart. lol
-Well, it wasn't like I prevented the death of the deceased.
-Actually, if it was a happy ending, Elden Soul wouldn't have come out lol
Then, the number of knights lined up around the savior decreased one by one.
<The end is coming.>
The voice of the savior was also Lee Kyung-bok's.
<A never-ending war. A life of dying and dying again.>
It was not known whether the knights died or became mortal at the end of the battle.
<I too might give in someday. I needed a solution.>
As the background changed, a huge shape filled my field of vision. It was already a familiar entity.
-Huh? Aiden?
-Aiden was the main character in the second part
-Oh, that's right. If it's a golem, it won't die easily.
-The spirit golem hasn't become corrupted?
-That was originally a forest ranger, lol. He couldn't handle the dead.
-Is Fromnoe always on? Lol
-Really lol I guessed it right away
The cutscene continued even as the chat window became active.
<Humanity needs survival, not victory.>
The savior looked outside.
The inner wall rose slowly, and within it, gardeners and forest keepers, golems, roamed about.
-Ah, so this is why my inner wall was so high.
-It was sealed to survive.
-What? But the Knights Templar and the Orthodox Church are outside, right?
-Bait! We need more bait!
The Savior activated Aiden, and he left the castle alone and quietly.
<Keeping them at peace is the only thing I can do.>
-This is confirmed! The unknown soul is the savior!
-Yeah, this seems right
-It seems like it prevented the broken ones from becoming mortal?
-I was repenting at the graveyard.
– Well, you could actually see it as an evasion of responsibility.
But the reminiscence isn't over yet.
“Oh? There’s also Aiden’s story.”
The scene soon returns to Aiden's perspective, as Aiden has made decisions for the preservation of humanity in accordance with the purpose for which he was created.
<Unlike the Creator, they are weak.>
The scene changed with Aiden's voice. Those who jumped out of the inner wall on their own, those who could not endure the sealed life and became corrupted and died.
<Preserve humanity.>
Aiden extracted only the intact, uncorrupted parts of the souls of the dead and turned them back into humans.
But soon Aiden became confused.
<Are these really the 'humans' I have to protect?>
The dead were turned back into humans, but their souls were unstable. Despite their human form, they behaved in a manner no different from that of the dead.
-There was a programming error lol
-Is this the ship of Theseus or not?
-It's like the soul has been reassembled after removing the parts that were turned into ghosts.
-What is philosophizing through games? Lol
Aiden then comes to one conclusion.
<I need a 'pure human' who can maintain my mission.>
Along with the decision, Aiden gradually collected soul fragments as he turned the mortal human back into a living being. By assembling different soul fragments, he created a completely pure soul.
<The person I must protect, Alicia.>
-omg?
-Nuna is coming out from here?
-So Aiden is the father? lol
-Wow, now I get it! With Alicia born, Aiden no longer needs to protect other humans.
The subsequent scenes were no different from what we found out during the play.
Aiden banished and silenced the grown Alicia, resulting in the Knights Templar and the Orthodox Church leading the remaining people out of the inner castle and taking up residence in the outer castle.
-This is what it means when it says silence is for humans
-From Aiden's perspective, except for Nuna, the rest of them weren't even human.
-So you just left him to die? If that's the case, then kill him yourself, f*ck.
-No, but it seems like he couldn't be killed because he still had a human side.
-Isn't this a bit SF-like? LOL
-Oh lol, is that the 3 laws of robotics?
-A spoonful of SF in dark fantasy? I like it!
As the viewers filled in the content, the view returned. Elden Knight looked at the protagonist and said.
“There were variables that even Aiden couldn’t predict.”
“Variable… … ?”
“Yes, that’s you.”
Elden Knights moved his hand as he spoke. As if he was repainting the background, the blackness was erased and it was filled with gold.
Behind the Elden Knights was a huge golden sphere like the sun.
“My descendants, my fragments, and my parts. Welcome back.”
“Could that be… … ”
“Elden Soul, the primordial soul and the starting point of everything.”
Elden Knight turned around. He raised both hands and worshipped Elden Soul with a devout attitude.
“Your actions now have reconnected Elden Soul and the world. Just as Aiden gave birth to Alicia, by using this power, you will be able to gather only the parts of the ‘human’ soul and give birth to pure humans.”
“… …Are you saying that you are reaping the soul?”
“Because of that, the era of humanity will come again. If only you have the will to connect Elden Soul and the world.”
-Hehehe;;; Isn't this the intro line?
-Wow… So that’s what it meant
-An unimaginable development, no way!
-No;; Then what will happen to the humans who are still alive?
-If you're going to reset it, isn't that the same as dying?
The viewers couldn't hide their surprise, but the ending wasn't decided yet.
The protagonist looked at him for a moment and then shook his head.
“No, I refuse.”
“… …Are you going to abandon humanity?”
“Someone once said, ‘A name is ultimately just a fragment of existence,’ and the same goes for the name human.”
-Isn't this the line that came out when you met Nuna?
-This is coming out here again?
-No;;; How much foreshadowing did you lay down? ㅎㄷㄷ
-As expected, it was a from of details
-mchdmchng
“They may become dead someday. But at their root, humanity still remains. If they want to be human, they are human. That is why… … ”
The protagonist continued speaking while looking straight at Elden Knights.
“The age of man has never ended.”
-Kyaa hahahahaha
-Ah haha this is a praise for humanity
-Wow… … If you’re a fan of the series, you’ll be moved to tears
-The human era never ended from Part 1 to Part 3!
-This is what an ending is like!
Elden Knights looked at him for a moment and nodded.
“… … If that is your will, then it is my will, and Elden Soul’s will.
“I have one question to ask.”
“What is it?”
“If Elden Soul can see through the souls of all humans… … wouldn’t it be able to know their souls even before they become dead?”
“Yes.”
“If we could know the signs before death, we could prevent human harm.”
The viewers were stirred by the main character's lines.
-Huh… …? Huh?
-This? Is that what I think it is?
-no way……?
-No;;; What are you talking about!
-Are you guys acting like you only know your own stuff?
Before the Elden series fans could even explain anything, Elden Knights nodded and answered.
“I know what you mean.”
A halo of light appeared above his hand. Soon, the halo of light gradually turned black and then burned away like ash before collapsing.
Finally, all that remained on the hand were black runes.
-WA!WA!WA!WA!WA!
-What the heckㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
-Is this really happening?
-Wow… … I really got goosebumps
-From is really crazy lol
The chat window that seemed about to explode with him. However, Lee Kyung-bok and non-fan viewers were also puzzled.
“What is this?”
In the end, Lee Kyung-bok spoke instead. But the answer came from somewhere else.
“Dark Rune.”
A short word coming out of the protagonist's mouth. But the ripple effect it brought was not short.
-It came out! It came out!
-Wow lol the Elden series was a prequel
-I wonder how the dark rune came out and it got solved like this lol
-Eltakdeul, let's go to Sungbul!
-Thank you so much, Fromm ㅠㅠ
-Thanks to Gotple, I was able to find out, so that's good!
-As expected, it's Elden's only sword!
-From both Prom and Godple, they are all legends!
-Lifelong loyalty^^7
Dark Rune.
Lee Kyung-bok also knew that name.
'Isn't that the console game that Ikle played?'
The game that drove Fromm's reputation before the introduction of virtual reality.
The story that dealt with the birth of Dark Rune was the Elden series.
This is news that fans of From Studios can't help but be excited about.
But the aftermath didn't end there.
[>Hey! Hey hey! Awesome! Awesome!]
A private message flew into the chat window that was popping up like crazy.
It was a message sent by Choi Byeong-hun.
Before Lee Kyung-bok could reply, the following message arrived.
[>From announced the Dark Rune Remaster!]
It was common for games that were popular on the console market to be re-released for VR.
Wasn't Biocrisis also a case like that?
But that wasn't something that shocked Choi Byeong-hun.
The connection between Dark Rune and the Elden series was revealed through Lee Kyung-bok's broadcast, and the timing of Fromsa's announcement overlapped.
[>Our channel was mentioned there!]
It was no accident.