Elden Ring Blood Of A Maiden の小説・ストーリー

His expression was no longer angry; it was terrifyingly focused. "I don't make mistakes, Elara. And I don't let go of what I’ve caught." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a velvet box. Inside sat a ring—a heavy, raw diamond set in blackened silver, carved with the runes of the Silver Moon. "Wear it. If anyone sees you without it, they will challenge you. And if they challenge you, I will have to kill them. Is that what you want? More blood on your hands?" He didn't wait for an answer. He took her hand—his touch electric, sending sparks shooting up her arm—and slid the ring onto her finger. It felt heavy. It felt like a handcuff.

It had the old-fashioned rhythm of the ancient times. The rusty glove yanked her up flinging her onto a narrow damp shelf of obsidian. Elara hit hard, her breath exploding from her lungs. She rolled onto her side, her fingers tightening around the silver vial. The gold sovereign blood inside pulsed violently casting ripples of light across the ceiling.

she said to me. “It’s a bit harder for me,” Adara said as she looked at us. “I’ve seen Kiran literally die in front of my eyes, a few times, and waiting for that one time that he doesn’t come back, that’s what I can’t handle.” “I haven’t died since I stopped using death magic,” Kiran said to her and she smiled sadly. “Yes you did, the day Kai died, when you followed him to Helheim and offered to take his place,” Adara said.

On it: a shallow basin, empty now, stained dark with centuries of spilled blood. Seraphine appeared beside the basin, fading, translucent. “Speak the vow,” she said. “Blood of the bridge. Tear of the betrayed. Kiss of life. Seal it here, where it began.” Elara drew the fang again, held it high. “I, Elara Thorne-Blackthorn, bridge of the split packs, bleed willingly,” she said, voice ringing off the walls. She sliced deeper, blood flowing freely now, letting it drip into the basin. Silver droplets hissed on contact, steam rising like spirits released.

he said, his voice the soft drone of a lecturer, "is built on a foundation of blood magic. But it's wrapped in a glamour. A holy masking spell. Like painting gold over rust." "Then we need something that eats gold," Emberlyn muttered. She added the nightshade. The solution turned from clear to deep crimson, then to black, then to a color that had no name - a darkness that seemed to absorb the light around it. "Now," she breathed, "the catalyst." She reached for a vial of her own blood. Emberlyn was human, unaffiliated, but her blood carried the particular resonance of someone who had spent too long in the presence of outcast magic. It was rich with adaptation. With survival.

A tiny, hidden anchor for a different kind of power—a protective power? The echo was offering a fusion, a joining of my blood with Morvana’s essence in this wellspring. But my mother’s blood was also in me. A different lineage. A gentler one. I had no locket. But I had the memory of it. I had the feel of it, a sensory ghost from childhood—the smooth metal, the faint hum of warmth, the sense of safety it evoked. Vorian saw my hesitation. “Now, Elara. Or he loses an eye.”

Elara's scent was fading and moving away from the battle at impossible speed. I burst through undergrowth into a small clearing and saw her. A vampire had her from behind with one hand clamped over her mouth and the other holding something against her neck. It was a syringe. Even from here I could smell the chemical tang of whatever sedative they had used. Her eyes found mine wide and terrified and already starting to glaze. I roared and charged. The distance between us was maybe thirty feet but it might as well have been miles. The vampire holding her smiled and stepped backward into a pool of shadow that should not exist in daylight. Portal magic. Forbidden and ancient and impossible to tr

“Would’ve been a waste of blood otherwise.” She frowned, pushing herself up, the silken sheets slipping from her shoulder. “You really have a way with gratitude, Your Highness.” He turned slightly, one dark brow arching. “Gratitude isn’t part of my charm.” Elara huffed, tugging the blanket closer. “Neither is humility, apparently.” For a heartbeat, his gaze flicked to her exposed shoulder. Then to the mark. A thin ring of black ink now glowed faintly beneath her skin, pulsing with a red hue in time with her heartbeat. The Blood Pact. The living tether that now bound her to the Prince of Darkness himself.

“The Crimson blood is not a curse. It’s a key.” Key to what, I wonder? I flipped through more pages. Elara had been recording symbols, herbs, and moon phases. Sketches of animals with glowing eyes and wolves with runes etched into their fur. Words like “Alpha line,” “blood pact,” and “awakening.” I didn’t know whether she’d gone mad… or worse, whether she hadn’t. A knock on the door startled me. I blinked at it, half expecting another dream. But instead, there she was.

The other whispered in a voice too old for a child, “The Moon is watching, Mother.” Elena swallowed. She kissed their foreheads and laid them gently inside the inner ring, protected by glowing sigils. Then she turned back to the priestess. “Begin.” The priestess raised a dagger carved from moonstone. “Blood calls to blood. Power calls to power. Let Luna be bound not by a mate… but by her people.” Elena held out her palm. The blade sliced cleanly. Her blood hit the runes. The forest roared.