Lords Tutorial Chapter 18

The Flame of Frenzy was not something I 'collected' It leapt into my soul the moment I entered the shack that held the corpse of the priest whose eye's were glowing ember pits filled with the Flame of Frenzy.

And as the 'knowledge' of the Flame of Frenzy filled my soul, I could feel it. I could feel my very fucking soul burning as the taboo knowledge of the eldritch flame of madness tainted my soul and mind.

"This... Was a fucking terrible idea." I spat as I held a hand to my head and covered by my eyes as they burned with a feverish heat.

But even as I covered my eyes... In the dark shack, I could see the yellow and red flames from my eyes reflecting onto my hand.

And that made me realize I was already 'corrupted' by the flame of frenzy with how I could so easily feel the power and call upon it through the spell that was graced upon my soul.

I took a deep steadying breath with my teeth clenched as I muttered. "My soul is too weak to contain the power of the Flame of Frenzy... I need more power, I need myself to evolve entirely."

And there was one very quick and easy method for just that.

I drew my hands down and I noticed I could see through any shadow in the room idly even as I looked back towards the mainland of Limgrave. I NEEDED to get that wretch's Great Rune of grafting as well as undergo the ritual of Dragon Communion.

As I knew that in using the Flame of Frenzy it wouldn't follow the logic of overuse resulting in loss of health and mana... No it was going to burn away my sanity and very soul. So if I was to use it, I needed to strengthen my soul at the very least.

"Godricks, Great Rune and Dragon Communion will buy me time even if I use the flame of frenzy. But I will need to get Miquella's needle sooner rather than later." I muttered with a frown before I took a deep breath, as it was time for me to move on.

I wasn't going to even bother with Edgar the lord of Castle Mourne's so-called quest line... If fate was going to force Irina to become Hyetta. A kindling maiden for the Three Fingers of the Flame of Frenzy.

Talking to him will prove to be zero point. And may instead bring more trouble to me

With my mind made up, I turned east and I made my way on Torrent's back past the main walls that surrounded Castle Mourne's estate. And I first grabbed the golden seed to enhance my estes flask before I looped around to avoid the animated statue's attention so he couldn't impale me with an intercontinental missile disguised as a fucking arrow.

Then once I snuck up to the giant golem I came up to it with a large mace and before it could react I broke the weaker stone supports at it's ankles making it topple over with a loud rumble of shattered stone.

"Fucking big bastard, aren't ya. But you can't see from the sides as well can you?" I muttered as I walked up to the glowing furnace that was it's core as the golem slowly came back to 'awareness'

And I pooled my magical energy into my staff before blasting a powerful glinstone missile that exploded out the back of the core of the golem.

A loud drumming hum rang out before the fire-filled core of the golem sputtered out, and I felt the massive golem's runes fill my soul, making it clear that it was dead now.

However, there wasn't a real weapon I could loot off the golem... As it's fucking massive bow and halberd? They were both literally ten times larger than I myself was.

Still I turned back towards the wide open front gates of Castle Morne and I pushed forward as in the distance I could hear fighting and the sounds of siege warfare.

I took the elevator up towards the main castle grounds ,and as I entered the main grounds, I saw the pile.

The small mountain of a 'pile' of corpses of humans of the nearby civilians, and guards who had been piled up in a pile more than a thousand strong in number, and at the peak of the mountain corpses a cross was staked into the pile that was lit on fire.

Which filled the air with the worst scent of burning dead flesh which made me swallow at the sight before I refocused as some lesser misbegotten howled with joy as they ate their once human masters.

"I just need to get past these bastards... Fighting a whole army, although going to give me a great amount of runes. I don't have the stamina or magic for that." I muttered before I exhaled, and looking around, I remembered the path to get to the back islands of Castle Morne.

I hid in the shadows of the castle wall that was darkened from the massive bonfire of corpses, and I quickly made my way to the back of the main grounds, to which I then snuck past the pumpkin head monster before climbing up the ladder to get into the castle proper.

And as I left the main grounds, I could more clearly hear the guards of the castle morne fighting the traitor Misbegotten they had once enslaved.

I shot down a misbegotten archer whose small flying form was pelting arrows with its short bow into a group of knights who were fighting the land-bound misbegotten.

And the leader of the knights, who had an enhanced spear active as he cut down a one of the large misbegotten that was wielding a massive axe yelled out. "Tarnished, begone from this castle, you wretch! If I see you in front of the loyal soldiers of Godrick, I will happily bring you to Lord Godrick myself for your Grafting, haha!"

"Fucking madmen... He can tell I can help but he is just insane." I muttered with a scowl before I shook my head and shrugged as his demise via a horde of monsters wasn't my problem. 

I needed my mana and energy to fight the Leonine Misbegotten anyway.