Without realizing it, quite a lot of time had passed, and she had almost forgotten her original purpose for jumping down.
Snapping out of it, Mia was finally ready to begin her subjugation of the Cave of Learning.
She remembered that in the game, the grace point in the Cave of Learning was very close to the first mob.
Holding her short spear in one hand, she carefully walked toward the depths of the cave.
As the light of the grace behind her gradually dimmed with distance, flickering candlelight appeared at the corner of the path ahead.
The first enemy was indeed not far away.
It was a tall, withered person wearing a short yellow robe, with a matte-textured bald head, standing in a cave chamber with their back to her.
A Roaming Noble!
Mia already had information on the enemy in her heart.
Having played Elden Ring for so long, there was no one in The Lands Between she didn’t recognize.
The Roaming Noble before her was precisely the weakest enemy in the game.
They were immortals who had been forced to leave their homes after Shattering War, wandering aimlessly, living in an immortality that was nothing but undeath.
You could tell from the name that they weren’t meant for combat.
Even if they held weapons, they had no real strength.
Their attack frequency was slow, and their gait was halting.
This gaunt Roaming Noble stood lopsidedly like a zombie, facing the wall.
Quite a few candles that had been burning for who knows how long were placed on the rocks around the room.
There were other items in the room, but Mia, her eyes fixed on the Noble whose back was turned to her, had no spare attention for the surrounding scenery.
The only certainty was that there was only one enemy in front of her.
She approached quietly, just like a thief.
Then, she prepared to pierce him from behind with the spear in her hand!
Mia had never done anything like petty theft before; she even left the killing of fish to the stall owners.
Having lived a peaceful life until now, one can imagine the nervousness and excitement in her heart as she prepared to make such a move.
She pursed her lips, thinking that as a transmigrator, she had to get used to fighting.
Mia summoned her courage and thrust the spear forward with all her might!
Having received knowledge passed down through grace, Mia, who had never used a cold weapon before, delivered a powerful and precise thrust.
The sharp Short Spear passed through the Roaming Noble’s kidney from behind with almost no resistance, pushing him directly onto the ground.
‘It worked!’ A joyful Mia hurriedly pulled the Short Spear back, and the blade that had pierced through the noble’s body slid out smoothly.
Not a single drop of blood came from the noble’s withered body.
Mia’s heart was beating a bit fast.
‘Is that it?
Is he finished?’ Looking at the noble lying on the ground with his weapon dropped to the side, Mia panted as if that simple thrust just now had used a great deal of strength.
‘Was that too easy?
Should I finish him off?’ Mia cautiously approached the face-down noble with her spear raised, and more details of the noble’s appearance were revealed to her.
The grayish-brown skin clung tightly to the bones, as withered as a mummy.
‘Can this really still be considered human?
How disgusting.’ Pursing her lips, she took a step back.
Mia didn’t want to look closely at such a walking corpse-like existence at all.
Just as she was about to turn around, the noble on the ground suddenly moved.
A withered, large hand abruptly grabbed the girl’s ankle.
Perhaps unwilling to accept being ambushed, he turned around and ambushed Mia in return.
“Eek—” She let out a subconscious scream, and by the time she reacted, she had already been pulled down to the ground.
“Let go of me!” The girl, caught in a sudden attack, tried in a panic to kick away the hand grabbing her ankle, but the walking corpse had already crawled up and was pressing directly onto Mia’s body.
By Earth’s standards, the residents of The Lands Between were amazingly tall and sturdy.
Mia had made comparisons while playing the game.
If the Tarnished in the game was a standard 180 centimeters tall, the Royal Army soldiers in The Lands Between were at least two meters twenty tall, and not just tall, but burly as well.
What about Mia?
With her petite frame of just over 150 centimeters, if she stood next to a fully armed, helmeted Royal Army soldier, the difference in size would be even more exaggerated than Yao Ming standing next to Guo Jingming!
Although a Roaming Noble was far from as strong as a Royal Army soldier, and was hunched over with a crooked stance, it was still enough to pin down the unprepared Mia.
“Eek—” She saw the noble’s face, as dried up as his body, which sent a chill through the girl, along with…
fear.
“Don’t come near me!” The face was getting closer!
Screaming shrilly, she watched helplessly as the mindless walking corpse in front of her opened its mouth to bite her!
The girl could only reach out in terror to block it.
As the saying goes: extreme fear turns into anger.
Looking at that zombie face, at this moment, Mia was beyond furious.
“I won’t let a thing like this trigger a Game Over CG on me!” “Ignite!” Boom— While blocking the bite, her left hand, which held the Sacred Seal, happened to be pressed against the walking corpse’s head, and the fire burst forth.
Mia subconsciously turned her head to avoid the flash.
When the fire vanished, the girl looked at the thing in front of her again.
The walking corpse’s head was charred black, and its once-discernible features had turned into a chaotic mess like a pile of waste.
The corpse convulsed and collapsed to the side.
Mia scrambled up, huffing, and wiped the sweat from her forehead.
This Ignite had raised the temperature of the cave by several degrees.
“Pah.
You’re not worthy of triggering my CG.” The girl said, panting with her hands on her hips.
She had finally killed her first enemy.
She couldn’t be so careless next time; if she needed to finish someone off, she mustn’t hesitate!