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After two busy days, it is time to share more progress reports on my Elden Ring journey. I stumbled upon a mysterious building with some beautiful violet flowers growing outside.
This was a study hall, specifically Carian Study Hall. It was somewhere in the Lurnia of Lakes region. There was a pedestal on the table that required an object to be placed. I thought I would find this thing inside and went in.
This place was full of enemies using magic attacks and I hate that the most. I didn't focus on the magic attributes on my character so I don't have much defense against those magic attackers, nor my shield can block them effectively. It turned out to be tough, until I learned how to dodge each of their moves with some success.
It wasn't a big place, and I chose to run away from some fights, too. Hated the rats there and avoided them like anything. I reached the top with about 20% health and no flask. Got a new, shiny talisman too (and a glintstone staff for some magic stuff, not that I intend to use it). I thought this talisman would fit the pedestal because there were no other items that I missed there (except for some well-hidden things).
But when I returned to the pedestal to place this item, nothing happened. It was not the item that I could place there. So I went back in and searched the whole study hall thoroughly and couldn't find anything else of importance. I am thinking that the item is not even here. I will find it in some other study hall or building, or maybe under a random tree...who knows? lol
It was time to go out and explore more. Plenty of terrain to cover in this massive open-world game. I see many ruins and watch towers on top of the mountains.
I found a portal in the middle of a place called Purified ruins which took me to a sealed gate. Not sure when/how I can access it. Maybe some item or quest gonna take me inside. There are a lot of these secret doors and locked doors that you don't know how to open. I think for this one, I need a glintstone key. One of the guy told me that I need this key to enter the academy.
I found a map too but don't know where it points to. I still need to find maps of many regions.
I saw the finger reader and thought it was an enemy. But all she wanted was my fingers; she begged for them. Very creepy lol. She seemed to give me some cryptic message. I tried to hit her to see what happened, and just from one swing of the blade, she vanished, cursing my soul. But this old lady has no clue that I am already cursed to the brim.
I went on to clear the region of Academic Gate town. These enemies weren't too tough either.
The swamps in these parts are a bad place for me. I hate the bugs and crabs here, and some of the rotting lakes are tough, too. I am keeping my distance from that place for now. There is a big dragon as well, which I tried to take on, but it was too overpowering for my current build, and they don't give a useful reward as well, so I am not in a hurry to do it.
There are still a lot of places left to explore. More than half of the known map has not been explored yet, I think. And there is a big underground section full of mages dealing loads of damage. Time to grind more runes and level up my strength and health before taking on anything.
I am planning to go to the mini-erdtrees and defeat their bosses. I found one already, but couldn't kill that one yet and left him for a later stage. I think it is time for me to get back to it and take it down. Might take a few retries, but it has to be done sooner than later... right?
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