Chapter 1

The golden leaves tell a story.

The great Elden Ring was shattered...in our home amidst the fog,the lands between.

Now. Queen Marika the Eternal is nowhere to be found...

...and in the night of Black Knives...

Godwyn the Golden was first to perish.

Soon Marika's offsprings...Demigods all...claimed the shards of the Elden Ring.

The mad taint...of there new-found strength...

Triggered the shattering.

A war from which no lord arose...a war which led to abandonment by the greater will.

Arise now ye tarnished! Ye Dead who yet lives! A call of long-lost grace speaks to us all.

Hoarah Loux. The chieftain of the badlands!

The ever-brilliant Gold mask!

Fia. The deathbed companion.

The loathsome dung eater!

And the all-knowing....sir Gideon Ofnir!

And one other...whom grace would again bless.

The tarnished of no renown!

Cross the fog,to the lands between...to stand before the Elden Ring,and become...

The Elden Lord.

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The sadness coated my mind...the thought of myself dying crossed my mind...but what would you expect in the face of danger?

I was hopeless when facing that minotaur...I was overwhelmed and reckless...maybe this is what drived me to my death...but wait...if I'm dead than how am I able to attain my mind?

Maybe I'm in heaven...maybe I'm in hell?

"Please...save the world and fulfill your destiny,ye tarnished hero..."

The voice. Female voice which contained graceful and soft tone in it.

....Tarnished hero? Who? Me?

I doubt that hero would be this weak as I'm.... I'm just a regular newbie adventurer who died while cowardly running from a Minotaur if all I'm just a weakling.

While still being deep in my thoughts the voice was getting more intense.

"Thy shall path a long way to become worthy of throne...Ye tarnished who will be the next Elden Lord."

A woman surrounded by golden light tightly grabbed both of my cheeks.

I was  confused while still trying to see her face.

"Don't make my mistakes  tarnished...be brave and save the world... everyone...with a power bestowed to you... you shall not be afraid of the death "

The light became more intense to the point of it blinding me...I never knew who was it nor what was her purpose on bringing me here but....This journey made me meet up with my own destiny.

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The dark room... completely dark with but a few light sources.

Bell Cranel opened his eyes after seeing a rather strange dream.

He doesn't clearly remember everything that he saw in his dream but he remembered at least part about someone calling him 'Tarnished'

What was that? He asked himself under his breath.

Finally finding strength in himself to stand up with an effort but still he manages to get up.

Still with his head heavy and shaky he, holding onto the newrby wall,started to go straightward.

"Agh...my head. Wh-Where am I? Why my head hurts so much? Agh...is it a dungeon?"

He never saw this floor in the Dungeon before so he was hesitant...it was strange dungeon as upon looking back it didn't had a door to get back to outside.

"Does that mean that the only way is to go forward...?"

He was worried...it was reckless thing to do but than again he didn't had any other choices did he?

Moving forward he was watching every step he made and was over concentrated on surroundings.

Thankfully he didn't met any monsters yet.

"Strange... usually there are already swarm of monsters circling in nearby locations but now....this seems awfully strange."

Silence sometimes can be more frightening than a loud noice...and Bell understood this quite well already.

Passing the second door of the room he saw a huge circle.

He wasn't sure what to do with it but than again he didn't had any choice.

He stood in the middle of it as...

*Screech*

The sounds of old pistons finally working filled the room as a circle slowly...but surely started to move upwards.

"It seems to be something like a lift....maybe it will take me somewhere dangerous...?"

It was scary...it was silent and by far it was an awaful feeling surrounding his heart.

Just in case he placed his hand on a hilt of his dagger to be ready to attack if it was needed but....thankfully this room was empty as well.

"Phew..."

A sigh of relief got out from his mouth.

Finally seeing an exit Bell got out from the strange place.

"What is that...."

A creepy area filled with fog.

Finally seeing where he was he understood that the place wasn't a dungeon for sure...but if it wasn't a dungeon than...what the hell is this place than?

He looked around and saw nothing...part of him not seeing anything of course was because of fog but still he was sure he won't encounter anyone unpleasant in his way.

He started to go down the stairs and upon looking sideways he spoted a bridge.

"Something is telling me to go to that direction." His hunch was never wrong during his whole time of being in here so he decided to believe in himself again.

He passed the bridge going forward.

"Thanks to god I'm not in dungeon...I doubt that there would be any monsters ahea—!?"

Crash!

As if called by Bell's arrogance something felled down from the sky making the dust nearby to blind Bell's eyes.

"Wh-What!?"

Getting out his dagger and standing on his fighting stance he saw it....The huge and awful monster made from many limbs of human body which were as if glued together.

An awfull sight and....smell as well.

If Bell knew what rotten human body smells like he would surely compare this smell to this.

By looks it was a boy with black hair but...it was by far something humane.

As if understanding that this thing was hostile Bell decided to run away.

"Nigerunday—!?"

The spider-like monster jumped blocking the way and nearly piercing Bell with it's spear... thankfully the rabbit dodged that well.

"Th-That was close...."

He got out his cheap knife and was awaiting a good moment to strike the monster.

Patience was the key and Bell knew it.

The monster didn't made him wait longer and pushed his sword forward.

By rolling to the side Bell noticed an opening in monster.

"Aaaah!"

He screamed ready to pierce the monster but... Crack!

Monster broke Bell's small dagger with it's shield.

"..." His face became pale...this moment Bell knew...He fucked up.

"Graaaaah!"

The monster slammed it's shield towards the Bell pushing him away with incredible strength.

"Haaaaah...!?"

Bell was pushed back with incredible amount of strength.

He started to roll back...roll back with unbelievable strength...he rolled so hard that he fell from the cliff.

With his body being greatly damaged and several bones broken Bell started to fall down...but fall down where?"

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The completely unconscious Bell was lying with his ribs broken,muscles torned and his head bleeding non-stop.

Unknown to him someone did approached him.

The sound of clacking filled the fog area as a person...a woman with hood covering her face and an elegant horse with horns as of of a bull accompanying her got near him.

"Torrent...is that him?" Woman said hesitantly looking at white haired boy laying as if dead fish struggling to get into the water.

"Brrrrf!" The horse, Torrent, nodded in response.

"I don't know about that...."

Even tho she was hesitant at something she gave the boy one of her potions.

His severely injured body became as good as new while he still was unconscious.

"Let's leave him be...I will place these two potions in his bag. If the the fate would allow he will meet us and if not ...than I'm afraid we were mistaken, Torrent."

The horse said no more as turned away accompanied with the woman in hood.

It was rather strange but in the same time important start in Bell's new life...how many foes would he be able to deafeat...will he choose path of darkness or would he choose the path of light.... one thing is sure...the choice would be solemnly on him.

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-Fin-

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Yo! Your lovely author is here! I was just laying on my bed and thinking about motivation for doing my fics as...Bam! I got a crazy idea of making a fic where Bell Cranel would be isekaid to Elden Ring world...

I know that Bell would suffer...and he will suffer a lot but this is important part.

In Elden Ring world Bell would be able to show his true potential and be might get even stronger than in his og world.