[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-starting-at-hogwarts-logging-into-elden-ring":3,"chapter-starting-at-hogwarts-logging-into-elden-ring-starting-at-hogwarts-logging-into-elden-ring-chapter-264":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Starting at Hogwarts, Logging into Elden Ring",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1496157,1944,"Chapter 264: A New Life Achievement Unlocked, Manifesting the Sacred Tree","starting-at-hogwarts-logging-into-elden-ring-chapter-264",264,"\u003Cp>While Hermione was having her heart-to-heart with her mother, Arthur was preparing to enter the Lands Between.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He summoned the system's login interface—only to discover, to his surprise, that he had unlocked a new achievement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Congratulations to the host for completing the achievement \"First Blood.\" You have received 1 mini-game draw opportunity.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking at the achievement's teasing name—and its timing—Arthur instantly understood where it had come from.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He asked the system, half-jokingly,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"System, you're not going to give me things like double kill, triple kill, or anything like that next, are you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that were the case, he'd have to seriously consider going to find Ranni tonight to research spatial magic.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system sensed the dangerous direction of Arthur's thoughts and immediately panicked—terrified that one day he might lead an entire football team of women to demand achievement rewards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(Arthur: You underestimate me. At the very least, it'd be three palaces and seventy-two consorts.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system hurriedly clarified:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Please do not misunderstand. This achievement is not part of a chain and has no follow-up achievements.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arthur clicked his tongue.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He'd thought he'd found another way to fleece the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Turns out it was a one-time deal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Alright then,\" Arthur said. \"Go ahead and draw a new mini-game for me.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Command received. Drawing…]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Draw complete. Congratulations, you have obtained the mini-game: Soda Dungeon 2.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arthur raised an eyebrow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he remembered correctly, this was a sort of idle, afk-style game—more precisely, a classic retro dungeon crawler.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>You ran a soda tavern, recruited cheerful soda-drinking adventurers, and sent them off to explore dungeons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Later on, you unlocked buildings like a blacksmith, wizard shop, arena, and more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The game even involved multiple dimensions with wildly different styles.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arthur was curious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"How does a game like this count as 'cleared'?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Clear all achievements in the game.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arthur checked the achievement list.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>There were only thirty-two, but fully completing them was no simple task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One of them required reaching dungeon floor ten thousand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Idle games like this usually took thousands of hours.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sure, Arthur could use the time dilation in the Zen Garden to finish everything in a single outside day.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this wasn't some urgent task.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was meant to be a game for leisure and relaxation—there was no need to rush.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He launched Soda Dungeon 2, fiddled with it briefly, dispatched a team to explore the dungeon, then left it running in the background.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Right now, he had something far more important to do.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was going to harvest Miquella's Haligtree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By this point, Arthur had explored nearly the entirety of the Consecrated Snowfield.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Together with Miquella and Malenia, as well as the spirit jellyfish sisters Aurelia and Aureliette, he had traversed almost every corner of the region.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Along the way, Malenia had witnessed Arthur's pluck-every-feather habit firsthand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She finally understood what her brother had meant when he'd asked Arthur to show restraint back then.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Miquella hadn't intervened, Arthur probably would've stripped Elphael bare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this very moment, Malenia—still sleeping alongside Miquella—had no idea that what Arthur was about to do was effectively the same as emptying Elphael completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arthur Apparated back to the base of the Haligtree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He took out the soul crystal housing Miquella and Malenia and placed it into the hollow that Mohg had once carved out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sensing the familiar, homologous presence of Miquella, the Haligtree reacted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roots spread and writhed, wrapping around the hollow—along with Malenia—encasing both soul crystals.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arthur thought for a moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before the roots completely sealed everything, he tossed in Aurelia's ashes, Latenna's ashes, and Aureliette as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Aureliette—the only one among the three people and two jellyfish still conscious—didn't have time to react before the Haligtree's roots fully engulfed them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once that was done, Arthur turned his attention to the system.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"System, manifest this Sacred Tree into my Zen Garden.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He added casually,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Oh, and this should only count as a single manifestation, right? After all, I'm only manifesting one object.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(System: …I'm speechless.)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After holding it in for a long time, the system finally spat out a line of pure sarcasm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[Host, why don't I just include Elphael along with it while I'm at it?]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arthur's eyes lit up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Huh? That's possible? Then even better—let's do it!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>(System: You really don't understand sarcasm, do you?)\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The system fell silent for a long moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, reluctantly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>[…Just this once.]\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What else could it do?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the host it had chosen.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arthur's lips curved upward into a satisfied smile.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He wasn't misunderstanding the system at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He was simply, unapologetically, milking it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The ground shook violently.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Arthur's vision suddenly brightened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moments ago, he'd been underground—now he could see the open sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He scanned his surroundings.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elphael and Miquella's Haligtree were completely gone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They had clearly been transferred into his Zen Garden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the Haligtree's native inhabitants, the system hadn't counted them as part of the manifested \"object.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had already lost energy exploiting this loophole—there was no way it would lose more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if the system could have brought them along, Arthur wouldn't have kept them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Most of the Lands Between's natives were already mentally unstable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What was he supposed to do with them?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Keep them around as mobs?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside the Lands Between, once they died, they would die for real.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They couldn't even serve as infinitely respawning enemies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In short—they were useless to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With the structures beneath them suddenly gone, countless creatures that had been standing atop Elphael and the Haligtree plummeted from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Those incapable of flight met inevitable death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Which conveniently delivered Arthur a fresh haul of runes.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After collecting them, Arthur left the Lands Between and returned to the Zen Garden—to deal with the aftermath of manifesting the Sacred Tree.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Advance Chapters Available on Patreon\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>patreon.com\u002FWhiteDevil7554\u003C\u002Fp>",961,"2026-06-06T04:19:46.382Z",1,"novelbin.me","25d1978298f272006e7ebc324475ddab70d43fbba819e5578f030519ba6887db","starting-at-hogwarts-logging-into-elden-ring-chapter-265","starting-at-hogwarts-logging-into-elden-ring-chapter-263",281,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fstarting-at-hogwarts-logging-into-elden-ring-cover.jpg"]