Ansel River в Elden Ring is a large underground location where you can find many interesting items and new places to explore. This guide will tell you in detail how to get through the Ansel River, what items you can find there and what monsters you have to kill.
How to get to the Ansel River in Elden Ring
The Ansel River is located deep underground, and the only way to get there is elevator in the eastern part of Lake Liurnia.
First you need to move to a place of grace Eastern Plateau and go to the road nearby. Then move east, reach the crossroads and turn left towards the north.
Coming soon ahead large round building with a spherical roof. The entrance is guarded by a huge Golem Guardian, which will have to be killed in order to go further. The mini-boss has a giant size and slow movements, which allows you to bypass him from the side and hit him until he runs out of health. You can also use horseto quickly move around the enemy and attack him from different directions.
After dealing with the golem, go inside River Source Ansel. Inside there will be a round elevator that will take the Extinguished One down to the Ansel River.
How to pass the river Ainsel in Elden Ring
Get off the lift after descending and activate the nearest place of grace Depths of the river source Ansel. Go down the slope until you see five huge ants standing in front.
Avoiding the fight, go through the small tunnel up the river and find a dead body with Magic Grease.
When descending from the ceiling, a huge ant may fall, immediately attacking the player.
To go further, you have to destroy five antsthat guard the entrance to the tunnel. It is better not to fight with everyone at once and lure insects one at a time, so as not to be surrounded. After killing the ants, go to the opened passage and take False grace from the corpse above the coffin.
Moving on, beware of the ant that will jump out of the niche on the right. There is a patrol ant roaming the southeast tunnel, which will have to be killed in order to pass through the corridor. At the end of this tunnel you can find blacksmith stone on the corpse and fight a couple more ambush ants.
Return to the tunnel entrance and go down the western slope. Deal with the ants and go into the room with a bunch of dead bodies. Search the corpses and take silver firefly и golden rune. In the left passage you can find another golden rune guarded by an ant.
In another passage leading down, you can find ghostly lily of the valley and arrows on a corpse. In the corner behind the stalagmites lies a still dead body with blacksmith stone. Next, return to the room with the corpses and move on.
There is a platform ahead, on top of which you can go jumping over the stones. The next corridor will lead to a large cave with an ant's nest. The ant queen and her guards live here.
You don't have to attack them.to pass on - initially the insects are neutral and will allow the Extinguished to calmly pass by without any manifestations of unnecessary aggression. For killing the uterus you can get Rune of the golden-eyed и runic arc.
How to get through Ruins of Ul Palace
After the ant cave there will be a long corridor that will lead directly to the ruins of Ul Palace. It is better not to jump down from the cliff and find a workaround on the right. To do this, go back through the tunnel and continue moving to the right to the new Place of Grace. Go to the stone bridge with the waterfall and search the corpses for three golden runes и blacksmith stone. Near the right wall you can take ghostly lily of the valley.
On the left side of the stone platform is also a dead man with heavenly dew - a rare item, important for the passage of the main storyline.
Continue on until you find an elevator that takes the player down to the main entrance to Ul's Palace Ruins. Get off the platform and exit into a large cave with the remains of ruined buildings ahead.
There will be many clay peoplemoving in small groups. It is better not to fight with everyone at once and kill enemies one by one. Although slow, they can deal high damage and even kill the Extinguished if they can surround them closely.
Making your way through the clay monsters, go forward. coming soon Spawn of the Starshanging from the ceiling. The monster attacks from a distance, has a large supply of health and is vulnerable to magic damage. It is not necessary to kill him, but it will be much more difficult to explore the cave - you will have to constantly dodge flying projectiles.
On the right side of the room there are dead bodies with golden runes, blacksmith stones, magical lubricant, Potion of summoning finger и throwing daggers. And on the left side of the cave you can pick up ghostly lily of the valley and activate the place of grace.
Where to get the amulet from the protective horn
Then follow the river stream until you come to a large room with ants and corpses. Collect from the bodies ant stone, blacksmith stone, crystal darts и Protective Horn Amulet.
When worn, the amulet increases the wearer's survivability, allowing them to last longer in battles. An improved version of this amulet can be found on Tops of the Giants.
Boss Dragon Soldier Noxtella
After the room with the amulet, go up the rocky slope in the southwest, defeat poisonous basilisks and go to the platform at the top of the cave.
Pick up from the nearest corpse blacksmith stone and catch Eonia butterflies.
Climb down and go left. Gather ghostly lilies of the valley, kill three ants and continue down until you reach a fork. Walk left and pick up softened mushroom from the dead. Then return to the fork and go right until you reach a corridor with a large room and a huge corpse on the throne.
As soon as the Extinguished One goes inside, an optional location boss will jump from the ceiling - Dragon Soldier Noxtella. The huge monster has powerful moves and can easily kill a low-level character.
You can read about how to defeat the boss in separate guide.
Drops for killing the boss Ice Storm Lance - spell, which deals cold and lightning damage.
How to get into the main stream of the Ansel River
Moving along Witch Rennie's quest chain, The extinguished one will be able to talk with the puppet beauty on the shutters of the underground location through any place of grace (sit down by the "bonfire" and activate the item "Talk to Rennie"). During the dialogue, she will ask the hero to fight another monster that lives on the territory of the Ansel River.
Follow the well-trodden path by the river forward, through the clay men guarding this area, and through the Starspawn.
Moving on, on the left side, soon the future Lord of Elden will come to dead end, surrounded by water the depths of the Ansel River Spring, which again will be patrolled by Starspawn. Fortunately, it can be ignored - just run further through the ruins (the passage is not far from the enemy's location), avoiding skirmishes and combat.
So come on to the tunnel and follow the river down to its low.
However, be on your guard: these coastal caves are teeming with giant ants that can fly and attack uninvited travelers in the air. Kill them by dodging deadly attacks and advancing deep into the tunnel.
Go through the linear caves until the main path splits into two passes. The left one will lead to the location of the Hermit Trader and another Ansel River boss, while the right one will lead to the Eternal City of Noxtella.
Where to find a hermit merchant
After defeating the boss, you need to activate the Place of Grace and in the room under the corpse of a huge king, search the chest with Large ghostly lily of the valley.
Next move to the place of grace Downstream of the Ansel River and move to the northeast. Fight your way through the groups of clay people and reach the stone ruins under Starspawn. sits inside hermit merchant, which sells several rare and interesting items, including heavenly dew и Perfumer's Handbook.
Not far from the merchant there is a corpse with location map. Near the Ansel River is located Rot Lake, which can be accessed only after passing Witch Rennie's quests. I'll have to give it to her Fingerslayer Bladeto open access to the new location.
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best guide!!!! “how to get into the main stream of the Ansel River” - and immediately begin to describe what to do in this main stream. geniuses no less
I have one feeling that the screenshots do not match the description? The text is about one thing, but on the screenshots it’s generally different and as if in the reverse order