The Demon souls escapade continues.
I was at my wits end with the final boss - so, I decided to go free Sage Freke (Forgot to get the key) and bought his poison cloud spell. Threw on my Thief ring, waited under the stairs, snuck up, and peppered him with Covid-19. Took about 20 minutes but was still satisfying to say "Fuck you - don't worry, vaccine wouldn't have saved your ass anyway)
Cheeseball I know. But I am old.
Anyway, after that I went through all the cut scenes and was going to start up NG+. 151k souls - and of course no Maiden in Black until I kill the first boss.
I head out and am being very careful - I do not even get up the first ramp before being invaded. Ha! So - had her down to 25% and ended up dying and all my souls on the ground, need to go back and get them and I am like shit.....It's late.
Now this is where it gets interesting.
I spawned back at the Old King's chambers. Wait... what? And then with that I am thinking I am promptly going to get Fucked because I am right next to him. But.... He isn't moving. So I attack him - and he just sits there. Doing nothing. I attack and attack and sure enough, doesn't even fight back and I just killed the Old King to start my NG+ run (Also getting 144k souls and the Soul itself. I still need to go out and claim the other 155k out there on the ramp
Go back to the nexus, and there is the Maiden in Black. Level up - save and exit
What in the hell just happened? lol