Elden Ring madman farms 10 million Runes at level 8, lets the community decide how to spend them, then tragically loses it all

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Fellow Tarnished, grab an Estus Flask and pour one out for DementedEnjoyer, a headstrong grinder who recently lost a 10 million Rune investment to the cruel fate assigned to them by the Elden Ring community: beating the game at level eight using only a bow.

This all started 10 days ago when DementedEnjoyer alerted the Elden Ring subreddit to their latest achievement: farming four million Runes at level eight "for no specific reason." They asked the community what they should do with their newly obtained XP stockpile, and the top-voted replies were not kind. 

"Maybe with four million runes a bow build is viable," danhaas speculated. 

Twisting the knife, Future-Patient5365 proposed: "Challenge, beat the rest of the game without spending those runes or losing any." 

A glutton for punishment, DementedEnjoyer lived up to their name by combining these two suggestions into one unholy challenge: beat the whole game without leveling up while using the worst weapon type and carrying a useless fortune in their back pocket. "This is exactly the kind of depraved shit that I live for," they said in a reply to an even worse suggestion. 

"I like this suggestion, mostly because it involves even more farming after I'm done with rune farming and I'm a sicko who's very much into that," they said to one user who proposed maxing out their Arcane stat and then farming rare item drops with their boosted drop rate. 

As players showered DementedEnjoyer in what we'll generously call encouragement, they only gained momentum. "This is the kind of support of my all-consuming obsessions that my therapist just doesn't give me, thanks guys," they said after the first day. 

While Elden Ring fans were busy cooking up the cruelest challenge imaginable,