Volcano Cave may be hard to find at first. Mt. Gelmir is a confusing portion of the map in Elden Ring because the visual map can't show you exactly where you need to go to reach certain areas.
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Reaching the cave involves climbing ladders on the sides of a large mountain past Hermit Village. You'll run into multiple demi-humans and nobles before you can make it safely inside the dungeon. This cave system is relatively small and easy compared to others because it is short.
Immediately past the summoning pool statue will be a few demi-humans sitting in the middle of the cave. You can take them out swiftly since you're given a large space, and they are minor enemies. You may also successfully range-attack them without them aggroing onto you since they are just sitting down and faced away from you.
Upon defeat, it will look like there are three different ways to go. In front of you is just a ledge. You can go left or to your immediate right, where there is another tunnel entrance in the dark corner. Both paths loop together. You want to head down the right side path instead, as it allows you to sneak up against every enemy instead of getting ambushed by them.
Jump down the ledge after collecting the Golden Rune and bombard the small demi-humans below you. You'll notice that there's another ledge to jump down and meet a larger, tougher demi-human. Before doing this, turn around.
Enter this tunnel. It will lead you to a room with demi-humans hiding on every side and a few items to loot.
Return to the ledge. With ranged damage, you can get some free hits off of the monster below.
Below, to your left will be the boss fog wall. To your right, a small demi-human will surprise
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