I know I can just join that one covenant to pause this or do the NG+ ash thing, but the fact that most enemies in Ds2 despawn after killing them enough times makes me want to play in a lame way. It makes the souls feel like a finite resource which makes me hate the idea of dying and potentially losing any permanently. So I play way too conservatively, and repeatedly fight all the enemies in an area to make them despawn while playing safe enough to not lose any souls. I have entire areas that are just empty now.

Either that or if I want to explore or get to another area, I just run past everything.