Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 135 Three Things

Passing through a large area of ​​lush flowers, and winding along a cobbled path for more than a hundred steps, Lucia saw the slender figure standing in the distance.

Tonight, Queen Malika is wearing a pure black brocade woven long skirt. The skirt fluttering slightly in the evening wind is as deep as a dark night, and it is reflected by her white arms like beautiful jade. At this moment, she is lightly holding A pair of exquisite scissors made of mithril concentrate on trimming the flowers and leaves of the ancient trees in the courtyard.

"Are you here?" The queen smiled lightly with her back turned to him, her voice was as pleasant as the sound of a clear spring.

"I have seen His Majesty." Lucia bowed slightly, with a calm expression.

After so many turmoil in the past half a year, most of which were the changes in the situation caused by him, now standing in front of the Eternal Queen once again, it is true that he will not be as uneasy as when he first entered the capital.

On the chess game that once seemed to block the sky, maybe he can't be called a chess player who can play a fair game with the queen, but he is no longer a chess piece that can be manipulated by others.

"Sit as you like."

The queen turned around, pinned the scissors to a vine winding around the trunk, and signaled Lucia to follow her to the stone table in the middle of the courtyard and sit down.

After each sat down, she casually picked up a wooden jug on the table that seemed to be carved out of a hollowed out tree heart. The body of the jug was slightly tilted, and a stream of fragrant wine flowed out, which fell into the cup below, and then waved gently. With a flick, the two wine glasses were lifted lightly by an invisible force and fell in front of the two of them.

Queen Malika pursed her lips and said, "This is the fruit wine I brewed from various fruits and vegetables in the garden. At your current age, it's okay to drink a cup, right?"

"Your Majesty was joking." Lucia shook her head and smiled, raised her glass in greeting and then drank it down.

It is not easy to calculate the age of the Gulong family simply by the day when the shell was broken. The ridicule about Lucia's young age is actually asking whether he has the qualification to represent Sky City at this time.

However, both of them knew very well that since it was not Lance Shanks who visited the Eternal Palace tonight, but Lucia himself, there was no need for the Queen to question it, and instead she just joked about it out of sheer joy. The meaning is stronger.

"How is it?" The queen turned her head slightly and looked at him expectantly.

"The sweetness is not too clear, and the mellowness is not intoxicating. Both the raw material itself and His Majesty's brewing technique are amazing."

Lucia spoke highly of it, and then revealed a touch of doubt, and said, "Speaking of which, it is clearly deep winter, but this garden is full of vitality and mild like spring. Is it the result of His Majesty's magic of life to maintain it?"

On the other side, the Queen smiled indifferently and said, "It's really not difficult to pray for the flow of divine arts to rejuvenate and bestow favors, but to maintain such a life enchantment for a long time will have to consume a lot of divine power. The gain outweighs the loss. The scene you saw is nothing more than the construction of several permanent magic circles underground that affect the temperature and humidity. As long as these conditions are well controlled, the cold winter can be turned into a warm spring. What is the use of life? Magic?"

Lucia's heart moved slightly when he heard the words. With his spiritual perception, he had noticed the faint magic power flowing underground very early on. He deliberately asked this question just to test Queen Malika's understanding of the two major factions of prayer and magic. view.

And the queen's answer was really unexpected, what "expends a lot of divine power, the gain outweighs the loss", this is normal if it comes from an orthodox mage from Rhea Lucaria. Magic ring, even the great god who almost uses the entire junction as the source of divine power can say it?

Compared with setting up some permanent magic circle, creating a mere life enchantment of this size is just a matter of snapping your fingers, right?

This kind of contradiction between magic and magic made him think of the queen's contrasting sense of humanity far outweighing divinity.

At this time, the queen also just drank the fruit wine in the glass, squinted her eyes and savored it for a while, then put down the glass leisurely, and said: "In a year, it is rare to have a few days so leisurely, which is good for the princes and nobles, and the common people Regardless of the common people, New Year's Eve is a good time to take a rest."

"However," she glanced at Lucia with a half-smile, "There are four more demigods inexplicably in this year's battle festival. I don't know if my people should be honored by this, or feel sorry for the unexpected suspension of the festival. have no choice?"

In fact, it’s more than helpless. It’s not an exaggeration to say that there is a lot of excitement in the capital at this moment—with the Wangdu Fighting Association in the center, the audience can’t see the heroic demigods fighting together. After the accident in the underground waterway , The festival that was supposed to last until the early morning of January [-]st of the following year abruptly ended two days earlier. The association temporarily arranged a representative team with the highest points as the champion, and hastily put an end to this grand event.

The Rodel people advocated bravery, and they were obviously fooled this time, so they would not let it go easily, that is, the Golden Temple is too far away from the lower city to hear the noisy chaos there.It's okay to say that those big arenas with deep foundations, after tonight, how many small arenas will be overthrown by the angry golden people.

"Your Majesty," Lucia calmly looked straight into the queen's clear blue eyes, and said calmly, "I shall give Your Majesty a satisfactory answer to what happened tonight. I also ask His Majesty for an explanation, and - to give you a proposal on behalf of Fam Yazra."

"One answer, one statement, one suggestion?" The queen blinked her eyes, and a smile was drawn on the corner of her mouth, "Interesting, let's hear it."

Lucia turned her palm over, and the blue magic radiance immediately formed a small magic circle in the air, and three streamers of light shot out from the circle to condense objects and land on the stone table.This kind of storage magic that contains the principle of space is one of the most basic ways to use magic power, and it is also an entry-level magic taught by the royal private school.

Queen Malika's eyes fell on the table, and the three items were lined up——

The first one is a gorgeous badge inlaid with dozens of large and small pyroxenes, which is clearly in the style of the royal family of Kalia.

The second piece is a long and thick bone nail with serrated teeth. The surface is stained with a large amount of deep and blackened old blood, and the confinement magic circle hidden inside can be vaguely discerned.

The third piece is a half-broken mask. The material seems to be the bones of some kind of creature. There are a few protruding horns at the corners. The broken lower part depicts a half-smiling mouth corner. Complementary, but also inexplicably brings a creepy sense of wretched and evil.

The queen's expression froze, but she immediately returned to normal, so calm that Lucia almost thought that the previous mood swing was just an illusion.

She breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at the young man in front of her, and gradually withdrew the smile in her eyes, and said with a somewhat unprecedented solemnity: "So, are these the three things you said?"

(End of this chapter)