Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 197 Prison
"Impossible, this is impossible!" Varenice murmured ignorantly at first, then shook her head desperately, whimpered indistinctly, and finally her whole body struggled wildly, screaming and cursing while struggling to shake her cold body. The iron chain made a rattling sound, resembling a dying beast.

"Whether you believe it or not, this is the truth," Lucia said calmly. "Tomorrow morning, I will welcome the Holy Order on the stone stage with Beta. Whether it is right or wrong, the answer will be revealed at that time."

"Kill me—kill me!" The madman-like second priest roared hoarsely, "Since you won't even let Master Beta off, what are you doing with my life? Kill me!"

"Shut up." Lucia spat out two words lightly, and a faint and invisible mental pressure spread in an instant.

Valenis felt as if a huge bell was roaring in the depths of her mind, and her boiling soul was immediately suppressed, and no longer stirred up any waves.

"After everything is over, I will give you a death, but now, you have to complete the last mission."

As he spoke, he snapped his fingers, and after a short breath, the iron door of the cell was pushed open, and the figure of Aegis appeared at the door, and said respectfully, "Your Highness, what are your orders?"

"Notify the jailer to prepare dinner for our priest, and add more food to replenish spiritual power."

"Yes."

Not long after, a jailer came in with a heavy wooden tray. He carefully placed the tray by the small gate in front of the cage, then got up and gave Lucia a deep salute, and then quickly exited the cell.

Except for an inadvertent glimpse of Valenis from the corner of his eye, the jailer did not make any appraising or probing actions throughout the process. Even from the moment he stepped into the house to the time he left, he did not stay for more than 30 seconds. .

Valenice stared fixedly at the various expensive foods on the plate that replenished mental power. She was stunned for a while, then suddenly raised her head to look at Lucia, and said in a trembling voice: "For three days in a row, you obviously didn't say a word. Ask, but let the jailers send these things one after another to make them think that you have been interrogating me with mental means?"

Looking at the noncommittal smile on Lucia's face, she felt an uncontrollable palpitation spreading from her chest, gradually turning into trembling in every inch of muscle and bone, "What do you want to do?"

"I guess, the strong ancient dragon who appeared in the Second Two Fingers Church must have seen Beta before he came into contact with you, right?"

"It stands to reason that on the premise that he knew that the conflict broke out between you and me in front of the Dark Moon Hall, he should have died quietly in the city, instead of going to the Two Fingers Church to contact you again at this sensitive time—but he Since you did this, it must be because the stupid things you did in the Dark Moon Palace really angered him, and even fundamentally violated the agreement between Beta and him, so he was willing to take the risk of exposure and hit you again. "

"Of course, if he is facing an ordinary opponent, he is obviously cautious enough," he said with a sneer, "It's hard for me to imagine that a person who is at least at the level of an elder Gu Long can abandon all pomp and face, not only Going out without any entourage, and using the technique of shapeshifting to disguise yourself as an unremarkable small businessman, after all, according to my experience in Sky City, it is really difficult for those pedantic old antiques."

"But it's a pity that he made the first mistake - the person in charge of monitoring the church is Christopher, the most outstanding knight of the Temple of the Ancient Dragon. In front of him, even if the taste of a traitor is hidden under countless layers of camouflage, it is still enough Pungent."

"Then, he made a second mistake," Lucia said with a cold expression. "After discovering someone was following him, his first thought was not to try to get rid of them, but to kill all the followers in a secluded place, but To his surprise, Christopher survived his attack."

"Up to now, although I have never met him, I have been able to see clearly that under his cautious and cunning appearance, there is actually an almost paranoid conceit hidden. It is for this reason that I believe he will still treat Chris TOEFL shot — a man who, whether Christopher sees him or not, would never allow a risk factor beyond his control to survive."

"So, as he wished, I appeared here." Lucia spread her hands and said with a gentle and harmless smile again.

"Just like what he expected of me, a young Dragon Clan who is young and energetic, has more than enough strength but not enough wisdom, and acts completely reckless on his status and status, will naturally still harbor incompetent anger after he flattened the Two Finger Church. He vented everywhere, and then chose to surrender his identity to appear in the city hall prison, and continued to torture you in an attempt to find out his whereabouts, and even neglected the defense of Valyrian Hall in anger." "But there are only these things Not enough, the more seasoned a fox is, the more hesitant he is before hunting, lest the delicious prey in front of him is actually the hunter's bait, so I have to push him again to make him feel threatened by other beasts behind him , time cannot allow him to continue to procrastinate."

"That threat is you."

Lucia spoke calmly, and his voice fell into Valenice's ears, but it sounded like a devil's raving.

"This is the City Hall Prison, and the full name of Rodel Municipal Supervisor is Rowens Ofnir. This Viscount, like his brother, the Marquis of Ossarian, is the most core member of the New Party."

He stood up, walked slowly to the front of the cage, looked straight into Valenice's eyes and said, "My lord priest, you might as well guess. Today, when the new party is getting stronger and has already controlled more than [-]% of the military power of the Golden Dynasty, that Since the traitor was able to quietly come to Rodel's hinterland, how much connection is there between him and the New Party?"

"You can also guess that even you yourself don't know about the magical curse that Beta has cast on believers. Is there any chance that he will find out from Beta?"

"I don't think so," Lucia's mouth curled into a faint smile, "but he must know what you ate tonight, and that I used spiritual magic and magic to question you for three full days, and even Yu 'knows' that you will spill his news at any time"

"So, he will definitely take action quickly - he probably wouldn't dare to break into Valyria Palace directly to assassinate him, so he will have to use the last resort."

He sat back on the chair again, crossed his fingers and leaned against the back of the chair, and said, "In the personal guard who has been with me since three years ago, even if there are still people who listen to him, it shouldn't be too much. Is it too much? If you don’t use it, this card will rot in his hands.”

As soon as the words fell, there was a rush of footsteps in the corridor outside the cell. After a few inaudible conversations, Aegis knocked on the iron door again, and walked in with Lucia's consent.

"Your Highness, Priest Foll caught two storm knights who were intending to assassinate Christopher, but they crushed the poison hidden in the root of their teeth the moment they were captured, and now they are gone"

After hearing the return, Lucia was stunned for a moment, and said softly, "I see."

After Aegis left, he turned his head and took a last look at Valenice, who was as dull as a piece of rotten wood, and said, "Thank you for your cooperation. You will be free soon."

After finishing speaking, he got up and walked out of the house. At this moment, Valenice's voice came from behind: "His Royal Highness Lucia"

He paused slightly and heard her continue behind him: "Please forgive me for not being able to name that person, but it was he who pushed Lord Beta to the desperate situation he is in now - I just want to ask you, who were the two assassins?" Since the knight is dead, even if you defeat Lord Beta tomorrow under the Holy Judgment, what will you do with him, the real murderer?"

"Epsilon will ask him where he is going," Lucia replied with lowered eyes, "Now I just hope he runs fast enough, if the decayed and smelly ancient dragon blood can't boil, so what? What about comforting those young dead souls?"

　ps. It's 2500 words, so it's not too much to ask for a monthly pass for a hundred and eighty chapters, right?

　　
　
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