Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 295 Progress
In the slightly shaking carriage, Lucia read the handwritten letter that Michaela had just sent from Ceria and breathed a sigh of relief.

The three recent simulation experiments to seal the curse of corruption have been extremely successful. Michaela tried to integrate Malenia's power of corruption into her own golden power and found that everything was just as they predicted half a year ago. These two forces, which should have been incompatible, not only did not conflict with each other, but instead formed a beautiful balance.

The process of growth and decay, germination and withering repeated itself in the sanctification rune that Michaela had spent so much effort to create. He no longer desperately used the pure golden divine power to "lock" the spread of corruption, but instead guided the corrupt divine power out strands by strands, allowing it to stably participate in the circulation of divine power in Malenia's body. Although it could not be used for the time being, it also guaranteed safety to a great extent.

In this case, unless Malenia herself stops the cycle and suppresses the corrupt divine power in her body to erupt completely, if the outside world wants to detonate the corrupt curse, they can only use divine power far exceeding that of Michaela and Malenia to forcibly break the cycle.

To be on the safe side, Michaela planned to have Lucia and Lani place a seal made of ice magic and dragon breath prayer outside the circulation system as the last line of defense.

With the current strength of the four gods, even if the "God of Corruption" who only exists in legends comes personally, it is impossible to destroy the seal in a short time.

But then again, if Scarlet Corruption really dared to take action himself, would he have hidden in the gutter and acted sneakily for so many years after the Forbidden War?
The three dynasties may still have room to argue with each other on other matters, but when it comes to the fundamental stance of dealing with this heretical foreign god, anyone who resorts to any trick will immediately become the public enemy of the entire border area.

Today, nearly half a century after the prosperity of the Golden Tree system, when the three major dynasties put aside their prejudices and united to face the outside world, opponents should carefully consider whether they have an ID with the Supreme Will on their heads.

Since Michaela's sealing method has basically been successful, there is no need to rush to use destined death to help him complete the Pure Golden Law and perfect the last link of the seal.

After all, the true destined death is in the hands of the Black Sword Malicus, who is arguably the strongest person in the border area. Even Queen Marica cannot easily get his hands on it, so it will be extremely difficult to obtain it. Even if Michaela really gets a wisp of Death Rune, it is likely that it will be difficult for her to perfectly integrate this most dangerous force within the known range into the law in a short period of time.

"Black Sword."

Lucia quietly recited the terrifying name of the former beast high priest that was known throughout the world, and many speculations suddenly emerged in her mind.

Although Malicus no longer uses the name "Gulang" from the Sky City period, he still maintains a certain subtle relationship with the Sky City.

Thirteen years ago, when the Ancient Dragon Temple was first established, the newly emerged New Party tried to curb the spread of the Ancient Dragon faith through various channels, both overt and covert. Malikus had not left the Galid Beast Temple for decades since the end of the War of the Gods, but at that time he went to the capital in person to participate in the completion ceremony of the first Ancient Dragon Temple.

This was the last time Sister Lance saw him. Just this simple appearance scared the New Party so much that they no longer dared to make any small moves. This gave the Ancient Dragon Temple the opportunity to grow and develop within the Golden Dynasty.

In the original timeline, during the Shattered Wars in which the demigods fought each other, Malycus did not stay in Gaileed, a territory belonging to Latarn, but chose to return to the Ancient Dragon Dynasty, and retreated to the isolated Fam Azra with the Death Rune that had been stolen once, until the arrival of the Faded Ones.

This shows that for Malikus, Sky City is still his hometown where he can make a living at a critical moment, and the identity of Beast Priest Grunger is also an inseparable part of the core of the Black Sword under the awe-inspiring appearance. However, on the other hand, Malikus is unwilling to step out of the Beast Temple most of the time, and has not contacted himself until now. Does this mean that as the guardian of the Death Rune, Malikus actually has great restrictions on his autonomy of action?
In the previous life, when Godwin died in the Night of Black Blade, "Dead Roots" proliferated everywhere in the border area with the death of the first demigod, giving birth to a large number of dead-borns. Malycus was extremely anxious about this, but on the other hand, he did not take action himself and only entrusted the task of collecting the dead roots to the Faded Ones who were fighting outside. This shows some contradictions.

"The terrifying divine power that overwhelms the world, the death that cannot be missed, these two dangerous elements, coupled with the 'remaining humanity' that values ​​old feelings very much. As a tool of the Supreme Will, he is still not pure enough, not stable enough."

According to Lucia's understanding of the Supreme Will, or the "Alpha" who represents the side of order, the best characteristics of a tool man are strength and perfection, replacing the ever-fluctuating and uncontrollable human nature with absolutely rational and calm divinity, just like the difference between Radagon and Marika, and between fundamentalism and the Golden Tree Doctrine.

Well, if there is no better alternative to Malicus for the time being, strictly restricting his every move by using some kind of shackles to ensure the absolute safety of Death Rune becomes the only viable option.

"Tsk, if only I could trick that person back and hand over the Destined Death to me, or if I could analyze a copy of the Memory Battlefield that would be fine too," Lucia muttered, and finally couldn't help but slap herself in the face - what a fucking dream.

Although the analysis ability of the Memory Battlefield is overbearing, it is not omnipotent. Reproducing a disqualified version of the destined death of the divine skin apostles is already the limit.

Just like he had tried to call upon the endless spiritual power on the battlefield to construct Queen Marika's stone hammer, or Queen Xiaoyan's hunting god sword, but ended in failure.

The Memory Battlefield is probably powerless against these super-beings that are related to the underlying operating logic of the world, at least not at its current level of development.

At his feet, Shirley, who was originally snoring, was awakened by the crisp sound of a slap. She looked around dazedly, and when she found that there was no enemy attack, she fell to the ground with a heavy heart. Within three seconds, she began to snore softly again.

Lucia stared at the chubby white fox, her cheeks twitching involuntarily, she didn't know if it was a pain in her face or stomach.

After taking a deep breath, he opened the car window. The scenery outside had quietly changed its style - lush pine forests replaced the broad fertile plains, the scattered city-states of all sizes also disappeared, and the barren wilderness was filled with an ancient and solemn atmosphere.

The carriage was crossing a shallow river. In addition to the sound of gurgling water and the sound of wheels rolling over pebbles, Lucia could also vaguely hear a few distant dragon roars.

The Dragon Tomb is already in sight.

(End of this chapter)