Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 298 Emperor Plan
Lucia wanted to go forward and find out what was going on, but from the moment Guior appeared, he inexplicably lost control of his body, and no matter how hard he tried, he could not get close to the palace door.

Guiol took a deep breath and asked, "Your Majesty, you know that I am good at prophecy, and I also know that your attainments in this area are far superior to mine, so I have one last question."

"Go ahead."

"If, I mean if - that child finally failed to live up to this power, not only failed to become the sharp blade and shield to stop the Outer Gods, but instead became the greatest disaster in the history of our dynasty, how should we deal with it?"

"Or in other words, is everything we have done today really worth it?"

Hearing this, Heraris was silent for a long time, then smiled bitterly and said, "It seems that this time, you have foreseen a regrettable future, my friend."

"But I still firmly believe that all this effort is worth it."

She took two steps forward, her palm gently caressing the cold edge of the huge bronze door, looking up at the silent and brilliant night sky and said, "We all know that the disaster is inevitable, so all living things on this land must act without distinction, just to fight desperately for that last ray of hope."

"So, as long as life and civilization can continue, what does a little possible risk matter?"

"Besides, this is only the first part of the plan." She turned her eyes back, her pupils burning with dazzling spirit. "Even if we lose miserably, we still have a chance to make a comeback. The forbidden dragon born at the end of the prosperous era, even if we can't become a hero who protects the creatures of the world, we should be qualified to be a whetstone for those who come after us, right?"

"When that day comes, the king will erase all traces of his existence, including his origin, his power, his bloodline, and all dragons' memories of him, in order to prevent the possibility of rebels taking advantage of this. The rest will be left to my child."

"Just as we planned the future together at the beginning of the Emperor's plan, please wait patiently, my dear friend..." Helarius walked out of the hall step by step, and said slowly with unshakable confidence.

"Beile will be the biggest help to Lucia's rise, whether you are his friend or his enemy."

Suddenly, her gaze seemed to travel through endless time and space, and met Lucia's eyes directly!
Then, she opened her lips slightly, uttered a silent word, and then revealed a gentle smile.

"Mother."

A crisp cracking sound rang in my ears, and the magnificent temple, the grand and blazing lights, and the two figures in front of the temple all shattered together like flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water.

Lucia stood there blankly, his palm still touching the rough dragon scales on the cheek of Dragon Mother Guior. Her eyes were closed as before, as if everything she had just experienced was just a dream.

He opened his palm, where there was still a hint of warmth and moisture. He looked up and saw that Guior was still immersed in a long sleep and did not give him any response.

Lucia looked behind her and saw Gustav and Anasia still in the same posture as before. This was completely consistent with his own spiritual perception - so much time had passed in the illusion, but only a short moment had passed in reality.

But he was sure that everything he saw in the dream was not just an illusion.

From the first day when Lucia encountered the Queen of Death in the Vanya Valley and opened the battlefield of memory, he has never stopped building and strengthening his own mental barriers.

This was not only to turn the vast spiritual power in the memory battlefield into his own use as soon as possible, but also to ensure the absolute safety of his soul when he came into contact with demigods or even higher-level strongmen. From the outer gods like March God to Queen Marika who could be encountered at any time and the Queen of Death who was hiding somewhere to cause trouble, all were among Lucia's imaginary defense targets.

After three years, although his level of mental strength in reality is still difficult to compare with that in the memory battlefield, the strength of the mental barrier supported by the concentration attribute of up to 74 points has also reached a terrifying level.

In other words, even if he was not on guard, it would take Queen Marika a while to break the tortoise shell. But this mental barrier was completely ineffective when facing the mental impact of Dragon Mother Guior.

Guior seemed to have used a spiritual power that was completely identical to his own, so that when the impact came, the barrier did not trigger its defense function at all, but automatically opened up a channel, allowing the opponent to send that information directly into his soul.

Lucia had only encountered similar situations a few times when "mutations" occurred in the memory battlefield.

The first time was when he killed the Divine Skin Noble Samuel. The memory battlefield suddenly appeared when he summoned the data panel.

The second time was when he used the life amber given by Lani to awaken the original magic power and connected the memory battlefield with the starry sky.

The most recent time was in Rhea Lukalia. When he faced Yug in the Star Arena, a large amount of alien magic power surged into his body, which forcibly activated his mother's dragon language magic.

"Samuel, Queen of Death Carter Pella, Starry Sky, Three Moon Gods, Dragon Language Magic, and the so-called 'Emperor Project'. What exactly is the Memory Battlefield?"

"Why can I learn their fighting skills and even seize their runes just by fighting with them in the spiritual world? Is it because I am a time traveler that I have gained the power of the Memory Battlefield? Or is it because I have a time traveler's perspective that I understand it as the 'Memory Battlefield'?"

Compared to the conventional concept of "time travel plug-in", the memory battlefield always changes in unpredictable ways without his noticing. While increasing his strength, it also leads him step by step to the deepest truth hidden beneath the prosperity of this world.

"The Emperor's Project. The Great Library cannot find any record about Beile. Everyone only remembers the twenty original flying dragons conceived by the Dragon Mother, and no one has ever mentioned the twenty-first one."

Lucia was suddenly speechless. "So, he didn't become a hero in the end, right?"

He looked at the dense forest that blocked out the sun and covered the sky around the dragon tomb. Referring to the condition of his father Platon Shanks before he entered the time and space storm to heal his injuries, the Dragon Mother should not have fallen into a long sleep immediately after the fall. Judging from the power she possessed, she should have at least several months to several years of active adjustment time before her long sleep.

What prompted her to refuse to return to her hometown even after wandering for a thousand years? And what made Borelius and Gustav choose to take their old men away from Fam Azra, one to return to the Arctic Icefield, and the other to stay forever on the land of Gaileid?

Is it disappointment or regret?

"And I am the final product of the Emperor's plan?" Lucia whispered to herself.

He turned and walked towards Gustav in the distance and asked directly: "Baile - do you still remember this name?"

The latter thought blankly for a moment, shook his head and said, "Sorry, Your Highness, I have never heard of this name."

Anacia stepped forward and asked, "Do we need to arrange for the intelligence network to pay attention to this name immediately?"

"No need." Lucia let out a sigh of relief, as if all the depression in her chest had been swept away.

"When the time is right, we will meet naturally."

(End of this chapter)