Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 375: Old Talk

The town of Odysseus, east of the Arctic Ice Field.

Throughout the entire border area, most towns are named after a certain lord in their history. The more famous and meritorious the hero is, the more respect and commemoration he will receive from future generations.

People who have lived on this land for generations often erect monuments and build statues for their greatest ancestors, hoping that the heroic spirit of the ancestor will continue to protect his people until the next hero is born.

But the town of Odysseus is different. It commemorates not any one lord, but the founder of human civilization in this town and even the entire Arctic ice field, the greatest king in the history of the Storm Dynasty - Odysseus of Thunder.

Hundreds of years after the end of the Forbidden War, in the era of revival when countless clans, tribes, kingdoms, and sects grew wildly, before the rise of the Eternal Queen Marika and the Queen of Death Caterpella, the twin gods who had shone for thousands of years, Odysseus was the most glorious and majestic existence in this world.

Legend has it that he is a close friend of the ancient dragon high priest Gulan Shanks, a guest of honor of many gods, the suzerain revered by hundreds of countries large and small, and the king of kings who has the greatest hope of ending the troubled times.

He inherited the throne at the age of sixteen, and in three years he conquered the Weeping Peninsula, making the Stanley family submit to him for generations. In five years, he swept the southern border and formed an alliance with the Carlia Dynasty on the shores of Lake Lienia. In another three years, he conquered the eastern border and took over all of Galide's 16,000 miles of fertile land.

By the time he was 27 years old, the Storm Dynasty had already occupied half of the world.

Looking north from Nimgefu, from the Storm Sea in the south to the Yatan Plateau in the north, more than 270 countries and city-states, large and small, all paid tribute to it. Even the faithless people outside the Sea of ​​Mist offered their loyalty to it.

People at that time all said that King Odysseus would be able to mobilize a million-strong army in the south within ten years, wipe out Asia, and completely end the chaos that had lasted for more than five hundred years since the forbidden war.

However, just when his reputation was at its peak, Odysseus made a decision that was difficult for almost all of his subjects to understand.

He mobilized the entire country, sent 500,000 troops, and crossed the ocean to personally march into the northern border.

The town of Odysseus was where the Storm King first arrived.

It should be noted that after the forbidden war, the Fire Giants retained the strongest strength among all races. After sealing the evil god subspecies called "Dark Stars", from the Giant King's Court down, the Fire Giants still retained at least 40% of the heroic powerhouses of their prime.

Therefore, before the Storm King's Northern Expedition, everyone thought that the best prospect that human civilization could achieve was to unify Asia and rule along the Lord's Cliffs as a boundary with the Fire Giants.

Although humans and other races have a large population, their strong ones are declining and their stamina is insufficient, so occupying the Asian Altar is already their limit.

There are more powerful fire giants, but most of the giants' strength lies in the Eye of the Evil God in their abdomen. They are too far away from the cauldron of fire, to a place where the blessing of the Evil God cannot reach, and they cannot maintain their advantage against other races.

But no one could have imagined that Odysseus would choose this seemingly most unreasonable path.

In the following thirty years, with the help of the ancient dragons, the Storm Dynasty army fought over 20,000 miles, conquering from the far east of the ice field all the way west. Along the way, they formed an alliance with the ice dragon Borelius and the Samir people, and built the city of Sol in the far north and the city of Otina in the far west.

The former was named after King Odysseus' eldest son Thor, and the latter was named after his youngest daughter, Princess Otina.

After thirty years of fighting, nearly three generations of strong men of the Storm Dynasty were buried here, and more than half of the 500,000-strong army was lost. They finally occupied most of the ice field and confronted the Giant King's Court across the Snow Valley.

Legend has it that in the last days of King Odysseus, he personally led the wings of the Storm King to launch the final expedition, and a bloody battle broke out with the evil god on top of the cauldron of fire.

During this battle, the heaven and earth shook, and all living beings were terrified.

The Storm King's wings killed more than a hundred giant heroes at the cost of their lives, while King Odysseus fought until his life was exhausted. With one sword, he split the cauldron of fire that was as famous as Fam Azra in half, forcing the evil god of fire to sleep from then on!

Under the hateful and fearful gazes of countless fire giants, King Odysseus dragged his exhausted body back to the city of Thor.

He ordered the remaining 200,000 Storm Troopers and their dependents who crossed the sea to guard the North for generations. He took the ashes of his eldest son, eldest daughter and second son alone, wearing only a tattered cloak, and embarked on the journey back east. The last stop of the Storm King in his old age before leaving the North was exactly the city of Odysseus.

The small camp where troops were stationed for a short period of time in the past has long since developed into a bustling large town, while the king who was once at the peak of his power has become an old man in his twilight years who is no longer recognized by anyone.

A year later, Queen Otena ascended the throne, buried the ashes of her father, brother and sister in Stonewell, and came to the North again.

In the city of Sol, the queen conveyed King Odysseus' last words to the 100,000 soldiers:

The border area can accommodate the coexistence of all races and the Storm Dynasty, but it cannot accommodate a god who has the power of a dragon god but lacks his mercy.

Three hundred years later, the Eternal Queen and the Queen of Death appeared. One hundred and seventy years later, the gods and kings of the Golden Dynasty set foot on the ice field again, and the place where the army set out was also the city of Odysseus.

A few years later, the Golden Army annexed all the territories of the Storm Dynasty in the north. The army gathered in the north of the Flame Cauldron. The Eternal Queen Marica ordered the construction of the First Church outside the city of Odysseus to reward the three armies and encourage King Gofrey of Elden to lead his army to completely extinguish the Ashes, thus opening the curtain of the Golden Age.

Bathed in the glory of the golden tree, people in later generations often traced the changes of the Arctic Icefield over the past century. Some would talk about Duoris's iron wall strategy of clearing the land for years and suppressing the rebellion in one day; some would talk about the heroic figures of the Everqueen and the King of the Beginning who swept across the icefield and killed the giants.
However, few people would think about this: if the Storm Dynasty had not persisted in that extremely cold land for hundreds of years, would the Fire Giants have already accumulated the strength to conquer the world, and with their overwhelming force, crush all the races that were barely surviving after the forbidden war?
Some people say that compared to the ancient dragon knights of the royal city of Rodel in the Golden Age, Odysseus of Thunder is the first dragon thunder master besides Fam Azra. The golden lightning flowers that are born in the rainy weather and bathed in thunder are the spirit of the ancient Storm King.
In the city of Odysseus, a foot several meters long came crashing down, crushing the golden petals on the ground into mud.

The owner of the foot opened his arms, bathed in the freezing cold wind and snow, and enjoyed the coolness in the center of this scorching heat.

Under his feet and around him, thousands of fire giants of various sizes and shapes were roaring and roaring, releasing flames freely amid the wailing of the indigenous people.

They gathered the men together and forced them to fight with their bare hands in the shrinking circle of fire. Only those who survived to the last could linger for a few more minutes and become food along with the women.

As for the most "tender" babies, they were torn into pieces and snatched away by the strongest giants in the first place. They didn't even have time to cry before they turned into delicious meat soup in the flames.

"Is this the land that the Storm King originally snatched from us?" The giant general Laias picked his earwax and looked at the "staff" beside him with contempt.

That person was also a fire giant, but he was nearly half his height, and the fire power on his body was much weaker.

You lowly creatures transformed by fire are only useful now. When my king unifies the world, you will be fit to be used as jerky like your own kind - Laias said disdainfully in his heart.

"Reporting to the general." The staff member lowered his body very low, fearing that the other party would notice the disgust on his face. "Odysseus Town is named after the Storm King of that year. Later, when the false god Marica and the false king Ge Fulei invaded our dynasty, they initially stationed troops here."

"Alright, alright, I don't have time to listen to you guys researching history every time you go to a place - just remember that within five years, the whole world will be my king's dining room and bedroom. Wherever the giant king's flag points, your goddess Marika will only be fit to kneel down and lick my king's toes!"

"Yes Yes Yes"

"Your Majesty and the ministers are really something. They don't know what's so good about defending such a shabby place!" Laias wrinkled his ugly face, and as if he was worried that his expression was not majestic enough, he bared his dirty yellow fangs at his staff.

"Even if humans have the guts to march north, they will march to Lorde or the two large portals. What fool would go to such a place?"

"The general has a far-sighted vision. Now the entire northern border is under your majesty's control. The situation is completely different from five hundred years ago or thirty years ago. The port of Odysseus has been abandoned for many years and the conditions for landing have long been gone." The staff hurriedly responded, "What's more, you are stationed here. If the human generals have some ability to lead troops in battle, they will not come to you to die!"

"Humph, you do understand some truth! But I don't know when this miserable time will end. The people in the city only have enough food for another ten days at most, and they will have to endure hunger by then. I really envy those bastards who were ordered to attack the Samir people!"

"Your Majesty knows that the general is wise and brave. Sooner or later, you will have the opportunity to make great achievements."

Amid the foul-smelling exchange between the master and the servant, it was impossible for any fire giant to notice that, on the other side of the Storm Sea filled with blizzards, a magical fleet was sweeping towards the North like a sword that split the sky, cutting through the waves!

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