Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 377 Semi-finished products

"Your Highness, what do you think?" Rosalind, commander of the 9th Legion of the Storm Knights, looked at Lucia.

She is one of only two women among the six legion commanders. She has been guarding Lance Shanks since she became an adult. She is not only Lucia's true general, but also one of the top ten human heroes in Fam Azra.

Lucia examined the huge map that was several meters wide. Her silent figure exuded a deep aura like a mountain, which caused the six generals to continue thinking deeply and try to come up with further optimized tactics.

"Loren, please remember the following deployment——"

Between Rosalind and Hilbert, Loren, the commander of the Thirteenth Storm Army and the chief of staff of the army, was a taciturn middle-aged man with a proper appearance and temperament. Upon hearing this, he immediately stood up and said, "Please give your instructions, Your Highness."

"Send a message to the Ancient Dragon Temple of Lodel, and order Priest Fulsanx to contact His Majesty Radagon to mobilize 50,000 heavily armed troops of the Lodel Knights to march north along the Aurum Avenue to suppress the rebels in Lodel City. Also send the Ancient Dragon Knight Christopher to secretly borrow 10,000 Scorching Sun Troops to prepare three months of food and fodder in advance, ready to go north through the Lodel portal at any time."

"Send a message to the Royal Court of Kalia, asking Her Majesty Reinara to borrow 30,000 Knights of the Royal Family of Kalia, and to mobilize 60,000 troops and three months' food and supplies at the Asiatan Portal, so that they can join our army in the near future and march north together."

"Finally, order the 29th and th Storm Legions on our front lines to send two battalions each, and mobilize all the Storm Sea archipelago cities, vassal city-states, and noble territories along Route to mobilize magic sailboats over tons. Activate the energy storage crystals to the highest power and deploy them at the front and on both wings of our army. Blow the horn, raise the royal flag, and sail during the day and repair at night. Make sure all living beings within a thousand miles know that the royal army is heading north."

"Yes." Lauren simply accepted the order.

"Do you have any questions?"

Caedreth opened his mouth, as if he wanted to say something, but then he took another look at the densely packed routes marked by Lucia on the map, rolled his eyes, stood at attention, and together with the other generals, tapped their breastplates and said loudly, "I obey your orders!"

"Go." Lucia waved her hand, and after the generals left, she sat down alone, pondered for a moment, and opened the memory battlefield.

The void throne formed behind him. Lucia supported his chin with his hand, and after a moment he stretched out his palm towards the endless dark land in front of him.

"Creating a fire giant."

As his thoughts gathered, a vast amount of mental power suddenly surged in from the sky and the ground, constructing a white skeleton a hundred meters tall out of thin air.

Flesh, blood, meridians, skin, hair... countless details were slowly filled in. Lucia stared at the huge body like a hill that was constantly being completed in front of her eyes, until finally, the two eyes on the giant's skull and the one eye of the evil god in the abdomen opened together, and surging and burning flames surged out!

Although the hundred-meter giant has no independent consciousness, in the memory battlefield where its functions are increasingly developed, its life form has become extremely close to the real giants who once dominated history.

The hot wind blew up Lucia's long silver hair. At this moment, he was still in human form, sitting in front of the giant, as small as an ant, but the contrast between the two's momentum was just the opposite.

A low whimper rolled in the giant's throat. Apart from the evil god's eye filled with the breath of destruction, his two eyes kept shifting their gaze towards Lucia. The fiery red bristles all over his body also slightly stood up and trembled unconsciously.

Even facing the hidden might of the dragon, this powerful creature that was once said to be on par with the ancient dragons couldn't help but tremble and kneel down!
After a moment, Lucia shook her head.

He raised his hand and shot out a red dragon lightning as thick as a well, which pierced through the giant's heart, allowing his dead body to turn back into spiritual power and disappear.

"No, too many." He muttered to himself.

A giant of this rank consumes too many runes from birth to growth, life, battle, and death. After swallowing up 30,000 miles of ice in just a few months, it can be imagined that the number of fire giants has reached a rather terrifying number, but what is even more terrifying is the total amount of runes stored in these giants.

If they were all "genuine" fire giants like the one just now, I'm afraid even if I kill all the creatures in the North, even if I add the "Ice Dragon God" Borelius, I'm afraid they won't be able to make up half of the total number.

It should be noted that even in the heyday of the Giant King's Court, the fire giants never truly occupied the entire North.

About 1,500 years ago, although the Royal Court won the battle with Bolerius on the top of Giant Mountain, they encountered a tenacious counterattack from Bolerius and the Samir clan north of Snowfall Valley.

Earlier, the giants had tried to get out of the ice field and compete with the ancient dragons and the ancient Storm Dynasty for the warm and comfortable fertile land of Gaileyd. In the end, they were defeated by the Dragon King with iron-blooded means, and fled back to the North in disarray. Later, they fell into the dilemma of having their home taken away by Borelius.

Up to now, the purebred Fire Giants have already been slaughtered by the Golden Dynasty, and the "remnant" guarding the fire pot is said to be just a small Giant of the first thirty meters.

No matter how weak Ossarion and his Northern Garrison were, they still had an army of 100,000 men fully supported by the New Party, which was at least twice the number of the Northern Legion in the Duoris era.

How could they completely defeat them and the Fire Temple in just two or three months, and even go south to capture the Lord Fortress that was said to be indestructible, overwhelm Roghal, and accomplish a feat that the giant ancestors had never achieved with such a huge and terrifying force?
What hidden cards left over from the former Giant King's Court are hidden in the Giant Cemetery?

If they really had such a trump card, why didn't they use it when they destroyed the country twenty years ago?
Lucia tapped the armrest gently, many possibilities emerged in her mind, and she denied them one by one after careful reasoning.

No matter how you look at it, if these guys hadn't found an opportunity to secretly kill an Outer God of the level of Scarlet Corruption or Mother of Truth, and had some kind of facility similar to the Battlefield of Memory or the Golden Tree to absorb Runes, there would only be one answer left -

There is something strange about the fire giants now active in the north. He can even assert that they are probably not the same species as the giants of the royal court in the past.

Thinking of this, he looked up at the starry sky and sent out three mental waves that had been agreed upon long ago.

A moment later, a response came from the other side of the starry sky, and on one side of the newly formed long table, the figures of Se Lian and Tops slowly emerged.

On the other side, Black Moon Saint Adelina sent back a spiritual message: "Your Highness, the Mother Goddess's situation seems to be fluctuating. The Eternal City is shaking and chaos is gradually arising. It is really difficult for me to extricate myself. Please allow me to deal with practical affairs for the time being, and then come back to take orders."

"It's okay." Lucia's voice traveled thousands of miles and echoed in Adelina's heart along the spiritual link.

The person we are looking for today is only Se Lian, and we have called other members of the Forbidden Research Society to see if they can get some benefits from what happens next.

From what Adelina said, the last sacrifice must have worked, but he really didn't have time to take care of the underground things now. Fortunately, Adelina was strong enough and had a high status, so he just let her handle it for now.

"Your Highness." Selian and Tops each saluted.

Lucia raised her hand to signal them to be more casual. She looked at Tops first and said, "A few days ago I heard you say that the force field magic was almost complete, but there were still some details to deal with. What's going on?"

"Yes, Your Highness," Tops scratched his extremely smart head, a bit of embarrassment on his face, "If you insist on saying that the force field magic has been completed, it is only a half-finished product at best."

(End of this chapter)