Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 378: Fraud
"Your Highness should still remember that a complete force field magic is composed of three parts - a directional spell that divides one's own magic power into free-state micro-elements, a unified spell that simulates the energy fluctuations of the enemy's magic, returns the magic power of both sides to its essence, and performs unified scheduling, and a directional spell that deflects the trajectory of the magic."

"The third item already has a ready-made method. With the blessing of the Void that you have bestowed upon me, the large amount of calculations required for the first item were completed not long ago. The only problem is the unified technique, Your Highness. Please forgive my stupidity. The real unified technique has not yet been completed. At present, I can only do my best to 'cheat'."

"Cheat?" Lucia chewed on the word and smiled with interest.

"Yes, deception. I am still unable to return the energy of both my own and enemy magic to its essence. Even if it is just my own magic power, it must be decomposed into the purest magic power under extreme conditions in the laboratory. But there is no time to transform it back into the magic we need. It will disintegrate due to the instability of the magic power itself."

"My solution to this dilemma is deception. I don't have to completely decompose the magic power of both parties. Instead, I just peel off the 'shell'. That is, I further use the Slice Directional Spell to destroy the enemy's spell structure after dividing my own magic power. Then I use a deception spell without any characteristics, attributes, or tendencies to roughly break up and reorganize the magic power of both parties. After mixing them into a ball, I throw it out along the third step of the Deflection Directional Spell."

"During this process, the three spells we used were not complicated in structure and consumed very little energy, but they were able to offset the enemy's attack magic that consumed a lot of mana. I have already tested it in the void. The same steps only need to be converted into divine runes, and they can also be effective for prayer-type spells."

In layman's terms, Tops' method is like when a group of big enemies come to attack us, we first throw out a smoke bomb, send several shirtless men with ordinary faces to blend into the crowd, take advantage of the chaos to tear off the enemy's uniform, pretend to be the enemy to fan the flames and create chaos, and then take advantage of the situation to sweep people away to other directions.

Lucia nodded and said, "Your plan is very good. Doesn't it perfectly meet the design requirements?"

Tops couldn't help scratching his bald head again, and said disappointedly: "But if I follow your idea, I can completely analyze the energy of both sides, or even directly reorganize the opponent's spell structure, and use the opponent's magic power to release stronger magic to counterattack the opponent. I am far from being able to do these."

Se Lian, who was sitting next to him, glanced at Tops with an unpleasant expression on his face.

Lucia was a little amused and even the sense of urgency that she had originally used to call them together to discuss business was disrupted. This was not some unspeakable technical problem at all. It was simply that the tech geek had just finished making an air-dropped atomic bomb and immediately wanted an intercontinental nuclear missile, pushing himself into a dead end.

"Let me tell you about my experience in the battle not long ago. Maybe it will be helpful to your future research." He sighed.

Tops, who was originally in low spirits, almost jumped up with excitement after hearing this. This was a battle experience at the god-war level. Was there any experimental data in the world more precious than this?

"Okay, okay! Your Highness, please speak!"

While cheering, Topps skillfully took out a pen and paper from his sleeve to prepare for recording. After thinking for a while, he took out a crystal ball from somewhere, injected magic power into it and started recording.

Lucia rolled her eyes and said seriously, "Before I killed Esti, I used dragon language magic to extract natural energy from a radius of 100 kilometers. Note that it was just extraction, which was equivalent to me forcibly extracting the energy within the 100 kilometers and hitting him in the face. With my current mental strength, I am unable to make more sophisticated use of it."

"When facing the Star of Destruction, with the blessing of my parents, the Eternal Queen, the Queen of Death, and the three Moon Gods, I swung a sword that drew natural energy from a range of 5,000 kilometers in diameter. This time it was a little stronger, with some crude application of the Eternal Sword Technique."

"My mother, the Dragon God Heraris, should have been able to turn this method into a regular attack in her heyday. With the blessing of my father's time and space domain, she might have been able to further expand the range and frequency. But even she could not directly control the attack magic released by Esti in her heyday. Otherwise, the forbidden war a thousand years ago would not have been so tragic."

".Do you understand?"

Tops wrote furiously, with a thoughtful expression on his face. He nodded and said, "I understand."

"Understand what?"

"Lord Dragon God's understanding of magic is still somewhat shallow."

"roll."

"Your Highness, that's not what I meant!" Tops's hand trembled, and the feather pen fell on his clothes, leaving a large ink stain. He quickly explained: "I'm not saying that Lord Dragon God is shallow. In fact, to be honest, your use of natural energy is more wasteful. Alas, that's not the case..."

Lucia took a deep breath, tried to put on a friendly expression, and said, "I think it might be more decent for me to meet you as the evil god."

"Alright—" He waved his hand helplessly to stop Tops from explaining further.

"I want to tell you that you don't have to rush for success. Whether it's magic or divine power, the understanding and application of energy is the most profound subject in this world. Countless powerful people and sages have devoted their entire lives to studying it but have rarely made any progress. The fact that you can adapt at any time and create force field magic with extremely high practical value is enough to make many scholars ashamed. As for the matter of unifying the techniques, just take your time." He glanced at Tops's shining forehead with pity. "You are bald at such a young age. I don't want to have to write a letter to the academy to write your epitaph in two years. The unified techniques should not become a half-finished manuscript full of regrets left to future generations when you die young. Instead, it should become a basic course that you write down section by section in a textbook and teach to those who come after you."

Tops was stunned for a moment. The look in His Highness' eyes inexplicably made him feel a little sad. In those clear eyes, he seemed to really see his future self and those unfulfilled regrets.
"I understand, Your Highness," the scholar who had always been in a hurry and unkempt showed a rare look of relief, "I will ask for leave from the academy when I return and rest for a while."

"Well, go ahead. Se Lian, please stay a little longer."

After a moment, only Lucia and Seren were left in the memory battlefield.

He raised his chin towards Tops' vacant seat and ordered, "Keep an eye on him when you get back. I'm not worried about anything else except this guy exhausting himself to death."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Lucia looked at Selian, and then the main topic of the meeting came up.

Looking at Selin's black hair and blue eyes, he suddenly felt somewhat familiar and asked, "Do you know Selin?"

Se Lian didn't expect His Highness to suddenly ask this, and nodded quickly: "She is my sister - if you are talking about Selin from the Golden Dynasty's Blazing Sun Legion."

She carefully observed Lucia's expression and said, "Did my sister or the Scorching Sun Legion affect your highness's plan? If my sister has angered you, please give me a chance. I can go to the Asian Altar, knock her out and bring her back to the academy, and let her..."

"Stop, stop, stop!" Lucia rubbed her temples. What was going on?

"I just asked her casually when I saw her. She is currently leading troops under me and is less than 200 meters away from my main body. There is no need for you to sacrifice your own relatives for the sake of justice!"

I don't know if it's because the temporary alias of "Eternal Dragon" has cast too deep a shadow on these guys. Why are they still so abstract after they revealed their identities last time?

"Is that so?" Se Lian responded weakly. After taking a few deep breaths, his heartbeat finally calmed down.

Although His Highness has now revealed his true identity, it is still difficult for her to remain calm when facing a god-level figure whose methods are beyond understanding, whose vision is beyond his time, and who just chopped off the Star of Destruction with a single sword not long ago.

"I came here to ask you, if we want to simulate the life fluctuations of 30,000 troops through the space portal, what preparations do we need to make?"

Se Lian thought seriously for a moment and replied, "As long as the central hub of the space portal is not destroyed, control will not be lost. When the army is transported, the portal will automatically drive the energy storage crystal to condense a temporary space barrier at the end. If the enemy wants to judge the number of our troops, they can only send high-level magicians to observe the scale and energy frequency of the space barrier and infer the number of people at the other end of the channel."

"In this case, we only need to consume 200 kilograms of Blazing Sun-grade crystals and use magic to simulate a wave of nearly 30,000 people at the starting point of the channel we control, causing the enemy to misjudge."

A few months ago, Lucia found it difficult to associate two hundred kilograms of Blazing Sun Crystal with the word "only".

Fortunately, times have changed. Although the world-destroying star that Esti dropped was used to sacrifice the three Moon Goddesses, there are still a large number of magic crystals left in the Tomb of the Gods where He lived in the past. Not counting the mountains of crystal fragments piled up in the abyss, the various rare materials separated from the broken God's Sleeping Egg alone are calculated in thousands of tons.

"Notify Lord Yazle to transfer 200 kilograms of Blazing Sun Crystal from the Academy's warehouse and secretly send it to the Yatan portal. You will personally prepare the simulation array. Contact Lani for assistance on specific matters. There is only one requirement - no news from the outside world can be heard within two weeks. After two weeks, within one hour after receiving the order, the energy fluctuations of 30,000 people must be detected in the direction of the Thor portal. There must be no mistakes."

"Yes."

Se Lian raised his head, a hint of fanaticism appearing on his handsome face. After following His Highness for so long, he finally had the opportunity to participate in a truly big action.

The energy fluctuation of 30,000 people. If the 30,000 elite soldiers led by His Highness himself appeared in a completely unexpected location, she really wanted to know, who in this world could stop them?

(End of this chapter)