Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 39 Discovery
January time, fleeting.

In the Hall of Valyria, a special training ground strengthened by magic effects, Lucia sat cross-legged on the ground with her eyes closed, quietly comprehending the flow and fluctuation of qi and blood all over her body.

Accompanied by long and steady breaths again and again, the rich and powerful blood of the demigod in his body is rushing in the blood vessels like an endless river. Trembling, mysteriously resonating with the pumping of blood.

Every time the flesh and blood resonated, Lucia could hear a clear sound of forging coming from the inside of the chest cavity, as if his heart had turned into a melting pot of astonishing scale, tempering his blood and physique in a thousand tempers.

Wisps of hot air escaped from the pores and condensed into a white mist around him. In the process, the supreme blood power from the Dragon King and Dragon God and the powerful physical power of the ancient dragon were in his body. Gradually fused with each other, and finally turned into the unique "power of qi and blood" of the Dragon King's body.Over the past few days, he has been able to clearly perceive the power rising in his body like the rising sun.

Suddenly, his whole body trembled, and his figure bounced off the ground. The speed of his rise almost tore the surrounding air, and a cloud of fuzzy air waves exploded in the center of the field!

Between extreme stillness and extreme movement, silver-white ancient dragon scales covered most of his body in an instant. In the half-dragon state, his slender white hands had turned into ferocious dragon claws, and the sharp and powerful claws reflected With the cold light!
Lucia's figure looked like a ghost and flew tens of meters away at a high speed. The left and right dragon claws swung forward fiercely, and ten broken cracks flashed in midair, exploding a crackling black and red lightning!
An armored puppet standing in front of him suddenly collapsed to the ground. On the chest and abdomen of the puppet, the body made of fine steel and the enchanted heavy armor on the surface were cut open by ten smooth, mirror-like cuts, like It is as easy as cutting through tofu with a sharp blade.

Lucia didn't stop, but pulled out the dragon scale knife behind her with her backhand. Amid the sound of Qingyue's knife, the fiery red dragon thunder immediately wrapped around the entire blade.The majestic force flowed through his whole body like flowing water, he twisted his body, the muscles all over his body stretched to the limit and then suddenly released, the long knife was released from his hand like an arrow off the string!

An extremely sharp howl resounded through the audience, and a black line wrapped in thunder gradually disappeared in the air—and looking at the long knife, it had penetrated deeply into a fine iron wall a hundred meters away!
Around the handle of the knife that is not in the wall, there are many knife edges of the same size. At first, those knife edges were quite scattered, but then they gradually became neat.In the nearest area, the distance between each knife edge has been precisely measured, and there is no difference between each other.

"Huh——" Lucia exhaled a fiery air, and the dragon scales on his body gradually disappeared under the skin. He adjusted the boiling and noisy air mechanism in his body, paced to the front of the wall, and stretched out his hand to easily pull out the water that had penetrated into the wall. He took the long knife in his hand and inserted it back into the scabbard behind him.

"Brother, is Lucia stronger than yesterday?" Marenia shook Mikaela's arm at the edge of the venue, and asked enthusiastically.

The girl's clear pupils reflected the slender sword-like figure of the boy in the distance. Lucia's stride, frequency, body swing, and breathing rhythm all fell into her eyes. The integration is completed in the mind, so that the most accurate conclusion can be derived.

Just as Marenia recognized Lucia as an ancient dragon transformed into a human when she first met, although she has never practiced martial arts, this extremely keen insight is like her innate instinct, Mikaela I knew about my sister's talent very early on, and named it "Eye of Mind".

"That's right," Mikaela who was sitting on the side nodded, his eyes full of admiration, "His strength is making progress visible to the naked eye every day, and what's even more astonishing is that his control over power He also evolved rapidly at the same time, this speed of progress, brother Godwin must not have been able to achieve it when he was young - he is a true genius!"

The little fox Shirley, who was sitting upright at the side, suddenly regained her spirits when she heard the words, and jumped in front of the two of them, bouncing around and waving her little paws. Then he jumped onto Marenia's lap, raised his head proudly, and swung his fluffy tail into a mass of blooming white flowers.

"Haha, our Shirley is also a little genius!" The girl smiled and scratched Shirley's chin, and the little fox narrowed her eyes happily.

On the other side, Lucia took the towel prepared on the sidelines and wiped off the sweat from her hair, walked over and touched the heads of Marlenia and Shirley as usual, then looked at Mikaela, and said with a smug smile: " How is it, okay?"

"I'm making rapid progress. I'm definitely no longer your opponent at my level. In a few months, when Brother Godwin returns from the northern border, you can already directly practice with him." Mikaela replied pretending to be serious.

Lucia's face turned dark immediately, and she touched the bridge of her nose in embarrassment, and said, "I find that you are getting worse and worse, so you can't let me get carried away, right?"

Mikaela couldn't help shaking his head and laughing, and said after a while: "Wait for you to rest for a while, shall we continue to practice?"

"Forget today," Lucia said while moving her shoulders and arms. "I gained some new insights during sword practice in the morning. I will sort it out later, and I will challenge you tomorrow."

"No problem, but you have to take care of the meals as usual," Mikaela shrugged, "The cooks that mother provided for you here are so good, I have dismissed all the cooks in the Holy Tree Palace."

"Hahaha, okay, anyway, your meal size is only one-third of a Shirley or one-fifth of a Marenia, I can still afford it by gritting my teeth."

"Lu-si-ya!"

"Ow!"

Immediately, there was an angry protest from one person and one fox.

After dinner, Lucia and Shirley sent the siblings back to the Holy Tree Hall next door. After returning, they went to the quiet room alone to start the memory battlefield again.

After practicing day and night for a month, his data panel also changed——
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Name: Lucia Shanks

Race: Ancient Dragon (royal family)

Rating: 148
Available Rune Points: 0
Attributes: Life 40 (+5), Concentration 30, Stamina 15 (+5), Strength 31 (+8), Dexterity 21, Intelligence 30, Faith 30, Induction 30
Skills: Ancient Dragon Battle Technique (Beginner), Storm Swordsmanship (Beginner), Body of the Dragon King (Level [-]), Claw of Destruction (Level [-]), Dragon Thunder Prayer (Beginner)

Legendary abilities: Dragon Blood Inheritance (unlocked), Memory Battlefield (unlocked), ? ? ? (Unlocked)——
During these days, he practices ancient dragon combat skills and storm sword skills in the morning, patiently polishes two royal family combat skills and dragon thunder prayer in the afternoon, and enters the memory battlefield at night before going to sleep. The results of the training, check the gaps in the training during the day, and then summon the nobleman Samuel from the stars, and fight with him again and again with all his strength.

In addition to advancing the analysis progress to 19.9%, which is just a step away from the goal, he also made several new important discoveries. One is that the permanent bonus of the Dragon King's body to the physique will be displayed in the attribute data in the form of additional gains Afterwards, if he enters the half-dragon form or dragon form, the corresponding attribute changes will also be temporarily displayed at the same position, and the attribute data will return to normal when he returns to human form.

譬如完全龙化时，他的生命会激增到40（+15），灵巧却会衰退到21（-6），回到人形之后又会恢复为40（+5）和21。

The second is that in the starry sky above the head, another star was lit up in the central area. Lucia connected with it with spiritual power and found that the virtual image contained in the star turned out to be Mikaela! ——
Target: God-man Michaela (juvenile body)

Race: Human (Demigod)

Rating: 188
Attributes: Life 20, Concentration 60, Stamina 10, Strength 15, Dexterity 12, Intelligence 20, Faith 70, Induction 60
Skills: Golden Tree Prayer (Advanced), Golden Law Fundamentalist Prayer (Advanced)
Legendary Ability: Golden Law (Unlocked)
Current analysis progress: 7.8% (battle memories not unlocked)

Next analysis node: 10%——
After comparing Mikaela's information with Samuel's, Lucia has roughly determined that only by pushing the analysis progress to more than 10% can Samuel's reminiscence combat mode be unlocked. It is the most efficient way to collect enough information on the other party in the process, and to fight head-on with it.

After more than ten sparring sessions with Mikaela in the past month, the "current analysis progress" has gradually increased from the initial 1.0% to the current 7.8%, and reaching the next node is just around the corner.

After rehearsing all the skills several times in the memory battlefield, Lucia took a deep breath, adjusted herself to the best state, and summoned the star representing Samuel again.He refused to practice with Mikaela before, just to preserve enough mental and physical strength to face the next battle.

The black flame emblem shaped like a pupil emerged from the air dozens of steps away, and the cold and cold air submerged him like a tide. Facing the old opponent who had killed him countless times in front of him, Lucia Holding the Dragon Scale Knife manifested with spiritual power in both hands, he stepped forward again without fear, and faced it brazenly!
(End of this chapter)