Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 391 The Mystery of Fire
It had been a long time since Lucia had experienced this feeling of rapidly rising power.

In the battlefield of memories, he sat quietly on the void throne, and the vast starry sky cast down thousands of streams of light, injecting the runes seized since the Northern Expedition into his body, turning them into his new strength.

This battle was different from the Star Shattering War. The star beast followers summoned by Esti were of varying levels, and most of them were far from his power level. Therefore, the most direct sources of runes were only those large star beasts and Esti herself.

After the Northern Expedition began, the fire giants who died on the battlefield brought him extremely pure and huge rune income. Among them, the low-level giants below the fourth generation could become a stable source of rune points. The first-generation giant Rodnias who had just fallen brought him one-tenth of Esti's rune points.

According to the information obtained from the defeated soldiers, the giants still have nine original generations and ten ancestors, plus a giant king. If they are all killed, there might be a chance to pile all eight attributes to the limit.

After all, he, Godwin who did not have the direct blessing of the golden tree, as well as Queen Reynala, Chief Mugram, Lance, For, Chief Otopis, and Radagon, can only be regarded as the first echelon in the realm of "heroes". Latan and the brothers Mongget and Mong who are far away in the East China Sea are still slightly inferior for the time being, roughly equivalent to the former Storm King's Wings.

Above this, breaking through the limits of mortal beings is the realm of true gods and kings.

Apart from the Outer Gods and the mysterious Queen of Death Caterpella, the only powerful people in this realm active in the world today are the Eternal Queen Marika and the Black Sword Malicus. Godwin, who lives in the royal city and is blessed by the golden tree, is considered half a powerful person.

The War King Gefrey who was exiled outside the Sea of ​​Mist, the sleeping Dragon King Platonsanks, the missing Dragon God Heraris, and the Fire Evil God who had disappeared for hundreds of years since the time of Odysseus, these four have been away from the world for a long time and are not included in the calculation for the time being.

Lucia speculated that according to the direction of historical development in the previous life, even in the Shattered War period when the demigods were at their peak of strength, only Latan, Mongert, and Marennia had barely touched this realm.

Only beings of this level can truly pose a threat to the Supreme Will with their own strength, such as Marika when the ring was broken.

Of course, facts have proved that this so-called "threat" is insignificant in the face of the Supreme Will. It is not so much that He Himself is threatened, but rather that He cannot bear the cost of the collapse of the Ring of Law and the Order of the Golden Tree, and the complete loss of control or even destruction of this world.

But no matter what, after this battle, he finally had the opportunity to touch this level, and was qualified to know more truth from Carterpella.

Lucia took a deep breath and swallowed the flowing light in the sky like a whale sucking water. When he opened his eyes again, Rodnias's data panel had appeared in the void as he wished.
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Target: The first giant - Rodnias
Race: Ice Troll (mutant)
Rating: 285
Attributes: Life 65, Concentration 50, Endurance 70, Strength 80, Dexterity 25, Intelligence 0, Faith 74, Sensing 0
Skills: Giant Combat Technique (Master), Flame Prayer (Master), Furnace Aspects (Beginner)
Special ability: "Fire" (unknown)

Current analysis progress: unknown (under analysis, battle memories cannot be unlocked temporarily)

Next parsing node: unknown
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In addition to the analysis of attribute and skill data, the memory battlefield, which had always been successful, failed for the first time. Not only did he know nothing about the special ability named "Spark", but he couldn't even analyze it effectively. This was a situation he had never encountered since he unlocked the memory battlefield.

However, as Lucia's understanding of the Memory Battlefield deepened, he could roughly guess the logic behind it.

Last time, I had already thought of it. The Memory Battlefield is not a plug-in that the "time traveler" is born with, but a black technology of the Star-Moon Era tailored for him in the Emperor Plan.

It includes some of the authority of the fallen former God of Death in absorbing rune energy, the Dragon King's authority over time and space, the Dragon God's authority over creation, the spiritual connection network constructed by the Moon Goddess and the starry sky projection, as well as the huge database and skill analysis system formed after combining with the dragon blood inheritance. Perhaps there are some deeper functions that Lucia has not yet developed.

But since it is not a plug-in, it is impossible to achieve true omniscience.

Previously, the analysis function of the Memory Battlefield relied heavily on its internal database covering the entire knowledge of the Star-Moon Civilization. However, when Lucia encountered something new and unprecedented in the Borderland for the first time, the direct interpretation method did not work. Fortunately, he could vaguely feel that as long as he defeated more giants and fed more data to the Memory Battlefield, with the vast computing power in the battlefield, he would be able to crack the secret of the "Fire Seed" sooner or later.

"Both in appearance and strength, they are clearly giants, but their race identification is Flame Mountain Monster Giant Combat Skills and Evil Flame Prayer. Why is there an item called "Furnace Hundred Aspects" in the skill system?"

With his current strength, it didn't take much effort for him to kill Rodgnius. During the fight, he only remembered that the opponent had profound attainments in the two major fields of physical skills and prayer, but he didn't see Rodgnius show any power related to the furnace at all.

The person with the highest attainment in the furnace power around Lucia is his teacher Otopis. In the three years they have been together, he has witnessed countless times the teacher's powerful combat power of releasing the power of the furnace to arbitrarily change his body shape and fly into the sky and hide in the ground.

After long-term exposure and continuous analysis and practice, his own Furnace Prayer has now reached the Grandmaster level. Although he has not conducted in-depth research in the direction of "Hundred Aspects", that is because he has the Infinite Tail as a superior substitute, which does not mean that he does not understand it.

No matter from which angle, the power of Rodnias's furnace looks more and more strange.

Even without using the furnace-series prayers or the transformations, he should at least exude some of the aura of a furnace of life while his divine power was flowing.

But he didn't.

That kind of divine power is like a burning flame, filled with an overwhelming aura of destruction, without even a trace of life. How could it have the characteristics of the power of a furnace?
"This is really weird." Lucia muttered.

The Furnace of Life is the source of billions of lives in the entire border area. Even the golden tree is just a parasite of the giant furnace tree of the past. No matter how powerful the giants are, they are derived from the furnace. It is impossible for them to suppress the power of the furnace and make it disappear.

Just like Lucia himself, his divine power has always been red-gold in color. In addition to the power of the ancient dragon, it is also permeated with some influences of the power of gold and the power of the furnace.

So where can this first-generation giant hide the power of the furnace?
He waved his hand, and Rodnias's real body appeared in the center of the memory battlefield. As the mental link was established, he soon connected to Selian's consciousness.

"Your Highness, what can I do for you?"

"I've found a job that suits your profession - go back and dissect this corpse and find out the secrets inside. Also, this won't be the only one you'll see recently, so eat a light diet and be prepared at all times."

Tens of thousands of miles away, in the magic academy, Se Lian, who had been cut off from the connection, rolled her eyes. Her specialty was the creation of artificial star children and soul migration. When did it become autopsy?

In the past, when His Highness was still the "Eternal Dragon", he would at least make up a plausible reason that would make her blood boil, but now he is becoming less and less particular.

That time that has passed is really nostalgic.

(End of this chapter)