Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 414 Giant Network
Perhaps if we stretch time and space to a macroscopic scale, we can easily find the root of this chaos. After all, the pride of the Rodel people exceeds their own cognition. In the long half century since the rise of the Golden Dynasty, it has settled into the deepest background of this city.

When the collective thoughts of all living beings in the world move towards a positive direction, they can create extraordinary beings like gods. However, when these thoughts turn to chaos, doubt, fear and the unknown, they will turn into a storm that no existence can stop, destroying everything they think is an obstacle to their own survival.

Frankly speaking, the Rodel people themselves probably did not realize what kind of mentality they had in the three years when they witnessed Lucia Sanx, a demigod from a foreign country and race, becoming a god chosen by the Supreme Will, and showing absolute crushing power over all demigods of the same generation, especially the Golden Family’s own third-generation demigod Greg.

When Lucia crushed Greg at the Serant Arena and announced the verdict on the Duoris family to the entire royal city, people were shocked by his strength, worshiped his character, and submitted to his verdict.

Because they had seen similar powers and qualities in two people before. The previous one was called Godwin, and the one before that was called Godfrey.

The Rodel people are eager to become strong, and are also willing to submit to the strong. As the saying goes, the winner is the king and the loser is the bandit. The winner commands the unification of the world. This has been the tone of the entire Golden Tree civilization since the war of unification.

As Lucia grew stronger, she cut down the world-destroying star in the land of Gaileed and took into her possession the land that had never truly surrendered. The Golden Dynasty's own Eastern Territory garrison only dared to flee in embarrassment with their property and mistress, and even caused a scandal of murder and division of the spoils on the way. In addition to their worship, they also felt a bit of vague jealousy.

Why isn't such a young, powerful and ambitious demigod a descendant of the Golden Family?
In other words, why could such a hero be born in a land beyond the golden light?

Most of them benefited from the excellent education in the royal capital and could talk about many ancient stories at will, and could even debate on par with less accomplished scholars outside the royal capital on many historical and cultural details - but they did not really understand what Platonshanks and Helarius were, and what was the Supreme Blood that the entire Star-Moon Civilization had planned for thousands of years.

The only things they had truly witnessed were the great achievements of Marica and Gefulei. It was always difficult for people to imagine things beyond their own cognition, so deep down in their hearts, it was so difficult for them to accept Lucia's existence.

When the war in the north broke out, the news came back that the 30,000 Northern Expedition Army had won victory after victory and defeated the Eastern Corps of Giants. At that time, the Rodel people had just benefited from the help of the Ancient Dragon Temple and had just emerged from the haze of the fire plague. With the combination of these two factors, this jealousy slowly evolved into fear.

Lucia Shanks - he is completely different from any demigod in the existing lineage. Not only is he not controlled by the Golden Order, but he is gradually becoming the ruler of the new order.

In a sense, what the Rodel people fear is exactly the same as what Radagan fears.

It's just that their fear is more vague, more chaotic, and less systematic. People only have this idea vaguely, or perhaps it's just a thought that flashes through the depths of their minds when they wake up in the middle of the night.

But when this vague thought suddenly had a clear projection in reality - the rescue of the Ancient Dragon Dynasty did not seem selfless, nor safe, but some kind of unknown plague experiment, those unfaithful people from outside the domain had ulterior motives just like them, and could threaten their lives at any time. When this projection solidified under the deliberate guidance of someone with ulterior motives, unrest broke out.

On January 9, epilepsy incidents broke out again in Shangcheng District.

The entire family of a baron who had a very good reputation in the surrounding blocks was attacked, and the insane fire patients who were witnessed showed even greater aggressiveness than the last outbreak of the plague. They rushed into the baron's mansion frantically, killing all living things in sight with their fists, teeth, nails, and gushing insane fire. By the time the city guards arrived at the scene, the entire mansion had turned into an orange-yellow sea of ​​fire.

The civilians did not know that the priests and knights under Beta had already shown such symptoms during the Holy Inquisition ceremony last year. In their opinion, normal epilepsy patients would at best only suffer burns themselves, and if they were lucky they could recover through timely treatment. Similar symptoms had only been heard of in the Ahara people when the last round of plague broke out.

They heard that the symptoms of the Ahara people were much more serious than those of the Rodel people, and a few of the seriously ill patients even showed violent tendencies.

Looking at the whole story, they were the first patients. The Golden Priests could not cure the stubborn disease, but the Ancient Dragon Priests could. They were the patients seen again.
Moreover, this bunch of lowly and faithless people dared to resist the investigation with the support of the Ancient Dragon Temple, and used the excuse of disappearance to cover up the plan of creating terrorist incidents. The dynasty must make them pay ten times, a hundred times the price! On January 10, a large-scale parade broke out in various parts of the capital. The golden people poured into the streets in groups, shouting slogans, waving weapons, demanding the immediate blockade of the Ancient Dragon Temple, the arrest of the dynasty representative Xia Bolili and all members of the Ahara caravan who cooperated with the temple to fight the plague last time, and the investigation of the real culprit behind the spread of the epidemic.

In the turbulence woven by countless slogans, there are also more extreme voices, such as taking back the dynasty's territory in North Gelide, depriving Lucia of her position as the commander of the Northern Expedition, requiring Lucia to return immediately and surrender her military power to apologize as a god, and the Ancient Dragon Dynasty must cede land and pay compensation for the rampant fire plague.
The mob was intercepted by the city guards before they could get close to the Ancient Dragon Square. The municipal supervisor, Viscount Rowans Ofnir, personally went to the streets to appease the people. At the same time, he once again sent envoys to the Ancient Dragon Temple to ask for an audience with Fulshanks and request negotiations, but was rejected again.

As for Lacard, by the time the march broke out, he had used the power of the Ministry of Justice to arrest no less than hundreds of people, but most of them were small-time suspects who were spread by word of mouth. The few major suspects were very stubborn, so he had not been able to catch any clues about the mastermind behind the scenes.

Given the power of the Dynasty Ministry of Justice in Rodel, this is unreasonable.

Lakkad immediately realized that the seriousness of the situation had far exceeded his expectations, and that the concerns of Priest For during their last meeting were not groundless.

In this golden capital, the possibility of catching both the Deputy Minister of Justice and the Ancient Dragon Temple off guard should not exist. Since it exists, it means that the level of the person who took action is beyond imagination.

In the current environment, the answer is almost self-evident.

Lacard kicked open the door of the Ministry of Justice and ordered his guards, "Prepare a carriage. I want to go to the palace to see the emperor immediately. Quick!"

Just half an hour later, Lacarde, who was still stuck on the road due to the parade, received news that Radagon had announced a quarter of an hour ago that Viscount Chapolili would be temporarily detained and a public trial would be held to investigate the real culprit behind the epilepsy plague.

At the same time, the guards who stayed behind in the Ministry of Justice prison also caught up with Lacarde's carriage on horseback and whispered to his Highness the news that a suspect had just confessed.

"What?" Lacard's eyes suddenly widened. "You said the final clue points to the City Hall?"

"Yes, Your Highness. Before I left, other colleagues had already gone to arrest the suspect's family for further interrogation. However, his close connection with Viscount Rowans has been basically confirmed, and all the confessions he provided can be matched to the case one by one."

Lacard's standing body stiffened for a moment, and then he fell down on the soft couch in the carriage, a little dazed for a moment.

If the real culprit behind the spread of the fire plague is Rowans Ovniel, what does that mean?
A top administrative official in the royal city rebelled? That's all!
The City Hall is the highest administrative body in charge of government affairs and people's livelihood in Rodel City, but with the dynasty's power checks and balances mechanism, it is impossible for Rowens Ovniel alone to do all this.

His superiors, subordinates, city guards, the Knights of Rodel, the Dynasty's Ministry of Political Affairs, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Justice, and countless other people in the complex political system of the Golden Dynasty must have cooperated and assisted him to realize this shocking conspiracy.

Even the biggest possibility is that Rowans Ovniel is just a chess piece, and he was exposed in front of him at the right time. It was all a drama arranged long ago by some higher beings above.

"Hurry up, I have to - no," he suddenly shook his head, "Let's go to the Glorious Hall first!"

(End of this chapter)