Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 422: Death Sword Black Sun
"I've heard about you," Lucia looked at Callelius with interest, "Before you became king, you were treated like that by the giant survivors. Don't you hate them today?"

Kalerius did not seem to expect that the duel would start in this way. He was stunned for a moment, lowered his head and was silent for a moment, then raised his head and smiled: "Of course I hate it, how could I not hate it?"

"I hate that no matter which refugee camp I am in, they always beat me up first, pull my hair and push me to the ground, step on my face and say that you are the child of those traitors, and you are a sinner of the royal court just like them - but they will not really kill sinners like me, because I am still useful to them."

"I had to lie in the snow on every cold night to observe the enemy situation outside the camp to prevent the Ice Knight Samir from sneaking in at night and slitting their throats. Only when I successfully warned the enemy of an attack, those mountain goblins who were older and stronger than me would cut a few pieces of the toughest meat from the dead tribesmen and roast them over the fire as my food for the next month."

"Before the fire was lit, the nights in the North were really cold. So cold that I still feel a dull numb pain in my chest and abdomen today." He patted his abdomen and said with a smile, "In fact, I know that many of those who beat me are 'traitors' and 'traitor's' children. They didn't beat me because I have the blood of my fathers. It's just that the weak in troubled times often have to inflict violence on the weaker ones in exchange for their own survival."

"So I realized many years ago that what I hated was not them, but the destruction of the giant civilization."

He raised his head, but there was no hatred in his eyes, only a faint sense of remembrance.

"At the beginning of the Star-Moon Era, we were able to accept the ancient stargazers who stepped onto the top of the Giant Mountain, looked up at the stars with those simple tools, and shared the mysteries of the world with us. The sword on your waist was once the creation of the Flame Cauldron, to commemorate the meeting between the two civilizations."

"At the end of the Star-Moon Era, we can mobilize the entire nation's army, put aside our grudge against Bolerius, and face the evil god that descended from outer space together. We can stand on the corpses of countless of our own kind to bury that subspecies."

"Even in the resurrection era when Odysseus invaded the North, we fought against humans, but we were still two civilizations sitting at the round table and attacking each other. We all wore clothes and maintained the dignity passed down from ancient times to the present."

"But after the war of unification, our civilization was destroyed. Perhaps from your perspective, it is difficult to understand the darkness that a civilization releases at the moment of its destruction."

"People who have trouble surviving are no longer human. The same goes for giants and dragons. My people are just a group of terrified beasts. Beasts will sacrifice everything to survive. Do they have to care about other people's feelings?"

"You should feel lucky." Kalerius looked at Lucia and smiled friendly. "Your parents are much more powerful than mine. Fam Azra doesn't have a mad god who wants to devour all the people of the tribe, nor a last high priest who is even crazier than him."

"You have Gransanks, Lance, For, Borelius, and Gustav. That's why the Ancient Dragon Dynasty can wait for you. Once you are born, you will be able to hold the power of one-third of this world, instead of just staring blankly at the ruins of the old civilization. Even crying seems so luxurious."

"But we should all feel unfortunate that, between you and me, only one can survive." Karelios sighed.

"Maybe today, maybe in the near future, the civilization behind us can only survive under the sky of the new era if we take root in each other's bones, right?"

"Yeah," Lucia sighed, "only one of us can survive in the end."

They didn't say anything more. In the eyes of the two kings, killing each other was the greatest respect for each other.

The next moment, Karelius suddenly moved!

The majestic body, which is a hundred meters tall, is like a meteorite falling from the sky, and the sonic boom caused by its feet stepping on the sky is like thunder resounding through the sky!

He simply swung his fist at Lucia, but wherever the fist passed, even the space collapsed into countless black fragments! Lucia let out a dragon roar, and her half-dragon body grew and expanded. Her slender arms turned into bone-spurred and ferocious dragon claws, and her huge membrane wings spread out to cover the pale sky!
The Claw of Destruction and the Fist of Fire collided with each other with a loud bang. Amid the sound of a nuclear explosion, the air waves cut off countless mountain peaks and the land within a radius of ten miles exploded!

This battle between kings was extremely brutal from the very beginning!

Lightning flashed with black and red flames, burning half of Karelia's body to ashes. The dark red giant fire also covered the large area of ​​dragon scales between Lucia's chest and abdomen, burning the immortal scales into a molten state, causing severe damage.

The Queen's Embrace began to take effect. The burned scales on Lucia's body fell off rapidly, and new scales that were exactly the same as before grew out. On Kalelius' side, an even more incredible phenomenon occurred.

Countless blood and flesh surged out of the wound like bubbles. Although Calelius' wound was deeper and the damage was more serious in the first collision, his recovery speed was faster than Lucia, and the newly grown tendons were stronger than before!

There was a sudden rush of vibrations in her soul, and Lucia had to devote a part of her mind to the battlefield of memories. Under a giant dark red star, the data panel of Kalerius had emerged.
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Target: Giant King——Karelus

Race:? ? ?
grade:? ? ?
Attributes:? ? ?

Skill:? ? ?

special power:? ? ?
Current parsing progress: Unable to parse
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Lucia was filled with alarm. She had thought that even if the memory battlefield still could not be completely analyzed like when facing the first generation giant Rodonias, at least she could collect the specific data of Kalerius. She did not expect this result.

Is this giant king standing in front of him still a "living being" in the true sense?

Suddenly, he restrained the lightning that was surging all over his body, and at the same time opened the magic field, swallowing up the natural energy from thousands of miles away.

Calelius rushed forward. He knew very well that Lucia's current trump card was a terrifying attack that used a large range of natural energy for his own benefit. Even though his body could theoretically be repaired infinitely, there was no need for him to test the limit of his vitality himself.

Taking advantage of the fact that Lucia is not able to mobilize her energy fast enough, he has every chance to win the game in one fell swoop!

In a flash of thought, the giant red figure had already soared into the sky. He stretched his left hand forward to gather strength, and with his right hand, he gathered enough power and smashed out like a falling star!

But at the moment when his fist hit the dragon shadow, Kalelius suddenly became dazed.

The time and space around him seemed to have reversed to some extent, and Lucia, who should have been hit in the heart by this punch, appeared behind him!
However, the energy in the sky was not drawn into his body, but was all injected into a black and red spiral sword, which suddenly pierced into his back with a cold and sharp sound of the sword!
In an instant, a cold sense of death enveloped Kalelius' soul!

That force was not as strong as the Claws of Destruction, nor as fierce as the traditional Dragon Thunder Prayer, but it was so dead and ruthless, as if a sword of judgment from high above was judging the world!
"Destined death!"

Calelius groaned, and suddenly grasped the sword that pierced his chest with his right hand. He clenched his left hand in the air, and a red light ball that was extremely dark and almost black flew out from his palm, exploding with a loud bang when Lucia drew her sword!
A grand black sun rose, and the mighty shock wave blew away the giant and the dragon at the same time!
Coincidentally, Lucia and Callelius, who were both seriously injured, chose to evacuate at the same time. The former activated the Wings of the Void, and the latter turned into a flame, and both fled quickly.

(End of this chapter)