Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 445 King
"Come on, stand up. Yes, don't be anxious." Lucia called softly, as if she was caring for a newborn baby.

"Yes, very well done!" He rubbed his palms together and smiled with satisfaction.

Opposite him, in the center of the dark earth of the memory battlefield, an incarnation of a star beast that was half a body taller than his own form lowered its head and looked down at him, its scarlet crystal eyes gleaming with a cold light, and it snorted with disdain.

Snapped--

Lucia raised her hand and released a magic hand, mercilessly punching the star beast incarnation on the forehead.

"Don't be so shameless. You are an incarnation that has merged with my soul and you still dare to act tough in front of me. If you don't obey me, I will tear you apart and feed you to the Moon God!"

The star beast incarnation snorted twice and really didn't dare to do it again.

"That's better." Lucia coughed twice, a hint of paleness appeared on her face, but her pupils were full of excitement.

It is said that his soul power has been integrated into this incarnation, but this incarnation is completely different from the defective product used to deal with Amodia before. That's right, this is the remnant of "Dark Stars" that Lucia specially led the army to attack the Hierro Yannis tunnel and snatched from the bottom seal.

Before Lucia implanted the split soul, the dominant force in this body had always been the remnant of that evil god subspecies. If it weren't for his current sensing level of 89 and the mental strength of the memory battlefield, he really wouldn't be able to take over the dominance of the body by force.

However, the strength of that regret was beyond Lucia's previous expectations. Judging from the soul strength alone, it was almost as strong as Esti after she was fully integrated with Signis and revived. It was just because she was severely injured that year and was sealed for a full thousand years that Lucia succeeded in "invading" her from the outside.

Lucia even suspected that, given that Esti's true form was extremely similar to that of the Zerg, this remaining body was most likely the second body "He" had left for her. This could allow her to exert combat power close to that of her original body, or it could preserve a foundation for the revival of her own soul, hoping that she could be resurrected one day.

In the forbidden war, Esti's original body faced the Three Moon Gods and the Ancient Dragon Dynasty head-on, and sent this subspecies to attack the Arctic ice field. She probably thought that the subspecies' combat power was enough to flatten the Giant King's Court, and then wipe out the Eternal City from a high position. However, she was unexpectedly defeated by the ancient giants and sealed at the bottom of the Yero Yannis Tunnel. It was not put to use until the original body was destroyed a thousand years later, and instead it played its residual role in killing its own enemies.

Because of this, this broken body still retained some of the pride of the god when he was alive. Even after Lucia implanted a soul and transformed it into the incarnation of a star beast, it still refused to obey. Now it has finally calmed down after being beaten.

"Well, come to think of it, I can't blame you—" Lucia controlled the star beast incarnation to half-kneel down and patted its shoulder heavily, "Old Ai, you were also a decent god when you were alive. Even if you are dead, most of your high-level followers are dead, and your low-level followers are used as cannon fodder, and your second body is dug up by your enemies and made into a puppet. You still have the dignity of a god, right?"

The star beast incarnation began to tremble, and a creaking sound came from the inside of its serrated mouthparts. Its eyes glowed red, and it seemed to be on the verge of going berserk again, but Lucia's Claw of Destruction pressed half of its body into the ground.

"I know you are anxious, but don't worry. Resistance is meaningless. Now is different from when you were just dug out. I can blow you into a pile of waste from the soul level with just a thought. Instead of being given to the three moon goddesses as a sacrifice, you might as well kneel down and survive for one day, right?"

The incarnation of the star beast didn't say a word. After being sealed for a thousand years, it only had a few instincts left. It was also completely suppressed and fused by Lucia's soul. Throwing a tantrum was the limit of what it could do. It couldn't even think of resisting.

Lucia sneered in her heart, thinking that you are being used as a thug only now because you are still needed. After you have used up all your strength, you can be used as a sacrifice. Last time, you accidentally stole the sacrifice, which caused the progress of the March God's revival to not increase at all. If those three could speak, they would definitely grab him by the collar and beat him up.

His rise to where he is today is inseparable from the support of those three people. Even the Memory Battlefield can't tell how much of their technical stock they are. With such deep friendship here, who do you think you are, Esti?
Do you think that since I have contributed Rune, my body, inheritance, relatives, and clones to the cause of reviving the Ancient Dragon Dynasty, I should give you a good end?
childish!

Some opportunities are missed once they are missed. If you had presented all of these to the great Dragon King and Dragon God when the forbidden war invaded from outer space, you would still be spared today. Now? It's too late!
Lucia flipped her wrist, and the unused flesh and blood base of the first generation of star beast incarnations that was collected from the Watcher Fortress last time emerged. Under the crushing pressure of the huge mental power in the memory battlefield, it quickly turned into pure rune and was injected into the heart of the new generation of star beast incarnations.

The magic field, life magic, starry sky oracle, and dragon language magic were activated again. Under Lucia's eager gaze, the momentum of the star beast incarnation continued to rise. The four dragonfly-shaped membrane wings behind it kept extending and expanding, and finally split into twelve. The scales all over its body kept shed and regenerated, until every inch of muscle and bone transformed into a form as bright and shining as the amber of life.

The star beast incarnation opened its six newly grown crystal eyes. The eyes were no longer the crazy scarlet color before, but reflected a deep purple. Roaring dark purple lightning could be vaguely seen at the bottom of the pupils, which was the symbol of the power of gravity.

In a sense, Esti, who had just fought to the death with Lucia and Latan in the Starshattering War not long ago, was reborn again. But this time it was no longer a god who returned from ancient times with the wrath of revenge, but a "tool god" whose life and death depended entirely on human hands.

"Yes, that's the spirit."

Lucia waved her hand, and Esti summoned a void wormhole and quickly disappeared into it.

After exiting the battlefield of memory, he woke up from horseback. The 8,000 southern expeditionary troops had been marching for two days and one night. More than half of the accompanying horses had died of exhaustion on the road. The soldiers also used their willpower to support their bodies, and marched towards the northwest like a dying torch in the wind and snow.

This morning they arrived at the last turning point in the upper reaches of the Elunga River. From here on, heading north, the terrain of the mountains and rivers has not changed. In the last section of the Kurbandeya Avenue, the road leading to the Sacred Tree Forest is only 300 miles long, and it is all flat.

If the Southern Expedition Army's physical strength and supplies were at their peak, this would only be the distance of a forced march for the knights, and they could arrive in the morning if they set out in the early morning. But at this moment, even such a small stretch of plain became a fortress blocking their way to survival.

The sounds of the giant army's march could already be faintly heard, and the scouts on the front line had even begun exchanging fire with scouts under Moserlo's command. The enemy force, which was ten times larger than their own, was encircling them from the northeast, like a huge wave caused by a tsunami, and was about to smash them to death in the darkness before dawn.

Behind them, the 200,000-strong army led by the Giant King Calerius was chasing them day and night. Even if they could break through Mocero's blockade, as long as their breakthrough speed was a little slower, they would be completely surrounded by the 300,000 elite giants.

But until this moment, the soldiers of the Southern Expedition Army still did not despair, or it could be said that everyone of them had burst out with a fighting spirit that should never appear in such a desperate situation, as if a steel knife burned red by a raging fire was about to chop down the first person who bumped into them and wanted to die.

It all started with their commander - their king.

Lucia once said that when the enemy attacks, he will personally defeat the Giant King's army, and then lead the army to kill the enemy head-on and win the final victory.

When the king gives an order, all the soldiers will follow and no one will dare to obey.

This kind of top-down temperament belonged to the War King Gefre twenty years ago, to the Storm King Odysseus five hundred years ago, and to the Ancient Dragon King Platonsanks at the beginning of the world's ignorance.

Today, three thousand years later, it belongs to Lucia Shanks.

(End of this chapter)