Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 455: Death by Loyalty
"Ahhh——" Hilbert roared furiously. The originally charming and graceful woman's body swelled into a giant tens of meters tall. She kept raising her feet and desperately stepped towards Serin's magic shield.

For a moment, earth and rocks splashed and dust rose up, but no matter how bloody her feet were, she could not get past the shield even an inch.

whoosh-

A beam of blue light lit up around Serin's body, and her body flashed to a height of hundreds of meters away. Facing Hilbert's whistling punch, she simply spread out one palm with five fingers spread out, and then suddenly flipped down!
In an instant, the gravity in the space where Hilbert was located suddenly increased!
The soft air seemed to turn into heavy mercury, and the drifting snowflakes were like arrows and stones hitting the ground. The dark purple lightning symbolizing gravity magic was shattered, and Hilber was so depressed that he could no longer stroll in the garden like in his dream. His knees bent, and the giant body as big as a mountain fell to the ground with a loud bang!
At the same time, Hilbert, who was passively beaten unilaterally, was no longer able to maintain the mental suppression on Hilbert and Leville. The two quickly woke up from the dream state, the black and white luster on their bodies became increasingly faint, and their bodies gradually became solid.

"Creative Star Shower." Serin chanted the spell softly, and the magic wand in her hand drew a mysterious trajectory. The dark nebula opened up again above Hilbert's head, and dark blue meteors fell like rain!
Serin's control over magic was so exquisite that countless rays of light covered Hilbert's body. The speed at which the dark blue starlight fell was even enough to tear dark cracks in space. After penetrating the epidermis, it turned into chaotic and disordered magic energy and exploded in her body, causing even more serious chain damage.

Hilbert felt as if she was pierced by thousands of needles and a huge metal storm was stirred up in her body. She suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with many organ fragments!

After losing his mental advantage and the suppression of Sweet Dreams, the Fourth Ancestor was completely crushed by Serin, whose threat level was not even among the top five in the Northern Expedition in the eyes of the royal court!
She subconsciously looked into the distance, hoping that Mocero and Adonis would lend a helping hand, but she saw a scene that made her even more desperate.

That dragon that was as big as Heldiron with his volcanic body in full force, was Lucia Sanx?

She saw Lucia hit Adonis in the face with a claw, and the violent force made most of the latter's face sunken. The neck was bent behind and dragged to the body, smashing into the giant army like a meteorite, crushing countless low-level giants into mud!
One of the two locking blades that Mocero was proud of was inserted into Lucia's shoulder without any pain, and was stuck tightly by the flesh and dragon scales growing around it, unable to move. The other one was entangled with his body, and the tip of the blade was deeply nailed into his back, causing him to lie on a flattened mountain and wailing in pain.

The first generations wanted to join the battle, but before they could get rid of the shock of the dragon's might and give orders, eight thousand human cavalry, led by the Flying Dragon Guards, launched a counterattack against the 100,000-strong army!
"Kill all these mountain goblin bastards!" A silver-armored knight charged forward. Few soldiers in the Southern Expedition Army knew him. Only the captain of the personal guard of the big tent, Terence, recognized the boy named Lucius at a glance.

The spies who were once highly expected by the New Party and used to shake the morale of the army on the southern expedition have now become the sharpest tip of this sharp knife, charging into the giant army at the first place, and their charge speed is even faster than that of the Night Blade troops following closely behind!

Lucius lowered his body to avoid the giant soldier's sword, and suddenly raised the spear in his hand, pierced the enemy's side and pulled it out from behind. He galloped past on his horse, leaving the giant soldier falling to the ground in a spurt of blood.

"Good boy!" Blaze, who was only half a body length behind, praised him, dancing wildly with the broadsword in his hand, cutting several giants who rushed forward into several pieces!

In the dust, Adonis, who was seriously injured, struggled to his feet and roared: "We are not mountain monsters!"

He suddenly stretched out his arms, and countless flesh and blood tentacles shot towards Lucius.

Blaze snorted coldly and jumped off his horse. His dark wolf body was like a violent gust of wind. He dodged and moved quickly, cutting off the tentacles one by one with the sword.

boom!
Lucia stepped on Adonis' back with one claw, grabbed his body and threw him towards the giant army farther away. Lucius chuckled when he saw this, turned around and stabbed an unsuspecting fourth-generation giant with another shot, and the tip of the gun went straight through the latter's throat!

"Be careful!" Blaze suddenly shouted.

In a corner where no one noticed, a giant with only half of his body left threw out his war hammer and smashed it hard on the side of Lucius' horse, knocking him and his horse to the ground!
Blaze swung out a spear and nailed the giant to the ground, then rushed forward desperately. He saw that Lucius's horse had been smashed into a pool of rotten meat by the half-ton warhammer, and most of his body had been crushed as well. It was obvious that he was dying.

The half-wolf boy, with red eyes, threw away the war hammer, gently picked up Lucius's body and handed him to the military doctor in the team, then continued to charge towards the enemy camp without looking back.

The battlefield is like a huge and cold meat grinder. It leaves no time for either side to be sentimental or mournful. It will only throw countless young and vibrant lives into the rotating blades endlessly, slowly and heavily advancing the pace of the times in the rain of blood.

Every minute and every second, countless "Lucius" died on the battlefield. Blaze had no time to pay attention to whether he could survive, because even a moment of hesitation would result in the death of more comrades.

If at some point in time, he were the one seriously injured or even killed in battle, his comrades would make the same choice.

Because all the soldiers of the Southern Expedition Army knew that it was an impossible daydream to defeat a 100,000-man army with only 8,000 remnants. It was His Highness who burned his essence at the risk of his life and opened up a path for them stained with the blood of the king. At this moment, everyone's will was melted together under the purgatory-like high temperature of the battlefield, and only two words remained -

forward!

forward!!
forward!!!

boom--

Lucia's dragon claws, as heavy as a mountain, fell down, almost crushing Adonis' chest. The roaring dragon thunder endlessly tore at the resurrected flesh and blood!
In the data panel, the increase in Adonis's life and strength, as well as the increase in Moserlo's life, continued to decrease, and the mark of the special gain form began to flicker.

"What are you waiting for?!" On the verge of death, Adonis looked angrily at the trembling Moserlo in the distance, "Burn your essence and share your life with me, otherwise we will all die!"

Lucia did not stop him from asking for help, but just glanced back coldly at Mocero, who had just pulled out the lock blade from behind and whose face was as pale as paper.

Just that one glance frightened the latter so much that he felt as if struck by lightning. He stepped back repeatedly, muttering inaudible words, just like a trembling believer facing his god!

"The so-called immortal curse is to share his life with you, and you use your deformed flesh to transform life into power - and he can also share half of your newly added life and power in return, thus forming a chain, right?"

Lucia looked at Adonis, whose recovery speed was far behind the extent of his injuries, and asked curiously, "So, shouldn't Heldiron, who has a volcanic body, be the best match for him?"

"Huh--" Adonis wanted to sneer, but as soon as his muscles were stretched, blood rushed into his throat, choking him and causing him to cough.

"Who he is with has nothing to do with me. If I didn't want to kill you here, I wouldn't bother to join hands with a coward like him!"

Seeing that the flesh on the opponent's broken body was slowly regenerating, Lucia mercilessly dropped another Claw of Destruction, shattering Adonis' heart, which had just grown back to one third.

"I heard that you are the most capable general under the High Priest Gulag. Why did you cooperate with Kalerius to kill me?"

The light in Adonis' eyes gradually faded, and his voice became weaker, but the will within him did not waver in the slightest.

“My loyalty is never to any one individual.”

He stared blankly at the sky, as if he wanted to carve the cold and clear sky of the Arctic ice field into his eyes.

"I am loyal only to the future of this country."

The last ray of light faded from Adonis' eyes, and the deformed body began to quickly recover.

Lucia stared into his eyes. At least at this moment, the northern sky seemed to really stay in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)