Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 461 Foundation
"Forget it, let's not think about it too much for now--" Lucia raised her head and glared at the black and red destiny star. If she likes to be a riddle man and pretend to be a master, then let her be. Sooner or later, she will come back to beg me for help.

He turned his attention back to his destiny star. For a long time before, he was either in constant battles or seriously injured, and had no time to upgrade it. Since the death of Marshal Rodnias of the Eastern Regiment, after the heroic sacrifice and selfless dedication of a large number of giants, he has saved up a large sum of money.
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Name: Lucia Sanks

Race: Ancient Dragon (Royal Family)

Rating: 565
Available rune points: 1855
Attributes: Life 70 (+40), Concentration 90, Endurance 70 (+45), Strength 75 (+45), Dexterity 70 (+35), Intelligence 90, Faith 90, Sensing 89
Skill tree:

Special combat skills: Dragon King Body (Level 7), Destruction Claw (Level 8), Immortal Scale (Level 7), Void Wings (Level 7), Infinite Tail (Level 6)

Common combat skills: Ancient Dragon combat skills (Grandmaster), Barbarian combat skills (Master)
Common prayers: Ancient Dragon Prayer (Grandmaster), Golden Tree Prayer (Grandmaster), Crucible Prayer (Grandmaster), Black Flame Prayer (Grandmaster), Golden Law Fundamentalism Prayer (Grandmaster)

Ordinary magic: Kalia magic (grandmaster), pyroxene magic (grandmaster), night magic (grandmaster), origin magic (master)
Sword Art: Eternal Sword Art (Grandmaster)

Special abilities: Queen's Embrace, Estelle Meteorite, Star Oracle
Legendary abilities: Dragon Blood Heritage (unlocked), Memory Battlefield (unlocked), Dragon Language Magic (unlocked), Destined Death (unlocked), Magic Field (unlocked) (current progress 96.6%), Taboo Heritage (Gravity)——
Since the Northern Expedition, the battles in the Far East had allowed him to level up by 15 levels, further improving his strength and endurance, both exceeding 70 under normal circumstances. With the blessing of the Dragon King's body, he even reached a limit-breaking height, which allowed him to barely withstand the consumption of the bloody battles in the following months.

But in the recent battle against the three ancestors, the continuous heavy blows still exceeded the limit of his body's endurance. If he could hold on for another ten minutes, Mocero and Hilber would have no chance of survival. Later, if Caterpella had not saved his dying origin, he would not have been able to even open the battlefield of memory by himself.

"The foundation is still not solid enough!"

Lucia stared at her own life, endurance, strength, and agility that had broken through the limits, and made such a conclusion.

At present, it is still unknown what effect can be achieved by breaking through 99 in basic attributes without relying on the attribute gains of the Dragon King's body. However, according to Carter Pella's argument, if all eight attributes are broken through, it will be "not so easy to be killed by the Supreme Will". Even if only one of them is improved to that level, it should be able to fight against ordinary god-level beings.

Think about Adonis who was just killed by me. His life force and vitality both reached 140, so he could face the normalized me in a head-on battle without being defeated. That was the result of him being restricted by the humanoid "plug-in" of Mocero.

If he combined the four attributes of life, endurance, strength, and agility at 100 to achieve a body of the Dragon King that would break through to level eight in the future, and wanted to find someone with a physical quality comparable to his within the border area, the only one who could be found would be War King Ge Fulei in his prime.

On the other hand, faced with the Founding Titan, who possessed a variety of strange forbidden spells and had extremely superb basic physical attributes, Lucia increasingly found that there were fewer and fewer opportunities to actually apply her complex skill tree.

All kinds of conventional prayers and magic are simply unable to cause effective damage to targets of this level, and most of the time can only be used in miscellaneous battles. Even in these unequal battles, the effects of the Star Oracle and the Esti Meteorite are far superior to ordinary spells.

Even the Eternal Swordsmanship, which had benefited him a lot all along, lost its superiority in the Battle of the North due to the giants' huge size, and its power was greatly reduced.

It was not difficult for him to defeat a Founding Titan, but the difficult part was to kill the opponent in a fleeting opportunity - in this battlefield context, the sophistication of skills must give way to pure power.

Lucia sighed softly. All she could say was that the enemies she faced at different stages were different, and the methods she used to target them had to change accordingly.

At least until he develops super-level spells with the help of the Forbidden Research Society one day, these skills that have accompanied him for many years will have to temporarily retreat to the background.

At this stage, he must further refine and evolve his combat system. In addition to the power of the law, physical fitness and a relatively simple combat skills system will become the mainstream in this war.

In other words, this time, the best way is to use your strength to make bricks fly. So, first increase your strength to 90!

After he made the decision, the "available rune points" began to be consumed rapidly, and the strength attribute began to surge. The red-gold dragon blood rushed rapidly in his blood vessels, and his heart roared like a huge bell!

75808590!

With 880 points of runes smashed down, strength became the first basic attribute of his physical body to reach the watershed of level 90. With the addition of the Dragon King's body, complete dragonization and the gains of various blessings, the final value will be close to level 160!
It's a pity that the attribute decay after level 90 is too serious. It costs 400 rune points to upgrade one level. Although the growth of each level is considerable, it is still not as good as the overall improvement.

Next, Lucia evenly distributed the remaining 975 points to Life, Endurance, and Agility, raising all three to level 82, but the available Rune points also returned to a pitiful 15 points.

Aside from the slight sense of loss after his bank account was emptied, he was still quite satisfied with the updated data panel. The basic attributes of his body listed four large numbers that made him feel safe.

【生命82（+40），耐力82（+45），力量90（+45），灵巧82（+35）】

Feeling the power gushing out of her body, Lucia is already looking forward to the next head-on confrontation with Callelius.

He really wanted to know whether the Giant King could still use the Fist of the Black Sun to block his Claw of Destruction.

After a wave of improvement, he turned his gaze to the two red stars that had recently appeared at the northern end of the sky. They were the life stars of the eighth ancestor Heldiron and the tenth ancestor Adonis.

Unlike the other life stars around them that represent the Founding Titan and the Giant King Calleleus, their color is darker, just like the first "old friend" the Divine Skin Noble Samuel, symbolizing that the owner is dead.

"Is it still as unsolvable as Rodnias?" Lucia murmured.

The only difference between them and the first generation of Titans was that the "Race" item did not show "Ice Trolls (mutated species)", but just a question mark like Kalelius.

It can be seen that the difference between the first generation and those below is not limited to the forbidden spell ability, but there are huge differences in the form of life existence. Perhaps this is why they are called "first generation".

Not counting the Sixth Ancestor who was impersonated by Catepella, there are currently five ancestors who have fought with Lucia. Apart from all possessing the destructive nature of the Ash-Extinguishing Flame, their power systems are vastly different. Not only are their various forbidden spell abilities bizarre, they are also completely unrelated to each other.

This kind of power has never appeared in the history of the giants, and it is the only example in the history of the entire border area. If you really want to find a similar case.
Lucia was stunned for a moment, and a strange association suddenly emerged in her mind.

At the end of the Star-Moon Era, the twenty original flying dragons born in the first phase of the Emperor's Plan, and the rebel named "Beile", each awakened a power that was very different from the traditional system of ancient dragons, possessing both extremely fast growth rates and extraordinary combat power within their own authority.

Thousands of years later, this new royal court suddenly rose from the ruins of the Giant Dynasty. Why are these ancestor giants who quickly ascended to the top of the world from unknown people so similar to the original flying dragons?
Lucia never believed in coincidences beyond probability and logic. Fortunately, the leader of the original flying dragon is now in the north. Perhaps many of the questions she wants to know can be answered from him.

(End of this chapter)