Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 462 Differential Treatment
Returning from the void where the battlefield of memory was, the five senses in reality gradually returned. The air was filled with refreshing and soothing incense. The crackling sound of firewood burning in the fire came to my ears. In addition, there seemed to be a slight noisy noise.
Lucia slowly opened her eyes. Although her physical injuries had been healed by Carterpella, she still felt a dull pain from head to toe when her consciousness just woke up from her body, as if she had just experienced a hangover all night.

Perhaps to avoid disturbing his rest, none of his subordinates stayed in the tent, not even Shirley. But what was the noise in the distance?
Lucia rubbed her aching brows and spread out the spiritual perception that had been gathered into her body during her deep sleep. She soon caught sight of two figures jumping up and down.

"Are you worthy of being called Shadow Beast?" Blaze said ferociously, with his hands on his hips.

Shirley jumped onto a weapons rack, raised her little head higher than Blaze, looked up at the sky, and had a defiant look on her face.

"In the past, you were in Gallid because of my Highness and Princess Marennia. They treated you like a pet every day, and I treated you like a mascot. Apart from your appetite being as large as that of a small team, there was nothing special about you. But now it seems that I was totally wrong!"

The half-wolf boy pointed at the little fox's nose and said bitterly, "You are not only a pet, but also a treacherous minister! A minister of great treachery and evil!"

"Don't be so hasty to shout! I've heard from Lord Oleg that the impostor giantess is a being that even he can't defeat. Your Highness is already so badly injured, what right do you have to urge Your Highness to go see her?"

"It would have been fine if you had seen him, but you also dared to let His Highness go alone with his seriously injured body, while you yourself slept in the tent with peace of mind - it would have been fine if you had slept, but you even woke up in the middle of the night and stole my midnight snack while I was on guard at the front!"

"Do you know that General Serin ordered me to stay behind in the commander's tent tonight to protect His Highness? If I skip this meal, what if I faint from hunger and some villains plot against me?"

"Listen to me! This is not a matter of a meal. Even though your injuries have basically healed, you haven't woken up from your coma yet. If anything happens to you tonight, I will kill you and make you a fox fur scarf!"

Hearing words like "evil intentions", "something fishy", "all the efforts of the Dragon Moon Alliance have been wasted", Lucia's face became darker and darker. It's no big deal if these two guys fight each other. Can't she hope for something good? How can one be a shadow beast like this!

He stood up with the help of the bed, put on his outer robe and walked outside. One of the two shadow beasts was still talking nonsense, and the other was screaming loudly, and they didn't notice his approach for a while.

Suddenly, Blaze got so excited about scolding that he leaped towards Shirley with all his strength, trying to grab the little fox's tail and torture her.

A mysterious light suddenly shone in Shirley's ice-blue eyes, which were almost identical to Lucia's. With a light tap of her four legs, she jumped to a height that Blaze could not reach. Then she slapped Blaze right in the chest with one claw, slamming him to the ground like a pancake, creating a human-shaped hole in the ground!
Blaze: “?”

Lucia: “?”

Hearing the noise of the two shadow beasts making a fuss, the guard captain Terrence, who was about to come over to stop them, said: ".What the hell?"

Even Shirley herself stared at her own claws with wide eyes, the light golden patterns at the corners of her eyes stretched out, and her little face was full of disbelief.

The next second, she decisively raised her paw again and prepared to slap Blaze to test his quality.

Unexpectedly, when it was halfway through its jump, Lucia grabbed it by the scruff of the neck. After struggling for a while, it realized something was wrong, and jumped onto its owner's shoulder. It waved its claws, pointed at Blaze, and cried out in grievance, as if accusing him of his recent atrocities.

"Stop complaining, I saw everything just now." Lucia said with a squint.

"Right, right, right! Your Highness is a man of great insight. How could he be deceived by a sycophant like you?" Blaze covered his sunken breastplate and said indignantly, "Your Highness, look at what she has done to me! The key issue is not that she hit me, but that she has been acting in all the battles, big and small, without working or putting in any effort! Is she hitting my chest? She is clearly hitting you."

Lucia turned around and glanced at him, blocking the half-wolf's impertinent words in her throat, and laughed dryly twice without saying anything else.

Turning around, the fur on Shirley's back that had just blown up became fluffy again, and a very human expression of embarrassment appeared on her face. She shook her big tail but said nothing.

Lucia felt a bit of a headache. She didn't know what went wrong with the world line in reality. Although it was generally better than the future in the time and space deduction in her memory, it was too abstract in some details.

For example, Blaze, I don't know if it's because of this variable, but he originally only served Lani, and he should have been a loyal, heroic, cold and taciturn handsome lone wolf, but now he hangs out with a group of demigods. Although he is still loyal and reliable in his bones, his mouth is always jumping back and forth between flattery and self-destruction. It can be seen at a glance that he has done too many things that he is not convinced of, and he has become schizophrenic.

If you ask him, why can he admit defeat verbally if he is not convinced in his heart?

Ice magic warning! Water bird frenzy warning! Sky Temple beast priest group warning!
As for this problematic shadow beast of mine
Lucia lifted Shirley off her shoulders, looked into her eyes seriously, pointed at Blaze and said, "Shirley, now I'm giving you one more chance, slap him with all your strength, don't fool me!"

Blaze: ".Your Highness?"

But at this moment, Lucia noticed that the mysterious light in Shirley's eyes dimmed again.

Her little nose twitched twice, and she seemed to have made a great determination. She jumped onto the weapon rack in two or three steps, took advantage of the height to leap towards Blaze, and swung her claws in the air -

With a "pop", Shirley, who didn't jump far enough, fell to the ground, like a salted fish lying flat on the ground.

A dragon, a wolf, and a man on the field watched this scene silently, exchanged glances with each other, and each of them wanted to say something but stopped, and for a moment they were speechless.

Blaze felt that he should be the one who understood the key the fastest. Although he didn't understand the principle, he had seen similar scenes many times - his master was always very gentle when he stretched out his little hand to help His Highness tidy up his clothes, but when he beat him, his blows were heavier than a war hammer. Princess Marineria also had two completely different expressions when facing His Highness and when facing him.

Everything is normal, everything is normal, just stay calm
Lucia carefully examined Shirley's claws, and used her spiritual perception to deeply capture the power fluctuations in the little fox's body. She now looked like a normal fox, and her physical strength was quite weak due to years of laziness. She could not find the source of the power just now.

Terrence was even more confused. It was bad enough that his highness's shadow beast was so strange, but so was his highness himself - his injuries had healed overnight, which could be attributed to that mysterious man, but why was the pressure emanating from his body now even more terrifying than before? Even a battle-hardened Flying Dragon Guard like him had difficulty breathing.

Fortunately, Lucia soon discovered his abnormality. He had just reached level 616 in the memory battlefield, and he had not yet fully adapted to the surge in attributes. He let some of the dragon's power escape without paying attention.

He quickly restrained his breath, Terrence breathed a sigh of relief, saluted and said: "Your Highness, everyone is very worried about your injury, should we go and see them now?"

Lucia nodded and said, "Let's go."

(End of this chapter)