Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 476: Resurrecting a Soul from a Borrowed Corpse
"Yes, two," Adam confirmed.

"One of them is the ordinary fire that guided me to evolve into a giant, and ultimately pointed to the giant race's ash-annihilation fire. I speculate that the missing part of the forbidden prayer book should be the method of condensing this fire, and the other one." Adam's eyes showed a trace of shock, "it devoured and replaced the previous fire, becoming the source of most of my current power. It ultimately points to the black flame of death that kills all life."

Lucia was quite surprised. He had noticed the power of black flame in Adam during the battle at the Nameless Plain, but at that time he was in a weak period after burning his origin. Not long after, he fell into a deep sleep and had no time to study the mystery in detail.

But in his initial expectation, there were rumors in the early years of the North that the Fire Monk was bewitched by the God Skin Messenger and degenerated into the Black Flame Monk. This shows that the Ash Extinguishing Flame representing destruction and the God Killing Black Flame representing death have some compatibility and commonality in their original properties. His chance encounter with Carter Pella a few days ago also made him further convinced that the other party had already made a move in the North. In this way, he had speculated that the black flame power displayed by Adam was likely related to Carter Pella, but at best it was some kind of preliminary experiment to transform the Ash Extinguishing Fire into the Black Flame of Death.

However, according to Adam, Catpera's research on ash-extinguishing fires has apparently gone beyond the level of "preliminary experiments."

A new kind of fire that can devour the giant's fire was implanted into Adam's body almost at the same time as the Ash Extinguishing Fire nearly a year ago, and it also showed a clear inhibitory effect on the former. This is enough to explain at least three things.

First, Caterpella was well aware of the giants' plan to convert a large number of their own kind and take the opportunity to make a comeback.

Secondly, Carter Pella has already touched the core of fire and the source of fire, and has a targeted cracking strategy.

Third, these arrangements have been going on for at least ten years, and can even be traced back to the time when the Flame Temple was first established. The ultimate goal must be extremely important to Carterpella himself.

Be it Adam, or Amon, the bishop of the Redel branch temple who defected from the Flame Temple in the early years, and the flame monks under his command, they are probably all part of Carterpella's experiment. Based on Lucia's understanding of the woman's strange behavior, he suspected that when Adam and Gran Celia were fighting for life and death, Carterpella's people were recording data not far away.

On the other hand, the Giants were unaware that the sixth ancestor Ophelia was secretly replaced by Catepera. No, it was more likely that there had never been an individual called "Ophelia", and it was Catepera himself who appeared in the New Royal Court from the very beginning.

If there is no external intervention and everything is allowed to develop naturally, the rise of the new dynasty of giants is probably just a wedding dress for the revival of the Tibia dynasty. After the new giants are killed or injured, Catepera, who was defeated in the war of gods, can take the opportunity to rekindle the divine fire, use the sacrifice of the giants as the forerunner of the king as a bargaining chip, and return to the gambling table that belongs only to the gods.

"No wonder she was so angry when we met a few days ago, as if I had robbed her money," Lucia muttered to herself.

Ever since Caterpella hung the life star on the sky of the memory battlefield without any explanation, the two had no contact anymore. The first time Lucia initiated a mental connection, she was kicked and it took her a long time to recover. After that, Caterpella simply read her messages without replying, making it clear that she refused to communicate, so Lucia simply ignored her existence.

Let love hang in the sky, anyway, he is doing nothing but fighting in the memory battlefield. The analysis progress of several demigods has been pushed to the limit, and their legendary abilities cannot be analyzed. Every day they just fight a few life-and-death battles as a form of training - with these things, what can Carterpella see if he can just leave them there?

"Release a ray of black flame for me to see." Lucia thought for a moment and ordered Adam. Adam followed his instructions and stretched out his palm. A cluster of black and white flames rose silently from his palm. There was no burning and violent fire of the giant's ash extinguishing fire, only a cold and dead silence that seemed to penetrate the soul.

Lucia also stretched out her hand, and drew out a thin strand of divine power as vast as the mountains and seas, driving the destined death and manifesting it in the palm of her hand.

The next second, something happened that surprised both of them.

When the black and red flames lit up, the black and white flames in Adam's palm trembled violently, and quickly shrank into a pitiful flame the size of a fingertip. The breath it emitted also became warm and gentle, and after trembling a few more times, it went out with a puff.

"No, your fire is out just like that?"

Hearing His Majesty's soul-searching question, which was asked purely out of a focused attitude towards academic research without any gloating, Adam blushed and tried hard to activate the fire hidden in his blood. But no matter how hard he tried, the black flame was like constipated and no spark came out.

Lucia stared at the twisting black and red flame in his palm. He felt that his god-killing black flame was not as cold and ruthless as it was during normal battles. Instead, it had an arrogant and smug look on its face that asked for a beating.

He withdrew his divine power and suppressed the black flames, and his mind began to think rapidly.

It is not surprising that his own black flame can suppress Adam's version. The opponent's black flame fire seems to be roughly similar to the black flame possessed by the earlier god-skin nobles such as Samuel. They are all destined to die after being disqualified. At most, they can only pose a threat to heroic creatures. They are powerless when facing targets above demigods.

His Black Flame had been personally upgraded by Carter Pella before the battle at Starshatter, and had become a complete form with its status intact. Only in terms of the upper limit of its power it could not match the Death Rune in the hands of the Black Sword. Although its lethality against god-level targets whose life limits had been broken, it was already enough of a threat to demigod-level targets at the pinnacle of mortal beings.

According to the results of time and space deduction, if the Night of the Black Knife had happened normally, Godwin should have died in such a destined death. After Lani stole half of it to kill her own body, the remaining half was not enough to kill the complete Godwin, and in the end only killed the soul of the Golden Prince.

It is now known that the fire source of the giants can allow mortal creatures without giant blood to evolve into giants and exert the power of the Ash Extinction Fire, and the Black Flame Fire can devour the Ash Extinction Fire and transform the Ash Extinction Fire into the Black Flame of Death - and Caterpella's own destined death can absolutely suppress these transformed black flames, so what exactly does she want to do?
Use the black flame to completely replace the ash fire, use the power of fire to revive the dead, and return to the realm of gods?
Even though she had made many approximate guesses, Lucia was still shocked when she was really close to the answer - could this method that completely defied common sense and exceeded the limits of mortal imagination really be realized in the real world?
He couldn't help but think of "Ophelia", who was as lifeless as a corpse when they last met. If all this was really Catepella's plan, how could she quietly replace the fire in each giant's body, and how could she complete the final rebirth?

(End of this chapter)