Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 501 Breaking point

Lance shook his head slightly. "For so many years, the Corrupt Sect and the True Sect have been hated by everyone. They have no room to develop their power openly. Those three high-level heroes last time probably represented most of the Corrupt Sect's wealth, and I even crippled one of them. It's unrealistic for them to send their entire force to die for the New Party in a short time. Even if the two sides have reached some kind of tacit understanding, they will only be thinking of taking advantage of the situation and will never make a move unless they are absolutely certain of success."

“Indeed.” For scratched his head in a dilemma. “Speaking of which, Her Highnesses Ratan and Malenia fought really well this time. They overturned the Southern Legion and the Golden Dynasty’s twenty years of management in Nymgford in one battle. If Radagon had any secret weapon to decide the outcome, they should have used it long ago. Could it be that the New Party has really been brainwashed by fundamentalism and gone completely insane?”

Lance sighed. "Let's prepare for the worst. While I've been away, Lord Gustav has been overseeing things at home. Kalia alone can't handle things at the Altan region. You should go back as soon as things are settled here."

Mentioning the sixth-ranked primordial dragon "Steel Halberd" Gustav, Fol paused for a moment. Seeing the doubt in his sister's eyes, he explained, "Earlier, when I was talking to Her Majesty Renara and others about the Giant Court, I was a little puzzled—sister, do you think those new giants who are rumored to have hero-level strength within the last three generations, and whose progenitors are comparable to peak heroes, are very similar to our primordial dragons and high-ranking dragons?"

Lance was about to say that the two were completely unrelated and there was no similarity between them, but then he thought about it again and found that there were indeed quite a few similarities.

Both possess innate strength and have a negligible growth period. The Founding Giant and the Primal Dragon also possess special abilities that are similar to laws.

Although the outside world knew very little about the Founding Titan, they had obtained some intelligence from the Northern Expeditionary Army in Lucia before the Jedi Seal was raised.

The special abilities of the progenitors, known as "forbidden spells," have never appeared in the history of the Giant Dynasty. Moreover, the Giant race has been known for its fire power since ancient times. However, several of the ten forbidden spells that have been shown not only seem to have nothing to do with fire power, but also exhibit the domineering characteristics of law-based abilities in their respective fields.

All of these things are remarkably similar to the primordial authority of the twenty primordial dragons.
Lance had been in charge of the Sky Temple for many years, and had read more dynastic records and knew more historical secrets than Forl. She sat upright at the table, her fingertips lightly tapping the surface, and after a long silence, she said, "Do you know where the power of the twenty primordial dragons originated?"

Fol said solemnly, "Before the High Priest fell, he mentioned a top-secret project named 'Emperor,' and Your Highness seems to be the final creation of that project. When Your Highness was in the Eastern Territory, you also wrote to the Ancient Dragon Temple of Rodel, instructing the intelligence system to pay attention to signs of dragon activity outside the three great dynasties. The information mentioned in the letter also confirms this. If we combine this with the birth time of the twenty primordial dragons, I speculate that they are probably the early works of the Emperor Project?"

“Indeed,” Lance nodded slightly. “According to the records of the Sky Temple’s secret text, the Emperor’s Project should be divided into three stages. The final stage’s creation was indeed Lucia, while the first stage’s creations were the twenty primordial dragons.”

Fol paused for a moment, "What about the second phase?"

"The secret text is vague, only mentioning it briefly. I suspect the second stage was a prelude to Lucia's birth, but we have no way of knowing the specifics. We can only study it further after Lucia returns." Lance sighed and said, "Returning to the first stage, the secret text records that His Majesty Platonsanx accelerated the flow of time in the Nest of Ten Thousand Dragons using the laws of spacetime, compressing and condensing the vast runes equivalent to a thousand years of growth for an ancient dragon king into the bodies of twenty newly born young dragons. His Majesty Horaris then used his supreme divine power to create a new path of evolution, refining their four-winged, four-clawed ancient dragon bodies into two-winged, two-clawed forms. They no longer possessed the indestructible rock scales and divine power to control the five elements of prayer of the ancient dragon race. Instead, all the runes were reforged into twenty kinds of 'Primal Authority'."

"Thus, Borelius was born with the power of frost, Rodriguez with the power of fire, and Gustav with the power of metal. None of the twenty primordial dragons were as physically powerful as the traditional ancient dragon royal family, nor could they cultivate powers beyond authority. However, within their respective domains, the authority they wielded could unleash near-divine power."

"Now that I think about it, these twenty powers are less like special abilities and more like imitations and simulations of the power of laws. As long as there are no gods in the world who wield the corresponding laws, it is not an exaggeration to call them 'gods'."

Fol was stunned for a long time before he came to his senses. He let out a long breath and said, "So, the forbidden spells possessed by the ten Founding Titans might be the final legacy created with the full power of the nation before the destruction of the previous Titan Royal Court. In other words, this is the Titan race's version of the 'Emperor Plan'?"

"It's highly likely—at the end of the Forbidden War, although the Giant Dynasty didn't participate in the main battlefields of Fam-Azra and the Azra region, they gained a deep understanding of the power of the dragon race. By the time of the Resurrection Era, the two generations of High Priests of the Royal Court, Harungard and Harungmur, were determined to push the giants to replace the dragons and humans as the rulers of the world, and they must have put a lot of effort into this. However, their Fire God seems to have been acting strangely since the war, and coupled with the two generations of Human Kings, Odis and Gofure, sweeping across the northern border, they were unable to achieve any success. Their legacy has only now been unearthed by their descendants from the depths of the tomb."

“That makes sense, that makes sense!” Fol stood up and paced back and forth in the cramped cabin. “I was wondering why the giants weren’t this powerful even in their heyday. How come such a wave of monsters suddenly appeared when they were almost wiped out? Forbidden spells, authority, runes. The key is still the runes!”

"When His Majesty Pratonsanks created the Primal Wyverns, he concentrated the runic power of the Ancient Dragon Kings for thousands of years into one place, so that they were born with the power of the Ancient Dragon Kings who had grown for hundreds of years. Moreover, because of the purity of their bloodline, they still have endless lifespans. The same applies to the higher and middle-ranking wyverns below them. Although they have lost their eternal life, they still maintain an absolute advantage in terms of growth rate."

"In summary, the dragon race is a weapon of war created by our dynasty using the laws of time and space to extract a massive amount of runes from the Nest of Ten Thousand Dragons. The foundation for the survival of the current Founding Giant, and even those giants with heroic combat power within three generations, must also be an extremely large amount of runes. If we can cut off their route of stealing runes from the Forge of Life, we can not only easily break through the seal of the forbidden zone, but also annihilate this army of hundreds of thousands of giants in one battle!"

With his previous gloom gone, Forl said excitedly, "We've made progress on this matter. Earlier, Her Majesty Lenara arranged for everyone to consult historical records about the Forge Tree. Just last month, Princess Lani discovered records about the 'Forge Leylines' in an ancient book left over from the Star Moon Era."

"Barring any unforeseen circumstances, the key to cutting off the giants' theft of the furnace's power from the outside world should be at Mount Gemir."

(End of this chapter)