Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 525 Death Flash
It took Katpera a long time to recover from the shock. Through the black silk, she gave Lucia a complicated look, then turned her head to look at the snow on the pine needles and said in a low voice, "I understand the reasoning, but the example is wrong."

"The War of the Gods has lasted for hundreds of years. Although many gods have fallen, less than one-tenth of them actually died at the hands of me and my apostles. The faces on the divine robes are actually related to the secret arts of the Tibian Dynasty. Never mind, you wouldn't understand even if I explained it to you. Anyway, don't always use me as an example in the future, understand?"

Lucia: "?"

His impassioned speech just now was about real academic issues, but somehow it was elevated to a historical level without him noticing.

Fortunately, he reacted quickly and nodded before Katpera could completely turn hostile, saying, "I won't say it again. I'll always remember our agreement from last time."

Katpera gave him a deep look, seemingly unwilling to say more, and instead offered a suggestion: "Your method of using the Mimicry Spell to merge the three elemental forces is theoretically feasible, but it's too crude in its details—that Mr. Tops' force field magic can at best be considered a rudimentary form of a unified spell. It's fine for dealing with some low-level magic in ordinary battles, but you're placing it inside your body and using it to guide your own divine and magical power. The burden and the level of danger are simply not on the same level."

"Back when the Eternal City was experimenting with the Ancient Darkness, a colossal testing ground with a diameter of over ten kilometers was built on the outskirts of the city. It was entirely constructed from a mixture of Celestial Stone, Mystic Steel, and Mithril. However, these could only ensure that the entire city would not be destroyed if the spell went out of control. The real control was still exerted by the Law Rune Array surrounding the core hub."

"The then-Grand Speaker, Bellind, personally inscribed the three sacred runes of the Moon Goddess's laws of purification, annihilation, and mystery around the Nexus. She also asked Platonsanx and His Majesty Horary to cast a spacetime seal and dragon language magic on it, thus adding a total of five laws of power to suppress the fluctuations of the ancient darkness. This was also thanks to the fact that the dark law used in it originated from the goddess Pandya. The only law that really needed to be suppressed was the law of chaos."

After a moment's thought, Lucia said, "In that case, I also need to use the power of laws to suppress the fluctuations when divine power, magical power, and blood power merge, in order to ensure safety?"

“Not bad.” Katarina had already conceived the rune structure in her mind. In an instant, she raised a finger and touched Lucia’s forehead, saying, “You should now have four kinds of law-level power in your body. I can’t use His Majesty Horaris’s dragon language magic and Estelle’s gravity. Try running the Law of Fated Death and the Law of Time and Space according to this rune structure first.”

A cool and refreshing sensation traveled from between his brows to his mind. Lucia suddenly realized that his memories contained a lot of knowledge he had never heard of before. Before he could marvel at the Queen of Death's amazing methods, he subconsciously sank into the battlefield of memories and began to analyze them.

The underlying principles of divine arts and magic are similar. So-called divine rune arrays and magic spells are essentially no different. Both are created by the caster driving divine or magical power to operate according to specific rune circuits, thereby producing a variety of effects.

The rune structure that Katarina had just taught him was obviously much more complex. Looking down from the starry sky of the Memory Battlefield, countless circuits intertwined, resembling a vast city scattered like stars, its scale even surpassing that of the current capital of Rhodes.

"Could this imagery be the Eternal City of yesteryear?"

With time running out, Lucia chose to completely trust Katarina, withdrawing all his attention from the outside world and fully activating the immense mental power within the memory battlefield. Like a flood, it flowed through the vast sea of ​​rune circuits, imprinting them into his heart while simultaneously activating the power of death and the power of time and space.

The former comes from the predetermined death, and the latter from the Void Wings. The law of gravity has not yet been fully utilized and is not yet of use. As for the "divine control" contained in the dragon language magic, although Katopella did not provide a reference route, such a means of controlling heaven and earth does not require the support of runes. It can usually be released by language alone. At this moment, with Lucia fully focused, the solemn and dignified atmosphere naturally arose around the runes.

The destined death of Katarina was presented as a cold and desolate black and red, the father's power of time and space was presented as a mysterious and obscure gray and white, while the divine power belonging to the mother was finally condensed into a solemn and clear blue gold.

At this moment, the three merged into one, like a soft and dense chain wrapping around every blood vessel and meridian in his body. As Lucia activated the Mimicry Technique again, guiding the divine power, magic power and blood power to flow together, the three forces immediately converged into a terrifying vortex that spun rapidly, stirring up a surge of blood energy, like a mountain torrent bursting into his blood!
Lucia had been training his Dragon King body for many years, and his blood vessels and meridians were incredibly tough. However, under the impact of this surging force, countless blood vessels suddenly developed fine cracks, and there was a risk that his body would explode!
Just then, the chains of law binding the bloodline silently exerted their power. The ancient and solemn power of law pressed down like a giant hand covering the sky, forcefully suppressing the three elemental forces that were about to rebel!
Just as the Eternal Ancestors used the Five Elements Laws to suppress the ancient darkness, after several clashes across bloodlines, they finally managed to stabilize the boiling and turbulent state within their bodies.

Lucia closed her eyes tightly, exhaled a breath of turbid air tinged with blood, and rapidly activated her life magic to repair her cracked blood vessels. When she opened her eyes again, streaks of blood-red lightning seemed to flash across her icy blue pupils.

By using the Mimicry Technique to drive the convergence of the three elemental forces and then suppressing them with the laws of the three elements, he was finally able to maintain this state stably for a certain period of time. Although the burden and damage were still inevitable, they did not cause any irreversible harm in a short period of time.

Katpela stood a step away from him, still maintaining the spacetime seal, while vigilantly observing the slightest movement within a radius of several miles. Seeing that he had woken up unharmed, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "It's good that it works. Without the support of a complete and unified spell, your technique is ultimately too dangerous. You must never use it lightly unless it is a matter of life and death, understand?"

"Ah."

"Well, this method was created with the combined efforts of both of us. What do you suggest we call it?"

"Each use can't last too long, and it always puts you in a life-or-death situation. Plus, it was developed with the help of you, the Queen of Death, so how about calling it 'Death Flash'?"

When Katpera heard him mention his contribution, she paused for a moment and said, "What a terrible name."

"It's just a transitional measure anyway, so we'll just pick one at random."

Lucia smiled easily, raised his hand to dispel the spacetime seal, and gently patted Katpela's back with his right hand, passing on a stream of pure divine power to replenish the energy she had used to maintain the seal for so long.

This was originally a rather casual and rather conservative move.

However, the moment his palm touched her back, Carterpella shuddered as if electrocuted, her back tensed abruptly, and she dodged several steps away!
She suddenly turned around, gritting her teeth and glaring at him, "What are you doing?"

Before Lucia could retract his hand, he frowned slightly upon hearing this, and said frankly, "Maintaining the spacetime seal consumes a lot of divine power, and this is just an avatar of yours. What if you run out of divine power later?"

"Your meager divine power is as weak as an ant before me. I only looked after you for a moment because I saw that you couldn't multitask. Why did you have to interfere?"

“I,” Lucia took a deep breath, calmed down, and put his hands behind his back, saying, “Alright—whatever makes Your Majesty happy.”

He glanced at the surrounding terrain. The two of them were actually traveling very fast. They discussed the Dao while traveling hundreds of miles overnight. They had already reached the middle of the forest. After removing the spacetime seal, they could even faintly sense the scorching aura emanating from the giant legion entrenched in the south.

If the progenitor Ophelia is indeed Katarina's current true form, then at such close range, there shouldn't be any problems.

Katpera clasped her hands behind her back, staring at the surrounding ice, snow, trees, and rocks for a long time. Half of her fair and charming face was hidden under the black silk, and the other half was hidden in the night, making it impossible to see her true expression.

"We're almost at the 9th temporary outpost. Let's all be careful and get down to business," she said, clearing her throat.

Lucia observed the environment in the south and pondered, "The outposts and scouts on both sides are in the open, while the mysterious force that killed those two first generation members is in the dark. If we don't search carefully enough, we may not be able to find any clues. Let's split up and contact each other through the Destiny Star in the Memory Battlefield if we find anything."

Katpera seemed lost in thought. Only when he turned to look at her did she suddenly shake her head, straighten her back, and say coldly, "Fine."

(End of this chapter)