Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 554 Garbage
“The legendary Queen of Death only inspires fear in me, making me keep my distance,” Lucia stood up, extended a hand toward Katpe, and smiled. “But the real Queen of Death before me keeps me tossing and turning day and night, and I can no longer let her go.”

"Pah!" The queen gave him a charmingly glaring look, grabbed his hand, and pulled herself up with the force of strangling the dragon. She said irritably, "Whether you're willing to give up or not is none of my business. You used my life magic and Fated Death to break my spacetime domain, and now you want to woo me? Is that how you tricked those girls over there? If His Majesty the Dragon God saw this smug face of yours, he'd definitely sever all ties with a rebellious son like you!"

A barrage of attacks left Lucia's dragon brain buzzing. Seeing the situation, he spread his hands and sighed, "Alas, Your Majesty, this is your fault. Between us, it was clearly me who retreated, but you persisted and threw yourself into the trap."

"If you say that again, I'm leaving!"

"I was wrong."

"Humph."

Sherry, who was hiding to the side, ready to quietly watch the drama unfold, smacked her lips. She felt that something wasn't quite right. These two had already started fighting, but how come it seemed to be turning into a different kind of fight? Like the fight between the master and the two princesses in the tent after they killed that evil god or something in Gailid. But it seems that the fight didn't end last time because Priest Lance came.

What a pity, what a pity.

In short, this melon tasted wrong; it was excessively salty. The little fox felt like its head was pointy, and as it ate, it turned into a dog.

“Let’s deal with the current situation first,” Lucia said, holding the Queen’s small hand as they walked side by side to the eddy current array built with ley line crystals. He tightened his grip on her hand and said, “Revenge is fine, but we can’t risk it ourselves. This array still needs to be dismantled. Once we’ve pacified the Northern Territory, I’ll go back with you to fight our way back.”

The Queen turned her face away, quickly rubbed her eyes, and snorted, "Alright, even if we destroy the giants, there are still several Outer Gods left, and the Baylor affair will be a problem sooner or later. The important things come first, so it doesn't matter if that woman dies a few days later—as for me, I couldn't even die this time, so I might as well not die at all and stick with you with my subordinates. Any objections?"

"No need to answer, I'm sure you wouldn't dare to have any objections," the Queen added, as if afraid of being rejected. "This magic circle used a lot of ley crystals, which are rare and precious. We can't waste them. With a little modification, it can become a rune output magic circle. Although the infusion intensity is a bit high, it won't be a big problem for someone with your abnormal level of physical strength."

Lucia fell silent for a moment, no longer trying to express her intentions. Perhaps it would be hard for ordinary people to understand, but the infamous Queen of Death was actually a rather simple idealist.

Because of their naivety, they were betrayed; because of the betrayal, they were left battered and bruised, extremely insecure, and terrified of being hurt again.

Therefore, what he needs to do is not to guarantee or promise anything, but to protect this simplicity in the eternal time to come.

"Alright, alright, loosen your grip for a bit, don't delay my work." The Queen forcefully pulled her hand away, pretending to adjust her state, and rubbed her cheeks vigorously with both hands. She then tied her hair up high with the black silk that had once covered her eyes, squatted down, and began adjusting the magic circle.

Lucia pretended not to see the blush that was gradually spreading across the delicate skin. Yes, it was red all the way from her cheeks to behind her ears. Sigh, with the Queen's temperament, let alone whether she can rival Lance in the future, she might not even be able to beat Marlenia and end up sitting at the children's table with Lani.

Hmm, speaking of which, having provoked so many girls, none of whom are ordinary people, the cultivation level of the Dragon King Body is still a bit low!
Thinking about the future, the current Dragon King couldn't help but feel worried.

"Alright," the Queen clapped her hands and stood up, straightening her skirt at the waist. "To be honest, that kid Yuno is quite talented. His mastery of magic arrays is comparable to that of Hethenes back then. This spatial barrier, as well as the unsealing array, teleportation array, and shielding array built along the ley lines, are not things that those mediocre people like Rodel could have accomplished. With such a good foundation, modifying them now will be a piece of cake."

"In a moment, you just need to stand here and inject guiding divine power at the specific frequency I designed, and... wait? How did this circuit activate?"

Lucia never intended to keep this rune for herself. After the war between the two kings, the eyes of the rune that Katarpatra possessed were taken away, and her own divine body was on the verge of destruction. Although she later managed to suppress her old injuries with the method of killing gods, and was able to exert god-level combat power with the destined death entrusted by Omega and various unparalleled skills, her foundation was completely incomparable to that of the demigods.

In other words, it was Katpela who needed these runes more, and helping her repair her old wounds and rebuild her divine body was what he needed to do next. Upon hearing this, he subconsciously stepped forward to help check, but the moment his mental energy was directed towards that abnormal circuit, a fierce, violent, and destructive sense of danger surged into his heart like a sudden electric current!

The Queen reacted even faster than him!
Her mental strength, which was even greater than Lucia's, transformed into a quicker judgment at this moment. She turned around, made a move entirely out of instinct!
A burst of divine power, devoid of any actual strength, suddenly shot out, striking Lucia in the chest and sending him flying. The power of spacetime dragged him backward at an alarming rate. In an instant, the Queen unleashed an unprecedented burst of supreme divine power, condensing a spacetime domain compressed to its limit within a radius of ten steps!

Within ten steps, a thousand years pass in an instant; so close yet so far!

boom! ! !
The violent and incomparable aura of destruction exploded out, and except for the magic array base protected by the power of the earth vein runes, the entire spacetime domain exploded out of thin air almost in an instant!

A magnificent black sun bloomed in the underground world. At the very spot where Yuno had teleported away not long ago, a figure two meters tall, with red hair flowing down his shoulders and surrounded by flames like a demon god, stood in the center of the magic circle. His left hand gripped Katopella's throat, while his right hand was outstretched. His magma-colored eyes stared in bewilderment at the black light gradually dissipating from his palm, seemingly greatly disappointed.

He raised his head, examining the spacetime domain that was crumbling inch by inch under the violent impact, and sighed, "To be able to lie in wait by my side for several years with a false identity without being exposed, and to be able to withstand the all-out attack that I launched by opening the Gate of Godhood and consuming 30% of the power of the furnace with a domain, the Queen of Death is indeed worthy of her name."

Charlegios stared at the queen's face, which was soaked with blood, and said with pity, "I don't know when it started, but I suddenly felt that you were really suitable to be my queen. We should have sat side by side on the throne, making all the races of the world tremble and kneel, and our offspring would become gods and kings who rule the world—isn't this a good future?"

"It's a pity you chose the wrong person to offer your loyalty," he took a deep breath and smiled cruelly, "and it's also a pity that this sure-fire blow didn't kill you."

"Cough, cough—" The Queen coughed up blood mixed with fragments of internal organs, a mocking smile appearing on her pale face that quickly lost all color. She said, "That's truly a pity."

“If he doesn’t die, you and your people will die a fate far worse than mine,” she said, her head held high even with her throat choked, like a supreme queen issuing a decree to a usurper. “The giant race will be forever erased from history.”

"Ha—ha!" Chareleus laughed loudly, but his laughter stopped abruptly, turning into a roar of shock and anger!

A black shadow, so fast that even he could barely catch it, flashed towards him, the outline of a fist rapidly enlarging in the center of his pupils!
It was too fast, so fast that it defied common sense, so fast that it didn't match his understanding of Lucia Sanx, so fast that he didn't have time to block or dodge, and could only narrowly avoid the most vital part of his head in the blink of an eye!
boom!
Empty!
The delayed sonic boom, mixed with the dark cracks of space tearing at his cheeks, but Charlegios was overjoyed!

It was fast, but not fast enough to be completely unmanageable. Lucia's attack missed, and even without the power of the furnace to help him, as long as they kept at it, if the two of them fought again, Lucia would definitely be the first to be worn down. Besides, he still had Katpela, a hostage who could be used to take the blow at any time!
What about people?

No.
Where's the hand?

A fountain of blood shot into the sky!

The dull pain suddenly surged into his brain like a torrent. Right, he clearly remembered that Lucia had inherited the silver-white dragon body of the Dragon God, so why was what he saw just now a dark shadow?!

Carelius turned his head stiffly. A hundred paces behind him, Lucia, who had transformed into a half-dragon, was surrounded by an unprecedented black mist, with streaks of blood-red lightning flashing within it.

The monster turned around at the same time, its blood-red eyes staring intently at him. With one hand holding his queen, it grabbed his arm, which had just been torn off in one blow, as if it were a leg of lamb, and stuffed it into its mouth, chewing it up in one bite!
"Pfft!" Lucia devoured all the runic energy in the flesh and blood, then spat out a lump of charred, rotten flesh.

"Old and still not dead, rotten and foul, you are no longer Chareleus—trash."

(End of this chapter)