Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 76 The rain is coming
Along the golden spiral staircase all the way up, and through a tall and wide arch, you come to the terrace at the top of the Golden Tree Cathedral.

Looking back, Lucia suddenly understood where his familiarity along the way came from—this was the temple where he fought against the phantom of the "King of Beginning" Ge Fulei in his previous life.

The Golden Tree Cathedral in reality is obviously countless times larger than in the game, and the terrace outside the church has nothing to do with the queen's boudoir in the Eternal Hall, but as the highest point of the cathedral, it is an excellent viewing platform .

Lani was sitting on the railing at the edge of the terrace, squinting her eyes slightly and looking up at the night sky beyond the branches of the golden tree. Her slender legs were hanging in the air and swaying gently. Under her feet were the brilliant and shining lights of the capital. .

"Have you noticed that there are no stars in Rodel's night sky, and even the full moon and black moon are almost invisible." She heard the approaching footsteps behind her, she said softly.

Lucia jumped over the railing nimbly, sat down beside her, and also cast her eyes on the high night sky—everything was just as Lani said, the bright branches and leaves of the golden tree stretched across the sky, and the stars were all hidden in the grand golden brilliance. Go, and the two moons hanging high above the junction are also extremely dim, as if they will disappear at any time.

In a daze, he remembered that when he left home, he wanted to look back at the starry sky of Sky City, and couldn't help saying: "The dome of Sky City is the closest place in the world to the starry sky. If there is a chance in the future, I will I can watch the stars with you there."

Lani was startled for a moment, she was silent for a moment, she turned her head to look at him and said, "I thought you had already fully integrated into this place, and you wouldn't feel homesick at all."

Lucia was a little puzzled at first, but soon realized that she was talking about her relationship with Mikaela and Marenia, she shook her head with a smile and said: "These are two different things, we are just one person in this land. A passer-by will have to go back sooner or later."

Lani said noncommittally: "On the way here, I heard that His Majesty Malika invited the Priest of Lance to Rhoderia, and you took her place to attend this banquet, isn't it to stop the Mugram knight for that person? Leave us here?"

She stared at the young man in front of her, and said in a calm tone: "In the first place, everything was none of your business, but you did not hesitate to work so hard—of course, you succeeded in the end, didn't you?"

Lucia looked back at Lani's cold and clear eyes, and he was very clear in his heart that in front of this wise and keen "Princess of the Moon", all unnecessary disguises were futile.

He exhaled slowly in the slightly cold night sky, and said: "At first, the purpose of my attendance was indeed to quell possible disputes at the banquet. If you know enough about your father and his fundamentalism of the Golden Law, you will understand After being canonized as a god-man by the supreme will, my situation here will only be worse than yours-so you can understand this as a gamble or speculation, in order to make him owe me a favor."

"He's not my father—" Lani couldn't help arguing.

"It doesn't matter, he's just a jerk anyway," Lucia shrugged, "Judging from what happened tonight, I'm more convinced of this, give me another ten years, and I dare to say that in front of him .”

Lani stared blankly at the unscrupulous guy in front of her, feeling a little overwhelmed for a moment, calling the current King of Elden an asshole at the foot of the golden tree, and looking at the history of the border for thousands of years, she couldn't find another one like this Crazy?

Before she could react, Lucia continued: "As for what you said about desperately, when I found out that Ratan's goal was Mikaela, those original goals were no longer important."

"Michaela and Marlenia are people I care about very much, so when they are in danger, no matter who the opponent is, I have no reason to back down." He said of course.

"But you don't know them yet." Before Lani finished speaking, she suddenly thought that although the guy in front of her had grown up in the dragon's egg for thousands of years, she was only born for a few months, so she changed her words: "But after all Not all the way, they are the heirs of the Golden Dynasty, and you belong to Sky City, one day."

"What does that matter?" Lucia asked with a smile, "When I, Marenia's corruption disease cannot be curbed today, didn't you also lend a helping hand to the 'stranger' you called?"

"I—" Lani just wanted to speak up to defend herself, but when she saw Lucia's smiling eyes, she suddenly realized that she was the one who asked the question. Who knew why she was involved by this guy, and she immediately put on a straight face He snorted and stopped talking.

Lucia secretly thought it was funny, not to mention the witch in the later generations, the moon princess who had not really grown up in front of her was actually hiding a kind and enthusiastic soul under her cold and indifferent appearance. In any case, he refuses to admit it to outsiders.

The two sat side by side in silence for a long time, and Lani suddenly said, "You are such a weirdo."

Lucia smiled faintly, accepting the evaluation.

"By the way, how is your brother's injury?"

"Knight Ordopis has already invited the best doctor in the capital to treat his brother. When I came, his wounds had already healed in sevens and eighty-eight, and the rest is to slowly recover his strength. After tonight about there."

Lani looked at him strangely as she spoke, and said, "Speaking of which, I really can't figure out why you recovered so quickly. As far as I know, even Priests Lance and Priest Furr don't have this level of recovery." Healing power."

"Well, if I have a chance in the future, I will go back and ask my father." Lucia fooled around, but secretly marveled at the power of swaddling blessings.

Most of the most powerful healing spells in the world today come from the golden tree prayer, but even the demigods who have the direct blood of Queen Malika are weaker than the group of god-skinned nobles in terms of physical recovery ability.

Lucia recalled the power of regeneration that was almost lawful, and couldn't help but think of the terrifying will that descended on Samuel's body on the day he was assassinated—the legendary killing of the gods and competing with Queen Malika for the position of the only true god. What kind of existence is the Queen Xiaoyan who is not at a disadvantage?
Thinking of this, he suddenly looked at Lani, and said, "When I first arrived here, I heard that you had some accidents on the way, so you delayed your arrival at the capital—do you mean the 'accident' you mentioned? Encountered the assassination of the god skin apostle?"

Lani looked slightly shocked, took a deep look at him, and said: "There is no need to hide this matter from you. We met the Godskin Apostle in the Varian Valley on the shore of Lake Lienia and the Atan Plateau. Among them, there were two god-skin nobles as the leaders. The eldest brother held one down for a while, and the Mugram knights quickly freed up their hands to defeat them—it's a pity that the last two nobles burned themselves with black flames and failed to stay. Go live."

Lucia took a deep breath when he heard the words. He and the three demigods of Kalia were also sent to the capital as "protons". When they were about to arrive at the Altan Plateau, they were assassinated by the apostles of the godskin. Only one of the two assassinations succeeded. , or even as long as a demigod is injured, the current increasingly tense situation among the three dynasties may detonate the largest war in more than ten years at any time.

That pair of coquettish night-colored eyes kept appearing in Lucia's mind, and he thought over and over all the information he had acquired recently—the apostles of the godskin who had been silent for a hundred years suddenly started to move, the relationship between Malika and Radagon The weird and delicate balance between the two, the curse of corruption that is about to move on Marenia
Although the Golden Dynasty is still prosperous on the surface, he is keenly aware that those forces that have been lurking in the shadows in the past years have begun to act, and various conspiracies based on different positions and purposes are silently brewing Among them, quietly waiting for the advent of a new era full of turmoil and disputes.

(End of this chapter)