Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 1927 (1899) Distributing the Great Runes

On the same day that Montgomery became King of Rhodes and received the audience of his courtiers.

The fragments of the Elden Ring, shattered by Queen Marika, also known as the Great Rune, appeared in the hands of various demigods in the borderlands.

These fragments were sent from afar by the power of the two fingers, and eventually, they were evenly distributed on the Divine Tower at the border, each receiving its own piece of Great Rune.

On the sacred tree atop the snow-capped mountains in the far north of that borderland, the Valkyrie Malenia and her brother, the Pure Gold Michaela, each received a Great Rune.

This seems to foreshadow the inadequacy of these two demigods in terms of bloodline and legal position; the great runes they received were only the left circle of the Elden Ring.

A vertical line does not cut into the center, but rather into the circle near the edge.

On the fertile plains of Galid, a majestic general with red hair and golden armor, resembling a lion, descended from the sky with purple gravity magic light, directly impacting the top of the towering Divine Tower!
And there he received his own share of the Great Rune.

On the Altar Plateau, [Grand Justice] Lakad remained amidst the fluttering banners of his army. He had neither the time nor the inclination to visit the Divine Tower at this crucial moment to collect a Great Rune that wouldn't significantly increase his power.

Unexpectedly, Shuangzhi sent his portion directly from afar, without going through the Divine Tower.

It was as if he had no choice but to accept it.

The two brothers, Raccard and Rataen, received the right half of the Elden Ring, which is similar in shape to the Ring of Marlene and Michaela, except that the vertical line is inserted into the ring on the other side of the ring.

Meanwhile, in the ever-windy Nymgford, within the castle of Stoneville, Grek's father, Griffia, also received his own Great Rune on the Tower of Divine Gift.

He is the brother of the First King, Gavri, a pure member of the Golden Clan, and one of the original demigods.

The fragment he obtained was a complex pattern formed by several intersecting rings. This pattern was also located on the central axis of the Elden Ring, although its position was lower than that of the Mongols and Mongols.

Even though Doublefinger knew that it was the Moon Princess Lani and the demigod from the maternal relatives who planned the Night of the Black Knife, he didn't stop sending them the Great Rune.

After all, the Great Rune was not a gift; its true purpose was to conceal Mongot's unusual identity and make his rule seem legitimate.

So not only Raccard and Ratan, but He also planned to send it to Lani.

But when the power of the two fingers connected to the divine tower in Lienia, He only found a corpse—the corpse of a demigod.

The body was over three meters long, with healthy and full proportions, hips wider than shoulders, and was completely black as if burned, except for a head of red hair, which still showed some of its original color even though it was burned.

It didn't take much effort for Shuangzhi to figure out whose corpse it was.

【Princess of the Moon】Lani.

On the back of this corpse was a huge, grotesque wound, just like that of [Gold] Godwin, whose soul died in the Night of the Black Knife, resembling an abstract, semi-circular, menacing centipede.

However, this semicircle faces the opposite direction to Godwin's back, and together they appear to form a complete circle.

Based on the deductions in Night of the Black Knife, Prince Godwin's body retained immortal vitality only because his soul died, thanks to the blessing bestowed upon demigods by the Golden Law.

This has created an awkward situation where even the Golden Rule has loopholes.

It is because at the same time that Godwin's soul died, someone else also caused their physical body to die. Therefore, what was originally a complete death process was split into two halves.

It now appears that the person who took half of Godwin's life and brought the situation to this awkward state is still the mastermind behind the Night of the Black Knife, the "Moon Princess" Lani.

After realizing this, Twofinger withdrew his power from the Divine Tower and stopped bothering with Lienia.

A god or demigod abandoning their body—at the very least, that's suicide.

But on a grander scale: this is betrayal!

The betrayal of Twofinger, who coveted the law she bore and chose her as a contender for the divine throne!
This is tantamount to severing the connection between the divine being and the two fingers that selected the divine being! It is an absolute break between the two!

But so be it, it's a matter between Lani and the two fingers that chose her.

The two fingers of the round table didn't care about this.

Although both involve two fingers, having chosen different laws, they are ultimately competitors. After all, there is only one Elden Ring, and only one divine position.

As long as Lani doesn't cause any trouble in the following process, the Two Fingers of the Round Table will simply assume that she has already withdrawn from the battle for the divine throne.

I can't be bothered to spend even the slightest bit of energy on her.

Hatred, resentment... these emotions do not exist for two fingers.

Now, according to the rules of epochal change in border areas, it is time for the Golden Law to step down and for a new era to begin.

However, the two fingers of the round table were not willing to back down at this point.

The Golden Dynasty has stood for so long, and still possesses such power and influence! By what right does it retreat? By what right does the Golden Law, which it has chosen, retreat?

Throughout history, apart from the Golden Dynasty, what other power in the border region has been able to unify the entire territory?

Now that a groundbreaking golden dynasty has been established, wouldn't it be only natural to make groundbreaking changes to the old rules as well?
It was for this reason that the Two Fingers of the Round Table brought Mongatra, who had been abandoned in the royal city's sewers, up and devoted all their efforts to supporting and assisting him, a son of a taboo omen.

Just because Montgomery was like Him: they both still hoped to continue the era of the Golden Law.

Apart from this goal, the two fingers at the round table don't care much about anything else.

The demigods had all obtained their own fragments of the magic ring, and Mongot, this 'pearl,' was able to blend into a pile of 'fish eyes,' no longer conspicuous.

The sudden and enormous changes that occurred in the Golden Tree and the Elden Ring have spread throughout the entire border region, along with the explosive news of Godwin's death.

Whether we want it or not, whether it's subjective or objective, the order that was originally as stable as gold and unchanging for eternity under the Golden Law has been unstoppably shaken and is sweeping into everyone on the border!

However, putting aside the powerful and influential demigods in the distance, Lan En is currently having a headache over the situation before him.

Who is this woman?

The Witcher asked, his eyes wide.

As he asked the question, he quickly pulled his large cloak from his alchemy pouch and rolled it up on the back of the Qilin's horse.

The cloak that Lan En could use was naturally thick and wide, immediately covering the naked woman on horseback.

Lan En gently lifted the person down.

The woman wrapped in the cloak... or perhaps she should be called a girl, looked quite strange.

She seemed completely bewildered and lost, as if she had no idea where she was or what her situation was.

She looked very young, only seventeen or eighteen at first glance, the prime of a girl's youth and beauty. Of course, her figure was also 'sparse' for her age.

She was petite, only about 1.6 meters tall. She had light pink and reddish-brown flowing hair, and her left eye was closed, perhaps due to an injury. On the eyelid of that eye, there was a small tattoo of a three-toed bird's claw.

But after confirming that the person was not very old, upon closer inspection, her bewildered and confused expression revealed an unusual calmness and indifference.

This calmness and indifference easily evokes the image of a weathered person who has witnessed the vicissitudes of life, so the feeling in one's heart overcomes the initial impression, making it difficult to determine the girl's age.

Seeing Lan En lift the girl off the horse, Rongbuqiu also jumped off the Qilin's head with a "whoosh" and walked over.

"We...we don't know either, meow, boss!"

The fluffy ball scratched its little triangular ear and looked innocently at Lan En with its watery eyes.

The Witcher raised an eyebrow, glanced at the fluffy ball, then at the Qilin… At this moment, the ancient dragon of the New World seemed to be feeling relieved because a 'fragile creature' had been unloaded from its back, and it no longer needed to take such careful care of it, and it was twisting its back.

Seeing Lan En's gaze, it paused for a moment, then snorted, shook its head, and wiggled its neck, indicating that it didn't know either.

"She fell from the sky?" Lan En's lips twitched speechlessly. "And just happened to fall onto the back of a Qilin's horse? And completely naked?"

“No, not at all,” the plush ball quickly waved its hand, “but it’s still pretty strange. When we saw her, she was outside the independent fortress of the Round Table Hall, at the entrance of a small alley, and she wasn’t wearing any clothes then, meow!”

"We saw her looking dazed and confused, and wondered what was wrong! So we decided to help and put the cat on her leash!"

"That cat looks so pitiful. Maybe the blessing inside its body damaged its brain?"

The calico kitten sighed as it looked at the girl who had been wrapped in a cloak and placed on the ground by Lan En. It even went over and patted the girl's light brownish-red hair with its little paw. The girl opened only one eye and sluggishly turned to the kitten.

Although the velvet ball's explanation was just a guess, it seemed quite reasonable to the animal itself.

After all, its leader was also legally incorporated into the Round Table Hall on the grounds that "losing the blessing has caused his mind to become completely confused."

This shows that the blessing had a significant impact on the people of the Golden Tree.

"Xilulu."

Qilin relaxed his back and then strolled over.

'But something's strange,' the Qilin's meaning reached Lan En's mind, 'I clearly saw no one when I glanced past that alley, but when I turned around, the velvet ball said someone needed help. Hmm... maybe I saw it wrong?'

Even the Qilin itself isn't entirely certain of what it says, making it seem rather unreliable.

(End of this chapter)