Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 173 Destined Death
Lucia stared at the light curtain in the void, and after thinking for a while, she decisively chose to accept it.

With this thought, a large wave of black and white flames suddenly surged up in the memory battlefield, and then gradually compressed and solidified under the starry sky, turning into a dark fragment, floating quietly in front of him.

Lucia took a step forward and looked at the fragment closely. It was composed of a downward curved arc and a vertical line intersecting. It was shaped like an upside-down sword. On it, you can feel the terrifying coercion it exudes—that is the supreme authority in the world, and it belongs to the power of the law of death.

"Death Rune?"

Lucia was very familiar with the fragment in front of him. In his previous life, after Fam Yazra defeated "Black Sword" Marikas, the Death Rune rose from his corpse.

The only difference between this fragment and the real death rune is that the flames of the latter are not black and white but black and red. The destined death that Muir mastered has long since lost its source of power, and is nothing more than a wisp of embers left after the law of death has been taken away.

Lucia stretched out her palm, just like accepting the death rune when she was a faded person in her previous life, and grasped the fragments floating in the void.

The moment the five fingers were closed, overwhelming black flames erupted from it, engulfing his entire body and turning it into a huge vortex of flames.

In the next second, the extremely fast rotating vortex quickly collapsed again, as if a cloak woven by flowing fire wrapped around his body, and finally sank into his body.

After a long time, Lucia opened his eyes, and a black flame flashed in the ice-blue pupils, and then quickly disappeared into nothing.

Feeling the new power in his body, he breathed a deep sigh of relief.

Although the level of mastery of the Black Flame Prayer at the original master level has not changed, its power has definitely improved. In addition, Lucia clearly sensed a power similar to the power of the ancient dragon, the power of gold, and the power of magic. They are completely different powers of new law.

It is not as wild and powerful as the power of the ancient dragon, it is not as vigorous as the power of gold, and it is not as changeable as the magic from the stars and the moon. It is cold, indifferent, and ruthless, like a handle hanging from the sky to judge all things In front of this sword, identity, status, and power are all meaningless, and any defensive and healing techniques are useless, because it has the power to obliterate life from the level of law.

The so-called "destined death" is the supreme authority that can stand against the law of life ruled by the eternal queen Marika, and even make her "eternity" no longer eternal.

With Lucia's current vision and means, there is absolutely no need to avoid the death-type skills like snakes and scorpions like he did back then, for fear of being exposed under the golden tree and being ruthlessly killed by Queen Marika-he can already use the skills of destiny The power of death is ingeniously integrated into any move, so as to make one's attack more lethal.

Especially the Claw of Destruction, which he is most proud of among the five ancient dragon royal battle skills, highlights the destructive characteristics of the power of the ancient dragon at the level of law. Once it can be integrated with the destined death, to what extent can it be strengthened? , even he himself did not dare to imagine.

After receiving the doomed death, Lucia raised his head and looked at the starry sky of the memory battlefield. The March God has completely disappeared since the message sent more than two years ago. He also tried to contact them actively, or Part of the mental power was extradited to the past through the memory battlefield, but in the end it was all in vain.

As for the stars that represent other eternal bereaved families, Lucia has not established contact with other targets since he first conquered Selian. It is not necessary, and it is inevitable that flaws will be exposed.

But the situation is different now, Se Lian has completely become his diehard loyalist, and his own strength is no longer comparable, no matter how much he wants to fool or recruit new believers, he will have a little more confidence .

On the other hand, the private school of the royal family is coming to an end. According to Principal Ortapis, he may arrange several study tour tasks that require them to leave the royal capital and travel to various parts of the mainland to complete. New dark chess is buried everywhere.

Lucia thought about it for a moment, and decided to wait a while before making the spiritual connection. The process of accepting the doomed death just consumed a lot of energy, so it is still necessary to repair one or two at this moment.

So he withdrew from the memory battlefield, relaxed his mind, and fell into a deep sleep.

In the early morning of the second day, before he opened his eyes, Lucia felt a fluffy thing covering his face, and dazedly stretched out his hand to grab it aside, and suddenly the little fox muttered dissatisfiedly.

Opening his eyes, Shirley was still lying sprawled on his pillow as before, her fluffy and flowery tail swaying gently in the rhythm of snoring—putting her tail on the owner's face and complaining after being stopped It was simply a subconscious behavior carved into her bone marrow, and she no longer needed the support of a clear consciousness.

Lucia turned over, propped her head on one hand and looked at her shadow beast carefully.

More than two years have passed, and Shirley's body shape has not changed at all. If there is any difference, it may be that after three consecutive years of overeating, she is slightly rounder than when she just came from the other side of the fog gate. .

Although her snow-white hair, vine-like light gold patterns at the corners of her eyes, and intelligence that are obviously different from ordinary beasts all show that she is by no means an ordinary creature inherent in the borderland, but for such a long time, no matter who she was back then Lance is still the current Lucia himself, and he still can't see anything abnormal about her.

When Lucia met Epsilon, the two-fingered god, he also tested the other party's opinion of Shirley by insinuating, but Epsilon only replied that shadow beasts are projections of the images of gods, even if they look ordinary now, Shirley will also provide irreplaceable help on Lucia's road to becoming king.

Of course, what he wanted was never any help, he just hoped that Supreme Will would not use shadow beasts to plot against him.

Now it seems that Wumen really obeyed the wish he secretly made back then, and bestowed on him a good-for-nothing shadow beast who only knows how to eat and wait to die every day, and is nothing but cute.

Lucia sighed softly, and couldn't help but reached out and stroked the soft fur on the side of Xueli's neck. The little fox let out a happy humming sound in his sleep, and the corners of his mouth were crooked to the base of his ears.

It would be great luck if we could just walk together like this, he secretly sighed in his heart - as a god-man, his shadow beast is safer than Marikas, and more beautiful than Blazer's dark beast , what more could be asked for?
　ps. Sorry, I forgot to set a timed release when I went out, it was a few hours late

　　
　
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