Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 181 Disputes
East of the North, Watcher Keep.

The pitch-black fortress is like a cold and silent monster entrenched in the depths of the snow field. Huge torches are burning all over the city wall. The blazing flames distort the dry and cold air, just like the eyes of a giant monster with fierce lights.

Looking further to the east, you can see the majestic mountain peak connecting the sky and the earth, as well as a vaguely arc-shaped outline of the peak.

If the Flame Temple is the political, military, and cultural center of the entire flame monk system, then this huge fortress standing in the hinterland of the former giant dynasty is the forefront and most important solid barrier for the monks to guard the flames. No problem, the garrison force of [-] elite flame martial arts monks is definitely enough to nip any kind of crisis in its infancy.

At this moment, in a spacious and bright study room on the top floor of the fortress, a middle-aged man in a gray robe and a dark red shawl was sitting at the table, with his clean chin resting on one hand, and his knuckles tapping on a letter in front of him.

Compared with other areas on the border, the northern border is covered with ice and snow all year round, not to mention that it is still March, and the tail of winter has not yet passed. It is not an exaggeration to say that the temperature outside is turning into ice.

But even so, the man still opened all the floor-to-ceiling windows in the house, and the firewood in the fireplace had already been burned out, but he didn't seem to feel the cold at all, still squinting his eyes slightly, thinking about something quietly.

After a while, there was a rush of footsteps in the corridor outside the house, and the door was pushed open in the next second, and a burly young man broke in, and he opened his mouth and asked: "Brother, why did you order Destroy all Giant Prayer Books? That's how we managed to get from—"

"Adam," the man interrupted with a frown, "I seem to have warned you more than once, you need to knock on the door to enter this room, and you are not allowed to call me 'brother' here."

Adam's expression froze, he strode out angrily and closed the door, knocked on the door twice, and said, "Bishop Yaganti, I have something important to discuss with you!"

Yaganti rubbed his temples, sighed helplessly, and said, "Get out."

Looking at his younger brother with a livid face and angry expression, he folded his arms, leaned back on the high-backed chair, and said with displeasure: "This was ordered by Archbishop Pirac at the Cardinal Conference three days ago. All the archbishops The resolution that was passed together, the personal letter of Mr. Yuno has been placed on my desk today."

He grabbed the letter on the table and threw it straight at Adam, "Look at it for yourself, and tell me after reading it, what would you do if you were in my place?"

Adam took the letter paper in a hurry, unfolded it and read it carefully, but the more he read it, the more ugly his face became. In the end, he simply crumpled the letter paper, smashed it to the ground, and gritted his teeth, "Why?"

"A group of old guys who know how to point out the country at the meeting all day long, and they want to erase the results of so many comrades' lives in exchange for their two mouths? Do they know how many people we died because of that book?"

"There are so many hidden weapons in the giant cemetery, as well as the giant remnants who attacked us countless times along the way, Cassios, Lania, and Rewen. They all died on the way to escort the original to the fortress. What we are doing so desperately is What? Ambition, desire, bewitched by external forces? Fuck the archbishop!"

"Think that everyone can comfortably huddle in the sanctuary like them, and wholeheartedly pursue the so-called faith? Without us watchers who are guarding the giant cemetery and the flaming cauldron with our lives, those giants who can't kill them all The remnants have long since revived and set off the next round of giant wars! Even if the other archbishops don’t know about it, Master Yuno himself doesn’t know, relying on the traditional flame prayer alone can’t gain an advantage in facing those remnants. The comrades died at their hands because of the inferiority of prayer."

"Now we managed to snatch the real Giant Flame Prayer from them. Not only did we not hide any secrets, but we also gave a copy to the people in the church for nothing--now it's a good thing. Let us destroy it, talk about maintaining the purity of belief, jokes, life is gone and belief is useless, anyway, I will not do it!"

Yagante stared at his younger brother who was ten years younger than him without words. Unlike him who participated in the giant war, Adam grew up in the Watcher Fortress since he was a child, so he naturally regarded this place as his only home and treated the Watchers Be like your own real family.

For more than ten years, living in this isolated and remote place, personally participating in countless battles with the remnants of giants, witnessing the bloodshed and sacrifice of countless comrades-in-arms, growing up from a child to a young Adam in terms of character Somewhat radical and extreme, there is always an inexplicable hatred for the Flame Temple sitting in the center of the northern border thousands of miles away.

In fact, this kind of rift within the flame monk is by no means limited to Adam alone, but widely exists between the Holy Church and the Overseer, and even the Archbishop Juno in charge of the Overseer line, and other archbishops such as Hiron are also famous. Friction, its cause is here.

The watchers feel that the monks of the temple are hiding behind, not only do not respect themselves enough, but they always like to point fingers, while the monks of the temple and the few archbishops behind them think that the fortress of the watchers is too capricious. The trend of listening to the announcement, and the accumulation of various contradictions and frictions have naturally formed a pattern of looking at each other and hating each other.

But as far as the Giant Flame Prayer is concerned, Yaganti believes that there is indeed no fault on the side of the watchers. After excavating the original prayer scriptures from the giant cemetery, he immediately asked people to reproduce several copies and hand them over to him. Archbishop Yuno, and then he will distribute it to other members above the bishop level in the church-of course, this has the consideration of helping his superiors strengthen their voice, but it is also a good intention at the root. I hope that all flame monks can learn from this prayer book Benefit from the book, so as to control the core and most powerful source power of the flame giants.

But the church held a meeting of cardinals backhandedly. According to Mr. Yuno's letter, even the Slovens tragedy not long ago became a foil. The meeting was held for the banning of giant flame prayers.

In such a short period of time, they didn't even have time to study the first third of the prayer book thoroughly, and they were ordered to destroy the original and all reprinted copies, which is really chilling.

After listening to his younger brother's venting complaints, Yaganti didn't speak for a long time, and then replied without raising his head for a long time: "It's all over? Then go and execute the order."

"Brother! You are the leader of the watchers, No.1 below the seven archbishops!" Adam shouted with red eyes: "You fight with the higher-ups again, if this prayer book is destroyed, we—"

"Excuting an order!"

Yaganti slammed his fist on the table distractedly, "Go and do what Master Yuno asked, if you have any problems, come and tell me after you calm down!"

Adam froze on the spot, clenched his fists loudly, turned around angrily after a while, slammed the door hard and walked away.

(End of this chapter)