Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 2 Night Attack
In the middle of the night, in the imperial tent, a candle lamp was lit on the table, and the calming incense burner beside it was quietly burning, exuding the faint fragrance of herbs.Lucia was sitting by the bed, carefully reading the book "Origin of Belief in the Ud Dynasty" in her hand.

As one of the earliest civilizations in human history, the Wude Dynasty arose in the early days of the Xingyue Age about 3000 years ago, and the time to become a unified and centralized kingdom can be traced back to the early days of the Sky City.The ancestors of Wude who believed in the "God of Craftsman" Vallestock and the people of Horn who believed in the "ancestor spirit" were active in the middle of the junction, which is the most prosperous Atan area today, and established a glorious The degree is not inferior to the civilization of the Storm Dynasty in the south of the mainland.

However, about 1000 years ago, when the Wude Dynasty reached its peak in history, a great battle that was unclear in the history books destroyed almost overnight all the buildings in the Xingyue era centered on the Yatan area. civilization.The Wude Dynasty and the Horn People tribe were completely destroyed. Most of the sky city originally located in the center of the mainland of the Gulong Dynasty collapsed and drifted to the Far East Sea. A massive decline in civilization.

According to Gu Long's internal word of mouth, this battle was called the "Battle of the Forbidden".

"There are no records of the cause of the war, the parties involved in the war, and the process." Lucia flipped through the two thin pages in the book written in a spring and autumn style. The same is true of first-hand accounts from hundreds of years ago.

For some unknown reason, the people who survived the taboo war all chose to keep a secret attitude towards it, so that when future generations look back on that period of history, they can only feel a feeling similar to the world being deleted and replayed. Open strange feeling.

Lucia tried to solve the mystery in combination with the game plot of the previous life, but after thinking about it for a long time, she had no idea, so she put down the book in her hand, moved her neck and shoulders, got up and went outside the tent.Now it was close to midnight, and the patrolling knights had been replaced by the second shift. The entire camp was quiet, with only the clashing and rubbing of the patrolling armor and the gentle and soothing sound of the night wind.

Feeling the refreshment of the evening breeze blowing across his cheeks, he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, letting the slightly cold air in early autumn flow into his lungs, his mental power spread in all directions like a huge spider web, and soon covered the entire body. It covered the entire camp, and then expanded hundreds of meters in the wilderness before stopping.

As a pure-blooded ancient dragon demigod, Lucia discovered very early on that he possessed a talent no less than physical in terms of "concentration"—or "spiritual power".Although there are no red, blue and green bars representing blood demon resistance in reality, this attribute of concentration still represents the strength of mental power. After tempering mental power into divine power or magic power for releasing prayers and magic, this attribute also It directly determines how many spells an individual can release.

Compared with those existences in the Storm Knight who are similar to his combat power, Lucia's mental strength is obviously stronger than them. Even without systematic training, he can now easily detect wind and grass within a radius of one kilometer, even the dragons After learning this, the elders also agreed that the prince will make great achievements in ancient dragon prayer in the future.

He calmed down and deliberately captured the activities of various nocturnal animals around him, so as to train himself to master the spiritual power.Soon, subtle movements in all directions sent messages back to his mind like the prey that touched the "spider silk"—the night falcon preparing to kill the hare, a few swimming fish migrating up, and fierce fighting going on. Two crickets who are intoxicated, wait, what is that?
Lucia's spirit was shaken, and a turbulent noise suddenly appeared in his "spiritual vision" 300 meters away from the south of the camp. — But when he opened his eyes and looked over there, he could only see a peaceful night like water.

Immediately afterwards, more noises appeared in all directions, encircling the camp, and a strange and terrifying atmosphere permeated the air. The knights on patrol at night felt something strange, but before they could determine the cause, they heard Lucia yelled from the direction of the imperial tent: "Enemy attack!"

The moment the shout came out, more than [-] layers of heraldic patterns that looked like pupils emerged out of nowhere from the position of the noise at the same time. They burned with black and white flames, and the cold air spread like a sea tide. Coats nearby blades of grass with a thin layer of frost.A group of figures in pale leather clothes and hoods walked out of the coat of arms. A huge night-colored gemstone was hung on their chests, and they held double-headed swords made of bones. Coercion!
"God Skin Apostle!" Aegis, who rushed out of the tent with a spear in hand, was taken aback for a moment, and then shouted in astonishment.

For thousands of years, the Godskin Apostles have been a mysterious group no less mysterious than the black knife assassins. Compared with the latter, which has been occasionally rumored in recent years, they have disappeared for hundreds of years. Even the well-informed Dragon Clan can only Knowing that they had served the mysterious "Queen Night Eyes", they disappeared into the depths of history together.

The moment Lucia saw this group of guys, she quickly rushed back to the imperial tent, holding the knife in her hand while sending out a burst of spiritual power, triggering the divine power barrier set up by the two elders in the imperial tent.In the blink of an eye, a spherical barrier surrounded by thunder and dragon flames rose from the outer ground, enclosing the entire imperial tent.

As for going out to fight with people, it is completely out of Lucia's consideration. In the three months since the shell was broken, he has determined his own weight through trial and error. Now it is difficult for him to fight more than two storm knights. , not to mention this group of god-skin apostles with boss strength per capita.The only thing he can do now is to be good to himself, so as not to cause trouble to Eggers and the others.

On the unnamed hill on the west side of the camp, Guerrell noticed something strange almost at the same time as Lucia yelled a warning. When the godskin apostles appeared, she immediately chose the direction with the most enemies and prepared to attack from the rear. Attack.Just when she was about to jump down from the top of the mountain, a sudden chill came from all over her body, and at the same time, there was a scream of sharp blades tearing through the air in her ears!
Years of combat experience made Guerrell subconsciously tilt his head to avoid the rapier stabbing behind him, and at the same time twisted his body in the limit state, and slashed back with a circular arc of light!
The dragon scale dagger collided with the thin sword clangingly, sparking fireflies like fireflies. Under the moonlight, Guirel could clearly see the huge figure exuding terrifying coercion behind him. It was a nobleman with divine skin ——And the narrow-edged rapier in his hand, which shone with a gloomy cold light, is the most vicious and evil sword "God's Skin Stitch" that is said to kill gods and make their skins into battle robes!
Guerrell bent his legs slightly, turned his wrist holding the Dragon Scale Knife, and his slender and vigorous figure blurred into an afterimage in an instant and shot forward!In the cold moonlight, white dragon scales covered her body like flowing water, her face was covered by the indifferent and hard bone armor, the temple hair on her forehead turned into towering dragon horns, and the arm wielding the knife changed into It has become a muscle-stretching dragon claw!

When—the Dragon Scale Knife was in the middle and split on the needles of the godskin nobleman who came from the horizontal frame, the majestic force of the mountains and seas poured down along the sword, even the huge and strong body of the godskin nobleman couldn't help staggering And retreat!

"Hmph," the nobleman sneered, "Dragon clan is indeed the most powerful creature in the world. Even if it's just a high-ranking flying dragon, can it have this level of power after half-dragon transformation?"

At the same time, a similar situation also happened in the camp below the mountain. Although the sudden attack of the godskin apostles caused a certain degree of damage to the storm knights, after a short period of astonishment, the flying dragon warriors immediately took the lead in launching a powerful attack. Counterattack, even if most of them are low-level flying dragons whose bloodline is far lower than that of Aegis and Guerrell, after half-dragonization, it is enough to suppress an apostle in a three-on-one or even two-on-one situation.

And in the position where the two elders and Aegis were located, the apostles were beaten back steadily. In just two or three minutes from the start of the raid to the present, nearly ten of their bodies have been left behind in the camp. corpse.

"Since you know that you are no match, who gave you the courage to attack the throne?" Guerrell said coldly, at the same time cutting out a wave of sword light without stopping.

In this berserk attack, the god-skinned nobleman held the sword with one hand, and his arm stretched and stretched like rubber, and he was always able to block or escape Guerrell's slashing blows when there was no time to send.After dodging a heavy slash that was powerful enough to split mountains and rocks, he moved a little bit, his bloated body flitted up to a rock behind him, and said with a light smile, "Miss, you seem to have made a mistake—"

"You are indeed the most powerful beings in the 'mortal world'," he said with his arms open, "while we are following the queen of death and killing the gods!"

Before he finished speaking, endless black flames rose from under his feet, instantly turning the entire mountain top into a bunch of burning torches, dozens of fierce pillars of fire were like an insurmountable cage, encircling himself and Guerrell banned here.

"I've been playing with you for so long, just because my mission is to delay you here." The firelight reflected on the face-shaped hood on the nobleman's head, revealing a mocking and weird smile, " We were born to kill the gods, and only the gods are worthy of all our efforts, regardless of life and death."

Guerrell's expression changed when she heard the words, and she suddenly turned her head to look down the mountain. The remaining apostles launched a suicide charge in the direction of the two elders and Aegis without warning, delaying the three strong men, Another Black Flame Emblem appeared outside the camp wall closest to the imperial tent.In the blazing flames, the second god-skin nobleman beheaded two flying dragon warriors who were caught off guard, and went straight to Lucia!

(End of this chapter)