Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 211 Star-Moon Era
Lucia took a deep breath and tried her best to calm down, but she could still hear her heart beating like a drum in her chest.

In his previous life, he had many negative speculations about the nature of the Supreme Will. After a brief contact with the March God in the memory battlefield, these negative perceptions that were very different from historical records had already deeply penetrated into his consciousness - The Golden Tree The origin of life described in the doctrine, the cause and effect and return in fundamentalism are all masks used to whitewash its own legitimacy as an external god. It classifies Scarlet Corruption, the Mother of Truth and even the March God as external gods, and labels itself as a junction. The only orthodox god on earth is a complete lie.

But he never imagined that the relationship between the so-called "original golden tree" and the furnace of life is completely a parasite and a parasitized relationship. It is a tree species from outside the starry sky rooted in the body of the real source of all spirits in the junction area, like a cancer. It spreads its roots and tentacles to every corner of this land, sucking the flesh, blood and souls of all living beings.

At this moment, he seemed to suddenly understand why in the many golden tree cemeteries he had seen in his previous life, the supposedly sacred and pure golden tree roots were always entangled with countless twisted mummies, and sometimes among the decayed and shriveled spores around them, there were Dirty and ugly rotten tree spirits haunt the place.

It was never a holy place for the souls of the golden people to rest, but a trough where the outer gods devoured the source of their lives.

"So... what is the real history?" Lucia said softly.

The queen raised her head, as if she was reminiscing about something, and her blue eyes showed a bit of confusion.

After a long time, she said leisurely: "In ancient times, the furnace of life was born in chaos. It was a giant tree that reached the sky in the center of the junction. The trunk was intertwined with golden and red lines, and the world was born in it. The rudiment of all things.”

"As time went by, the trunks cracked like blooming flowers, and countless lives hatched out of them. At first, they were just a group of hybrids that seemed to be randomly spliced ​​together. Later, they gradually differentiated over the long years and gradually formed many of the later ones. Race."

"The barbaric and ignorant years lasted for thousands of years, until 3000 years ago, a majestic meteor shower came to the junction. Stargazers on the top of the snow-capped mountains witnessed the miracle of the falling meteors, and thus created the origin magic—— However, that meteor shower contained not only the power of magic, but also a large amount of life and civilization. This was the beginning of the Star-Moon Era."

"The March God and the people of the night who believe in them were the first aliens to come to the junction. The people of the night crashed on an isolated island in the storm sea together with the meteors. Together with the aboriginal people on the island, they established the first eternal civilization. , those aboriginal people were my ancestors, and they were later called the 'rare people' race." The Queen recalled calmly.

"After that, starry beings such as the Black King, the White King, and the Crystallized Man came to the junction one after another. Powerful foreign gods such as the Scarlet Corruption and the Mother of Truth also successively set their sights on this fertile land full of vitality, and began to try to use their faith to The way to get involved."

"However, except for the March God, who has the people of the night as the original believers, the attempts of other foreign gods did not go well at first. The native races born in the furnace of life had already sprouted their own beliefs in endless years. At that time, the border area was so strong that it was almost In the miraculous runes, the gods believed by all the races in the world have condensed into entities through years of worship and sacrifice. The 'ancestral spirits' were born from the beliefs of the people of the Horns, and the beliefs of the Ude ancestors. The 'Craftsman God' Vale Stoker, who was born from the giants' belief in barbarism and fire, and the Fire Evil God, who was born from the giants' belief in barbarism and fire, are all included in this list." "It was also in that era that the fear of death from mortal creatures A local god named the 'God of Death' was born. He is in charge of the death authority in the border area. His envoys named the Two Birds guide the death ritual birds and the death priests to burn the remains of the deceased with spiritual fire. Leading them to the kingdom of death, the runes of the dead also returned to the earth during the burning process."

"And your mother, Her Majesty the Dragon God Herares, is the first local god born in the border area. The long lifespan and powerful power of the ancient dragon have created her godhead. The dragon tribe has had thousands of years of faith and worship since the beginning of ancient times. Transformed into her divinity, she was born as the most perfect ancient dragon and naturally became the most powerful existence among the gods."

"Most of the local gods in the border area were wary of the foreign gods coming from the stars. Therefore, in the first few hundred years, the outer gods were unable to spread their faith, except for the March God who was the first to come to the border area - He We have been committed to uniting the people of the night, the rare people, the black king, the white king, the crystal people, the stargazers and many other races, gradually eliminating the barriers between them over a long period of time, while steadily developing civilization, while doing so with sincerity Knocking on the doors of local countries again and again, sharing knowledge and technology from outside the world with other intelligent races."

"Over time, the eternal civilization led by the March God was accepted by more and more local civilizations. The Ancient Dragon Dynasty and its subordinate Ancient Storm Dynasty were the first to establish diplomatic relations with it, followed closely by the Ude Dynasty and the Horned People. They came from overseas He migrated to the Yatan area, which was still a wasteland at that time, and established the prototype of the eternal city around the furnace of life."

"At the same time, the sects under the Scarlet Corruption and the Mother of Truth gradually turned to the dark side under the rejection of all forces. On the one hand, they continued to develop believers in secret, and on the other hand, they began to study other means of gaining power. According to Judging from the subsequent development, Dragon Feast should have been a product of that era, and the real messenger behind it is the Mother of Truth."

"3000 years ago." Lucia frowned slightly and said thoughtfully, "Your Majesty is saying that the Supreme Will is actually the latest external god to come to the border?"

Queen Malika shook her head and said: "You are only half right - the Supreme Will is indeed the last outside god to intervene in the junction, but until today, He has never really 'arrived' here."

"His strength far exceeds that of several other external gods, and his form has gone beyond the concept of an ordinary god, evolving from the material level to the invisible and qualityless level of consciousness. To put it in a more understandable way, as long as he is under his control Within the realm, He is almost omnipresent. But because of this, for a plane like the Junction that is not yet completely under His control, He has no entity that can directly descend and can only project his power on certain apostles. , making it its own spokesperson.”

"Two thousand three hundred and sixteen years ago, the second meteor shower came to the junction. It was a golden meteor dropped by the Supreme Will. Along with it came a beast that entrusted a ray of His will, which is you on the Holy Judgment Day. The beast of Elden seen.”

"The golden meteor illuminated the entire sky at the junction, and with the gaze of the Supreme Will, he patrolled all the races on this land. In the end, He chose the most powerful Ancient Dragon Dynasty at the time."

(End of this chapter)