Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 214 The Unity of Opposites
"In the hundreds of years after the Forbidden War, countless new civilizations were like spring grass after a wildfire, taking root and sprouting again on this land. The runes at that time were still strong enough, and they were naturally born through worship and sacrifice. Lots and lots of wild gods, both good and bad.”

"The weak ones among them are not even as good as the elite knights of the Knights of Rodel, and the few who are at the top are comparable to the strongest heroes in the world. However, in that era, the ones who can lead the direction of civilization are still the few eternals who have returned to the surface. Descendants, after all, compared to those primitive people who emerged from the wilderness, we possess magic, prayer and knowledge that are far ahead of our time, so in just a few decades, the footsteps of the Eternal Relics spread across the world again."

"One of the remaining tribes established the later Kaliya Dynasty in the Western Continent, while the other went to Galede and mixed with the local people to form the Magic Town Selia. However, compared to those who still adhere to the faith of the Star and Moon, In the former case, Celia has only retained a little of the magic and knowledge of the Eternal Civilization, and has completely integrated with the aborigines in terms of beliefs, culture and even customs, and there is no trace of the Eternal Relics in her body."

"Probably because there is really no better choice among the barbaric and ignorant civilizations of the same era, the divided Alpha and Omega finally chose me and Catpera - the Queen of Death as you call them - as the first two gods. Man, with their respective help, I hold the golden law of life, and Catpera holds the red law of death.”

"The first thing she did after becoming a god-man was to lead her believers to kill the God of Death, who had failed to recover after the Forbidden War, and took all of His authority and followers into her hands. From that moment on, the Law of Death was truly promoted to what it later became. 'Death by destiny'."

“In the hundreds of years since then, Catpera and her apostles have become the nightmare of the gods in the Age of Resurrection. They hunt the gods with the flames of their destined death, peel off their skins and make them into clothes. 'Godskin Apostles', at least half of the wild gods of various tribes who relied on the power of faith died in their hands."

"You should know what happened next," the Queen stretched her waist, leaned on the incense stick behind her, and said calmly, "The battle between us lasted until the end of the Resurrection Era. My brother Malika Si defeated all the Godskin Apostles, took away her night-colored eyes that held the destiny of death, and sealed the death rune in his black sword."

"After the war, Catpera and the remaining apostles disappeared. Omega was sealed at the bottom of the newly reborn golden tree. Alpha melted into the tree to suppress it forever. Malikis took the most dangerous weapon in the world with him. The Black Sword went to the Eastern Continent and proclaimed himself in the Beast Temple. As for my law of life, it condensed into the new Elden Ring, which continues to this day."

Lucia pondered for a moment and said: "So the battle between His Majesty and the Queen of Death is like a game and test between the two ideological trends of the Supreme Will. In the end, Your Majesty won, and the Supreme Will that got the test results will peel off the chaos. has become what it is today?"

"That's right," the Queen said with a sigh of relief, "Now He only has the will on the side of order, and the will and power on the side of chaos are forever sealed in Omega's body."

"In the first 20 years, there was nothing strange about Omega. However, as the Golden Dynasty gradually unified the continent and the new order covered more and more ethnic groups, that will began to move, and then hit Alpha's seal again and again. , and even gradually spread its power outside the golden tree, causing countless effects that are difficult to detect on the surface - Beta is the most typical example."

Hearing this, Lucia's expression suddenly froze and she said in disbelief: "Are you saying that the 'outer god' rumored to have polluted Beta is actually the Supreme Will itself?" "The idea of ​​pollution is nonsense," the Queen said He sneered, "Beta spent most of his time in Kallia after he was born. Only the March God had enough time and opportunity to contact him, but you know the status of the three of them even if I don't tell you."

"Like Catpera and I, Beta is but a microcosm of the two halves of the Supreme Will fighting against each other, as the Will of Order—that is, the apparent Supreme Will bestowed upon the first god-man of the Golden Age. , but his consciousness was eroded by the will of chaos at the same time, but this erosion did not make him a lackey of chaos itself, but more like a replica. A replica of the will of order."

Lucia frowned. The queen's statement contained too much information and secrets, which temporarily confused his mind.

"Re-enactment." He chewed on the Queen's description, trying to connect it with the information he had obtained previously.

The split of the Supreme Will, the battle between gods and men led by Alpha and Omega, the millennium-long confrontation and game between Chaos and Order. The first god-man in the golden age happened to be Lani, who was born in the royal family of Caria and did not believe in gold. The first divine envoy who was tasked with leading the divine beings not only showed no intelligence or stability at all, but instead seemed like a separated and contradictory experimental subject.

He recalled the golden sea and orange flames on the Day of Judgment. If the Elden beast represents the will of order in the sky, and the flaming figure represents the will of chaos underground, the two seem to be incompatible, but they fail from beginning to end. causing any effective damage to each other.Instead, Queen Malika intervened midway and shattered the figure's arm with a hammer. What was even more counterintuitive was that she, the weakest, achieved the greatest result with just one Claw of Destruction, completely defeating the figure in one blow.
Suddenly, as if a flash of lightning flashed across his mind, he suddenly realized the root cause behind these strange and contradictory phenomena.

Compared with the Supreme Will, the power in Queen Malika's body is by no means the purest gold - even though she is the Eternal Queen, she is also an eternal remnant and a descendant of the Star and Moon. The magic array under the Eternal Palace alone can It can be seen that the Queen's magical attainments are superb, not to mention that over the long years, she must have mastered a large number of abilities beyond the golden system.

Perhaps it was this difference that caused the Queen's effective damage to the flaming figure. Similarly, most of the power came from the ancient dragon system, and he also dabbled in pyroxene magic, origin magic and even black flame prayer. He was able to defeat the opponent with one claw.

On the other hand, the seemingly opposite order and chaos are by no means incompatible, life-and-death enemies that must end with the dissipation of one party.Whether it is between the Eternal Queen and the Queen of Death hundreds of years ago, or in the Beta body today, they are testing and gaming each other all the time, seeking the possibility of reuniting. The only difference is probably who will Just as a leader.

(End of this chapter)