Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 61 Story
"Your Highness, please wait a moment, Lord Epsilon will be here soon." A two-fingered priest gave a deep salute and slowly exited the door.

Lucia quietly looked at the surrounding furnishings. From the moment he entered the Two Fingers Church, he found that it was far more low-key and simpler than other churches in the capital. Not only was the building scale much smaller than the Golden Tree Cathedral and the Ancient Dragon Cathedral, but even The interior furnishings are also extremely simple.

The walls as far as the eye can see are simply piled up with pure white ashlar, and the roof and corners are not equipped with any magical lamps, and only a minimum of candles for lighting are kept.

What's more special is that there are no chapels and prayer rooms for believers inside this church, only a dozen or so small halls for priests.

The meaning of its existence seems to be from the very beginning not to absorb believers and preach teachings, but just a holy land where priests serve the two fingers, and then communicate with the supreme will to listen to the oracle.

Lucia waited for less than 2 minutes, and the golden tree holy seal appeared in the air, and the golden streamer condensed the figure of Epsilon with two fingers. From the waist down, there are still two golden legs and feet that make Lucia extremely awkward.

"Your Highness," it bowed deeply, "If you have summoned me, I will go to the Valyrian Palace immediately, so why bother to visit in person."

"Envoy Epsilon is polite, please sit down." Lucia smiled and nodded.

Epsilon bowed slightly again after hearing the words, and then sat down on a specially made large chair.

Due to the special structure of the other party, Lucia had to skip the link of observing words and expressions, and said after a little deliberation: "I have been busy practicing these days, and I haven't been able to take time to see the envoy. It's really my fault. However, I came here today because I want to ask the envoy of God to teach me two things."

"Your Highness, please speak."

"One, excuse me for asking—" Lucia looked directly at Epsilon.

"The mission of the envoy is to maintain the golden law held by the two majesties, or to help me become the god of the next era?"

The question was extremely sharp, but Epsilon said without hesitation: "The law is the rule by which the gods govern all things in the world. Therefore, whenever the gods change, the law will naturally change. Your Highness, for the supreme will, personally As a canonized god-man, if he ascends to the position of god in the future, it is reasonable to change the current golden law, so the mission entrusted to me by the Supreme Will is only to assist His Majesty."

As the spokesperson of the supreme god in the world, and in the Holy Land of the Two Fingers Church, which accepts the oracle, since Epsilon can speak these words, there is no possibility of deception.Lucia's direct and sharp question about this matter was precisely to judge Epsilon's position in the most concise and effective way.

Now it seems that, at least within the range of activities allowed by the supreme will, the two-fingered envoy is completely on his side, which is basically the same as his original prediction.

"I understand," Lucia said after a moment of silence, "Since that's the case, I still have one more dilemma to ask the God Envoy."

Epsilon heard the words and said: "What Your Highness wants to ask is whether His Majesty Radagon will host a banquet for the Kalia mission tomorrow?"

Lucia was startled, but thinking of the supreme god standing behind her two fingers, it is not unusual to see this step, so she nodded and said, "Yes, His Majesty Radagon invited me to the shore of Rodel Lake in private. It stands to reason that we should go, but His Majesty and the Kalia royal family have had a lot of grudges in the past, and the Mugram knights at tomorrow's banquet are very likely to make trouble, if I attend, I will be in a quagmire."

"Understood," Epsilon bent his two fingers slightly, "Although His Highness has always had a rift with His Majesty Radagon because of the position dispute, His Highness is not willing to intensify this conflict—on the other hand, Kali The three demigods are all His Majesty's blood, and His Majesty doesn't want to be involved in this unreasonable dispute, so as not to suffer from it in vain, right?"

Lucia smiled and said, "I really admire the wisdom of the envoy."

Epsilon thought for a while, and said: "Your Highness has actually seen the current situation very clearly. The only thing I can remind His Highness is one sentence - since it is a dilemma, there must be a choice. If you want to choose, you must be advantageous. Pictureable."

"If your Highness has spare time today, you might as well listen to me tell you a few old things, and then make a choice."

"Since it is a dilemma, we must make a choice. If we want to choose, we must make a profit."

Lucia chewed on Epsilon's words over and over again, feeling a little deafening, and immediately said with emotion: "Please speak, envoy of God."

"The first thing happened ten years ago. The Ancient Dragon Dynasty and the Golden Dynasty signed a covenant in Rodel, and the unification war came to an end. His Majesty Malika exiled King Geoffrey and the Eastern Expeditionary Army in Galid, and returned to King The queen immediately summoned His Majesty Radakang as the new husband."

"His Majesty Radagon is a hero loyal to the Golden Tree. He should have responded to the Queen's summons immediately, but he has been in the Kalia Palace for several months. the red wolf."

"At the King's Conferment Ceremony, the dynasty planned to use the power of the whole country to build a big sword, corresponding to Her Majesty's stone hammer that contains the power of law, as a symbol of Her Majesty Ladagang's authority over the law. Unexpectedly, he insisted on refusing, In the end, we only agreed to slightly modify the moonlight greatsword bestowed by Queen Renara, and it will be used as a saber from now on, and it is still carried by my side all the time.”

Lucia was taken aback for a moment. He happened to know about this. Although Radagon himself betrayed Renara, his red wolf guarded the Queen of the Full Moon from beginning to end. You can still encounter it in the discussion room when you go to the Leah Academy of Magic.

And the golden law sword that was later lost in the hands of the lion hybrid was indeed transformed from the full moon sword that Renala gave to Radagon, and the sword still retains various traces of the past.

Before he could think through the meaning behind this incident, Epsilon continued: "The second incident happened seven years ago. His Majesty Radagon obtained the consent of His Majesty Malika, and the two used it at the same time. The mallet and sword, a piece of rune was stripped from Elden's ring, wrapped in star amber containing life, and presented to Queen Renara by His Majesty Radagon himself."

"Some people say that the law contained in that rune fragment is life and continuation. There are also rumors that His Majesty Radagon has also incorporated a part of his own soul into the star amber to accompany his former partner. Of course, the latter are only in the palace. Just a little random chatter, His Highness just listen to it."

"Is this the great rune of the birthless one?" Lucia thought in his heart, but his brows were slightly frowned. Connecting the two events before and after, an image of Radagon that was completely inconsistent with his cognition was immediately established. .

That man who is full of divinity and almost no trace of humanity seems to have a human side?
At this time, Epsilon said again: "The last thing is that in the past few years, His Majesty Ladagang has left the royal city many times and looked thousands of miles away from the edge of the cliff in the southwest of the Altan Plateau. He often He set off at dawn, returned with the stars and the moon, and always refused to be followed by all the palace guards. It was not until the past two or three years that the number of times he went gradually decreased."

It bowed slightly, and said: "My story is finished, I wonder if Your Highness has gained anything?"

Lucia leaned on her chin, and all the memories and information related to Radagon were flooding in her mind-that man was full of glorious and majestic divinity on the one hand, and on the other hand was full of flesh-and-blood humanity. His upholding of the fundamentalism of the Golden Law Has begun to go to extremes, but he never forgets the lover and children he betrayed by himself in the past, and is even willing to peel off the fragments of the ring as a gift
Lucia originally guessed that the conflict between the Queen and Radagon was actually a split between humanity and divinity, but now in just one Radagon, he once again saw the fusion of these two fiercely conflicting characteristics.

No matter how the future develops, at least the current Radagon is not a pure incarnation of the law, and there is still a bit of humanity shining in his body.

After pondering for a long time, he slowly opened his mouth and said: "The envoy wants to tell me that His Majesty Radagon still has deep concerns for the princes and princesses of Kalia - if I can successfully ease the conflict tomorrow, even he will Must owe me a favor that must be repaid, right?"

Epsilon chuckled, and said, "Since Your Highness has found the interests, then you can make a choice."

Lucia got up and bowed deeply, and said, "Thanks to the envoy for pointing me out."

After bidding farewell to Epsilon, Lucia returned to the Valyrian Palace, and immediately wrote a reply letter to Radagon, agreeing to attend the banquet the next day.

After writing the letter, he tapped on the table lightly, while stroking Shirley's soft fur with the other hand, thinking about various situations that might arise tomorrow—after the "deal" with Radagon is concluded, no matter when No matter what happens, as long as he can ensure that the banquet ends smoothly, he will truly have a firm foothold in the capital.

(End of this chapter)