Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 74 Corruption
Temple of Gold, Cathedral of the Golden Tree.

As the golden church closest to the Golden Tree, it has the strongest law power in the entire junction, and all golden prayers can be greatly strengthened here.

At this moment, in a quiet room on the third floor of the cathedral, a huge and complex array of runes was engraved on the ground, and a total of twelve high-ranking priests sat cross-legged at each node of the array in a special arrangement. On top of that, pour all your divine power into the array.

The divine power flows along the trajectory of the mysterious runes, and finally gathers in the body of a young man in a pale golden robe in the center of the array. He stretches his arms forward, and strands of soft golden light fall like drizzle.

In the middle of the golden light rain lay a delicate girl, her pale complexion formed a strong contrast with her long rose-like hair, her delicate skin was covered with vine-like scarlet lines, and her golden prosthetic limbs Large areas of corrosion scars grew at the connection with the body.

Whenever light and rain entered her body, these lines and scars would temporarily recede, but would soon come back again.During the repeated tug-of-war, large swaths of cold sweat continued to drip from the girl's forehead, and her face became paler and paler.

This dangerous balance has been maintained for nearly two hours, until the divine power of the twelve surrounding priests is almost exhausted, and the scarlet corruption on the girl's body finally shows a bit of decline, and is gradually suppressed by the light rain to return to the original range.

When the rune array stopped functioning, more than half of the priests were close to collapse, and the young man in the center of the array was even more crumbling.

He trembled and leaned down, staring at the scars on the girl's body with his bloodshot eyes. After confirming that they did not start to spread again, the boy finally let out a long sigh of relief, then got up with difficulty and walked towards the girl. Go outside the quiet room.

As soon as the door opened, Lucia rushed forward anxiously, grabbed his arm and said, "Mikaela, how's the situation?"

"Temporarily suppressed, but only temporarily," he said in a low voice, "the divine power of the priests has almost been exhausted. If corruption breaks out again tonight, we will have nothing to do."

Lucia frowned, and turned her gaze to Aegis, who was standing in the distance, "Is there no news from His Majesty Radagon?"

Aegis shook his head with a gloomy expression, and said: "Reporting to Your Highness, according to the news reported by the knights 3 minutes ago, the whereabouts of His Majesty Radagon have not been found yet."

Lucia's face was gloomy, and she had already scolded Radagon countless times in her heart. This bastard had once abandoned his wife and son, and now that Marenia was in such a critical moment, he unexpectedly disappeared again inexplicably!
For a long time, only Mikaela's pure golden divine power can really suppress the scarlet corruption on Marenia's body. Now that his divine power has been exhausted, he can only use the rune array to gather the golden tree priests' The divine power is barely used to suppress corruption after being transformed and purified by itself.

However, the priests are exhausted now, Radagon is not present, and the purity of the other people's divine power is far from enough. If corruption breaks out again, they will no longer have any effective countermeasures.

Suddenly, Lucia's expression changed, and he said, "Can the divine power of the two-finger angels be used? Their divine power should be pure enough, right? Now we are all four gods, so we just need to invite the four gods here."

"It's useless, Lucia," Mikaela shook her head, "You have only been in contact with angels for a short time, and you still don't understand their characteristics. They are not the same as golden priests. They are an extremely special existence in essence. , whether it is the power contained in the body or the spells used are completely different from ours, Marenia's disease, even the Delta Angel who serves her can't do anything about it."

Lucia was startled when she heard the words, then grabbed her hair vigorously, and leaned against the wall dejectedly.

"No, there must be something wrong—Marenia successfully suppressed the scarlet corruption with flowing water swordsmanship in the end, but before that?

Michaela's pure golden law?He hasn't even learned the two principles of the fundamentalism of the golden law. How long is it before he creates his own law?

Why? Could it be that my appearance caused the butterfly effect, that I occupied the position of God and Man that belonged to Marenia, and made her my—sacrifice? "

Countless chaotic thoughts rushed through his mind. He looked at the girl with closed eyes through the half-closed door of the quiet room, and for the first time, his heart was filled with despair and self-doubt. What should he do if it caused Malenia's death?
The girl's silvery laughter seemed to be still echoing in Lucia's ears. When he closed his eyes for a while, he could see Marenia's sunny smiling face. However, in the next second, those beautiful memories suddenly appeared again. Broken, the only thing that filled the field of vision was a scarlet flower that bloomed bewitchingly.

"There is another way to try." When Lucia was thinking wildly, a faint voice suddenly sounded outside the door.

Mikaela and Lucia looked up at the same time, Lani did not know when she came to the church, her previous clothes may have been stained with blood when she took care of Lataen, now she changed into a light blue mage The half-wolf boy Blaze held the royal sword and followed her closely.

"Big Brother is taking care of Brother Lakade, so I'm going to come over and have a look," her tone was still so cold and calm, "You two should be helpless, why don't you listen to my solution?"

Lucia looked at the moonlight-cold girl in front of him with some confusion. Although she was no longer the image of the snow witch doll, he could still glimpse the shadow of the "witch" in her previous life from her words and behavior.

If it is her, maybe there is a way?
"Please speak." He took a deep breath and said.

"Why do you have to limit yourself to using gold prayers to suppress scarlet corruption?" As soon as she spoke, Mikaela and Lucia were shocked.

However, Lani didn't care about the reaction of the two of them at all, and just continued on her own: "The curse of one god always needs to be offset by the power of another god. If the golden prayer from the law is not effective, maybe you can try Try the ice and snow magic from the dark moon, or the ancient dragon prayer from the dragon god."

She looked at Mikaela and said: "Among the powers of the three of us, your golden prayer is the most peaceful and can be used as a base to seal scarlet corruption, while my snow magic can suppress the activity of the corruption curse to the greatest extent and avoid It spreads further."

"In addition," she turned her gaze to Lucia, "I need a power that is completely opposite to my snow magic to maintain the balance of the seal. The existing power of corruption is wiped out, do you understand?"

"Are you sure the ancient dragon's prayer can be used for this?" Lucia looked blank, "I can't cast a dragon thunder on Marenia, can I?"

At this moment, Rao Yilani couldn't help feeling a little annoyed with her cold heart, she scanned Lucia up and down, gritted her teeth and said, "I really can't see how a person like you can defeat Brother Rataen!" Of—as an ancient dragon with the most noble lineage in this world, don’t you know how to breathe fire?”

(End of this chapter)