Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 78 Cashing Out
After returning to the palace of Valyria, Lucia rallied and confessed a few things to Eggy Kiss, then fell on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

During this day and night, he first had a one-on-one battle with Lataen, and then tried his best to seal the scarlet corruption for Marenia. If he knew that he also destroyed the plan carefully planned by an ancient god for thousands of years last night , Lucia probably has to sigh that his efficiency is so full this day, and he has the demeanor of the speedrunning time in his previous life.

After a lot of tossing, he has almost reached the same overdraft state as Mikaela. Fortunately, his physique is much stronger than a certain golden son who is not good at fighting, and he has the blessing of swaddling to constantly repair his body. The state of the inside and outside, so after sleeping for a day and a night, it is almost recovered.

After waking up, not only was Lucia not exhausted, but he felt that the power of qi, blood and divine power in his body was running smoothly like never before. It must be said that the fierce battle with Lataen benefited him a lot—— Not only did he have a deeper understanding of Storm Swordsmanship, but the Dragon King's Body and the Claw of Destruction also gained new insights in the high-intensity duel, presumably the next breakthrough will be ushered in soon.

What's more, facing a powerful enemy of this level, he had to use his swordsmanship, combat skills, and prayers to the extreme, and invisibly perfected the jerky parts that existed in the connection of moves and skill switching during his usual practice. , even if he is not in a fighting state now, Lucia can feel that his control of various abilities has been raised to a whole new level.

"Your Highness, are you awake?" Aegis suddenly called softly from outside the door.

Lucia didn't bother to enter the memory battlefield to check the harvest, so she opened the door in a pajamas and said, "What's wrong?"

Seeing His Royal Highness's energetic appearance, Aegis relaxed a lot for a while, and said: "Just now, Viscount Xia Bolili, the interior director of the Eternal Palace, came to pay a visit at the order of His Majesty Radagon, knowing that His Highness entrusted me with Come here to send a message to see if His Highness can see him, and also said that if His Highness is inconvenient to see guests now, he can come back later."

"The head of internal affairs of the Eternal Palace - Xia Bolili?"

Lucia was slightly taken aback. It seemed that Radagon finally knew that he was back during his sleep. This move was obviously to fulfill the tacit political promise between the two.

On the other hand, the name Xia Bolili caused him a lot of vigilance. Although he has been researching the aristocratic genealogy of the royal capital through the information channel of the Ancient Dragon Temple in recent days, he has never discovered this man who was called the epileptic pathogen in later generations. At this time, he actually served as the head of internal affairs in the Eternal Palace.

It is completely different from the "interior officer" that Clareville previously served in Karen. The position of the internal affairs supervisor of the Eternal Palace is not only a regular official of the dynasty, but also a typical royal family official. Although the status is not high, but because he is directly in charge of the two His Majesty's daily life can be said to be extremely powerful.Even the powerful grand dukes in the outer court are absolutely unwilling to easily offend such an existence who can reach the heavens at any time.

"Your Highness, is there something wrong?" Aegis asked softly.

"It's nothing," Lucia nodded and said, "Please invite him to the living room, and I'll be there after I wash up."

"Yes."

Twenty minutes later, Lucia received Xia Bolili in the living room.

This was the first time he had seen the real face of this man. The person who came was a middle-aged male nobleman about 40 to [-] years old, dressed in elegant silk robes, with two delicate mustaches on his lips, and There was always a flattering smile that seemed to be nothing.

Seeing Lucia's figure from a distance, Xia Bolili immediately got up from the sofa to greet her, and bowed deeply before saying, "Xiapolili, the internal affairs director of the Lower Eternal Palace, pays my respects to His Royal Highness Lucia Sanks!"

Lucia stretched out her hand and said, "Viscount Chapolili, please stand up!"

Afterwards, he held the other person's hand and personally guided him to sit down, saying: "I was too tired yesterday, and I didn't know that the Viscount was visiting today, so I went to bed late and delayed your Excellency to wait here for a long time. It is really my fault."

Xia Bolili immediately showed a look of panic when he heard the words, as soon as his buttocks touched the sofa, he bounced up again and said, "I am the next servant, and I have just arrived here, how can I deserve such courtesy from His Highness?"

Having been an official in the Eternal Palace for many years, and not from a noble family, Xia Bolili naturally knew what kind of posture he should put on in front of who and when.

Previously, when Lucia first came to the capital, her foundation was not stable, and she had a vague identity as a "proton". The aristocrats resisted, so many people dare not take this young ancient dragon demigod seriously.

However, once yesterday was over, everything was very different.

The man in front of him first defeated the mighty Prince Rataen head-on, and kept the three His Majesties of Kalia according to the wishes of the two Majesties, and successfully sealed Marianne together with the other two gods overnight. The scarlet corruption on Princess Ya's body.

After the two major events are completed, not only the two majesties want to miss his favor, but also the many golden knights headed by the Ordopis knights also regard him as a hero who defends the dignity of Rodel—let alone Chapoli A court viscount who has no fiefdom and cannot be hereditary, even a duke would not dare to underestimate Lucia any more.

Between the host and the guest, Xia Boli found an opportunity to cut to the point of today's topic. He took out a palm-sized pure gold token from his close-fitting pocket, and pointed it at Lucia with both hands. Offer it up, and said: "This item was entrusted to me by His Majesty Ladagang, please take a look at it."

Lucia took a look and saw that the token was extremely exquisite in workmanship. It was engraved with patterns like golden tree vines around it, the pattern of Elden's ring was engraved on the front, and the ring and inverted triangle were engraved on the back. The golden holy seal of the law nestled together, its preciousness is evident from its appearance and symbolic meaning.

Before Lucia could ask a question, Xia Bolili continued to introduce: "Your Highness has only cast three tokens since the founding of the Golden Dynasty, and the other two are in the hands of His Highness Godwin and His Highness Michaela respectively. His Highness holds this The token is like the presence of His Majesty Radagon, who can freely mobilize any Golden Knight team of less than 300 people in the capital, and can also directly execute any noble below the earl in this dynasty, and there is no need to report to His Majesty afterwards. "

When Lucia heard about the authority to transfer troops, he didn't think it was a big deal. After all, any noble in the capital didn't have hundreds of private soldiers. Although the Golden Knight was powerful, he really didn't know them well. If something happened, he would call the Storm Knight and Ancient Dragon Knight.

However, when he heard the authority to execute nobles below the earl without reporting, his heart was shocked!
Of course, this does not mean that he can walk sideways in Rodel from now on to see who is upset and slash over with a knife, but since Radagon has shown this attitude, it directly means that Lucia will not for a long time to come. On the bright side, they were easily targeted by the nobles of the new party.

This result has far exceeded Lucia's boldest predictions. Although he has completed the tacit agreement with Ladagon, it is not possible for the other party to do this.

Lucia maintained her superficial composure, pondered over and over in her heart, and finally could only think that he was able to get this token probably due to the fact that he rescued Marenia last night—but that man was obviously in the most critical situation in Marenia. When she was missing, why did she show so much concern for her daughter now?
Seeing him fall into silence, Xia Bolili felt a little uneasy, and tentatively called, "Your Highness?"

"Oh." Lucia came back to her senses, and smiled apologetically, "I thought that His Majesty left the banquet yesterday because he felt unwell, so I don't know what's going on now?"

"Your Majesty, please worry. Your Majesty was just reunited with the three His Majesties of Kalia yesterday, and was unable to contain himself for a while. He went outside the city alone to relax, but unexpectedly missed the incident of His Majesty Marenia's illness."

Xia Bolili looked at Lucia's face, and said carefully: "Your Majesty also said that if His Highness hadn't helped him in time, his negligence would have caused a big mistake, so I asked me to convey his sincere thanks to you. , His Majesty will definitely satisfy with all his strength.”

These words could not be more clear, and Lucia can certainly hear the implication - the token and the new party's concessions are just ostensible thanks, and the favor owed to him by Ladagon is still valid, and he made the request at the critical moment , the other party will still honor what they say.

Regardless of the situation and reason, Ladagon's handling of this matter can be regarded as beyond reproach.

"Your Majesty is serious, Marenia has something to do, how can I just sit idly by?" Lucia looked at the token in her hand, and said with a sigh of relief: "However, I have already felt His Majesty's intentions, and I hope the Viscount will go back to replace her." I thank Your Majesty for your concern."

Xia Bolili quickly got up from his seat, bowed again with a flattering smile, and said, "I understand!"

Seeing that Lucia had no more orders, the court viscount bid farewell and left. Lucia got up and walked to the door of the living room, and Egg Kiss sent him out.

Watching Xia Bolili's back gradually receding, Lucia lightly stroked the golden token with the palm behind her, and said softly to herself: "If you are not a loyal dog of the Golden Law, how are you now?" Where have you come?"

(End of this chapter)