Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 279 Devouring the Magician

The sound of rain outside the window became more urgent, and the sharp rain curtain slapped densely on the hull of the ship, making a low and hoarse buzz, as heavy as the topic raised by Adura.

"In December of the 33rd year of the Golden Calendar, High Priest Gulan Sanks was fighting a fierce battle with the Knights of Rodel in the Yatan area. I still remember it clearly to this day - on December , the Elder of Kaironissa and the Eastern Expedition The legion signed a ceasefire agreement, and Godfrey agreed that Fam Azra's army would be stationed in seventeen southern towns except Stonewell to coordinate with the Golden Dynasty's army to pacify the refugees."

"At that time, everyone thought that the savior had arrived. Compared to the Eastern Expeditionary Army, which regarded burning, killing, and looting as a daily routine, the reinforcements from the Ancient Dragon Dynasty were undoubtedly the real people of the Storm People. Wherever the reinforcements arrived, almost every town They all greeted them with the most enthusiastic and eager attitude. On the day when Caeronissa led his guards to enter Morne City, the city lord, Duke Stanley, was seriously injured on the battlefield, but he still dragged his injured body out of the city. Welcome from ten miles away.”

"Keronissa received him, but the meeting place was arranged at the Eastern Expedition Army station northwest of Morn City. I heard that during the dinner, Kaironissa arranged the seat of the Eastern Expedition Army officer next to him. Before his own appointment, he was still in front of Marquis Stanley."

"No one knows what they talked about next," Adura said softly. "We only know that in the evening, the seventy-year-old Duke Stanlis left the banquet angrily. After returning to the city, he immediately ordered the city gates to be closed and everyone was cut off. All communications with the Caeronissa army, and the Duke himself fell ill that night, and died of his injuries within ten months. "

The face of Lucia is as deep as water. Since the founding of Morn City three hundred years ago, this second largest city in the South after Stonewell has been the core hub of the Storm Dynasty's control of the Weeping Peninsula, and the former Stanlis family Sitting on the hereditary position of Duke of Morn, he is also the most powerful noble family in the south besides the Storm Royal Family.

After the Eastern Expedition destroyed the Storm Dynasty, although Morn City nominally surrendered to the Golden Dynasty, even War King Godfrey could not defeat the will of the Morn people. Perhaps out of respect for the powerful enemy, or perhaps out of fear of the remaining legacy of the Stanlis family, the Eastern Expedition Corps never entered Morne City, and Godfrey personally promised Morne's autonomy.

If the senator of Caeronissa believes that the overall situation in the south has been decided, and does not want to ignite the Morn people's revenge and start another war because of his arrival, it is understandable that he refuses to get too close to Duke Stanlis, then his treatment of the East How can you explain that a mere general of the expeditionary army was treated with more courtesy than Duke Stanlis?

"After the Duke's death, the newly succeeded Duke Lanny Stanlis raised troops to attack the Eastern Expedition in the name of his father's humiliation. Caeronissa strictly ordered his troops to stay where they were and never participate in the war."

"Of course, the Storm Dynasty is dead, and the Stanley family, which was already severely weakened, will not be the opponent of the Eastern Expedition Army. In just three months, the 40,000 Morn army was completely wiped out, and the Stanley family was almost The whole family was killed in the battle, and only the only son of Duke Lanni, Norton Stanley, survived. "

"Godfrey pardoned the Stanley family for their crimes of rebellion. He personally met with Norton, allowed him to continue to retain the family title and name, but was not included in the official noble pedigree of the Golden Dynasty, and publicly claimed that he and his Descendants can accept the revenge and challenge of Stanley's descendants at any time - if he loses one day, Morne City will be independent from the Golden Dynasty."

"The reason why I know this is because I was taking shelter in Morn's army at that time," Adulla showed a bitter and sad smile, "The funny thing is, before this, I thought that the Storm Dynasty was defeated by Gold The dynasty is just unlucky, and the Supreme Will has chosen its representative. But after seeing Caeronissa and what Godfrey did, I no longer think so. We really lost. , completely lost, with nothing.”

"After the Morn War, the Eastern Expedition Corps completely took control of the southern border. The Caeronissa Corps, which was nominally 'pacifying the refugees', was like a clay wood sculpture, fully completing everything the Golden Dynasty expected them to accomplish, that is, doing nothing. "Do it." "The lower-level soldiers of the Eastern Expedition were burning and killing in Nimgefu, the upper-level officers were busy plundering wealth and population, and the top-level adults were plotting to carve up this vast and fertile land for their respective families. Down here, dragons like me are facing encirclement and suppression from countless forces from all directions."

"They want our dragon scales, dragon blood, dragon bones, dragon horns, and the most powerful dragon heart. Half of the dragons died because of unrealistic expectations of Kailonisa, and the other half died because they had no way to escape. In the Sea of ​​Storms, on the way to Fam Azra, the only monster left is me."

"If someone wants to kill me, I will kill them. If someone wants to eat me, I will eat more people -" Her delicate face twitched slightly, revealing an expression that was either sarcastic or relieved, "Some people treat me as such." As a monster, I will become the most feared nightmare in everyone's mouth, ears, hearts, and dreams."

"Just struggling all the way, I ran from Nimgofu to Galid. During this period, I relied on killing and devouring to gradually grow to a level that I could not imagine before. With the help of those powerful senior mages, I could not see through the transformation. In this way, I successfully penetrated into the chaotic zone between the many city-states in Galeed and established my own mage tower as a human magician. Later, until the Eastern Expedition Legion was exiled by the Eternal Queen in Galeed, those who once hunted down me. Only when our power loses its greatest military support can things truly become stable.”

"You probably know what happened next, Your Highness," Yadula sighed. "I have still done a lot of devouring human magicians over the years. They have spread the name of 'Devouring Magicians' from word of mouth. No., but they have never been able to find out my real details. If the life amber rewarded by the top four in this magic conference was not so important to my subsequent development, I would not take the risk of coming to this place. "

"I have to admit that because of Kailonisa back then, I initially lacked trust in you, Fam Azra, and the entire Gulong Dynasty." She glanced at Lucia across the coffee table and thought for a long time.

"The original agreement was just to ask you to take me back to Galede. However, these days I have followed you and listened to other guards talking about your deeds more than once, and I have been able to witness with my own eyes what kind of monarch you are. As a result, I gradually developed some presumptuous thoughts.”

"After the Battle of Nagarjuna, if there is anyone in the world who can restore the Dragon Clan to its former dignity and glory, perhaps His Highness is the only one—" She lowered her eyelids slightly.

"Actually, I don't have such lofty ambitions, and I can't talk about the great cause of reviving the dragon clan. I just want to live under the sun as Adura, the pyroxene dragon, like I did when I was a child."

"I have witnessed countless scarred fellow race members flying into the Sea of ​​Storms with exhausted wings. They fell exhausted into the sea before even having time to see the outline of the city in the sky, and became food for fish and shrimps. But today, with you, ——In front of the ancient dragon quasi-king who has the name of Lucia Sanks, I finally realized that Sky City has never been so close to me. "

She knelt down on one knee, and when she raised her eyes again, her eyes were filled with tears, "Therefore, please allow me to follow you, Your Highness."

(End of this chapter)