Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 299: Falling Star Becomes a Beast
The top floor of the Selia State Guesthouse has entered the highest level of lockdown.

The Seria Night Mages who were in charge of protecting the VIPs were even forbidden to approach the third floor. Starting from the seventh floor, Storm Knights, Kalia Royal Knights, and Holy Tree Temple Guard Knights filled every sentry post within sight.

Anasia, Fenley and Blaze led twenty of the most elite ancient dragon knights to guard the eighth floor, Rackard was in charge of the ninth floor, and Latan also rushed back from the Hall of Mystics temporarily, carrying a heavy sword to the dome of the tenth floor to eliminate the last possibility of external attack.

In the central room of the tenth floor, Marlenia was lying on the ground with a bitter face, her beautiful red hair spread out like seaweed. The pain in her body made her clench her fists involuntarily, and her fair face with her eyes closed was covered with fine sweat.

Michaela sat cross-legged in a corner directly opposite Malenia's head. He also closed his eyes. Strands of pure golden light spread from his outstretched hands into the air, condensing into unprecedented mysterious runes, and then gently fell on the surface of Malenia's body, silently imprinting it.

Judging from his pale complexion and tired expression, the pressure Michaela was under was no less than that of his sister. On the other side, Lucia and Lani sat symmetrically at the lower left and right corners of Malenia, also trying their best to weave ice magic and dragon breath prayers to construct the final seal.

A quarter of an hour, half an hour, an hour
Time passed by minute by minute, and everyone inside and outside the room stretched their spirits and attention to the limit, so much so that they had the illusion that every second passed like a year.

Finally, after exactly three hours, a beam of extremely pure golden light shot up into the sky, piercing straight through the dome and into the sky!
Everyone was stunned at first, then they breathed a sigh of relief, and then they couldn't help cheering - the seal against Malenia's corruption curse finally achieved final success!

This time, no corrupt sect dared to intervene from a practical level, and no Outer God launched a counterattack in the spiritual world. After Michaela, Lucia, and Lani completed three years of preparation, the Scarlet Corruption, which was known for its weirdness and unpredictability, could only choose to lie dormant temporarily.

"Is it healed already?" Marenia still wrinkled her face, holding her breath and whispering, "Just now I felt my shoulders and knees were burning badly. Will I find my arms and legs corroded when I open my eyes?"

"Open your eyes and take a look!" The shaky Michaela struggled to get over and tapped her sister on the head, saying unhappily.

Malenia opened her slightly trembling eyes, sat up, and looked down along the chest. Well, it blocked her view a bit, so she changed the direction and looked down. The scarlet lines and corruption scars that had been faintly visible before had now completely faded, and the skin that had begun to heat up and harden in the past two months had regained its softness and delicateness.

Most importantly, the curse power that had been accumulating strength in her body and constantly attacking the seal since the initial seal three years ago seemed to have suddenly lost its aggressiveness.

She could still sense the existence of that power. It was still as strong as ever, but it no longer conflicted with her golden bloodline. She could even vaguely sense the possibility of turning it to her own benefit.

Marennia stared at her own white left hand and the prosthetic hand made of pure gold, sensing the divine power flowing happily within her body like thawing spring water, and murmured to herself: "It turns out that scarlet corruption is not just a curse?"

"Power has only different uses, not good or evil—"

Lani came to her side, squatted down and gently combed her long hair with her hands. "Perhaps one day, when you truly control this power, the external god who cursed you will become a fake abandoned by the law of corruption."

Marennia raised her clear eyes blankly, looked at Lani, then at her brother, and finally fixed her gaze on Lucia. After a long while, as if she had made a great decision, she nodded very seriously.

"It seems that this journey has been quite rewarding," Michaela stood up with the help of Lucia, adjusting the almost dried-up divine power in her body, and said with emotion, "If I had stayed in the capital like I did when I was a child, I probably wouldn't have been able to comprehend the Pure Gold Law in another ten years, and there would have been no way I could have sealed the curse."

"Yeah, luckily it succeeded in the end." Lucia sighed with lingering fear, thinking that if it was delayed any longer, I would have to activate those backup plans.

For a moment, it was as if a huge rock that had been weighing on their hearts for years had been lifted, and the four gods in the room were in a good mood. Lucia came to the tall and bright French window and looked out at the Gothic buildings in the distance. Just as she was about to relax her tense mind, she suddenly received a rapid warning in her spiritual perception!
At the same time, Latan on the dome also changed his expression, and his pair of tiger eyes suddenly pierced towards the northwest sky!

A black and purple meteor streaked across the sky in an instant, smashing towards the ground with tremendous kinetic energy, breaking three towers before crashing down to the ground!

Everyone witnessed a "flower" made of mud and rubble exploding several kilometers away, and then saw a surging shock wave carrying countless purple arcs of electricity surging in a circle, countless glass doors and windows shattered into pieces, and finally heard a deafening explosion!

Latan stomped the ground hard, and his burly body swept into the sky like a meteor, shooting towards the direction where the meteorite fell.

Lucia subconsciously placed his hand on the hilt of the Sword of Night and Fire. He first quickly sensed the condition of Malenia and found that everything was normal. Then he suppressed the urge to rush over to find out what was going on. At the same time, he opened an extremely powerful dragon thunder barrier to protect the tenth floor.

Having just sealed the corruption curse, Michaela and Malenia were still very weak, and Lani's magic power had been consumed by more than half. He had to ensure the safety of this place first - as for the meteorite, just leave it to Latan.

The sudden meteorite woke up the entire magical town of Selia. Countless night wizards poured out from all kinds of buildings, prepared themselves as quickly as possible, and surrounded the crash site.

However, before they arrived, the crater was already filled with the roar of swords and rocks colliding!
Latan swung the two pitch-black heavy swords in his hands and slashed them in a cross shape, chopping off the Falling Star Beast that was over ten meters long. He did not pay too much attention to the opponent in front of him, but stared closely at an open space not far from the beast.

There were several corpses of magicians scattered there. Judging from their clothes, they were not the Night Wizards of Magic Town, but members of the Rhea Lukalia Wizard Exchange Group.

One corpse had its back pierced by magical energy and fell dead at the farthest place. The other three broken corpses surrounded a Kaleros wizard in the center, whose half body was blown to pieces.

Judging from the direction of the corpse and the injuries on the surface, a fierce magic battle had just broken out in the air less than fifteen seconds before he arrived. From the results, it was obvious that the Kaleros wizard had just recovered from the impact caused by the meteorite and attacked and killed one of his companions, and then fought with the other three companions, and finally died together.

At this time, the Falling Star Beast that was struck away rolled on the ground wailingly, stood up again shaking its broken horns, let out an angry roar at Latan, and rushed towards him at full speed!

A hint of impatience flashed across Latan's eyes when his thoughts were interrupted. He quickly sheathed the heavy sword in his left hand and raised the heavy sword in his right hand high above his head. As the vast magic power surged like a tide in his body, a clear sword sounded, and a piece of blazing blue light blade suddenly appeared on the tip of the blade!
The Falling Star Beast charged to a distance of twenty steps, and the light blade suddenly expanded with the second sound of the sword!
Ten steps away, the third sword sound rang out!

At this moment, the light blade has increased to ten meters in length, flashing with blazing and terrifying magical light all over!
The Falling Star Beast seemed to be frightened by the power emanating from the sword. It suddenly stopped its charge, uttered a whimper of weakness, and wanted to turn around and run away. However, Latan had already turned his wrist, and the great Kalia came down with a majestic momentum to destroy everything!
The violent magical energy tore through the air, making a short buzzing sound. The inertia of the Falling Star Beast's forward charge was instantly offset by an even more domineering force. Its thick front hooves only had time to scratch two half-meter-long marks on the ground before it stopped abruptly!

Then, a straight blue crack appeared between the eyebrows of the buffalo-shaped head, splitting the heavy body into two like a mirror, and evenly splitting and falling into the soil on both sides!
Latan frowned, brushed off the dust on his robe, put away the heavy sword in his right hand, and walked towards the corpses in the distance.

Unexpectedly, the poor mages around were already dead, but the mage Caleros in the center, who was besieged and had only half of his body left, gradually recovered a bit of life.

His remaining limbs flexed and stretched unconsciously, and dense black spikes grew from the broken joints. The broken torso was filled with disgusting crystallized flesh tentacles, and more and more colorful crystals began to appear on his body.
Latan recognized this situation. The last monster to undergo this kind of mutation was Yug, who was also from the Origin Faction.

(End of this chapter)