Elden: Ring of Calamity

Chapter 349 Betting
The power belonging to the Dragon King and the Dragon God - it may seem like a light guess, but Lance understands better than anyone how important this matter is to Lucia.

During the three years, the two maintained close communication, so she knew that Lucia had heard her mother's words when she awakened the dragon language magic, and was also pulled into a spiritual illusion by the dragon mother Guior when she was paying homage to the dragon tomb, and saw the eyes of Helarius across endless time and space.

Various signs, explicit or implicit, indicate that the Dragon God who disappeared at the end of the Forbidden War did not perish, but existed in an unknown place, and even continued to protect his only offspring.
But that was just speculation after all, and this time, facing the star of destruction caused by Esti's burning of the origin of God, the authority of the Dragon God that was actually invested in Lucia was almost a solid evidence.

His mother, the most powerful god in the borderland who had led the dragon race to the throne since the ancient times of ignorance and barbarism, was still alive.

His father, the Dragon King Platon Shanks, was rumored to be seriously injured and sleeping in the time and space storm, and might even be on the verge of death. At this moment, his condition is far from as weak as the world imagines.

That space-time domain covering an area of ​​ten thousand miles, combined with the Dragon God's means of controlling natural energy, instantly forced Lucia's condition to the limit of vast power, which was a power that belonged only to him.

Seeing the solemn and complicated expression on Lucia's face, Lance sighed softly, pulled his hand over and covered it with his warm palm, and said, "Before I came here, I encountered a desperate interception by three corrupt archbishops. Do you know about this?"

Lucia was startled when she heard this, and immediately woke up from her reverie. She tightened her hand suddenly, held Lance's hand and asked, "Are you hurt?"

Seeing his face turn pale in an instant, Lance was stunned for a moment. She said that this was not her intention, but she didn't expect that this guy would not only make such a fuss, but also subconsciously come forward and check her injuries with an anxious look on his face.

"Hey hey hey——"

The always dignified and immovable Ancient Dragon Priest shrunk back half an inch, but his hand was held by someone, so he could only retreat that far. He said hastily, "I'm sure I'm not injured. A few corrupt cultists are nothing. I just want to ask if you received the information!"

"Not yet," Lucia breathed a sigh of relief. "It's probably because Anna and the others are concerned about my injuries and haven't sent me the new intelligence they've gathered in the past few days. What's going on?"

As soon as he asked the question, he suddenly realized something. "Wait, before this war broke out, there were traces of corrupt elite cultists' activities in the city of Selia. We fought with Esti for so long, but no reinforcements appeared from Rodel, Kalia, the Far East, and the Beast Temple. Plus, the self-destructing war golems of the Blazing Sun Legion, was this all the work of the secret envoy?"

Seeing that his attention was finally diverted to the business, Lance's tense body relaxed a little and replied, "According to common sense, Esti's recovery should not come so quickly this time, and it is even more impossible for her to recover so strongly."

"The secret envoy started planning a hundred years ago, and deployed the two chess pieces, 'Dark Star' Cygnus and 'Glorious' Milea, step by step to guide the Twin Sages to split the Rhea Lukalia Academy, instigate the rebels within Selia, extend their tentacles into the Tomb of the Buried Gods to interfere with the revival of Esti, and even push Cygnus to ascend to the position of a false god, leading the tide of star beasts to attack our dynasty."

"If the war had followed the normal trajectory, the final result would be that the elite troops sent by my dynasty would have wiped out the false gods and the star beasts at the cost of almost annihilation, and I would have either been severely injured to the core by Cygnus, or forcibly burned the power of my origin to cut off my path forward—" Lucia continued to deduce.

"From now on, the Ancient Dragon Dynasty that does not abide by the Golden Order will completely lose the qualifications to compete for the world, and Kalia will be tied up by the rebellion launched by the Two Sages and Dujuan. The royal family, which is already in turmoil, is in danger of further decline. The Golden New Party can, in the name of clearing the remnants of the star beasts, mobilize the 70,000-strong Scorching Sun Legion, which is almost unscathed, to defeat Galid and truly hold this fertile land that has only nominally surrendered for the past ten years in its hands." He suddenly thought, in another time and space, if Latan had not suddenly displayed the peerless talent of the strongest demigod, transformed into the Shield of Ceria and sealed the stars with one force, would this Star Shattering War also fall into the finale in the deduction?

However, in this life, because of his existence, the secret agents' methods came faster and were more ruthless. Even the combined forces of the demigods were forced into a desperate situation at one point. In the end, he destroyed the stars by himself, and took away a lot of the glory that should have belonged to General Shattering Star.

Thinking of this, he smiled in his heart. Until today, the changes in the world have long surpassed the "script" that was set in the previous life. It is not just himself and Latan. In this turbulent and undercurrent world, the trajectory of every character has undergone earth-shaking changes.

In time, on another larger battlefield, "Star Shatter" Latarn may shine with a more brilliant light than the Sealed Stars.

"The power of the secret envoy is much greater than I thought," he dispelled those misty thoughts for the time being and analyzed calmly, "In the past three years, I have only heard of the name of this organization once or twice through individual channels. I didn't expect that they have existed much longer than the Golden Dynasty, even before Queen Marika was deified. What's more terrifying is that they not only have the power accumulated over hundreds of years in their hands, but they can also mobilize those evil god sects to use for their own purposes at this critical moment."

"Based on my understanding of the True Sect and the Corrupted Sect, it is impossible for them to surrender to the secret envoy," Lance said calmly, "but this battle is enough to prove that there is close cooperation between them that transcends faith. The reason why this unreasonable cooperation can exist must be because they are facing an enemy that makes each other extremely wary."

Lucia's eyes lit up, "Sister Lance, you mean--"

"This is the speculation I wanted to tell you," Lance smiled gently and stretched out his hand to ruffle his hair skillfully. "In this battle, they united to fight you in order to weaken the enemies on the higher-level battlefield in advance."

"But what they didn't expect was that it took you only three years to grow to such a difficult level, and that it took you only such a short time to gain the support of so many people."

She looked out the large French windows at the vast northwest skyline and whispered, "What I least expected was that she was willing to personally support you. After this battle, perhaps she paid the greatest price, right?"

Lucia's mind flashed through the "existences that have placed bets on you" that Carter Pella had mentioned before he left, and her mind finally fixed on the mysterious and contradictory figure at the top of the Eternal Palace.

Faced with the New Party's erosion of power and Radagon's relentless pressure, Marika chose to retreat again and again, but in front of the world-destroying star, she went against her own will and did not hesitate to defy the will of the Supreme Will to bring down the power of the law of life on herself. It was completely foreseeable what kind of counterattack and punishment she would face afterwards.

But at the same time, he also knew very clearly that the Queen of Death Caterpella might bet on him, but the target of the Eternal Queen Marika's bet this time was definitely not him, but the mortal who was blocked behind him.

(End of this chapter)