Montgomery ultimately decided to take the hit.
With his extensive experience, he sensed that Lu Ye's tears of worship contained the power of a predetermined death, as well as a strange and powerful malevolence.
When you must make a decisive move... you should avoid the blade's edge and strike directly at the target!
In just a moment, Mongot not only knew the Mortal Blade's killing intent, but also figured out a way to counter it.
Seeing Lu Ye coming towards him, he raised his sword horizontally and charged forward. Just as the light of the Mortal Blade was about to approach, he leaped up and swung his golden hammer as if to smash the ground.
Melina on the other side was equally decisive. While the small golden tree blocked the rain of swords, she leaped up, her golden dagger gleaming, and then unleashed a blade of light towards Mongot, striking him in the side of his abdomen while he was in mid-air.
In a burst of golden light, Mongot felt a pain in his abdomen, and then he felt some warm liquid fly out of his body and splash onto the ground.
Suddenly, Mongot roared, "How dare you allow your tainted blood to defile this sacred throne?!"
He dodged the Mortal Blade's fierce strike and landed swiftly. The moment the heavy hammer hit the ground, he didn't touch the ground. Instead, he used the golden hammer as a fulcrum, and his tall body circled behind Lu Ye. At the same time, the cursed sword in his hand slashed towards Lu Ye's neck.
At that moment, one of the swords that had been blocking the golden rain of swords above Lu Ye suddenly broke away, unleashing a swift blue blade. In just over ten seconds, the crisp sound of swords clashing rang out several times, sparks colliding in the air before cooling and disappearing.
Lu Ye stopped in his tracks, turned around and drew his greatsword to hunt the gods. Although he was quite a distance from Mengget, he still made a high-angle slash, and black and white divine flames began to spread across the blade of the greatsword.
Montgomery sensed something was wrong.
If it were just the Greatsword for Hunting Gods, it would be fine, but the man in front of us carries the curse of certain death. In other words, the Greatsword for Hunting Gods in his hand is no different from the one that Queen Twilight once wielded.
At that moment, Melina unleashed another beam of light, striking Mongot.
Melina knew perfectly well that since Mongot intended to use the Rain of Swords as a restriction, then she would do as he wished, and all she needed to do was help Lu Ye here.
Furthermore, Mongot himself was being held back by Luye and had no time to deal with him.
Mongot's blood continued to flow. This time, Melina's aura struck his wrist, severing his tendons.
The power from the golden tree made Mongot's eyes bloodshot.
The power of the Golden Law!
The gift of the golden tree!
Why...why do you all want to destroy all of this?!
Whether you're a demigod or a faded being... you're all traitors!!
Faced with Lu Ye's extremely powerful slashing stance, Menggete no longer held back, directly increasing the density and power of the golden sword rain to the extreme he could achieve. The density of the sword rain was so great that there was not even enough space for a small child to stand.
This time, Melina also found it difficult to use underhanded tactics, because the speed and density of the sword rain had increased, and directly slashing out of the light circle would be blocked by the sword rain.
With no worries about the rear, Menggete suddenly sprang into action, hurling the strange cursed sword in his hand at Lu Ye, creating a piercing whistling sound. He then charged forward, attempting to seize the moment when the cursed sword interfered with Lu Ye's movements and smash him to pieces!
The weapons surrounding Lu Ye were no longer of any help to him, as simply positioning themselves above him to block the golden swords was already a struggle.
But just as he was about to arrive with the divine power of the golden hammer, Lu Ye's figure disappeared.
Montgomery's pupils suddenly contracted.
Recalling the moment of their first encounter, he suddenly raised the golden hammer and swung it behind him.
But he suddenly found that he couldn't turn his body.
The golden tree that had once enveloped Melina was gone; a small golden tree had grown at Mongot's feet, its lush branches wrapping around his waist and below.
The clash of swords formed a dense web, and the ink-black of Bai Lei's breath did not blend with the golden sky. A bright silver-white shone through the black miasma, beautiful yet deadly.
—Ashina Style: Waterfowl in Disarray!
Combining the agility of flying through swirling clouds, a signature technique of the Ashina school, with the powerful strikes of Valkyrie Marlene, this is Lu Ye's unique "Water Bird Dance".
The malevolent aura of the tears, the predetermined death, coupled with the effect of bleeding.
The rain of swords vanished, leaving Mongot's blood splattered across the ground as he lay dying before the throne.
Lu Ye was not surprised by Melina's disappearance.
During their journey across the border, he and A-Tui had already figured out Melina's "operating mechanism".
Melina is a spirit, without a physical body, but she can materialize. Actions such as attacking or touching objects require materialization because the energy required to communicate with the outside world in her spirit state is too great, so materialization is used to reduce energy consumption.
Just now, Melina first materialized herself into spirit form, and then in this state, she launched an unknown prayer, manipulating the little golden tree to entangle Mongot, giving him no chance to resist.
“You… are utterly foolish…” Mongot said weakly.
He fell to the ground, his tattered cloak opening to reveal his body beneath the robe.
It was a withered body. Although as a demigod, Mongot had a large skeleton, he had very little flesh. It was almost a layer of dried skin covering his bones. He was thin and bony, with each rib protruding clearly visible, while his abdomen was completely sunken.
This appearance is hardly that of a demigod.
Logically speaking, when Mongot crawled out of the dungeon, concealed his identity, and led the army of the royal city of Rodel as the "Blessed King" to repel the demigod alliance and defend the royal city, he should have lived in such poor conditions as a person who made great contributions.
Lu Ye had only ever seen this kind of town in documentaries when he watched films about impoverished African countries. Compared to that, those African children were considered better off; at least their bellies were still bulging despite their malnutrition and stunted limbs.
"How could this be?"
Seemingly sensing the pity and doubt in Lu Ye's eyes, Mengget smiled self-deprecatingly, his eyes brightening slightly, as if in a final burst of energy before death.
"When you were in the royal city, did you see any residents walking around?" Mongot murmured. "The blessing has been getting weaker and weaker ever since then. After the War of Shattering... the borderlands were even more devastated. The royal city's resources were distributed to the perfumers, who were responsible for taking care of those who 'withered' because they lost their blessing... The Golden Tree... it collapsed a long time ago, from the moment Mother smashed the Ring of Light... no, perhaps even earlier...
“The truth that my mother told me… I had sensed it a long time ago.” Montgomery’s eyes seemed to drift to the past. “Back then, my brother Godwin would often come to the dungeon to see us and tell me about what was happening in the capital… He often complained to me that my mother didn’t pay much attention to him, even though he tried his best in everything… At that time, I comforted him, saying that my mother was too busy with official business to pay attention to him.”
"Later I heard that my father was expelled from the border region, and my mother married her second husband, the red-haired warrior Radagan... I know him, but I don't know why he married my mother, nor do I know why my mother banished my father and the Faded Ones..."
"Soon after, Michaela and Marlene arrived... By then, Godwin had become the face of the Golden Clan, and he gradually came less often. The two siblings were still young, and perhaps they heard from their older brother that there were two half-brothers, Munger and me, that Michaela and Marlene found us... After a long conversation, the two siblings also complained to me that their mother didn't care much about them."
“That’s when I started to find it strange,” Montgomery said. “I didn’t know what the relationship between my mother and father was like… At first I thought my mother didn’t love my father, but after she banished him and married her second husband, she was still indifferent to the children she had…”
I felt something was off then... until after the Battle of the Royal City, I began to wonder why my mother had become the vessel for the Elden Ring... So I broke the rules I had set for myself and entered my mother's boudoir...
In that sea of books, through my mother's notes, I found the answer and understood why my powerful older brother, Godwin, had died...
She never loved anyone from the beginning. She became queen simply because she believed that the supreme will could bring eternal prosperity to the borderlands... and Radagan was merely an alter ego of hers.
I later found the stonemason who built the statue of the Queen in the royal city and verified this secret... Using the principle of regression, the Queen's statue would become the King's statue, implying that the two were actually the same person...
I have great respect for this kind of mother, and I respect her choices.
Chapter 692 The First King of Elden - Gophery
"If that's the case, why are you still stopping us?"
“Can you really guarantee… that this world won’t get worse in the future?” Mongot stared intently at Lu Ye. “Absolute freedom means absolute chaos. New Outer Gods will come to this land, and no one can predict what will happen next. If Mother doesn’t shatter the Law Ring, even with flaws in the law, all living beings can thrive while they are alive, bringing prosperity to the borderlands.”
“How will we know if we don’t do it?” Lu Ye said. “Instead of dying a slow death, we should find a way out. The Allied Forces are not just an army of demigods. The world has suffered under the Golden Law for too long. Not everyone wants to be the nourishment for the tree.”
Lu Ye raised his knife, ready to end Mengert's life.
Under the influence of the power of Destiny of Death, Mongot was already on his last legs, and such a respectable opponent should not be allowed to drown in the agony of Mortal Blade.
The blade fell, and life ended.
Without lingering, Lu Ye immediately headed towards the staircase behind the throne that led to the interior of the Golden Tree.
At that very moment, a warning of death suddenly flashed through Lu Ye's mind.
At the same time, Icarus issued a warning.
Lu Ye immediately took a step back, using the long sword in his hand to propel himself forward.
Where he had been moving forward, the giant shadow crashed to the ground.
Long, white, coiled hair; a majestic and imposing physique; bulging muscles; extraordinary silver armor; and that iconic white lion perched on his shoulder…
The first King of Elden... Gofulei blocked Luye's path.
…………
Meanwhile, inside the Golden Tree.
Ah Tui successfully arrived here.
So much time has passed, and finally someone has stepped into the interior of the Golden Tree again to pay homage to the Elden Ring.
Unlike its glamorous and magnificent exterior, the interior of the Golden Tree is not beautiful. It consists of only a circular stone space with a limited amount of light that allows one to see the surrounding environment.
Not far ahead, A-Tui saw a stone platform resembling a forging stand, on which sat an ancient and mysterious hammer.
Light shards fell from the top of the stone platform. A-Mei looked up and saw the legendary Elden Ring... or rather, the body of the Eternal Queen Marika... the two are actually not much different.
Marika stood at the center of the circle, dressed in a black queenly gown, yet she received none of the treatment befitting a queen. She was suspended high, her head bowed, her once-golden hair now dull and lifeless. Her slender arms were bound to golden runes resembling curved runes, a crimson spear piercing her abdomen, and the left side of her body was mangled, making her appear like a punished sinner, or perhaps Jesus nailed to a cross.
A-Tui swallowed hard and took a cautious step forward.
When Marika was pierced by the supreme will, Radagan of the royal city also disappeared. Later, Marika told Ame that this was because her physical body, as the main body, died, and the clone that split off from this main body then invaded the body to ensure that Marika would not use any secret techniques to repair her body, truly demonstrating what it means to "not let you go even after death".
Marika's telling A-Tui about this also reveals a piece of information.
That is, the Marika in front of us is not only Marika, she can also be Radagan.
No one knows whether the second King of Elden will suddenly wake up.
Using his black sword armor, A-Mei approached Marika's body without making a sound.
Although Marika was suspended in mid-air, how could this stump the resourceful woman?
A-Tui took out the rope, and then took out the small wooden bow he had bought from the wandering merchant and the arrows made from the bones left over from slaughtering sheep to make soup.
She inserted the arrow into the rope, then wrapped a thin, dark veil around it and tied a knot.
This piece of gauze was something that fell off them when they fought the Black Blades in Dianyi Town. A-Tui figured that since it was part of the Black Blade Armor, it would at least have some effect.
After preparing, she nocked an arrow and fired it at the "Runic Curve" on which Marika was hanging.
Click!
A crisp sound rang out, and the arrow pierced through smoothly.
A-Tui breathed a sigh of relief.
Good, such a quiet sound, it seems it didn't wake Radagan.
Whew, everything is going according to my plan!
A-Tui grabbed the dangling rope and successfully climbed to Marika's "corpse".
She took out the stone slab and, as Queen Marika had instructed, placed it on the broken left side of the corpse.
Just then, something unexpected happened.
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