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Chapter 692 - 213: The Golden Age! (In-depth analysis of game plot, strongly recommend skipping if subscribed)_2

Chapter 692: Chapter 213: The Golden Age! (In-depth analysis of game plot, strongly recommend skipping if subscribed)_2

All the races inhabited the borderlands, with a medley of faiths among them.

There were those who worshipped the stars in the sky, the spirits of the rivers, thunder and lightning, poisonous mists, and the immortal.

There was a variety of beliefs.

Of course, in that chaotic era, the concept of beauty and ugliness didn’t exist among the different races.

The Furnace Blessing treated every creature equally, regardless of whether they believed in it or not.

It granted them birth, growth, and death equally.

Therefore, during the "Era of the Furnace" in the borderlands, all species were collectively known as the Furnace Hundreds.

And among them, the original inhabitants of the Eternal City—the Demiurge People.

They were also part of the Furnace Hundreds.

They had dark silver skin and their features belonged to the Human Tribe.

The Demiurge revered the power of the stars; through studying the mysteries of the night sky, they gradually formed their own civilization and erected grand, massive structures.

They were the most intellectually evolved within the Furnace Hundreds, and their civilization was rapidly developing at this very moment.

Hence, after the ancient "Era of the Furnace,"

what followed was the "Era of the Stars," believed in by the Demiurge.

And just when everything was calm and peaceful,

a meteor from beyond the heavens, named "Elden," fell.

The Supreme Will, an Outer God, officially made its move, setting off a great transformation in the borderlands that hadn’t been seen for tens of thousands of years.

The Supreme Will sowed the Golden Tree in the borderlands and spread its "Golden Rule" everywhere.

Unlike the previous era of the Furnace, in which all things coexisted,

the arrival of the Golden Rule was filled with an aggressive exclusivity.

It interpreted ’those who believe in me shall live, those who oppose me shall die’ to the extreme.

This also sparked immense dissatisfaction among the races of the Furnace Hundreds.

The Demiurge Clan was the first to erupt in conflict with it.

But regrettably, the Golden Power developed too rapidly.

The Golden Rule had a self-circulating method of growth.

That is, the believers of the Golden Rule were born under the domain of the Golden Tree, grew with the Rune Blessing and returned to the tree upon death, with their strength going back into the Golden Tree.

They completed a cycle of self-circulation.

This method of only intake, with no escape, meant that with each additional believer, the Golden Rule’s power grew a little more.

The Demiurge, unable to stand against the Supreme Will directly,

secretly plotted a rebellion.

They crafted a weapon capable of hunting the Golden Power—the Fingertip-Hunting Knife.

Embedded in this weapon was the essence of the most potent strength of the Demiurge—Death Determined by Destiny.

The members of the Golden Family slain by this weapon would be severed from the Golden Tree’s cycle of self-circulation.

That is, still born under the Golden Tree → grew with the Rune Blessing → but upon death they would not return to the tree, instead they would die naturally, dissipating into the borderlands, becoming nutrients for the growth of the Furnace Hundreds → leading to their power being unrecoverable by the Golden Tree.

In this way, the expansion of the Golden Power could be eradicated from the root.

This was a weapon that even the Supreme Will feared.

To avoid the calamity that the power of ’Death Determined by Destiny’ could bring,

the Supreme Will summoned a meteor from outer space, hitting the Eternal City precisely, plunging all of the Demiurge Clan into the underworld, never to see the light of day again.

The Fingertip-Hunting Knife was thus sealed for eternity.

And the task entrusted to the Fading One by Lani was to enter the Eternal City and find this Fingertip-Hunting Knife.

"From this, we can see that Lani’s ambitions are quite grand; while other demigods are trying to seize power and reassemble the Elden Ring to unify the borderlands,"

"our Lani is solely focused on how to kill the projection of the Supreme Will in the borderlands and completely erase the Elden Ring from this world."

"After our Tui returns the Fingertip-Hunting Knife to Lani, she will give us an engagement ring, along with a dowry—a Dark Moon Greatsword."

"Indeed, this is a delicious form of dependency; with the ring, we can propose to our wife, a true engagement, and she actually becomes our official wife."

"However, I’d ask all you Fading Ones to dress as humanly as possible during the ring fitting cutscene," Yuan said with a smile before continuing her story.

"It’s not hard to find that, during the proposal scene with our wife, a puppet of Lani’s is sitting next to the corpse of the Two Fingers, which has already been slain by Lani with the Fingertip-Hunting Knife."

"As everyone knows, the Two Fingers have a very special existence in the borderlands; they are not enemies of the players, but neither are they allies. Its role is just being a mouthpiece for the Supreme Will. You could think of it as an antenna that receives signals."

"However, as the Supreme Will is an Outer God, its language is not understood by the life forms of the borderlands. So typically, such an antenna comes with a Translator Granny, who converts the message into something the inhabitants can understand, to spread the good news of the Supreme Will."

"But Lani alone possesses a Two Fingers, able to directly communicate with the Supreme Will."

"It’s evident that Lani holds an extraordinary status."

"But we will talk more about that later; first, let’s discuss how the Golden Tree solidified its power step by step to this day."

After summoning the meteor to seal the Demiurge of the Eternal City deep within the underground world,

the Supreme Will also realized that having to personally intervene every time was not sustainable.

As a mighty Outer God, with numerous tasks to attend to, getting directly involved in a mere borderland was beneath its divine status.

So, It directly appointed an outstanding individual among the highly intelligent Demiurge people—Eternal Queen Marika.