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Chapter 695 - 214: Princess Lani’s Grand Strategy! (In-depth analysis of game plot, strongly recommend skipping if subscribed)_1

Chapter 695: Chapter 214: Princess Lani’s Grand Strategy! (In-depth analysis of game plot, strongly recommend skipping if subscribed)_1

[Just a reminder, this Chapter may only be understood by readers who have played the game. For those who haven’t, just treat it as a story to listen to.]

The Golden Age was indeed the most glorious period of the Golden Rule in the Lands Between.

Nearly all races in the Lands Between were led by the Golden Family.

The spokesperson designated by the Supreme Will, the Marika clan, also gave birth to eight children with demigod bloodline, flourishing to an unprecedented extent.

The eight demigods are as follows.

Marika and the first Elden Lord, Gefrei, had three sons: "Golden King" Gedwin, "Omen" Menggete, and "Blood King" Monger

Marika transformed into Radagan and with Renara bore three children: "Broken Star" Ratan, "Fragment King" Lakade, and "Princess of the Moon" Lani

As well as Marika and Radagan’s two children born from self-conception: "Pure Gold" Mikaila and "Corrupt Goddess" Marlene

All eight children are direct descendants of Marika.

In short, their ’mother’ is all Marika.

Having inherited half of their mother’s God-man bloodline, they were thus called demigods by the residents of the Lands Between.

"There is a little detail here, I don’t know if you guys have noticed."

"Among them, the three children birthed by Marika and Gefrei all have the syllable ’Ge’ or its homophonic ’Ge’ in their names."

"And the three children she had with Renara all have the sound of ’La’ in their names."

"Although the names of the twins from self-conception are not as clear as the former two, their names also start with the ’M’ sound."

"Now, let’s take a look at our little waifu, Melina, who also has a name starting with the ’M’ sound."

"Could this imply that Melina is also one of Marika’s children and a product of self-conception? Otherwise, the top player could have just named her Elina, Anlina, Belina, or any other -lina. Why specifically Melina with an ’M’?"

"And if we judge by Melina’s title prefix ’Fire Seed Girl,’ if Melina is also one of the demigods, then she should be the youngest sister, the last to be born amongst the demigods. Hence, she truly deserves to be our little waifu."

"If Melina is also one of Marika’s children, then that would make Lani and Melina... how could they not be considered sisters? Designer Ke really understands our players’ XP, haha... *cough* *cough*." Yuan joked, then cleared his throat twice and continued with the story of the events that once took place in the Lands Between.

The story should have ended there.

If the Golden Power was handed down from generation to generation, and everything remained fine and dandy.

If the world was at peace, more or less submitting to the Golden Rule.

Then the story should have reached its conclusion there, and Tui would have nothing to do with it.

The fact that the Fading One, controlled by players, returned to the Lands Between and eventually ascended to the throne after a journey of trials and tribulations.

It indicates that before this, the seemingly harmonious Golden Age, a violent upheaval had occurred.

It’s also because of this, when the Fading One stepped into the Lands Between, the sight before them showed no signs of steadfast laws and a peaceful world; instead, it was a scene of desolation and ruin.

"Turning back the timeline, before our Fading One first entered the stage, two incidents ignited the transformation of the Lands Between into this state."

"Firstly, there was the Night of the Black Knives, where the golden eldest son Gedwen was assassinated, becoming the Initial Dead, and an infuriated mother Marika shattered the Elden Ring."

"The Elden Ring, dear friends, can be crudely viewed as a synergy of power and law of a dynasty; when the Ring is intact, it signifies the dynasty has its own set of operational rules and order."

"And when the Ring is shattered, it represents the breaking of order."

"Simply put, after her own son was assassinated, a furious Marika destroyed the current stable laws, which led to turmoil and unrest throughout the Lands Between."

"This is one turning point. The second one is the ’Shattering War’ ignited by various demigods in their efforts to repair the Ring after its destruction. As the name implies, it was a great war in the Lands Between caused by the demigods vying for power."

"All of this happened because of what the Supreme Will was after."

"I believe our friends encountered the term Supreme Will often in the game, whether from NPC dialogues or various item descriptions."

"So, what precisely was the Supreme Will pursuing?"

"From integrating parts of the documents, we can understand that the law the Supreme Will pursues is the perfect Golden Rule."

"A state where all is one, where the development of all things follows patterns, where no disaster is bred, and no variables arise in the law."

"It’s not hard to see from the self-cycling principle of the Golden Tree that all things are born, blessed, return to the tree after death, completing a closed cycle, and everything is under the control of the Golden Rule, which seems very orderly."

"As for what the Supreme Will gains from this order, whether it’s continuously absorbing power from the whole of the Lands Between or simply for amusement, we do not know, and we can set that aside for now."

"Just starting from the perspective of the perfect Golden Rule,"

"Both the manifold of the crucible and Death Determined by Destiny are variables that could greatly impact the implementation of the perfect laws and hence needed to be eliminated from the Lands Between."