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Chapter 697 - 214: Princess Lani’s Grand Strategy! (In-depth analysis of game plot, strongly recommend skipping if subscribed)_3

Chapter 697: Chapter 214: Princess Lani’s Grand Strategy! (In-depth analysis of game plot, strongly recommend skipping if subscribed)_3

For example, children, not knowing any better, play Death Determined by Destiny to the point where they play themselves to death.

If it were an ordinary person, there might really be no saving them.

But after a demigod receives the "Initial Dead" buff,

even if both body and soul have died,

they can use some tricks to come back to life, to rise again later (for details refer to Fia’s ending).

Sometimes, stacking too many buffs can actually cause problems.

Deng carefully stacked buffs on his chosen successor like crazy, just to be safe.

But it was this very BUFF that Lani seized upon as leverage.

"Initial Dead," no matter how many demigods there are, can only be effective once.

And the requirement is that the individual can be resurrected once if both body and soul have died.

So what if I separate bodily death from soul death, wouldn’t that solve everything?

Let one demigod experience bodily death, and another soul death.

This way, the CPU of the Golden Tree would be completely burnt out.

Is the demigod dead?

As if dead.

But is he really dead?

As if dead!

Look, you required a double death of body and soul.

And now, there is indeed a double death of body and soul.

But I never said it had to be the same person.

If I, Lani, serve up my bodily death + Gedwin’s soul death for you, how would your Golden Rule respond?

Then the Golden Rule ran a check.

Detected that Prince Gedwin has died.

Further scanning, there indeed exists a demigod in the Interjunction with both body and soul dead.

Let the prayers begin.

Great and loyal Emperor Gedwin, may you rest in peace, may the glory of the Supreme Will shine upon you, please return to the tree to be reborn!

→→ Detected that the body is still healthy, does not meet the definition of death, unable to execute return-to-tree command.

→→ For a healthy body, blessings will continue to be given until death occurs.

→→ Detected a demigod with both body and soul dead in the Interjunction, and further detected that Gedwin’s soul located beneath the roots is dead, determined as dead, please return to the tree!

→→ Detected that the body is still healthy, unable to return to tree...

It’s simply a bug.

The Golden Rule had never seen such a scene before.

So, it started praying frantically, nonstop.

The dead prince’s body began to proliferate indefinitely.

And as for Lani, she had long since transferred her soul into her teacher, the Snow Witch’s, replicated doll, and slipped back up to her own Calia royal tower to hide, quietly waiting for the Fading One who could do great things for her to visit.

"Thus, the first turning point of the Elden Ring’s breaking, ’Black Blade Night Murder of the King,’ was accomplished by our great wife Lani."

"According to the game’s item texts, to ensure the success of the plan, Lani first killed her physical body. So, no matter which demigod is the target of the assassination next, according to the protection from the buff ’Initial Dead,’ that demigod can only have their soul killed when assassinated."

"However, Lani had already chosen her target long ago for the soul murder, and that was Gedwin, who was about to inherit the throne."

"At this point, Lani’s plan was already halfway complete."

"With the first choice for the throne now dead, she, as the God-man ordained by the Supreme Will, had a legitimate claim to the throne through the succession laws."

"Moreover, by this time in the plan, Marika, upon seeing the tragic death of her eldest son, Gedwin, completely broke down and, in a fit of rage, shattered the Magic Ring."

"The Golden Rule was broken, and the Supreme Will could no longer appoint a new God-man."

"Next, Lani only needed to complete two more tasks to truly take control of the Interjunction Land."

"First, hunt down the Twinfinger sent by the Supreme Will to supervise her."

"Second, kill the Shadow Beast sent by the Supreme Will—Blazer."

"This is also why, before giving us our tasks, our big wife already told us that her rule ultimately betrays everyone."

"This also proves that our big wife had already done her calculations before she even started. She knew precisely what to do next—stick to the two-month stars principle of the Interjunction Land and firmly follow the path of interstellar development. This, at glance, is the foundation of a born leader."

"But if you ask me why the story of the Elden Ring is so captivating after being consolidated —"

"It’s precisely because Lani isn’t the only ruthless person in the Interjunction Land. Their mutual battles of wits and bravery are what made the entire Magic Ring’s story feel like such an epic power struggle. Otherwise, if Lani had been the only smart cookie and everyone else had been dullards, we Fading Ones wouldn’t have had anything to do."

"Now let’s get back to that Supreme Will called Deng."

"This Deng had actually prepared very thoroughly behind the scenes, it just seems that his fate was doomed to failure from the very beginning."

"Didn’t we say at the beginning, Deng set Gedwin as the heir apparent, the most likely to succeed, and then appointed Lani as a God-man, just in case?"

"Then, the heir apparent gets killed, ending up in a neither human nor ghostly state; Lani also turns rebel, and after committing suicide, her soul hides all over the world, so hoping for her to take over is definitely out of the question."

"Let’s not talk about whether Deng could suppress Lani for now; that’s a topic for later."

"If you friends were in Supreme Will Deng’s shoes, what do you think would be the most urgent matter at hand right now?"

"Of course, it’s to establish a new heir!" Yuan slapped the back of his hand and then added.

"We usually tease people by saying, ’What’s the hurry, does your family have a throne to inherit?’ But Deng’s family really does have a throne to inherit, so we may not be in a hurry, but we must make him feel pressed."

"The G family and the L family had already been screened by him once before."

"So now the last hope falls on his own M family."

"This Holy Tree Stage can be considered the Supreme Will’s last move."

"Moreover, when it comes to true pure-blood lineage—"

"The Calia royal family, the first generation ring King, all stand aside."

"The purest Golden Bloodline is to be found in the offspring of a God-man’s self-conception!"

"Anyone with a little knowledge of genetics knows that a child is born with 50% of the father’s genes and 50% of the mother’s genes. If only the mother’s genes are the royal orthodox, then the child can inherit at most 50% of the royal bloodline."

"But if the mother can conceive on her own, then the child born will perfectly inherit 100% of the mother’s divine bloodline."

"This refers to the combined entity of Marika and Gonne—Mikaila and Malenia."

"Deng had the script written from the start."

"He ordained Valkyrie Malenia to become the future God-man, and then for Mikaila to marry his own sister, becoming the third generation ring King."

"Let’s not discuss whether the offspring of such orthopedics would be deformed; after all, we mortals should not meddle in the affairs of gods, we simply look at the bloodline."

"Two siblings, each inheriting 100% of the divine lineage, and the offspring born from their union...my brothers, I dare not even imagine how pure this bloodline must be..."

"Suppression Gold Tincture, identified as—pure Golden Bloodline."

"But unfortunately, how else can one say Deng is unlucky? Anointing a Demiurge queen and living in disguise!"

"Appointing heir Gedwin, then Gedwin ends up dead; conferring God-man upon Lani, then Lani rebels."

"Placing hope on these two pure progeny of Marika, and yet, damn it, something went wrong again!"