The Creators: From Night City

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The request of 'Sir Hundred Wisdom' was ruthlessly rejected. Klara had the authority to decide on the diplomatic requests of the ancient dragons, and there was no need to bother 'Lord of Eternal Flame'.

After all, Jiang Bing is extremely busy right now.

What is he busy with?

Busy sorting out the harvest, busy cleaning up the mess, busy expanding the gains, busy helping Marlene, the little tadpole, find her brother.

Passing through the Golden Tree Corner, Marlenia, whose red hair was now half-dyed gold, followed the silent 'Black King's Guard' deep into the royal city, arriving at a magnificent hall beneath the Golden Tree.

The hall was clearly recently built, standing out starkly against the backdrop of the surrounding ruins.

The building's austere silhouette, simple decorative style, abundant use of metal materials, and unusual architectural layout make it stand out from the surrounding area.

Despite having already been in contact with Jiang Bing and had her enchantment removed beforehand, Marlenia still felt that this all-powerful 'deity' was a bit too down-to-earth.

A furnace was burning with golden flames, and Jiang Bing, who did not appear particularly sacred or sublime, was pounding his creation beside the furnace.

The vintage leather apron, bare-chested, and simple stone hammer he received from Marika made his image appear overly plain, even somewhat ordinary.

However, the dazzling creations in his hands silently demonstrate his extraordinary nature.

It was a sword, a strangely shaped golden longsword.

This longsword, resembling gold and glass, has two curved arcs, making its shape look extremely strange. Such a deformed shape is completely unsuitable for combat.

It is indeed not a weapon used for fighting.

This is a ceremonial sword, a 'compass' made from a fragment of the Elden Ring—the divine body of Queen Marika—that served as the vessel for the Elden Ring.

As the 'container' of the Elden Ring, although Queen Marika's soul has perished, her divine body still has an inseparable primordial connection with the broken ring.

Using this link, the location of other fragments of the magic ring can be easily found.

Although the severely wounded 'Blessed King' Mongot died in the aftermath of the battle between Jiang Bing and the Beast of Elden, his body was not lost; instead, it was found by Jiang Bing.

But after burning the body of this 'Child of Omens', Jiang Bing only obtained a large number of creation blueprints of the 'Hundred Forms of the Furnace' and knowledge of the Golden Law, but did not obtain the specific whereabouts of the 'Blood King' Mongo.

It must be said that this son of an ominous sign, who grew up in the sewers of the royal city, is just as good at hiding as a rat in the sewers, forcing Jiang Bing to resort to some technological means.

Chapter 898 The Cocoon of the God's Slumber

Where there is light, there is darkness.

The border region also possesses a vast underground world, where many stories from the previous era and forgotten ancient people are buried.

But Jiang Bing was too lazy to deal with them.

He came to find someone, not to investigate local customs and traditions.

Guided by the divine ritual sword, he and Marlene traveled from the Altan Plateau to Galid, skirting the edge of the Red Lion City and entering this dark underground space through an above-ground entrance to an underground river.

After several 'friendly exchanges' with swarms of ants the size of a person, toads covered in cursed pustules, millipedes over ten meters long, and swarms of bony beetles with ghostly faces, they finally found their destination—the Blood Dynasty.

With just one glance, Finley and Marlenia were certain that this was indeed the Blood Dynasty.

The underground space here is surprisingly spacious. Although there is no sun overhead, a large amount of luminous moss provides illumination.

Although visibility was not as good as on the ground, the trio were all capable of seeing in the dark, so the dimness did not prevent them from gazing at the complex of buildings soaked in blood.

Large amounts of blood were scattered here and there among the buildings filled with bizarre statues. The stench of blood permeated the entire underground area, making one's nose sting and almost unable to smell anything else.

Jiang Bing lightly flicked the blade of the Divine Body Ritual Sword, activating the power of the magic ring within it, and then casually raised it above his head.

Drawn by some inexplicable opportunity, the strange sword shone brightly, and two arcs, one above the other, instantly revealed the appearance of the completed Elden Ring. In the pattern, a ring in the center shone brightly, then transformed into a wisp of ethereal golden light, extending faintly into the interior of the Blood Dynasty.

“Now I’m 100% sure this is the place.” Jiang Bing stretched his arms and legs and gestured to Marlenia.

The prosthetic knife was instantly drawn, its cold blade covered with a layer of warm, ethereal golden flame.

She, the invincible Valkyrie, Michaela's blade, is about to unleash a massacre today!

"Use it sparingly. The amount of ether in your body can't withstand multiple violent ignitions. If you take any more ether from me, I'll put it on your tab," Jiang Bing said with a headache.

As a divine being, Malenia's inheritance of Jiang Bing's laws and fire-lighting rituals is fundamentally different. She is more like a vessel for Jiang Bing's power, using 'original' level ethereal flames.

In this way, the 'power' she can unleash is incomparable to that of the 'spellcaster apostles' who ignite their own flames after receiving the linking of the flame with their own souls.

The etheric flames she unleashed were theoretically identical to those of Jiang Bing.

But things often have two sides, and Jiang Bing's laws are not a perfect force.

While the flames from the [Forger] will not cause Malenia to develop pustules and her body to decay like in the crimson rot, the user will need to provide fuel, namely ether, when burning.

If ether cannot be provided in time, then the user will become fuel, using everything they have to fuel the flames of creation or destruction.

Everyone only saw the domineering power of the Etherfire, but they couldn't understand Jiang Bing's feelings when the massive amount of Ether in the [Ether Furnace] bounced back and forth.

Marlenia doesn't need to bloom three times like the Crimson Corruption before she fully enters corruption. One long burst of full power is enough for that high-level flame, which doesn't belong to her, to burn everything to nothingness.

To make up for the deficit, the only way is to ensure that each burst of flame burns enough enemies and enough firewood.

But this is undoubtedly an idealized situation. Powerful enemies cannot stand still and be slaughtered. Defeating the enemy before burning oneself to ashes is undoubtedly a gamble.

Of course, this is under the normal circumstances of the 'Outer God' and His retinue interacting.

Boss Jiang never considered himself some mysterious deity or a high and mighty riddle-maker.

He directly opened an 'oil pipeline' for Marlene, providing her with ether at a fixed price.

As the bearer of the 'Law of Creation and Destruction', the other party has a fixed amount of ether for personal use every month. If they go on a mission, it is reimbursed by the company. If they exceed the amount of ether for personal use, they have to pay out of their own pocket to buy more.

It can be said that Jiang Bing, this "outer god," has formalized the practice of power lending, and the two even signed a very formal employment contract for it.

Marlenia had never seen such a 'businessman' Outer God before. The other party showed no lust for her body and even put a price tag on power, making her feel somewhat uncomfortable with his blatant blatantness.

However, Valkyries strongly welcomed laws such as the ever-spreading 'Crimson Corruption,' absolute dominance and the 'Golden Law' that manipulates will, and the 'Law of Creation and Destruction' which is essentially a 'business deal.'

Jiang Bing is a good boss, and compared to her mother, Malenia also has precious freedom.

And the power He provides far exceeds that of 'Crimson Corruption'.

When golden flames ignite on the Valkyrie's blade, her power diminished by the loss of the law, her title of invincible is fully confirmed.

Her blade never stopped slashing as she slashed her way from the gates of the Blood Dynasty all the way to the Blood King's bedroom.

Whether it was a blood noble who could control cursed blood, a blood puppet whose body and soul were corrupted by cursed blood and who went berserk, a blood priest wielding a ferocious trident, or a platinum child who willingly embraced cursed blood, they were all carefully chopped into minced meat.

Jiang Bing, who followed closely behind, evaporated all the cursed blood on the ground, inside the containers, and even inside the enemy's body, turning it into knowledge.

The henchmen pushed through the levels while Jiang Bing picked up the loot from behind, thoroughly enjoying himself.

However, even though the roof of the Blood Dynasty was almost burned through, the 'Blood King' Munger was still nowhere to be seen, as if he were blind, which was very puzzling.

The vast Blood Dynasty was incredibly shabby, filled only with filthy blood, deformed beasts, worshippers yearning for wounds, and blood-soaked nobles. Flowers, trees, furniture, fountains, and sculptures were either ugly or nonexistent.

Despite its impressive name, this "Blood Dynasty" was as impoverished as a beggar's den, so poor that all it had left was its stubborn pride.

In the king's equally impoverished bedroom, a giant cocoon was placed on the only stone platform.

Upon entering, the sensation from her twins made Malenia look in the direction of the giant cocoon.

Upon seeing her brother transformed into a cocoon of divine slumber, Malenia couldn't help but breathe a heavy sigh of relief.

She finally found her long-lost brother, Michaela.

To heal the curse within her body, Michaela spared no effort in using her own holy blood to nourish and nurture the sacred tree, helping it to grow.

Then it spins a cocoon, parasitizes the sacred tree, and draws on the tree's power to transform and be reborn.

Unfortunately, during the transformation, while Marlene was away besieging the royal city, Mongols infiltrated the sacred tree and stole the cocoon of the fallen god. Without the nourishment of the sacred tree, Michaela's transformation process was indefinitely postponed.

Marlenia was so agitated that she was about to call out to her brother when she noticed that the giant cocoon had been torn open, and a thin, bony arm was hanging limply outside the cocoon. Marlenia immediately felt a sense of foreboding.

But before she could get closer to examine it closely, a large amount of thick, fresh blood suddenly flowed down from the palm, dripping onto the ground and pooling into a pool of blood.

Accompanied by a nauseating stench, a tall figure silently emerged from the blood.

The Blood King Mongo made a dazzling entrance in a way that no one expected.

Chapter 899 The War of the Two Gods' Proxy

"Ah~ look who's here."

The ominous horns covered the other's face. Compared to his brother, Mung was dressed in gorgeous clothes, and the horns on his head were clearly well maintained, unlike Mungert, whose many horns had been sawed off.

Judging from his appearance, he didn't seem to hate the curses on him that much.

No words were needed; for Marlene, the blade was the best language.

The chaotic dance of water birds was transformed into a chaotic dance of flamingos by the ignited blade of her sword, and compared to his brother, Munger's martial arts skills were far inferior.

However, he possesses powerful 'divine arts'.

As the founder of the Blood Dynasty and the chief high priest of the 'Mother of Truth', he was adept at divine spells involving cursed blood.

Monger tore a wound from the void, and a handful of scorching cursed blood splashed in front of him with his swing. The blazing cursed blood flames then burned the bricks and stones to ashes.

But the next second, he let out an uncontrollable cry of pain.

Marlene's blade was too ruthless, harming both her enemy and herself.

A flash of light, like blooming flowers, cleaved through the blood and fire, embedding itself directly into Munger's shoulder.

The enraged Malenia was equally unmatched.

The bricks collapsed and the earth caved in. If Monger hadn't been reintegrated into the blood, he would likely have been disemboweled.

However, Marlenia stubbornly endured the ever-burning cursed blood flames on her body, determined to tear her enemies to pieces, completely displaying a desperate, life-or-death attitude, which truly gave Munger a headache.

The blood-stained trident blocked the fatal slash, and endless waves of blood erupted from beneath Monger, forming a ring of boiling blood mist that attempted to scorch any enemy who dared to step into it.

"enough!"

The Blood King roared in fury.

But in return, she received only a furtive, watchful gaze.

Jiang Bing remained silent, exerting immense pressure on Meng Ge.

This Blood King escaped a great distance by running through blood, and the moment he reappeared, he immediately raised his trident and began the ritual of offering sacrifices to the 'Mother of Truth'.

The deformed halberd tip seemed to have pierced something soft, creating a huge wound.

The cursed blood cascaded down, soaking Monger's entire body in crimson, while an eerie atmosphere permeated the entire scene.

"Let the wounds bloom throughout the world!"

The trident followed, piercing deeper and more viciously, while Marlenia, who had leaped forward, was suddenly engulfed in a cloud of blood mist as she approached her opponent.

A wound appeared out of nowhere, instantly drawing a large amount of blood from her body.

"More, more!"

Monger was nearly insane; his already deformed face and body were covered in foul-smelling cursed blood, making him appear both perverse and grotesque.

Marlenia's blade nearly cleaved his body in two, but the cursed blood flowing from the void wound granted him boundless vitality.

The prosthetic blade's slashes couldn't even keep up with the opponent's healing speed, and every second Malenia stayed near Monger, inexplicable wounds would continuously burst open on her body, as if the trident in Monger's hand had pierced not the 'Mother of Truth', but her own body.

The pale golden flames and the cursed blood fire mist burned together, sizzling and crackling.

The Valkyrie, giving it her all, transformed into a hawk, constantly harassing her opponent, but was unable to interrupt the offering.

Until she ignited every single moment of her life.

Each slash of the flame-covered blade left an indelible golden flame on Monger's body, burning like a malignant sore into his very being.

The large amount of cursed blood could only be used to extinguish this domineering flame.

But the flames grew ever stronger.

Marlenia's signature red hair was visibly stained gold, while the raging flames were frantically compressed into the deformed prosthetic blade, held back.

Only when Malenia could no longer suppress the bursting flames in the blade did she take both hands on the blade, step forward and thrust, and the compressed flames finally erupted with a roar.

Monger was almost roasted alive.

His elaborate, scarlet high priest robes were burned away, exposing his horned body to the crowd.

The offering was abruptly interrupted, and Munger, who had severed his connection with the Mother of Nothingness, instantly weakened, his eerie and fiery aura suddenly dropping significantly.

He decided to make a quick getaway.

But even though one foot was already in the pool of blood, and he could escape into the cursed blood at any moment, a strange tremor in his heart made his gaze inexplicably fixed on the cocoon of the fallen god, unable to be distracted.