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“Zicomo, I sense a familiar power. May I take a look at that book?”

Zicomo handed the book to Michaela, who took it and gently touched the back of the book. Another prayer appeared on the book, named "The Halo of Radagan".

Michaela looked at the prayer with a nostalgic expression and said, "When I was young, I created a prayer based on the Golden Law and gave it to my father. In return, my father gave me a prayer, which is this one in front of me."

Zicomo glanced at it; the prayer could form and expand a golden halo, attacking the surroundings. It enhanced the attack range of charged attacks.

He wasn't very interested in that; he preferred magic to prayer.

“It just so happens that what we’re about to do is related to Radagan. Now that you’re awake, you can come with us to take a look,” Zicomo said.

Michaela nodded and returned the book to Zicomo.

After leaving the Golden Tree Church, we went down the stairs to the statue of Radagan.

The statue is two stories high, with Radagan's arms outstretched to the sides, and crisscrossing thorns behind him.

Zicomo stood in front of the statue and made a prayer gesture in accordance with the "principle of reversion".

As the golden runes beneath his feet lit up, the statue before him transformed from the image of Radagan into Marika, exactly the same one that Zicomo had seen in the Royal Hall when he first entered the Borderlands.

And on the ground in front of them appeared a proverb, carved by an unknown person: "Radagan is Marika."

Looking at the scene before him, Zicomo said, "Although I don't agree with the fundamentalism of the Golden Law, some of its points are quite reasonable. For example, only by returning can the secret be revealed, and returning is the truth."

The petite Lani in his arms and Michaela beside him just stared blankly.

The most shocked of all was Michaela, who now had only one thought in his mind: My father is not only my father, but also my mother.

As for Lani, she finally understood why Radagan had suddenly abandoned his mother, become Marika's husband, and become the new King of Elden.

The three people present were all divine beings, so they naturally knew that divine beings could split themselves into the opposite sex. To their surprise, Radagan was actually Marika's half-body.

But why would she do that?

She married half of herself to the royal family of Kalia, and then abandoned it all to return to the capital.

Lani voiced her doubts.

Zicomo replied, “Radagan does not represent Marika’s will. Marika is not a creation of the Supreme Will, but a rare race from beyond the borders. She has her own thoughts and will, but was later chosen by the Supreme Will to become the vessel of the Elden Ring.”

The Supreme Will does not require a vessel to possess its own will, so it used the characteristics of the Rare beings to give birth to Rdagan. In other words, Rdagan obeys the Supreme Will, not Marika.

Rdagan did this to help the Supreme Will gather power. For example, Rdagan obtained the power of Crimson Corruption from the temple deep within the Lake of Corruption. He then mated with Marika, giving birth to Malenia, who possessed the power of Crimson Corruption.

Michaela never imagined that the crimson decay on his sister's body was due to this reason.

After hearing Zicomo's explanation, Lani had even more doubts.

She asked, "If that's the case, then why did Marika choose to marry Radagan and have children?"

Zicomo shrugged and said, "I don't know. Perhaps she didn't have the power to resist the supreme will, so she chose to endure it, or perhaps she had other plans."

In fact, Zicomo had a guess that Marika might be trying to reclaim her half.

In his previous life, when Zicomo was playing a game, the first thing he saw after entering the Golden Tree was the image of Marika, who was hanging in the air as a sinner.

Only after realizing he was an intruder did she transform into the form of Radagan and fight him.

In other words, Radagan had already been taken back into Marika's body, and the two were now locked in a standoff within the same body, vying for dominance.

This explains the scene Zicomo saw when he first entered the game.

One second Marika was kneeling there striking the magic ring, and the next second she transformed into Radagan.

The two struck the ring with completely opposite purposes: Marika wanted to break it, while Radagan wanted to repair it.

Zicomo shook his head, dismissing these thoughts. There were simply too many secrets in the border region, and he needed to continue exploring to unravel them.

“Let’s go, it’s time to meet the last king of Rodel,” Zikomo said.

Upon hearing this, Michaela, who was still pondering, crawled into the crystal where he usually resided and continued to sleep.

He couldn't understand or care less about his elderly father, Radagan.

Anyway, he had already broken ties with Radagan, otherwise he wouldn't have chosen to leave with his sister. Now, he only cares about whether his sister is alright.

…………

Royal city of Rodel, throne of Elden.

This is the highest point in Rodel; from here you can overlook the entire royal city.

After months of exploration, Zicomo leisurely stepped into the area. He was unhurried, while Montgomery was growing impatient.

He watched helplessly as Zikomo swept through his entire capital, while he was forced to guard the entrance to the Golden Tree and couldn't leave easily. This infuriated him.

Now that Zicomo has finally arrived, he can finally get rid of this annoying fader.

Mongot slowly descended the steps before the entrance to the Golden Tree, saying, "Faded one manipulated by the fires of ambition, you have finally arrived before the throne. On your foolish epitaph, inscribe the name of my last king, Mongot!"

Even as Montgomery was speaking, Zicomo silently took out his summoning bell and began to call for his elder brother. He knew perfectly well they were enemies; he wasn't a villain, and he didn't have the habit of chatting with the enemy.

After the imitation tear came out, it rushed straight towards Mongot, wielding the famous sword Moonshadow and fighting Mongot to a standstill.

4.5 While dealing with the emoticon teardrops, Montgomery cursed loudly.

"You despicable fader! Is all you can do is rely on external power? If you have the guts, face me head-on!"

Zicomo curled his lip in disdain, too lazy to pay any attention to Montgomery.

He turned back in the direction he came from and said, "Old friends reunited, aren't you going to come out and say hello?"

At the entrance to the throne, a figure slowly emerged; it was Melina, who had been gone for a long time.

She said, "It's been a long time. Your senses are still as sharp as ever. Do you need my help? I can still use some of my strength at the foot of the tree."

Zicomo shook his head and said, "No need. You can just watch from the side. After I've dealt with him, we can have a good chat."

Mongot is a demigod, and in Zicomo's eyes, demigods are synonymous with magic crystals.

He couldn't let Melina kill Mongot just like that.

Zicomo's earlier reluctance to fight Mongot was a preparation for transforming Mongot into a magic crystal.

Meanwhile, on Mongot's side, seeing that he couldn't subdue the android teardrop summoned by Zikomo for a long time, he chose to release himself from his restraints.

Chapter 141 The Last King's Fall, Melina's Mission

“Faded one! How dare you let me defile the throne! This is a disgrace! I will never forgive you!” Montgomery roared.

Having said that, he crushed the scepter in his hand, revealing a sword inside with a twisted and unusually discolored blade.

That was Mongot's true weapon, a cursed sword affected by the curse of his own ominous son.

Because Mongot deeply loathed the power of his own curse, he chose to seal it away.

This is why he could only manage a draw against the android teardrops summoned by Zicomo before.

Zicomo was speechless when he heard Mongot's words. It was Mongot who chose to break the seal and let the curse of the Child of Omens taint the throne. How did it become his fault?

However, now is not the time to complain. With his powers unsealed, Mongot killed Zicomo's clone teardrop with just one sword strike.

Just then, Zicomo's side was also ready.

Zicomo suddenly appeared behind Mongot and pressed the shard in his hand onto Mongot's back.

The fragment shattered upon contact with Mongot's body, bursting forth with dazzling golden light and pinning Mongot to the ground.

This scene was exactly the same as when Zicomo suppressed the ominous demons at the battlefield ruins outside the city.

That's right, Zicomo used "Markit's prison equipment".

However, unlike previous uses, this is a new usage developed by Zicomo.

By injecting a large amount of energy to fully activate the power within the prisoner targeting Mongot, causing it to erupt all at once, Mongot can be suppressed for a long period of time.

Zicomo's decision not to fight earlier was to inject energy 30 into the prisoner's garment.

Seeing that Mongot was bound, Zicomo didn't waste any words. He took out a magic crystal and inserted it directly into Mongot's heart, beginning to absorb the demigod's life force and soul power.

As for Mongo's power, it has no effect on Zicomo. This is because Zicomo has already absorbed Mongo's power and possesses the power of the Omen Curse.

As his life force waned, Mongot, who had been struggling violently, gradually became sluggish.

Feeling the weakness within his own body, Mongot finally chose to give up the struggle.

He said in an increasingly weak voice, “Faded One, you are utterly foolish… The Golden Tree rejects everything, we… have long been abandoned. No one can be the King of Elden… I am no exception.”

Seeing that he was about to die, Zicomo was happy to chat with him a little longer.

He said, "Who told you I was destined to become the King of Elden?"

"You don't want to be the King of Elden... so what are you doing on the throne?"

"Isn't it wrong to just want to see what's inside the Golden Tree?"

Zicomo didn't mention the Beast of Elden; even if he did, this guy who couldn't even get into the Golden Tree probably wouldn't know.

“Ha… no reverence for the Golden Tree… so he’s someone who dared to defy the Golden Law. How laughable… I was actually defeated by a border tributary,” Montgomery said with self-mockery.

In border regions, those who stray from the Golden Law are considered outsiders. They are called border tributaries.

Zicomo was too lazy to continue talking to Montgomery.

One cannot discuss ice with a summer insect; from beginning to end, Montgomery still believed that Zicomo was at most a relatively powerful fader.