When Lakhman's voice was strangely transmitted into the hearts of all Adus people in Kanak and its surroundings, the fear of the disaster-like destructive sand and dust in everyone's hearts immediately diminished. Although the source was unknown and the person was unseen, for some reason, all Adus people were willing to believe these ethereal words in their hearts. This trust seemed to come from the depths of their blood, tied to their very souls.
For a time, all the Adus people in Kanak braved the storm and walked out of their shelters, looking towards the distant north, towards the unknown being. At this moment, they no longer prayed for the terrifying disaster. Under the double collapse of cognition and legal principles, the power of the sand and dust Diya Ding began to rapidly decrease. As his power flowed away, Diya Ding, who also heard that voice, wrapped his rapidly shrinking disaster body and angrily attacked in the direction from which the declaration was made.
"That spirits is rushing back now… and its power seems to have weakened. Has something else happened?"
North of Kanak, Setuot, leaning on Shadi, felt the surrounding wind speed decrease and couldn't help but say seriously, while Shadi widened his eyes and replied with a somewhat stunned expression.
"Rahman… I just heard a voice claiming to be King Rahman. He declared the abolition of Diya Ding's kingship and denied him…"
"What… King Rahman? Are you referring to the first-generation founding king of this country? You heard his voice and even denied that spirits's kingship?" Listening to Shadi's words, Setuot felt a hint of surprise, but soon, after thinking for a moment, he spoke as if he understood something.
"King Rahman… So that's how it is, huh… It seems those friends from the religious orders are more capable than I thought. They awakened the soul of the founding king of this country and, with the strongest cognitive depth and highest legal status of the founding king among the Adus, denied that Diya Ding and shook the source of its power. They are quite skilled."
"King Rahman… Was that really the soul of King Rahman speaking?! As expected… on the major matters of right and wrong concerning the future destiny of Adus, I didn't choose wrongly… He is on our side!"
Listening to Setuot's words, Shadi said somewhat excitedly, his words carrying clear excitement. Looking at the receding storm, Shadi continued to ask Setuot.
"Setuot! King Rahman denied Diya Ding, does this mean it's finished!"
"It's not that simple. Although its power is weakening, it will take some time before it weakens to a level we can handle. Now is not the time to be careless." Setuot then said sternly to Shadi. Listening to Setuot's words, Shadi's slightly excited gaze returned to seriousness. Looking at the distant sandstorm, he said with a hint of worry.
"Is that so… I hope those Judge of Heaven believers have a way to hold this guy back."
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Over the wasteland, the wind and sand advanced. Kanak City is about eight kilometers away from Dead Eagle Valley. At Diya Ding's speed, it wouldn't take long to get back. Although his power was currently weakening, due to the large accumulated mass, this rate of weakening wouldn't quickly reduce Diya Ding to a harmless level in a short time. By the time he reached Dead Eagle Valley, the destructive power of the Diya Ding storm still remained.
After all, Diya Ding ruled Adus for more than ten years. Although unpopular, he was still the most deeply impressed ruler in the hearts of this generation of Adus people. This cognition cannot be completely eliminated with just a single denial. Therefore, although the current Diya Ding sand and dust are weakening, they cannot self-destruct.
"Possessing the power to turn the people's recognition and historical legal principles into strength… but using this power to destroy his own people? How pathetic…"
Standing on a mountain peak somewhere in Dead Eagle Valley, Rahman, leaning on Naifnis, looked at the rapidly approaching sand and dust giant face in the distance and couldn't help but sigh like this. At this moment, Diya Ding was very close to Dead Eagle Valley due to the high-speed approach without air pressure resistance. Although he had weakened at this point, he still maintained the posture of a giant wall connecting heaven and earth.
To ensure destructive power and increase movement speed, Diya Ding actively condensed his form, shrinking from a sand and dust hurricane into a sand and dust tornado. At this time, the destructive radius of the entire Diya Ding sand and dust tornado was over one kilometer. From the outside, it looked like a giant dark yellow wind and sand column with a diameter of over two kilometers, connecting to the clouds. The face of Diya Ding on the giant wind and sand column was still terrifying. At close range, the powerful oppressive force was such that a small city like Kanak would be completely razed to the ground if swept under its destructive radius for a few minutes.
As the edge of Diya Ding approached, yellow sand and dust rose all over Dead Eagle Valley. The wild wind and sand battered Naifnis's robe. The approaching giant face glared at her angrily, but Rahman, leaning on Naifnis, remained unmoved. Naifnis's incredibly small body was too insignificant compared to Diya Ding's colossal form with a diameter of two kilometers. The difference in comparison was even greater than that between an ant and an elephant.
"Soul-linked blood pact… Stop…"
Facing the approaching giant Diya Ding, Naifnis pointed her sword forward and murmured softly. Immediately, Diya Ding's progress seemed to be hindered by Shaman power, slightly delayed, but soon resumed its advance. At the same time, the giant mouth on the wind column let out a mocking sound.
"It's useless… Old thing, without the return ritual, your power is still with me. What can you do with just that weak soul and reliance?
"Go back to your grave! Old thing! Your existence is merely to provide us with the power to be king! You've been dead for a long time, Adus is mine now!"
Sharp mockery echoed over Dead Eagle Valley. Seeing that her power could not stop Diya Ding from continuing, Neff's expression also showed solemnity.
And just at this moment, on the other side of Dead Eagle Valley, on the other side of the giant wind column constructed by Diya Ding, Dorothy was standing here, looking up at the sand and dust storm that had not stopped and continued to advance.
"Although it has weakened a lot… it seems that this is still not enough to make it completely disappear… It seems that in the end, we still need to hit it hard."
Gazing at the sand and dust tornado that still possessed such powerful destructive might, Dorothy murmured, then reached her hand to her face under her robe and lifted the veil covering it, revealing her delicate face.
Then, Dorothy controlled her body to begin to float up, rising to a height of ten meters above the ground. In the blowing wind and sand, she took a deep breath, faced the wild storm, and uttered ancient words.
"—Fus-Ro-Dah—"
Ancient syllables were uttered from Dorothy's mouth. The force of her voice was not great. Under normal circumstances, a voice spoken with this force would not even be able to drown out the noisy wind. However, the reality was that when these sounds officially resonated in this world, what they stirred up was a roar several times louder than thunder.
A distant primeval roar from another world, originating from the beginning of time, reappeared in the sky of Adus. When those ancient and mysterious words sounded in the wind and sand, the entire world seemed to resonate with them. At this moment, Dorothy had an illusion. She felt as if she was giving orders to the world, commanding it to stir up power and defeat the storm.
"Boom!!!"
With an ancient sound louder than a thunderclap and deeper than the earth, echoing through the sky, all living beings who heard it couldn't help but cover their ears and look up in fear. The ancient syllables resonated with the world, erupting with unparalleled power, transforming into a powerful impact like a tsunami, sweeping upwards towards the giant sand and dust column from below.
Suddenly, the giant sand and dust column, directly hit by the impact, bent over like a person who had been severely struck in the abdomen and was in pain. The entire giant sand and dust column instantly bent over ninety degrees. Diya Ding, whose spirits covered the entire giant sand and dust column, immediately felt an extreme pressure similar to pain on his soul.
"What…"
Finally, under this impact, the giant sand and dust column could not bear the load and directly broke. The originally wild wind and flying sand were torn into pieces under this impact. The remaining impact force continued to rush upward, dispersing large areas of accumulated thick clouds, punching a hole in the clouds in the sky, allowing the obscured sunlight to shine down. Under the originally gloomy sky, a clear patch suddenly appeared.
Under the sunlight, amidst the shattered storm, Diya Ding's spirits was now lying in mid-air. At this moment, his spirits body had been torn apart by the violent roar. One hand, two feet, and even more than half of his body's spirits had disappeared. The expression on his face showed disbelief and pain.
"What… was that…!?"
In the sensation of his soul being torn apart, Diya Ding shrieked in disbelief. He had not expected that his majestic disaster body would be torn to shreds in a single blow, leaving him in this state.
Although the confusion in his heart was even stronger, Diya Ding also knew that the most urgent task at hand was to quickly gather his spirits and rebuild his disaster body using the environment, making it as large as possible. And just as Diya Ding was about to do this, in the air in the distance, a swift Shadow rushed towards him at high speed. Before Diya Ding could react, that swift Shadow had rushed in front of him. It was Naifnis, holding a long sword.
Looking at the graceful figure that even the robe could not completely conceal in front of him, Diya Ding's eyes widened. He could clearly feel the soul sensation emanating from the woman in front of him. He had experienced this sensation before, during the king-refining ritual in the ceremonial chamber fourteen years ago.
"Initial King Captain…"
"Swish!"
Without any hesitation, the sword held in "Naifnis's" hand slashed down sharply, directly cutting off the head of Diya Ding's spirits. Then, in the other party's horrified expression, she continued to swing her sword, instantly chopping the already tattered spirits into countless pieces.
Diya Ding's soul was severely damaged and could not maintain the spirits posture, so it could only collapse into a ball of soul fire. Naifnis seized the opportunity, reached out and plunged her hand into Diya Ding's soul fire. With a single grab and a pull backward, she directly pulled out two things.
The first was a spirits cup, and the second was a smaller ball of soul fire. After these two things were taken away, Diya Ding's soul fire began to tremble violently, emitting a wail.
"No…
"I am… the King… of Adus…"
In the wailing, Diya Ding's soul strength rapidly weakened, eventually reaching a point where he could not even condense and maintain a soul fire. Finally, in increasingly violent tremors, the remaining small ball of soul fire began to unstable and dissipate, turning into threads of soul and scattering in all directions.
At this time, among the two objects held in Naifnis's hand, the spirits cup quickly materialized, and soon after, it became a complete physical object. The small ball of soul fire, however, was inhaled by Naifnis, absorbed into her mouth, and merged with the Rahman spirits leaning on her.
Looking at the cup in her hand, looking at the gradually clearing sky and the desolate land of Adus in front of her, Rahman, leaning on Naifnis, couldn't help but say with emotion.
"It's over…"
After finishing her lament, Neff turned her head and looked into the distance, in the direction from which the earth-shattering sound had just come, her expression becoming solemn, then slowly opening her mouth.
"It seems that in this era, something remarkable is rising… What will this bring to Adus?"
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On the other side, Dorothy was slowly descending from the sky. After landing on the ground, she raised her head and looked at the shattered sandstorm and the opened clouds in front of her. Under the sunlight, she couldn't help but close her eyes, savoring the feeling of using the three-stage Unloading Force for the first time in the real world.
"Resonating with the bones of the earth, commanding the world, stirring up great power… This… is the principle of the Dragon Roar in the world of Nirn.
"I didn't expect that after the knowledge of the Dragon Roar was localized in this world, its principle would still be similar. I can resonate with the 'earth bones' through the Dragon Language and command the world…"
Looking at the scene in front of her, Dorothy murmured. After using the three-stage Unloading Force, she felt for the first time how the Dragon Roar from another world operated in this world. Using the Dragon Roar as a medium, she glimpsed a trace of the reality of this world for the first time.
In the Nirn world of 'The Elder Scrolls', the world was created by a group of gods classified as Aedra. The Aedra gathered together to create the world at the suggestion of Lorkhan. During the process of creation, a large number of Aedra exhausted their power and were trapped and died in the material world. After death, the corpses of the gods accumulated and shaped the world. The corpses of the gods became the bones of the earth, and the blood of the gods was Ebony ore… And the essence of the Dragon Roar is to resonate with the bones of the earth through a roar and cause phenomena.
The principle of the Dragon Roar in Nirn is like this, and in this world… it is almost like this… At the moment the three-stage Dragon Roar was unleashed, Dorothy felt that there was something in this world that was somewhat similar to the "earth bones."