Chapter 597: Queen of Darkness? The nature of the Ring of Domination

The power of the Supreme Ring was stronger than expected, Xiao Lan knew this earlier, but she didn't expect it to be that strong.

In the original story, if the Fellowship of the Ring fails, the Elven Ring will be transformed into a cursed ring that corrupts its owner, and Roslorraine will be exposed to the clutches of the Demon King. But if they succeed in the power of the Elven Ring, the power of the Elven Ring will be weakened, and the golden forest that retains the ancient beauty will be gone, washed away by the torrent of history, so that the elves will have to flee to the Western Immortal Lands, or they will become a people who live in caves or valleys, forgetting everything and being forgotten by everything.

As a member of the Noldor tribe who fled to Middle-earth, Galadriel stayed in Middle-earth because her strong self-esteem did not allow her to turn back, and she did not intend to seek the forgiveness of the Lord God and return to the Immortal Land in humiliation, but stayed in Middle-earth to create her own kingdom.

She succeeded in doing so, so her love for the land and the work she had created was deeper than the sea, and this nostalgia was so deep that she was still reluctant to leave when Elon and they planned to return to the overseas wonderland by ship because of Sauron's threat, when the Fellowship of the Ring team lost Gandalf in the Moriath Mine and went to the Golden Forest Roslorraine, Frodo, who felt too burdened, wanted to hand over the Ring to Galadriel. The Queen's strong desire to disobey the Elven character was greatly amplified by the Ring, and almost made her a dark queen powerful enough to replace Sauron.

But that was already "in the past", after Xiao Lan came to this world. Galadriel had already seen the whole situation, knew that she had almost fallen into her own desires, and with this realization, she had already had the right consciousness, right?

But the power of the One Ring isn't that simple. Even if it was only a spiritual phantom that was not the essence, even if she had pressed a trace of unwillingness in her heart to the bottom, and would rather give up everything than bow to Sauron, the queen was still inadvertently affected by the magic of the Lord of the Rings - it is not ruled out that the Water Ring may have strengthened this effect, making her desires more easily amplified.

In short, under the gaze of everyone, who suddenly fell silent, the queen who walked gently to the Supreme Ring raised her white jade arm. A ray of light fell from the sky on a ring that appeared on her finger that looked like gold and silver, and in the center was a white gem that shone like a twilight star. It was the Water Ring, one of the Elven Rings she had, and she spoke, "...... Now, at last, that opportunity has come. You're willing to give me the Ring! ”

"You have defeated the Dark Lord. Let the Empress ascend the throne here. And I will not fall into darkness, I will be beautiful and great, as the dawn and the twilight! Like the ocean, like the sun, like the snow among the peaks! Terrifying like a storm and lightning! Stronger than the earth! All the people and all things will fear and honor me......"

The queen raised her hand and cast a pillar of light from the water ring she was wearing, Nanya, plunging everything around her into a dark shadow, leaving only the light in the pillar of light, the deep darkness was infinitely stronger than when Gandalf appeared, it was the dark mask of the queen's heart's strong desire. She just stood in front of everyone. Suddenly the body was indescribably tall, and the beauty was beyond the limits of biology. Terrifying and sublime, it makes everyone want to kneel down and worship in an instant.

-- It's like a god.

The divine power was like a prison, Xiao Lan, who wanted to get up, paused, and was stunned, almost unable to help kneeling.

He had seen the real gods, witnessed the battle between Anubis and Michael, and even took the angry sword of the Angel of Fire before the projection shattered and disappeared, but it was the first time he had felt it so truly at such a close distance, and the majesty, the pressure, the feeling of insignificance of the self was indeed undeniably irresistible.

However, Xiao Lan didn't really kneel, he was just in a trance in the queen's incomparable majesty and spirit, and then he stood up resolutely with the shock in his eyes and was replaced by nothingness, and the forbidden sword appeared in his hand silently.

After all, this is just a spiritual phantom, although the dark side of the magnified heart exudes the real divine coercion, which belongs to the primate will collection in some settings called the incarnation of Alayya, but the coercion is only coercion after all, and her own strength will not increase until Galadriel wears the Supreme Ring, and the difference between the spiritual phantom wearing the ring and the body wearing the ring is still like heaven and earth, so Xiao Lan is basically 100% sure of preventing the birth of the Queen of Darkness-

However, he had just raised the forbidden demon sword in his hand that surged with the breath of nothingness, and the sword that locked the spiritual phantom in the void vision was about to be slashed, and suddenly something surged in the void in his eyes, and then he paused again, breathed a sigh of relief, and hung down the sword.

"You've passed the trial, Queen......"

The demon said, and in front of his eyes, Galadriel lowered his raised hand.

The intense coercion and light that enveloped her surroundings began to fade, and suddenly she laughed again, and then with a soft sound, her god-like figure began to shrink, and she returned to her original slender elven woman, dressed in a simple white robe, and her voice was gentle and sentimental.

"Yes, I passed the trial." "I would like to fade away from history, to the West, and to keep the name of Galadriel," she said. ”

Everyone was silent, whether it was Gandalf or King Elon, or Glorfindale and Xiao Lan, until the queen spoke again, "The power of the Ring is beyond my imagination, or I overestimated my will...... Strictly speaking, though, it goes back to how the Lord of the Rings was made. ”

"Sauron was only a subordinate of Morcath during the First Age, and after Morcoth's defeat, he was humiliated and unwilling to accept Vera's punishment in the face of shame and absconded. After more than a thousand years in hiding, during the Second Age, he appeared as the Goodness and called himself Anata's "Gifted Master", promising to teach the elves new techniques as the Messenger of Vera. With Sauron's assistance, the elves created the Ring of Domination with the Nine Rings of Humanity and the Seven Rings of Dwarves with the bow of Sixteen Rings of Domination, and the Elves Three Rings were created by the elves with the same technology, and then Sauron created the One Ring in the flames of Mount Doom to rule all the rings in the world......"

"And the reason why the Rings can control their respective races, and the Supreme Ring can control all the Rings, is not only because the forging techniques are all from Sauron." Galadriel paused at this point, looked around for a moment before continuing, "It's because all the rings are forged, and there is one of the most crucial and absolutely indispensable ingredients: fate, or qi.

Sauron is indeed evil, but his knowledge is indeed extremely exquisite, he taught the elves to turn the luck of each race into substance, and fuse the strong will to forge the ring, each ring will make the wearer and the fate of the race represented, as the ruler of the will of the people has god-like authority, and the Supreme Ring ...... It rules over all the primates of Middle-earth.

Possession of the One Ring is equivalent to dominating the entire world of Middle-earth, becoming a god walking on the ground, and in front of the gods, only a very strong mind can rise up to resist, because this "domination" power does not come from the outside world, but from the same lake to which the deepest layers of all primate consciousness are connected, and it is not easy for the will of all beings to maintain their purity in the pollution and erosion that comes from the source. ”

At the same time as saying this, the queen's gaze swept over Xiao Lan, who looked thoughtful, and only a whisper he could hear sounded in the demon's mind, "The essence of the 'nothing' you possess is really interesting, even the Supreme Ring can't erode the existence of nothingness, aren't you going to take it to Mordor yourself?" ”

The corners of Xiao Lan's mouth twitched, and he looked up at Galadriel with a faint smile on his face, and he said with a slightly wry smile in his heart, "I can't stay in the state of 'nothing' all the time, once you fall into it, you will find that I will become more dangerous than Sauron...... If the limit of my sanity is compared to a hundred, the state of complete liberation, that is, the ability to use the power of "Honkai", will consume ten per second, and after being lifted, it will recover at a rate of five per second, while the semi-liberation can be suppressed to consume one per second, but in the state of partial liberation, I can only see the "eye" but cannot destroy it, but the rest of my power will generally increase because of the degree of liberation.

In this state, I can dispel the influence of the Ring through liberation, but I don't plan to try it if I keep it on my body, the most essential desire in my heart is obviously "complete liberation of nothingness", under the subtle influence of the Ring, I may not know when I will fall into the worst situation, people who have power and power, or desire these are actually not suitable for carrying the Ring, the best person should be ordinary and content with the status quo, the person with the least desire. ”

His eyes fell on Frodo, the hobbit had remained awake in the midst of the chaos, and had kept the Ring around his neck when he sent it to Rivendell, and he was the best person to take on the task by any means.

However, whether it was Xiao Lan or King Ailong, they did not forget the scene reflected in the Nightmare Mirror, the harbbit died tragically in Zhao Weikong's hands, and the magic ring was also taken away.

- Is it really going to pull this hobbit into this vortex again? (To be continued......)