Volume 7: The Chamber of Secrets of Blackstone Mountain (Remastered) Chapter 15: The Fortress of Flange (1)

[The toxic sludge of the Flange Fortress poured into my boots, and I had to pull my feet out of the mud with all my might, and I had to try to hook my toes to keep them from falling off, and each step took more than twice as much effort as before.

I dodged the sleeping grunts, kicked away the slugs that kept spitting at me, and struggled to find the campfire.

My name is Lockwood, and I'm an immortal.

It's been many days since I was awakened by the bell and walked out of the unclaimed graveyard, and my memories are coming back little by little, and I remember how frantically I used to seek all knowledge about the world, and the moment I pieced together the truth, I was almost overwhelmed by despair, but the curse of immortality refused to make me close my eyes. I remembered the frustration of not being a hero when I was weak, and the near-eternal darkness in my cold coffin.

I thought I was going to lose all my humanity there and become a geist, but the curse made me set foot on this land again.

This is my new identity, but I will not seek the mercy of the gods, nor will I try to save this world from collapse, all I have to do is record what I see for the next generation.

And the first thing I'm going to write down is the fall of the Immortals.

Living history has always taught us that it is neither the wind nor the tsunami that can change the world, nor the gods and royalty on the high, but the people.

Who makes up the Immortals? Who are his leaders? The answer is impossible for anyone! We can't find out in detail how much substantial contribution this armed force composed of high-combat undead has made to the land of Lothric.

But their sacrifice cannot be ignored, from the sword shrines everywhere in the fortress of Fran, the broken armor on the roadside, we can know that they are going through a protracted and high-pressure battle, there are constantly sacrifices appearing, and new people are constantly joining, and who is their enemy? What kind of faith do you have? 】

Closing the book in his hand, Yu Bin let out a long sigh, tried hard to pull out his boots from the ankle-deep mud under his feet, and moved forward with difficulty.

Long before leaving, Yu Bin had considered the difficulty of this long trip and prepared a lot of supplies for it, but he really didn't expect that this land, which had been forgotten for tens of thousands of years, would be so difficult and sinister that it would almost make it difficult for him to move an inch.

This is the border of Huberton, once the kingdom of heaven on earth, one of the two oldest kingdoms, the kingdom of Lothric.

Today, it is a huge island in the middle of the Misty Sea, and the gray mist covers the land all year round, and no normal creatures can survive here.

This is Yu Bin's destination, the only remaining ruins of the ancient kingdom of Lothric, established by the gods of ancient times, a fortress wrapped in the double fog of history and reality, a steel barrier poured by fearlessness and strength, located in the depths of the Flange Forest, which was once called a paradise on earth, the Flange Fortress that has stood since the ancient era!

In the ancient era, known as the Ancient Era, the entire Sea of Mist was not as huge as it is now, it was divided in two by a vast land, and the two oceans were named because of the fog that shrouded the sea, and they were called the Grey Sea and the Blue Sea.

In this vast land that separates the ocean, the gods with the blood of the creator god have established a powerful kingdom - Lothric, which echoes another kingdom founded by the ancient dragons, Arnor Lund, from east to west and from east to west, bringing peace and prosperity to the continent of Entagri for tens of thousands of years.

As the two kingdoms were drawn into wars again and again, the power of Lothric was quickly exhausted, and finally, on a windy night, the chaos demons from the bottomless abyss tore off their masks and descended on the continent of Ntagre, trying to take this magnificent continent for themselves, and coincidentally, the first place where the chaos demons first came was the capital of the kingdom of Lothric.

The huge dimensional rift destroyed the entire city of Lothric in an instant, and even tore a large area of land centered on this capital to pieces, and the powerful void power poured into the main plane, turning the rich land of Lothric into a hotbed of chaos in an instant.

The Lostrics were quick to react after being fatally struck, and the survivors gathered at the last stronghold of the Kingdom of Lopric, the Farran Fortress deep in the Farran Forest, to resist the onslaught of the Chaos Demon.

Soon after, all the Ancients stopped their wars and came to the Fortress of Fran to help the Lothrics resist the invasion of the Demons of Chaos.

In the end, the continent of Entagre succeeded in repelling the invasion of the Abyss, and the inhabitants of this world defended their homeland.

Except for the Lothrics!

Since the entire land is at the forefront of the invasion of the bottomless abyss, and it is the place where the dimensional rift is torn, the powerful void power destroys the entire Lothric land and sinks into the sea, connecting the gray sea and the blue sea, and under the influence of the remaining void power, the mist that can make people lose their way envelops the entire ocean, and the Flange Fortress cannot escape the clutches of the devil and becomes a captive of the mist.

While everyone was evacuating the fortress, the remnants of the Lothric remained, and for these remnants, this was their last homeland, their only home.

These powerful gods have since chosen to self-exile and stay here to destroy the poison of the bottomless abyss.

And because this was once the central area of the bottomless abyss invasion, it was occupied by the chaotic demons for a long time, causing this to become the most dangerous area on the Entagri continent, and the plane mask here is very thin due to the influence of the power of the void, and the power of the abyss is stretching out its claws to the main plane through this gap all the time.

In order to prevent the main plane from being eroded by the Abyss, the Lothrics, who had cleaned up the Chaos Legion, with the help of the rulers of Arnorlund, the Elder Dragons, completely sealed off the entire Phalange Fortress and the surrounding areas affected by Chaos, preventing the Abyss from spreading to the entire continent through this only land passage.

And these Lothrics refused the invitation of the dragon kings and volunteered to stay and watch the Abyss, and called themselves the Abyss Watchers, due to the war against the demons of chaos, many Lothrics lost their lives, and with the support of powerful soul power, they became a kind of being that was neither alive nor dead, they were neither human nor undead, they called themselves undead, and in other people's mouths, these undead who watched over the Abyss were called the Fran Immortals.

Not only the Lothrics, but also the contributions made by these remnants to the entire continent, since the First Age, more and more people began to join their team, volunteering to become undead and become a member of the Fran Immortals, since these new members of the Immortals did not have the blood of the Romans in their blood, the Frank Immortals began to use the wolf blood of the ancient creatures that once lived in the Frank Forest, the Romans Wolves, as a link to each other, and through the wolf blood to inherit and promote.

According to the documents written by the last Lothric in Yu Bin's hands, the Abyss Watchers are a group of elite members of the undead team who swear by their wolf blood and swear to nip all the erosion of the Abyss in the bud, even if it is to subvert a country. As a result, they are far from people, either feared by their respective countries, or in order to fulfill their duties.

The composition of the undead squad is mainly composed of ordinary combatants, and after continuous killing and tempering, they can wear pointed hats and cloak armor to be upgraded to abyssal watchers, and enter the area closest to the abyss to perform surveillance duties.

In Lockwood's account, if you want to join the Immortal Squad and become a member of the Undead, you must pass the Trials Ritual of the Undead Squad, and by lighting three bonfires in the Farland Forest, the challenger can enter the Farland Fortress and take the blood of the Galmore Wolf from the hands of the Immortal Squad members, and become a member of the Immortal Squad from then on.

However, as the Elder Dragons left the main plane for their own reasons, it became more and more difficult for the Immortals to obtain new blood, and except for some powerful beings, no newcomers could pass through the seals set by the Elder Dragons and enter the Flange Forest.

At the same time, when you look at the abyss, the abyss looks at you equally! Although the power of the Abyss Watchers is obvious to all, and the first batch of Abyss Watchers are even gods with the blood of the Creation God, under the erosion of the Abyss for countless years, even these powerful Abyss Watchers cannot ensure that they will not fall into the abyss, in order to ensure that the Abyss will not spread, and also to carry out the oath they took when joining the Immortal Squad, the Abyss Watchers will not hesitate to eliminate any companion who is corrupted by the abyss, and continue to monitor the Abyss with their will.

In this situation of internal and external difficulties, the number of the Farlan Undead became smaller and smaller, and finally, with the change of eras, this undead team that had made noble contributions to the safety of the entire continent was also on the verge of complete extinction.

Just like the ancient scroll that records the past of the Kingdom of Lothric, the sacrifice of the Lothric people and the source of the immortal squad in Yu Bin's hand, with the death of the last Lothric Lockwood in the Battle of the French Fortress, this once glorious country and his nation have completely disappeared in the long river of time, and the next one to disappear is the Fran Immortal.

In fact, it was also because Yu Bin found this book in an ancient dark place that had been sealed for an unknown number of years in the World Tree Library of the Elven Race in his previous life that he knew that this kind of thing had happened in history.

But in the previous life, Yu Bin did not continue to study along this clue, until the camp war began, the bottomless abyss invaded, and the game and reality merged, and he had no time to think carefully about the inside story revealed in this book for his own survival.

And in this life, as Yu Bin re-examined the entire Entagri world, he finally remembered this ancient scroll that had been sealed in the dark for an unknown number of years, and took it out of the elven race through some special means.

After carefully reading this not thick scroll word by word, Yu Bin finally had answers to some questions in his previous life.

If Yu Bin's guess is correct, the bottomless abyss invasion that broke out in the late game in the previous life is likely to have started here in the Flange Fortress.

According to Yu Bin's research and the records of some ancient documents, although the area seal set up by the ancient dragons can block the spread of the abyss in a short time, it cannot play a role in destroying the abyss, and as the number of abyssal watchers who are still awake in the Frang Fortress becomes smaller and smaller, the power of the abyss becomes stronger and stronger, and when he breaks through a certain limit, this will become the gate connecting the main plane and the bottomless abyss.

Unfortunately, due to various reasons, the ancient dragons finally chose to leave the main plane for the continuation of the race, the black dragon fled to the dungeon, the green dragon gave up his body, and lived and died together with the jade dream, the blue dragon hid in the eye of eternity, gave up the management of the magic element, and the bronze dragon hid in the gap of time, watching the joys, sorrows and sorrows of the world with cold eyes, only the red dragon still stayed in the northernmost part of the continent, known as the extremely cold place of Northrend, guarding the common birthplace of the ancient dragons- Temple of the Dragon's Sleep.

After learning about these situations from the ancient scrolls, Yu Bin had to face a problem, that is, how to change this inevitable outcome.

It is obviously very stupid to let the abyss gate of the Flange Fortress continue to expand, but it is not easy to make the NPCs pay attention to this hidden threat, on the one hand, because few people still know the origin and allusions about the Flange Fortress and the Abyss Watcher, and on the other hand, because the reputation of the Flange Immortal Team has been bad since its birth, Yu Bin is not unable to understand the statements of those NPCs, who has changed, there is neither faith nor concept of good and evil for these, Just because there is a possibility of being eroded by the abyss, the undead who do not hesitate to destroy the country and the clan will not have a good impression.

But Yu Bin didn't want to face the despair of seeing no hope of success in his previous life again, not to mention that the Flange Fortress was a place that had to be gone for the current Yu Bin in any aspect.

Therefore, how to obtain the qualification to enter the Flange Fortress, or how to pass the seal set by the Elder Dragons, is the first problem that Yu Bin needs to solve.

And Yu Bin chose to be the Black Dragon Queen Sinestra. The key to the flange he asked for was the only item that was granted by the elder dragon himself and could pass through the seal and enter the flange forest.