Holding an egg in one hand and dragging a dismembered unicorn carcass in the other, John walked to a tree hollow.

It was now the third day that John had come to this purgatory world, and in the past few days, John had only walked in one direction, and every day through the big eyeballs in the sky—thinking of this, a red lightning bolt slashed from the sky into a large tree not far from John's side, and directly burned the poor number to ashes—under the guidance of Cataline, John did not lose his way.

"Where the hell do you want to go?" John's Purgatory Dragoon has the ability to control fire, so instead of living and cooking like before, he directly summoned fire to roast the legs of the unicorn deer in his hand. As he was eating a barbecue, John heard a question from Catherine. Seeing that John was gnawing on the deer's leg and ignoring himself, Kamlet said, "In front of it is a small city built by the demons, are you interested in going over and having a look?"

"Sounds good, I just have nothing to do, so it's good to go there and see it. John swallowed the roast in his mouth and suddenly felt that the world was interesting. After eating, John picked up the griffin egg that had been placed beside him, got up and walked out of the hollow of the tree in the direction that Carmeline had said.

Towns, it is said to be a symbol of civilization, in the rough stone world can even use the size of the city to measure the level of development of a country, these are also common on the source continent, the more powerful the country, the more towns, the more developed places, the larger the towns, the more residents, the more comprehensive the function. Is this the same with the towns of this purgatory? John was amused and prepared to check it out.

Following Caryline's guidance, John walked for another day. On the way, John found that there were fewer wild demonic beasts around, but the demon race began to increase, for example, the canine clan he saw a few days ago, John found two groups. Most of these canines were not empty-handed, some carried animal skin rolls on their backs, or belts made of animal skins full of things, and some held various weapons made of branches and stones in their hands to guard the left and right rear of the team, and every wind and grass next to them would break the already tense nerves of these timid creatures, and then quickly looked in the direction of the sound until they made sure that there was nothing that could harm the team. John looked at these cowards, obviously they were of the demon race, but none of them communicated the will of purgatory to obtain their real names, so they could only communicate half-baked in the purgatory language passed down by the demon ancestors and the language of the canine race's own race.

John didn't go to the cowards, who were scared to death the moment they saw him. But after seeing where they were heading, John knew that the canine-people were also heading towards the town. In this case, we may meet again in the future, and it is better to meet in the city than in the wilderness. John didn't go near the little ones, and passed by them with the eggs in his arms, without alarming them. Until John walked away, those lower races still didn't know that a nobleman of the highest rank had just passed by him.

The further he went, the more John could meet all kinds of demons with their goods. These demons are not only the dog people and the little devils we knew before, but there are also some other races, and their appearances are also strange, some have scales, some have feathers, some have weapons in their hands, some have bare hands, some drag their families with goods, and some go alone. John even found a convoy of several demons, not only possessing demons, but also domesticating monsters for riding and freight, as well as wagons pulled by monsters, carrying goods or the old, weak, sick and disabled.

I feel that the civilization here is not low, John stood on the tree in the distance and looked at the convoy in the distance.

"Don't get me wrong, the real theme of purgatory is not development and co-prosperity, but killing and plundering, just grab what you need. "This group is different," said Catherine. "Then these are ......," John asked, a little confused. There was a hint of a smile in Catyline's eyes: "Those are the unlucky rough stone souls, there is a poor fellow who doesn't know how to fill in the things, and assigned himself to this place that has not been completed at that time, and as a result, he can only wander around the area that has been made out by the master's time-consuming and laborious work." ”“...... In other words, there is a primordial soul after completing those questions. Inexplicably, he arrived in this purgatory, which was only a framework at the time, and became a war demon - it can be regarded as a medium demon race, and it is not a loss. Because of his presence, Master An had to mount the surrounding frame with the scene and other Warcraft before he could explore, making him unable to perceive the incompleteness of the world. ”

John listened in silence to Kamlaline's words, completely unable to take over. This civilization is still made because of the soul of the original stone, so don't blame these carriages. John looked at the pangolin-like creatures in front of the carriage and asked, "What about these tamed ......monsters" Caryline replied: "These are the companion monsters of the rat people, these monsters can only dig quickly, only stamina is OK, the rat people grow up with these big rats, each rat man regards these big rats as his brothers, even if he is hungry, he will not have the idea of eating the big rats, sometimes he would rather be hungry and feed the food he finds to the big rats first." Somehow, that war demon became the leader of the rat people, digging caves and cultivating fields in that valley, but he had a good time. ”

Well, how can there be a magical farming style of painting? John thought of the novels he found in the Rough World, and there were many stories of this style. No wonder this primordial soul is very skilled, not because he has done a lot and is experienced, but because he has many deeds to learn from.

Shaking his head, John watched as the convoy slowly walked into the distance. In the middle of the convoy, John saw the battle demon of the original stone soul - a guy about the height of his own chin, with bulging muscles on his naked upper body, and he could see a lot of scars spread over his body, and a huge stone hammer on his back, just looking at it, he knew what would happen if this stone hammer was cleaved down. However, it seems that the carriage they made is not too high in quality, and at least the war demon who is the leader not only does not sit on the cart, but even has to carry the goods himself.

However, it can be seen that there are many people around who are very afraid of the war demon Haishu who has obtained his real name, and John saw that some weak demons hurriedly fled after seeing the convoy, as if this war demon would smash them with that big hammer when he saw that they were not pleasing to the eye. "In fact, the war demons are not very good-tempered, even if they are not as strong as the other party, the war demons will fight out of anger, which is also the origin of their names. War demons are excellent warriors, and it is normal for these inferior demons to be afraid of him. Catherine explained to John carefully. "It seems that there are clear hierarchies in purgatory. John sighed, stopped paying attention to the convoys, and flew down from the trees. I'm not going to rush today, I seem to feel the egg in my hand moving just now, so let's find a place to spend the night.

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Because I saw a lot of book friends mention the protagonist, because some book friends have not played the Soul series, I will briefly talk about it here.

First of all, the protagonist is the Ash Man, which is the non-combustible material that is burned after the fire is spread, that is, what we often call non-combustible garbage. His original world originally only existed with the Immortal Ancient Dragon, but then the initial fire was ignited in the Great Tree Hole of the World Tree, and everything changed because of this. Among them, the Sun King Gwen and his Silver Knight discovered the Soul of Light, the original Dead Nit (the original Dead House) discovered the Soul of Death, the witches of Izaris discovered the Soul of Life, and in the corner where no one was looking, the Dwarves discovered the Soul of Darkness, which are the first four King Souls. Later, under the attack of the three kings of Gwen, the witch and the nits, the rule of the Stainless Ancient Dragon ended.

It's just that the flame will be extinguished, and when the flame is extinguished, the age of fire will end, which is naturally not something that the king can tolerate, so there is a fire, that is, to use his own humanity and soul to add a firewood to the initial fire that is about to be extinguished.

By the time of Dark Souls 3, that is, John's time, the two princes of Lothric, who were supposed to pass the fire, Prince Lolian and Prince Lothric, refused to pass the fire, so the only way to reuse it was to reawaken the Salary King, who had already gone through the fire but did not burn it clean. As a result, these Salary Kings - the Abyssal Observer Fran Undeath, the Giant King Yum, and the Shadow Sage Eldridge have all escaped from their thrones, so the only way to do this is to pull up the Ash Man, who has been burned to ashes and have no self, so that it can bring back all the defected Salary Kings - even if the people do not return, just bring back their firewood, that is, just kill them and bring their souls, which is the transmission of fire.

And in the process of spreading the fire, there is a force tempting you to take the initial fire for yourself, and that is Longor. Therefore, after reaching the place where the fire is spreading, the Initial Furnace, you will have four options: the Flame Passing ending, which ignites itself as firewood to give life to the world, the Fire Extinguishing ending, which ignores the flames and waits for it to go out, the Fire Snatching ending where the Initial Fire is snatched from the Fire Girl, and the usurper ending where you become the Lord of Darkness in Longor. But to be honest, apart from the ending of the fire, nothing else is John's own choice.

Because when he recovered, in addition to his own name, he only had the mission that he was considered to have been given - to defeat all the obstacles in the picture, bring back the firewood of Xinwang, and ignite himself to continue his life for the world. Therefore it is true that he has no thoughts of his own, and that he and Yuan are not a complete person. But when I was playing, the first ending was originally to spread the fire, but I accidentally touched the button and made it a fire-grabbing fire, so I wondered if John's body was strengthened by the dark soul that the dwarf king had given to his people because of the fire-grabbing fire? But at the same time, it was because of the fire-grabbing that his soul was closely connected that there would be reincarnation again and again? That's it.

So, John was just a guy who did other people's orders before, and he didn't have a mind of his own from beginning to end, whether it was in the game setting or outside of the game when we controlled it, he was just a marionette, he just didn't know it.

Finally, I asked, on the title of this book and this introduction, what kind of mentality do you have to click in to read it, if I see a book myself, I don't want to read it╮(╯▽╰)╭