Audrey hesitated and spoke:

"That's, Calula......"

"Please call me Firewoman." Calula interrupted her, correcting.

Audrey saw that Calula seemed to have a deep obsession with the word, and said softly:

"Okay, Firewoman."

Calula smiled and said softly:

"Lord Ember, what do you want to ask?"

"What is this place?"

Audrey pondered for a moment and asked.

A hint of nostalgia flashed in Kalula's eyes, and she said softly:

"This is the fire sacrifice ground, and the throne of the paid kings stands."

"And what you have to do is to bring back the kings who have abandoned their thrones to their thrones."

"Passing the Fire ......"

Audrey fell silent, remembering that Ember had told her that it was his destiny to spread fire.

Does that mean that what she's going through now is likely to be Ember's past? And what did Calula spend so much energy trying to create such a dream? What does this have to do with embers?

Audrey's heart was full of questions, but she didn't say them, but asked softly:

"Card ...... Fire Girl, what am I going to do next? ”

"You can try to explore the Flame Transmission Arena, and you can also communicate with other people in the Flame Transmission Arena to gather useful information, but most importantly, ......"

Kalulah made some constructive suggestions, but then reached out and pointed to the extinguished brazier in front of her:

"You need to retrieve the spiral sword and relight the campfire."

"Spiral Sword?"

Audrey was a little confused, but quickly remembered the bonfire she had encountered earlier, which also had a spiral sword stuck in it.

That is, only a fire with a spiral sword in it can be ignited?

But where is she going to find the Spiral Sword?

Audrey suddenly remembered the tall knight she had met in the square, half-kneeling on the ground, with a spiral sword stuck in his chest.

Audrey hesitated and asked:

"So, I have to go back to the square, pull out the sword from the knight's chest, and bring it back here?"

"Yes."

Calula smiled, "This kind of behavior of yours is commonly referred to as skipping class. ”

Audrey blinked, so shouldn't she actually use psychology to skip class? Wouldn't she better clean up all the living corpses she encountered along the way? With the help of psychological stealth, it shouldn't be difficult to sneak up on those living corpses from behind.

But the knight, who was very strong at first sight, made Audrey, who had never had actual combat experience, play the drums a little.

So she just silently remembered all this, but she didn't immediately return to the square and try to pull out the spiral sword. Because she remembered what Calula said, she could explore the fire festival ground and communicate with the others.

The fire festival is circular in shape, and all areas inside can be connected to each other.

On the second floor of the fire ceremony, on the back of the five thrones, the names of the lords of the thrones are engraved, from left to right:

The Church of the Dead – Sage Eldridge.

Rudos the Vault Dweller.

End of Bloodline - The Holy King of Lothric.

Watcher of the Abyss.

The capital of sinful karma - the giant king Yum.

The five thrones are symmetrical to each other from left to right.

Except for a thin old man on the throne of 'Ludos the Vault Dweller', the owners of the other four thrones are not on the throne, and the owners of these thrones are the 'kings who have abandoned their thrones'.

And what Audrey has to do now is to bring these four people back to their throne.

In addition to this, although the throne seems to follow a certain pattern, it is not strictly symmetrical in size.

The throne belonging to Rudos the Vault Dweller is the smallest, followed by the Abyss Watcher, followed by the Sage Eldridge and the Sage King of Lothric, which are larger and on the far right, and the throne belonging to the Giant King Yum is the largest.

Audrey speculated that it might have something to do with the size of the 'Salary Kings' themselves, and she had seen 'three' of them in her dreams—

Eldridge, Jum the Giant King, Watcher of the Abyss.

Yum is a giant, and his body size is naturally far beyond ordinary people, and it is normal for the throne to be the largest.

Only the Abyssal Watchers, like the Fursaks who are rumored to be descendants of giants. Although it is still taller than the average person, it is also at a normal level.

But even this could not explain the doubts in Audrey's heart.

For example, there seem to be a lot of people in the Abyss Watcher, and it seems that one throne can't sit down, right?

There is also the Giant King Yum, whose throne is the largest, but still nothing compared to his sheer size. Even if you really bring him here, I'm afraid you won't be able to sit down at all.

Since Kalulah had put a lot of effort into constructing this dream, she would definitely not make such a low-level mistake.

So, is there any reason for this that she doesn't know?

Audrey was eager to ask Calula about it, but before that she thought she could ask someone else first.

For example, Rudous, the only Vault Dweller who sits on the throne.

Audrey searched the entire fire ritual, but she only found five 'living people'. In addition to Calula, who is a fire-fighting woman, there are only the knight with his head bowed at first, Rudos on the throne, an old woman, and a blacksmith.

And the highest position among them should be 'Ludos the Vault Dweller', the salary king who sits on the throne.

Audrey stood under Rudos' throne and asked politely:

"Hello, sir, are you Mr. Rudolph?"

"Oh, polite little girl."

Rudos seemed to have finally noticed her, and said in an emotional tone, "Before you become a fireless ash and a king-seeker, you must be a well-educated noble lady. It turns out that it's not just a dwarf like me, but even people like you are bound by a curse......"

"Ah, I'm sorry...... I'm a little distracted, but you guessed it, I'm Rudolph from Courland. ”

"You may not believe it, but I am the Salary King who once passed on the fire, and this body that is still suffering from the slight fire is ironclad proof."

"This broken body, if you look closely, you should be able to see it clearly, right?"

Listening to Ludos's seemingly self-deprecating tone, Audrey subconsciously glanced at Rudos's lower body-

There was nothing there.

Yes, although he was the salary king on the throne, Rudos lost his legs.

And in this regard, Audrey actually has some guesses.

Because in the picture she saw when she entered the dream, only three of the five new kings appeared:

The Sage Eldridge, the Abyss Watcher, and the Giant King Yum.

The Holy King of Lothric and Rudoth the Vault Dweller are not among them, but perhaps not absolutely—

For example, Rudos the Vault Dweller.

The other four salaried kings all gave up their thrones, but Rudos was the only one who sat on his throne. This does not mean that he has not given up his throne, he may have been forced to return to it.

Because in one of the scenes, Audrey saw a knight dragging a man with only the upper body back to the fire sacrifice ground. And the person with only the upper body may be Rudos......

In other words, Rudos's legs may have been dragged back after being broken by 'Ash'.

He may have wanted to give up his throne like the other Salary Kings, but his luck didn't seem to be good......

Although this may well be the truth of the matter, Audrey was wise not to ask in person.

Even if it's in a dream, even if Rudolph is just a product of a dream fantasy, it's always bad to poke someone else's scar in front of him.

Audrey pondered her words and asked:

"Do you know anything about the other payrolls?"

"Other Salary Kings ......"

Rudos glanced at the other thrones on either side, and said in a complicated tone:

"Although we are both salary kings, we don't spread the fire at the same time, and we haven't crossed paths before, so I know quite little about them, but I've only heard some stories about them. Of course, if you really want to know, I can tell you a few as well. ”

Audrey immediately showed an open face to ask for advice.

Rudos looked at the throne on his right and said softly:

"Eldridge, rumored to have been a priesthood of the White Cult."

"Originally an agent who studied the fire of sin on behalf of Loslick in the capital of sin, he was affected by the fire of sin and developed a habit of cannibalism, so he was dismissed from his post and imprisoned in a secluded church, as a tool for dealing with the undead, who would be sent to Eldritch as 'sacrifices' along the path of living sacrifice."

"Years of cannibalism and ghostly influences have caused him to lose his human form and turn into a puddle of mud, but the accumulation of his soul has also given him the power to become a salary king. Lo Slick canonized him as a 'Sage' as firewood for the Initial Fire, and was buried in a coffin deep in the depths of the chapel. ”

"Cannibalism?"

Audrey suddenly shuddered, such behavior is simply intolerable to the world! It is not enough to be sentenced to death a hundred times in the Kingdom of Rune! But in this world, in order to let him spread the fire, such a person was instead named a 'sage', which is absurd and bizarre.

Rudos didn't seem to notice Audrey's strangeness, and continued:

"Yum, the Giant King, a descendant of the ancient conquerors."

"With the body of a giant, Yum is invincible, helping the people of the capital of crime to repel foreign enemies and expand the territory."

"But the people of the capital of sinful karma are not grateful to Yum for this, they are full of fear of Yum, because they are afraid that Yum's great power will threaten their safety."

"Until one day, the fire of sinful karma fell from the sky, and the flames that could not be extinguished consumed everything around them. In order to solve this crisis, Yum was elected king of the capital of sin. ”

Even though Yum knew that the man who had chosen him as king was not sincere, he granted their request. However, even Yum could not do anything about the fire of sinful karma that could not be extinguished, until he heard a rumor that the fire of sinful karma appeared because the first fire would be extinguished, and as long as the first fire could be burned again, the fire of sinful karma could be extinguished. ”

"Watchers of the Abyss, the Farlangs Immortals."

"They are the heirs of the will of the Abyssal Rambler Arterius, making a pact with the old wolf of Fran, sharing the blood of the wolf, watching over the abyss and exterminating any group of warriors who show signs of abyssal erosion."

"In order to stop the erosion of the abyss, even if it is necessary to wipe out a country. The undead team is not enough to pay a salary, their strength comes from the strength of the group, and after sharing the wolf blood, the undead team has the qualification to be paid. ”

"In order to continue the initial fire, Loslick used the undead squad that suppressed the abyss as firewood to pass the fire."

"Last ......"

Rudos set his eyes on the throne at the top, and said in a complicated tone:

"There are two princes in Losric, the eldest prince Lorian and the second prince Lothric, who has been given the same name as his country."

"Prince Lothric had high hopes for the fire before he was born, but after he was born, he was too weak to become the hero who wielded the platinum sword as the royal family expected."

In order to protect his younger brother, the eldest prince Lorian even resisted the mission to spread the fire, believing that it was a cursed path. This, in turn, sparked civil strife in Lothric. The knights of Lothric fight each other over their ideas, but the two princes hide at the top of Lothric's great library, waiting for the day when the flames will be extinguished and the era will end. ”

"It is precisely because Prince Lothric resisted the mission of spreading fire that we, the ancient kings who have already spread fire, will be awakened by the bell and once again fulfill the mission of spreading fire."

Audrey wanted to speak and stopped, this is what you mean by 'limited knowledge', 'only heard some rumors'?

This 'some' is too detailed!

Of course, Audrey also knew that it was just a dream, just a reproduction of the legend of the past-

It's not even necessarily a complete reproduction.

For example, Audrey has always felt that Calula is full of private goods, otherwise how could she arrange the role of a fire prevention girl for herself?

The real Rudolph himself may indeed have limited knowledge of the other pay-payers.

But this is a dream, and this 'Rudos' in front of him is only a product of a dream. And since the dream was constructed by Calula, then all that Ludos said may have only been said by Calula through his mouth.

And this also made Audrey have a new guess about Callula's purpose-

It is obviously impossible to pass the fire.

It's just a dream, and there's no point in spreading fire in a dream.

What Kalula is looking for is perhaps just a story of the past and the truth of it all to the world.

And everything that happens in the dream is only in the service of this goal.

Thinking about this, Audrey no longer dwelled on the 'person' who said the information, but began to analyze the information itself.

Judging from the experience of these five 'salary kings' alone, it seems that the fire itself is not as glamorous as it sounds. On the contrary, it is full of all kinds of dirty transactions, and the superiors unscrupulously title those with powerful souls as 'salary kings', and take them as tools to spread fire as a matter of course, and even the immortal squads that suppress the abyss are used as firewood......

Even the abyss is abandoned in order to spread the fire, is it really that important to pass the fire?

Even if she hadn't really started to go through it yet, Audrey had already questioned it.

Thinking of this, Audrey suddenly had a feeling-

Perhaps this kind of questioning she generated was exactly what Calula expected.

Callula wanted her, or rather, to make everyone who entered this dream the same question.

(End of chapter)