Walk through the hallway.

In the view of the embers is a prayer hall with a towering dome.

A faint ray of sunlight pierced through the clouds and cast a few spots of light in the prayer hall.

But this church is only a replica after all, and all he reproduces is the building, not the people.

For example, the giant judge in the prayer hall and almost the height of the dome, such as the chapel spear that came to the call and vowed to protect the princess.

Perhaps touching the scene, Ember stopped and pulled out an ornament covered with green rust from his bosom.

【Church Gun】

【Decorated with green rust buds.】

The shoots are the pattern of Princess Felenor.

When equipped, you will become the Oath of the 'Church Gun'.

The spear of the church is the guardian of the princess's sleep,

When outlaws invade the church, there is a response to the judge's call,

Take the form of a vowful spirit on a hunting mission.

(When this item is equipped, it will be automatically summoned)

And the Spirit of the Oath, which is the spear of the church, will be given protection. 】

Possessing the proof of the oath of the 'Spear of the Church' means that he also fought for the princess.

Not for protection, but for liberation.

For the princess who was sealed in the city of the Ring of Seals, and can only be liberated at the end of the world, bring liberation.

There is no need for Arianna to lead the way.

Ember looked through the arch to the left at the end of the prayer hall.

Behind is a spiraling staircase, and on the landing at the end of the staircase, there is a extinguished bonfire.

Wow!

A faint flame slowly ignited from the ashes, restoring some temperature to the already cooled campfire.

Ember calmly withdrew his palm and looked to the right side of the platform—

At the end of the corridor, there is an elevator room that leads directly to Felenor's bedchamber.

Bang!

Step on the circular stone slab in the middle of the disc, in the roaring sound of rubbing.

The elevator room was activated, and the disc slowly rose.

When the disc reached the top floor, the spire frozen in the dusk appeared in Ember's sight.

Without hesitation, Ember ascended the staircase to the top of the tower and came to the closed door.

Thundered!

With a heavy thomping sound, the door was slowly pushed forward, opening a gap that could only accommodate one person to pass through.

Through the gap, Ember saw a princess.

Wearing a white and flawless long dress, holding a giant egg with a broken eggshell, the princess who fell into eternal sleep.

"Felenor."

Ember murmured, looking at the girl's beautiful face and losing her mind slightly.

Although he knew that it was just an oil painting and not the real Fellenor, he still inevitably fell into memory.

Long ago, the world was not divided and shrouded in fog. Grey rocks, towering trees, and immortal dragons are everywhere.

Then, one day, the initial fire was lit. With the rise of fire, the world began to show differences.

Hot and cold, life and death, light and darkness.

Then, several species born from the darkness, attracted by the fire, found the king's soul around the fire: the original dead nits, the witches of Izaris, Gwen the Lord of the Sun, and his knights.

After gaining the power of the king, they challenged the ancient dragon. Gwen's thunder pierced through the rock-like scales, the witch's flames created a storm, and the nits unleashed a miasma of death. And with the betrayal of the scaleless white dragon Hiss, the ancient dragon was finally defeated, and the Age of Fire began.

In Rodland, this is a legend known to the world, as well as history.

But that's not all history.

Because those who find the soul of the king in the darkness are also the small human beings who 'no one knows'.

And these 'no one knows' small human beings also participated in the dragon hunting war that will be remembered by history!

As the victor of the Dragon-Hunting War, the Protoss reigned high in Arnorlund and ruled the world.

The witches gain Izaris and have a transcendent status.

Nit is in charge of all life and death in the whole of nature and beyond, and he lives in the deepest and darkest places of the Giant's Graveyard, and no one dares to set foot on his plane, not even God.

Even the betrayer of the ancient dragon, the White Dragon Heath, became a relative of the Sun King Gwen as a duke, and shared the great soul of Gwen. Even as a duke, he conducted inhumane research in the large library in order to obtain immortality.

They all got everything they wanted, except for humans.

Obviously, humans are also the victors of the dragon hunting war and have made indelible contributions to this war, but they are still 'unknown'.

Because their reward is the city of Seal! It's the end times!

It's a penal colony created by the gods for the dwarves! It's a walled isolated city!

In order to be able to erase the influence of the dwarves once and for all, it is not enough to simply exile.

The dwarves' exploits, their contributions to the dragon hunting war, and even the traces of their existence were completely erased the moment they entered the city of Ringin, and from then on they became 'unknown'!

But even so, the gods still set a lot of seals for the dwarves who entered the Ring of Seals!

Not just the dwarves themselves, their weapons, their armor, everything they know is sealed with fire!

And the reason for all this is exactly what Cass said:

King Gwen was deeply afraid of the darkness, he feared that the fire would be extinguished, he feared those who were in darkness, and he feared that humanity might give birth to the Lord of Darkness, and he feared the cycle of heavenly principles. Therefore, he kept spreading the fire, commanding his own children to lead and restrain people, so that you humans could forget everything and live in a bad way, so as to avoid the birth of the Lord of Darkness!

Cass is undoubtedly a liar, but he is a clever liar.

He will not deceive you with pure lies, but will be guided by the truth and lead the undead to the path He desires.

Gwen was indeed deeply afraid of the darkness, so he exiled the dwarves to the city of the Ring of Seals, and sealed everything of the dwarves with fire, so that the humans would forget the former dwarven kings, and forget that their ancestors also participated in the dragon hunting war!

As described in the Dragon's Shield:

In the past, the Ring of Indian Knights had been asked by the gods,

Join the dragon hunters,

But their exploits will never be celebrated.

When the dwarves were exiled to the city of the Ring, when everything about them was sealed by fire and all traces left in Loderan were erased, perhaps the only thing that could take comfort was the Sun King's daughter, Princess Felenor.

The city of Ring India is the place of the end times, a penal colony created by the gods for the dwarves, but the dwarves do not know it. They naively thought that the city was a paradise like Izaris, a reward given to them by the gods for their merits.

And perhaps in order to confuse the dwarves, the Sun King Gwen rewarded the dwarves with the 'Ring of Seal City', and also rewarded his own daughter to the dwarves.

【Special Envoy Small Ring Flag】

[The small ring flag used by the envoy of King Gwen in ancient times.]

Facing the annular rock wall to hold this object alof, the porter will come.

It is said that the king will be in the city of Ring India, where the last days will be,

Together with the beloved Maiden, it was given to the dwarves who received the dark souls.

This is proof that he will go to meet her someday. 】

Felenor may know the truth, which is why the Sun King promises to meet her one day.

But this is just a lie after all.

Until the end of the world, the Protoss had not been able to fulfill their promises.

And the Sun King, Gwen, may never have thought of fulfilling his promise.

Gwen is a king, but he is not a hero.

Perhaps at the moment when he gave the maiden to the dwarf, he had already foreseen the fate of Felenor-

The dwarves who learned the truth were furious and brutally murdered her as the daughter of the Sun King.

However, none of this happened.

The dwarves who learned the truth were angry, and perhaps resentful.

That's why the Ring Seal Knight took off his helmet and put on a black cloth stained in the abyss, and especially covered his eyes with more layers of cloth. It was their feeble resistance to the gods to prevent the seal of fire from destroying everything that could not be seen.

But even so, they still love and support Princess Felenor from the bottom of their hearts.

Until the end of the world, until the slave knight Gale slaughtered the dwarven king and cut off his legs, the surviving dwarven king from the slaughteryard still struggled to crawl to Ferenor's bedchamber, trying to seek redemption from the princess.

And what about Felenor?

She may have a grudge against her father who abandoned her, right?

But she is still fulfilling her duties and fulfilling her promise with the Protoss.

At the cost of her life, she sealed the darkness that Gwen feared, and fell into a deep sleep.

As a descendant of the immortal Elder Dragon, Midil has always faithfully guarded her side, devouring the overflowing darkness until she herself is also consumed by the darkness and tormented.

Even if she was betrayed, abandoned, even if the gods had long since dissipated, she still did her duty.

For the Protoss, she has already done her best.

The only thing left is salvation.

Ember had a little nostalgia in his eyes, and gently reached out to touch the giant egg in the girl's arms.

Click! Click~!

The eggshell shattered the moment it was touched, and finally collapsed like a building. It was torn apart on the girl's long skirt, revealing the deep darkness of the white eggshell inside that was the opposite of it.

A holy light then bloomed, completely illuminating the room and enveloping Ember's body.

Arianna was standing outside the gate.

The light was a step ahead of her, but it couldn't leave the room.

She calmly watched as it all happened, and everything was the same as the last time, as if nothing had changed.

"O king, please take all that I have."

The girl's soft call sounded in Ember's ears, and Ember slowly raised her head.

The blind princess was smiling and holding her hand to his head, and a warm flame poured from her palm into Ember's body like water. It was the King's Soul, one of the King's Souls that was divided into nine parts.

It was a parting gift given to her by Ember herself, but now it is just a thing to return to its original owner.

Arianna stood silently in the doorway.

When the light cleared, she returned to her room.

The layout of the house remains the same, and the huge painting depicts a beautiful girl. And in her arms, she held a torn but mostly intact dome.

And the embers, who had just entered the room, were nowhere to be found.

Everything seems to be back to the way it was, nothing has changed.

Arianna grabbed the edge of the door, as if trying to close it and leave.

But at this moment, her peripheral vision suddenly caught a glimpse of the corner of the girl's mouth in the painting, slightly outlining a shallow smile.

Arianna's expression moved slightly, because this time seemed to be different.

But she still didn't do anything.

Just calmly close the door and let everything calm again.

She followed the path she had come from, down the stairs, and back to the lower level via the elevator.

Through the hallway guarded by the statue of the knight, she saw the extinguished bonfire at the end of the staircase.

The burning just now seemed to be just a short-lived illusion.

The campfire was still cold, without the slightest temperature.

Arianna tapped four times clockwise on her chest and whispered:

"May the Goddess bless you, Your Excellency."

She quickly descended the stairs and left the church.

The sun had already set, and the crimson moon was just showing its head, slightly dimmed by the clouds and mist.

But suddenly, the crimson moonlight on the snow-covered ground outside the church suddenly deepened and thickened!

Arianna looked up and saw that the clouds and mist had cleared in the air, and the red moon, which was more than a semicircle, was clearly revealed. Its silhouette was so fast and plump that in just a second or two it turned into a full moon, a full moon as red as blood!

"Blood Moon?"

Arianna's lips twitched slightly, and she muttered to herself in a little surprise.

Among the goddesses' honorific names, there is the 'Lord of Crimson'.

But Arianna knew that there were other beings vying with the goddess for control of the Crimson Moon. It's like a blood moon that appears from time to time, and it's not all controlled by the goddess.

Your Excellency has been coming to the Night Church almost every day for the past few months, but why is there a blood moon today?

Arianna was puzzled, and suddenly looked down the hill as if she had realized something.

There, figures in tattered armor were climbing to the top of the hill and coming to the church in the snowstorm.

The tranquil church at night is particularly beautiful, complemented by the red moon that hangs high in the air and illuminates the earth coldly.

But he was not in the mood to enjoy the view, and only glanced at the cemetery next to the church, where there was a sarcophagus, but the lid had long since been lifted, revealing an empty interior. He looked away from the campfire in the cemetery, which burned quietly even in the snowstorm, and looked calmly at the church in front of him.

At the entrance to the Church of Tranquility, a figure appeared in his sight at some point.

It was a lady with ordinary features, dark eyes, a simple robe, a bark belt, long black hair hanging down, no shoes and socks, and bare feet.

Abbot of the Night, Chief Ascetic, Servant of Secrets, Angel of the Earth, Arianna.

"Good evening, Your Excellency."

Arianna looked up at the tall figure in front of her and whispered a greeting.

He didn't say anything, just looked at the lady in front of him calmly, and after a while he slowly spoke:

"Take me to the world of painting."

"Okay,"

Arianna bowed her head lightly and said, "Your Excellency, please come with me." ”

He silently followed Arianna, through the Chapel of Tranquility, into the familiar but unfamiliar building.

Greeted by a half-kneeling stone statue of a knight, he entered the prayer hall.