In the age of fire, spreading fire is the great task of all immortals.

But in the face of the great mission of spreading fire, some people choose to refuse, they think that the age of fire is a lie.

These people want to belong to the time of humanity.

Dark Ages!

If you want to bring the world into the Dark Ages, you need to usurp the initial fire, and there are many people who have this idea, and the most determined of them are the three sisters.

They claim to be the daughters of the Serpent of the World, and are known to the world as the founders of the Black Church, namely the eldest daughter Fried, the second daughter Yulia, and the younger sister Lilian Anne.

Together with the spirits of Longor, they founded the Dark Church, with the goal of usurping the Initial Fire and looking forward to the appearance of the Spirit King.

……

"So, why don't you go to find your Soul King, why do you come to me, I don't want to be the Spirit King."

At the entrance of the Fire Transmission Sacrifice Ground, Xia Yu looked at Yulia in front of him, who was dressed in black and wearing a bird's beak mask, and frowned and asked.

After meeting the First Fire, he didn't take the First Fire immediately, and his capture here is different from the capture in the game.

In the game, the ashes capture the first fire, which will not extinguish the first fire, and the first fire will still burn slowly, so the world will not be destroyed.

But his capture is no different from extinguishing the first fire, after which the light will disappear and the world will be completely darkened.

In other words, the worlds that were sustained by the First Flame would also be destroyed.

In Xia Yu's vision, those destroyed worlds will turn into nutrients for the World Tree, feeding the growth of the new world, the Age of Fire will end, and the Deep Sea Age will not come.

Therefore, before absorbing the first fire, he had to take away all the things that should be taken away, so that they would not be destroyed with the destruction of the world.

But not long after returning to the fire transmission sacrifice ground, Yulia from Longor suddenly came to her, which also surprised Xia Yu.

Obviously, he rejected the branch line to become the King of Spirits at the beginning, but he was still approached by Yulia.

Facing Xia Yu's question, Yulia, who was wearing a helmet mask, couldn't see her expression, but her voice was clearly conveyed.

"Lord of Darkness, although you are not the King of the Spirits of my generation, we all of Longor's are still willing to obey you wholeheartedly in this darkness."

"Ah......h

Xia Yu was a little dumbfounded, how could he become the Lord of Darkness?

Even if there really is a dark king, it should be an immortal, he is an ash, and although the ashes and the undead are collectively called immortals, they are not the same after all.

Besides, the Lord of Darkness should have been born in the Dark Age, and now the Dark Age has not yet come, where is the Lord of Darkness from.

According to the ending of Dark Souls I, the Lord of Darkness should let the flames go out and return to the era when there were no flames.

Then the Lord of Darkness will become the King of the New Age, ruling over those who survive in the darkness.

Of course, it is also possible that the so-called Lord of Darkness is just a puppet of those World Serpents, after all, no one knows whether the World Serpents are genuinely thinking about the undead, or if they have their own conspiracies.

"Don't rush to be loyal to me, tell me what you mean by the Lord of Darkness."

Xia Yu waved his hand and looked at Yulia, it was not okay to buckle her hat indiscriminately.

Hearing this, Yulia raised her head: "O king of my generation, the abyss has surrendered to your feet, and the initial furnace can't stop your steps, so you who can decide the fate of this world are naturally the Lord of Darkness." ”

Xia Yu:( ̄□ ̄)

What the hell is this logic......

If he can use the Abyss, he is the Lord of Darkness, so why not say that he can also use flames?

However, Xia Yu also understood Yulia's meaning, after all, the king of the Black Soul World did not just mean to be called.

In the world of black souls, kings are mainly divided into two kinds, one is the name of ordinary kings in the world of black souls, such as overlord Vonier, knight king Lendl, etc., the title of king is just a symbol of identity and status.

And the other kind of king is the main meaning in the black soul world.

All of these kings have one characteristic, or one of the same responsibilities, and that is to bear the responsibility of where the world is headed.

For example, King Gwen, who continued the Age of Fire, was called the Salary King after joining the Initial Furnace, and since then, the heroes who have spread the fire and continued the world are collectively referred to as the Salary King.

The undead who ignore the extinguishing of the first fire and want to return the world to the fireless era are called the Dark King, and the Ash who wants to continue the world with another unknown darkness by taking the fire is called the King of the Spirits.

So at this moment, Xia Yu also figured out that Yulia thought that he had the power to determine the direction of the world, so she called him king.

As for why he was called the Lord of Darkness, I probably didn't know what else to call him.

You can't call him the Salary King, can you? The Salary King is the king of fire, and Yulia and the others obviously don't want the age of fire to continue.

After thinking for a while, Xia Yu decided to accept Longdor's allegiance, anyway, with his current strength, he was not afraid of any conspiracy.

Even if Yulia and the others wanted to usurp the flames and achieve the Spirit Empire, he was not afraid.

Judging from the game, Yulia and the others did not usurp the power of the flames, otherwise she would not have to go to great lengths to find the so-called King of Spirits.

"I agreed, but have you really decided to be loyal to me? Isn't it trying to pull me into some conspiracy? ”

Xia Yu suddenly reached out and took off the bird's beak mask on Yuria's face, then approached Yulia and asked by staring at her eyes.

Being watched like this, Yulia did not panic, but still calmly spoke: "King of my generation, please rest assured, since we choose to follow you, then I will not betray you." ”

Seeing this, Xia Yu shrugged and put the bird's beak mask back on Yuria's face, if Longall really chose to follow him, then he wouldn't give the other party a chance at all.

He once rejected Longor's main reason for not being strong, he was afraid of falling into a conspiracy to cut and untidy, and after becoming their geist king, he would accumulate curses and become a living corpse face, which was simply too ugly.

When playing the game, you may not care about the living corpse face for the sake of achievement, but now that it has become a reality, the ghost wants to become the living corpse face.

As for now, since Longall has chosen to follow him, it is not impossible to let the World Tree grow a world of geistes.

The World Tree does not only grow one world, the World Tree in Norse mythology has nine worlds, which is equivalent to nine worlds.

Of course, the premise is that there are no dissenting intentions on Longor's side, otherwise he wouldn't mind destroying him.

Since he chose to accept Longdor, Xia Yu didn't hide it, and told the other party about his plan to seize the first fire and then give birth to a new world.

First, the main thing is to let the other party hurry back to the black church to pack up his things, otherwise the world will destroy him and he will not wait.

Second, this is also equivalent to a test, if Longall and the world snake behind him really have different intentions, then he can only take advantage of this time to make trouble, and he just took this opportunity to uproot it.

After learning of Xia Yu's plan, Yulia was startled, thanked her, and left here in a hurry.

If it is really as Xia Yu said, then she will not have much time with the Black Church.

Xia Yu watched Yulia leave here, turned around and went back to the Fire Transmission Sacrifice Ground, since he could explain the plan to Yulia, naturally he would not hide the people in the Fire Transmission Sacrifice Ground.

After letting the people in the fire sacrifice field slowly pack up their things, Xia Yu left the fire sacrifice ground.

It's not just about giving them time, he has something to work out himself.

The main story of Dark Souls III is over, but he hasn't gone to the DLC yet.

"Ember of Eledel" and "Ring of India".

These two are the DLC of Black Soul III, the other name of Eledel's Ember is the painting world, at the moment he has only explored in the painting world, and he has not been to the Ring Seal City, if he remembers correctly, the dark soul is in the Ring Seal City.

But before going to Huanyin City, he still had to go to the painting world to pick up the eldest lady, and he liked that half-dragon little Lori.

There is also a bonfire in the world of painting that leads to the city of Ring, through which Gail, the slave knight in the game, traveled to the city and devoured the dark soul of the dwarf king.

But if you really want to talk about the painting world, in fact, the main boss of the painting world, Sister Fried, has something to do with Longor.

Sister Frid was once a priest, the eldest of the three sisters of the founders of the Black Church in Longdor, the sister of Julia and Lilianne.

At the beginning of the founding of the Dark Church, the task of usurping the First Fire actually fell on the eldest Fryde.

At that time, they did not have the idea of looking for the King of Wandering Spirits, but wanted to usurp the First Fire by themselves, and then obtain the power of the First Fire.

Before leaving for the First Fire, Fried said goodbye to her sisters and another outsider, and that person was the knight of Longor, Vihle.

Vihel was the most loyal person to Fried from the early days of the Dark Church, and he was also the one who accompanied Fried to the end in the shadow of the flames.

Before leaving, Fried gave her knight the Onyx-Bladed Sword, a great sword modeled after fire.

It is said to represent the end of the master-slave relationship and symbolize separation.

After making all the preparations, Fried came to the Initial Furnace and came into contact with the First Flame, and all the preparations of the Dark Church were for this moment, using human power to seize the false light.

But apparently, Fried failed.

Unable to endure the pain of the flames, Fred, who attempted to usurp the fire, was completely engulfed by the pain at the moment of burning.

Because of the failure of the usurpation, she was reduced to ashes and disappeared into the first fire.

I don't know how long it took, but the pay-kings, who were supposed to spread the fire, refused to spread the fire, so the bell to wake up the ashes rang in the ashes graveyard.

The ashes who have failed to spread the fire have woken up one after another, and they have only one mission, which is to hunt the Salary King to seize the firewood, and then spread the fire again to continue the world.

Of course, Fried, who failed to usurp the fire, was also reborn as ashes.

However, because of the burning pain that penetrated deep into the bone marrow, Frid, who had become ashes, abandoned her former ideas, and she abandoned Longall in favor of a more comfortable place.

That is the cold Aredel, also known as the "world of painting".

……

"Phew, I didn't expect to come to this place again, and the main line has already ended."

On the ice-covered plain, white snowflakes fell from the sky one by one, Xia Yu stood at the head of the bridge, looking at the dilapidated villages below with some emotion.

The last time he just walked around the periphery and went to the bottom of the painting world, after that he went out to continue the main line and never came back.

I didn't expect to come back this time, and I actually pushed the main line directly, and the strength was enough to push here.

Just as Xia Yu's thoughts were diverging, an ugly croaking scream suddenly sounded, and some souls that were so weak that they could almost be ignored also entered his body.

This is a passive as an ash, if a life dies nearby, and it is not the ash that kills the life, then the soul will automatically sink into the nearest ash.

If there are no ashes nearby, then the soul will dissipate.

Feeling the soul entering the body, Xia Yu then looked at the location of the scream.

In the dilapidated and corrupt village, the sound of flesh tearing one after another sounded, and a group of weak and deformed crowmen were fleeing, and it was still the crowmen who slaughtered them.

The Raven Men were dressed in armor, and they wore sharp hooks on their hands, and each attack brought five rows of lacerations, so the scene was extremely bloody.

A large amount of blood sprayed on the ground, and the blood pooled into pools of blood, which then merged into bright red streams.

Seeing this, Xia Yu frowned slightly, the current scene reminded him of the slaughterhouse.

didn't think too much about it, looking at the group of crow knights who slaughtered the same kind, Xia Yu casually shot soul arrows, and shot all those crow knights in the head.

Because he knew the ins and outs, he didn't spare the slightest bit of a hand for these crow people who slaughtered their own kind.

The weak crowmen who were still on the run looked around as if they wanted to find out who had saved them when they saw the death of the executioners who had executed them and the others.

But at this moment, Xia Yu had already left, and he walked alone towards the church on the top of the mountain.

Sister Fred and the priest were in the church at the top of the hill, and Lori, the half-dragon, was locked up in the attic of the church.

As for why the Raven Knights slaughtered their own kind? It's all about Fried's desire to keep the world of painting calm.

Ever since Fried had abandoned everything she had been, she suddenly felt that it was a good thing to live in this cold world, after all, the world of painting was the only home for people like them.

However, the pigment of the painting world is the blood of dark souls, and the blood will gradually decay with the passage of time.

It wasn't long before Fried discovered that the world of painting was beginning to corrupt.

It was at this time that she learned from the raven about one of the rules of the painting world of Aredel.

That is, once there is corruption in the world of painting, it is necessary to ignite a flame to burn the old world of painting, and then the painter understands what a flame is, so that the painter can paint a new world of painting.

This rule immediately reminded Fride of the pain of being burned by the first fire, and she wondered why the people here were just as hopeful as the people outside.

In order to maintain tranquility, she would rather the world of painting go into corruption than ignite the flames.

Decided to challenge the rules of the world of painting, Fried forced her way into the church to meet the priest of the Raven Ones.

Because the priest had the flame in his hands, the world of painting burned and repainted at his command.

But when she actually met the priest, Fred realized that the priest had long since forgotten about his responsibilities, and he didn't want to burn down the world of painting.

The two had the same view of the world of painting, so Fried and the priest formed an alliance, and Fried became Sister Fride from then on.

Naturally, the change of the priest did not hide from the crows, after all, the world of painting has begun to corrupt, but the flame has not been ignited.

As worshippers of the priest, the ravens believed that it was Fried's demagoguery that caused the priest to forget his duty.

Sensing that there were still crows with flames, Fred organized a group of crow knights and asked them to hunt down those who were concerned with flames.

The Raven Knights, obsessed with Fried, willingly turned into executioners of their kind in order to save the world of painting from fire.

Under Fried's power, the world of painting ceased to change, until now corruption is rife and insects are proliferating.

(End of chapter)