"There's a dragon pattern shield left there."

A knight of Lothric, who had re-climbed onto the dragon's back, saw the angle that had been ignored just now because of the elevated field of vision, and shouted at the knight chief Lorenzo.

"What's left, what's left."

Lorenzo also climbed his own wyvern with great skill.

"Take as much as you want, now we're going to hurry back to Los Creek! Time is of the essence. ”

After giving orders to his men, the chief knight of Lothric spoke to Lann, who was on a horse and standing beside the dragon.

"Please get out of here as soon as possible, Lann. We really need you to come forward as a witness. ”

The wyvern began to tense its muscles at the command, and its wings began to recharge, ready to take to the skies again.

The stone bricks on the bridge made a 'kalakala' collision and squeezing sound under the subconscious clenching of the dragon's claws.

"I'll go with you in the sky, at the gate of the walls of Lustric, and I'll go down to greet them when you get there."

"It would be nice to get into the city as soon as possible."

Lan En shrugged his silver hair, which was messy from the air currents brought by the wyvern's wings, and shrugged.

The three wyverns took off in turn, leaving behind a bridge of messes and charred corpses.

Lan looked around with a frown, and noticed the pilgrims who were still on the other side of the bridge, too far away to be involved in the riot.

At this point, as if he could not see the cruel corpses on the ground, he marched towards the empty bridge, hoping to get close to the city of Lothric.

They moved forward silently, staggering and struggling, except for the occasional murmur of irrepressible pain.

And under this 'bloody eclipse', this silent advance is simply chilling.

Lan En looked up at the abnormal sun.

"If I hadn't gone to the New World, but had come here straight after the war, I'd probably be going crazy, wouldn't I?"

The thought popped into the witcher's mind.

In a cruel, doomed world, you shouldn't expect any normal people to be there.

Lan En shook his head, gently tugged at the unicorn's mane, and ran towards the majestic and magnificent city gate on the other side of the bridge.

Lorenzo in the sky is circling the dragon to keep up with the unicorn that is not at full speed.

In the absence of roadblocks, the bridge was quickly completed by the Kirin.

At the end of the bridge is the gate of the city of Los Ric.

The majestic gate, which is about 30 meters high, adopts a composite design of a gate and a gate opening and closing.

It is a common combination in the castle defense system.

It's just that this world has used supernatural power to magnify the scale of the city gate to this extent.

Lorenzo arrived in heaven as promised.

He did not negotiate with the city gate guards, but rode directly on the flying dragon and landed on the city wall above the city gate.

Then, at the order of the chief knight, the gate of Lothric 'rumbled' open.

There was a low roar of a flying dragon on the city wall, and then the huge flying dragon flapped its wings, rolled up the dust on the ground under the city wall dozens of meters away, and flew higher in the city.

Lorenzo, on the other hand, trotted down the stairs on the side of the city gate with the 'click' sound of his armor moving.

"Dismount, I told them to take care of your belongings."

Lan En nodded indifferently.

It's just that before leaving, he seemed to habitually pat the Kirin's neck.

Qilin's red crystal-like eyes winked at Lan En.

After entering the gates of Lothric, there is a wide staircase that goes up.

There are also some decorative vegetation such as flower beds and green plants on the side of the stairs, but they have not seen sunlight for a long time, which makes these vegetation wilt.

The soldiers and knights of Los Rick often patrolled back and forth on this wide staircase.

And Lanne, who was following behind Lorenzo, also saw the pilgrims who had entered the city one step earlier.

They seemed to feel inferior, but they just crawled on either side of the road towards the top of the stairs, clasping their hands together, praying and pleading.

The stone turtle shell on their backs made them really look like turtles in black robes in this position.

And these pilgrims paid a heavy price for death and wounds, dragging their bodies that were about to turn into rotten wood and traveled long distances to this holy city that spread fire.

But he only dared to kneel on the side of the road, for fear of blocking the path of pedestrians.

This humility made Lan En frown.

He looked up the staircase, which ended in a magnificent church.

On the façade of the church, the power of magic or miracles has formed a dial composed of illusory blue light to show the time.

"Priestess Emma is inside, and we need to inform her of what happened."

Lorenzo nodded to the passing patrol Knights of Lothric as he whispered to Len as he explained the process of the trip.

Because of the weakening of the first fire, the hardship of life has made the need for faith fierce.

Therefore, although it is not a big day, there are already many people waiting in front of this church to go in and worship.

Most of them wore plain-colored linen robes and blouses, and their cheeks and bodies were very thin.

Most of the people who didn't make it were on their knees outside the church, while muttering words in their mouths.

So the Knights of Lo Ric, who patrol here, are also responsible for maintaining law and order, and Lorenzo must also keep his voice low to prevent information leakage.

But in the face of Lorenzo's arrangement, Lan En also lowered his voice, and whispered with minimal movement of his lips.

"You're not mistaken, are you? This should be the White Church, and you also found the bloodworm pill of the Secluded Church on that group of attackers, and now you are going to tell the priest about it? ”

"A priest is not the same as an archbishop."

Lorenzo explained as he ascended the stairs.

The White Cult is the oldest and largest sect in the world, and its main deity is generally considered to be the god of law and class, Leuyd. Uncle of King Gwen.

The history of this faith is almost as old as the Age of Fire.

It has long covered all human nations.

And such a huge organization has already done a good job of regional division and division of power.

The archbishop of the secluded church is the top of the church, and the priests of Lothric are also high-level, but they are equivalent to the administrators of different dioceses.

The status is equal and not subordinate to each other.

Therefore, unlike Lan's previous estimate, the secluded church is suspected of participating in and supporting the riot, but it does not mean that the priest is suspicious.

On the contrary, in the three-pillar structure of the Lothric royal power, the relationship between knights and priests can be described as 'intimate'.

"Your Majesty doesn't know why, some time ago he insisted on transferring the ownership of the large library that retained a huge amount of precious knowledge from the direct royal family to the sages. This disturbed us and the priests. ”

Lorenzo cryptically explains the reason for the 'closeness' of the knight and the priesthood.

Fortunately, with Lan's level of political history, he could easily understand it.

One of the three-pillar structure has received a huge amount of resource tilt for unknown reasons, and the other two have begun to huddle together to keep warm under the sense of crisis.

In this way, the priest is indeed a role worthy of the trust of the knights.

But in the end. Why didn't Lorenzo find his own high-ranking Knights?

Due to the lack of intelligence, Lann and Mentos were unable to draw reasonable conclusions.

And thanks to the status of the chief knight Lorenzo, the two of them entered the church unimpeded.

The church fits well with Lanne's stereotype of this world's architecture.

Gothic buildings are always filled with reliefs, patterns, and large and heavy flags hanging from the hanging points of the dome.

A slight touch of wind can make these wide hanging flags make a 'whooshing' sound.

And the old woman in the hooded robe on the main seat of the church is undoubtedly the priest of Losric.

She saw the two men entering the door, and quietly passed the task of preaching to the low-ranking priesthood behind her, waving her hand covertly to Lan and Lorenzo.

Motioning for them to follow them to the corner of the church to talk.

In the corner where the candlelight does not shine, although there are already many prayerful believers in the church, this corner is not noticeable.

"I want to get into the riot on the bridge into the city, you should have gotten the news?"

Lorenzo asked respectfully.

"Yes, I heard that."

The voice of the chief priest was not discernible with joy or anger, but just a very ordinary old woman's voice.

"It's hard not to hear the horn of summoning dragon knights for reinforcements, and the same goes for the flapping wings of the two wyverns."

"Why, is it a well-known knight who is going crazy there?"

"It's worse than that, Priest Emma."

Lorenzo whispered as he removed his shield from his back. The only thing left on his back was this dragon pattern shield, and the rest was hung on the dragon saddle and brought back to the dragon training ground of the Knights.

With his iron-gloved hand, he handed the shield with the golden dragon pattern upwards to the priest.

"It's a lot worse."

After seeing this blue shield with magical power, Emma's main priest's breathing also paused significantly.

Afterward, Lorenzo told her about the riot that took place on the bridge outside the city.

The main focus is on what the enemy knows about the Wyvern, and the targeted equipment is a bad sign.

- A sign of the betrayal of the Knights of Lothric!

"You mean, the secluded church, too"

The priest said with difficulty, holding the bloodworm pill that Lorenzo had handed over.

"They should have betrayed Lothric, the Protoss and the royal family."

Lorenzo pulled Lan to his side.

"I also brought witnesses who could testify to what I said. The Gloomy Church has joined forces with a certain mage force to target Lothric. ”

"It's really desperate news in these trying times."

Priest Emma sighed.

"His Royal Highness the Prince is still delaying the spread of the fire, hiding in the palace and not seeing anyone else, you are right to come to me first at this time, Lorenzo."

"The Knight Commander is now facing two-way pressure from top to bottom, and he probably doesn't have the energy to deal with these things."

"I don't understand." Lorenzo's voice was muffled. "If the prince is not willing to spread the fire, then wouldn't it be okay to pull that captive to the throne? Why does His Royal Highness the Prince even have to delay this? ”

(End of chapter)