"Be careful, Knight Commander."

Emma's old eyes under the Priest's hood lifted and stared at Lorenzo for a moment.

"King Othrois is the Holy King. Supporting the fire ceremony for tens of thousands of years. ”

The new Knight Captain pursed his lips, but finally suppressed his temper.

"Then even if we don't disturb Your Majesty, we must return to the inner city and regain our strength and power before we can advance the fire transmission ceremony!"

That's to the point.

Now that the coup has begun, the people of the city have become this abyss-infested image because of those flake ashes.

In the final analysis, the norm in the world has changed from 'reasoning' to 'looking at fists'.

Without fists, this fire transmission ritual would never have been able to advance a bit.

All the 'exhortations' are false, the coups have begun, and the Knights have all split and seen blood.

In fact, both of them knew that if they wanted the prince to spread the fire, they were afraid that the only way to do this today was to press him with a sword.

And the inner city is where their strength lies. The walls were nothing more than a detached outer layer of defense for Lothric, and neither the priests nor the Knights invested much in them.

"But I think you're going back to the inner city now to look for death."

Lan En walked over, leaning against a stone pillar and speaking calmly.

Both Lorenzo and Emma turned their heads to look at him.

"One of the great fighting power of the Knights is the Wyvern, right?"

Lan stood leaning against the wall with his hands on his chest. At the same time, he stretched out a finger and pointed upwards to the sky, as if pointing at a flying dragon.

"But I have to warn you, Lorenzo and Emma."

"There was chaos in the city just now, there were shouts of killing, screams, and monster roars everywhere, but not a single flying dragon flew out of the inner city from the beginning to the end."

"Not a single one."

Lane's cat's eyes looked at Lorenzo through the scattered silver hair. This powerful warrior who rose from dragoon and elite knight commander to knight commander.

His qualifications cover almost all levels of the Order of Lothric, and he is extremely familiar with the rules and composition of the Order.

Naturally, you should know what that means.

Wyverns are capable of flying, and the city of Lothric, despite its rugged terrain, is completely out of the way for them.

If the dragoons wanted to, then there should be no one who could stop them from descending the inner city to the high walls in search of their knight leader.

Available now. Not a single dragon came down.

Lorenzo also looked at Lan En who tilted his head, but now in his eyes, the face that looked unreasonable could only bring him a chill at this time.

"It's . This is a serious accusation! ”

Lorenzo pursed his lips and said with difficulty.

If the dragons and dragoons don't come down, there are only two possibilities.

One is that the Wyverns and Dragoons were all seized or 'disposed of' in the inner city.

The leaders of the two pillars of the Order and the Celebrant were not in the inner city, but the leaders of the princes and sages who staged the coup d'état were.

With this advantage, the unknown situation of the knight dragoons may indeed be detained, or completely destroyed.

The second possibility, as Lorenzo said. is a serious accusation.

- All the dragoons have defected.

Now that King Oslois has locked himself up, Prince Lorian's prestige has reached its peak after he slays the last hope of the demon race.

Among the knights who advocate strength and strength, half of the princely faction can be divided, which can be said to be completely due to the prestige of Prince Lorian.

And will this prestige spread among the dragoons?

Lorenzo didn't know the bottom of his heart.

After all, before that, he was just an elite knight captain, and he didn't need to care too much about political matters.

But now, it's something he has to think about.

"Then it's better to wait a little longer."

Lann made a suggestion.

"If it's killed, it's seized, it's the same for a while or not. And if after this period of time, there is still no dragon knight who has reacted from the chaos and come down from the inner city to find the knight leader, then"

Either of the two possibilities would indicate that the inner city had completely fallen into the hands of the princes.

Lan's words were not finished, and it was not suitable to be finished. None of the three of them spoke, and the atmosphere became solemn for a while.

"I'll arrange the defense." After a long time, Lorenzo wiped his face and put the helmet on his back again.

"I'll try to gather the members of the Order on the high wall and concentrate my strength. Rann was right, it was too risky to rush up when the situation above was still unclear. ”

"Now that the flames are fading, Lothric, especially the one in charge of the fire ceremony, must not make any more mistakes."

Seeing that Lan Enzuo persuaded Lorenzo, he felt a little more relaxed.

Now the situation is getting worse and worse, but he still has to stay in this world for a while.

He has to deal with the darkness lurking in his body, and he has to fight to live in this chaotic situation, how terrifying it is to live in a world with unstable rules at the bottom, and he has seen it this time.

"Thank you for persuading the Knight Commander, and for letting me let go of unnecessary luck."

Priestess Emma approached Lane, and the old voice whispered to him.

"The main force of the priesthood has actually been in the inner city all the time, and if you don't persuade us, even if we don't go back in person, we will have to send some people to the inner city to have a look."

"But intellectually, those sages have a grudge against our priesthood. After a long period of contradictions, there should be no surviving priesthood above. ”

Speaking of this, Lan En turned his head in embarrassment.

"I'm sorry to have broken your hopes."

"It's just a false hope born from my luck, and it's good if it's gone. After all, if you really want to do something, you have to face the cruel reality. ”

Priest Emma shook her head heavily.

"Rest first, Lanne. When the letter says, when the people from the Church come, we can be more prepared. ”

There was not much more to say, and everyone was physically and mentally exhausted in this day of turbulence and violent change.

——

Dark.

It's like a cloud of slime, black mud, and asphalt-like darkness, entwining and clinging to the body and mind.

Tricky, sticky and thick.

Lan felt a little difficult to breathe, as if his whole body was enveloped in thick darkness.

And even if it's dull, inside the body, a continuous feeling of being gnawed by some kind of carnivorous insect is also coming.

These feelings made Lan En's mind feel confused, but he couldn't get rid of it no matter what.

Finally, he felt his body shaken, and this external force seemed to become his grip on getting rid of the darkness.

"Suck ~"

The witcher snapped his eyes open, the vertical pupils in his pupils constricting and settling before settling down.

Take a sharp breath, as if you forgot to breathe during the break just now, and now you have to make up for it in one breath.

The body instinctively wants to tense and defensively, but then it is pressed down by a strong will, and forcibly maintains the normality of the body.

But these out-of-control performances were only for a moment, and even the person who woke him up didn't notice much.

Lorenzo just felt that Lane was a little difficult to wake up, someone like him should be very sensitive.

Then, after Lan En opened his eyes, he felt the air freeze for a moment, but then everything was as usual, like an illusion.

"Are you okay?"

Lorenzo patted Ryan on the shoulder, and by the way, he took his arm and asked him to sit up from the floor covered with a sheet.

"Your face is very ugly."

"No, nothing." Lan En quietly tightened and released his hand, feeling his physiological condition, and at the same time, Mentos also reported the physiological information he collected in real time to the subject.

"I just haven't had a break in a long time."

The witcher said calmly.

But in reality, he ate and slept well the night before the coup d'état.

But last night, I don't know if it was because of the power of the abyss raging in the city of Lothric, and the darkness in his body was affected.

The darkness that had been held down by Rosaria's [Miracle Sunshine Moisture] began to stir again.

While repeatedly opening and closing his palms to relieve the strange feeling on his body, Lan En's heart became a little more urgent.

If it weren't for the super organ [Holy Verse Gland] in his head, he might have been mentally abnormal when he first came into contact with it.

But now, as the first fire weakens and weakens, the darkness will spread and flourish in a great way. This is the natural law of this world.

There is nowhere to hide if you want to, because this is a worldwide disaster.

But even in the face of this kind of problem, Lan En still maintained a calm face and tone now.

"What's the matter with waking me up?"

He's not the kind of person who messes himself up when he's in danger, and after a lot of experiences, he knows that a confused mind will only speed up his way to the grave.

"Like you said yesterday, Lanne"

Lorenzo's teeth clenched, and he could tell that he was repulsed by the content of what he had said.

"Dragoons have come down from the inner city."

"Didn't it turn out well?"

Lorenzo was silent for a while, then said.

"I couldn't even control my flight attitude when I came down, and then I lay on a tower with a high wall and died."

"'One end'? What else? ”

"Another wyvern. They came down to hunt down. It and its dragoons obviously didn't expect so many Knights to gather here. ”

"We were originally knights of dragon hunting, so the corpses of that wyvern and dragoon are now outside."

Lan En didn't care too much about the corpses of the two wyverns, and now he should be most concerned about how to keep the flames alive and get rid of the darkness.

And compared to the legendary immortal ancient dragons in this world, these flying dragons are really a bit ordinary.

"It's the situation above that matters."

Lan asked as he pinched his uncomfortable temples.

Lorenzo had just taken the position of head of the knights, and none of the knights here had been in management before.

So when he had something, he could only come to Rann and Emma to discuss.

But it's good to be sober and self-aware. I won't make a rash decision without listening to persuasion as soon as my brain is hot.

And Lorenzo's words are just as Len estimated yesterday.

"The people in the inner city, before the coup d'état, told the knights of the Order to assemble in the chapel."

"The dragon knights didn't have a chance to board the Wyvern, and the other knights had at most a portable sword, and they weren't even fully armed. And then in the chapel."

Lorenzo said, his iron-gloved palms crunching as he gripped them.

(End of chapter)