It was not difficult to point to the courtyard of King Oslois, because it was not far from the church in terms of distance.

And Ryan looked at Emma's presiding priest's expression.

"You don't look like you're just trying to show me the way."

"You're right."

Priest Emma whispered to Lan En without a trace.

"I actually know a little bit more than Lorenzo, who came into office. After all, the church is one of the main planners of the fire-making ceremony. ”

"And what I'm telling you is an unexpected situation that doesn't lend itself to being loudly spoken."

Emma turned her head towards Lane, her head still bowed, the Priest's hood casting a heavy shadow over the top half of her face.

"Is the situation of King Oceloas bad?"

Lan En guessed that after all, the world had collapsed to this point, and the person known as the 'Holy King' locked himself up, which was not right.

"There is no doubt that Your Majesty has a problem."

Emma's mouth was breaking news, but her tone was very calm, and this contrast made Lane feel a little absurd.

"I'm worried about something more serious."

"For example?"

"For example. Something went wrong with the fire sacrifice ground. It stands to reason that even if the salary kings who supported the world during the bridging period did not arrive, the captured hero should have arrived. But as you can see, the world has become like this now. ”

Lan En narrowed his eyes slightly.

"It sounds complicated, tell me what I can do?"

"It's straightforward, it's a good quality in this critical moment." The Priestess of Emma first praised Ran's Lisso, and then leaned closer to him, her voice lowered.

"In the depths of King Osloes' courtyard, there is actually one. Hidden passages. ”

"The passage leads to the other side of the mountain, behind the city of Lothric. And that is the fire sacrifice ground. ”

"I hope that you will not only look at His Majesty and explain to him the current problems of the outside world, but also go to the fire sacrifice ground through there to see the situation at the sacrifice ground."

"If there really isn't a payroll king, neither will the hero we captured."

"Then I need you to ring the big bell on the bell tower of the fire transmission sacrifice ground again."

"The second bell?"

Lan En groaned.

"Can you tell me what that means?"

The first time the bell rang, it was not loud, but it seemed to spread all over the world.

The sound of the bell wakes up the salary kings who should support the world during the transition period.

And this is the second time.

"The bell will awaken the ashes that have burned with the kings from ancient times to the present, but cannot become kings."

Priest Emma paused and spoke in a low, deep tone. Even the candlelight in the church flickered with it, and the light and shadow trembled.

"That's the ultimate resort to the Lothric fire passing process. Awaken the heroes of the ashes who can't become kings, but are desperate for flames. ”

"If the pay-earners are not willing to spread the fire, they are not willing to support the world. Then these ashes chasing the flames will make them 'willing'. ”

When the Salary Kings pass the fire, they are accompanied by a large number of Lustric knights and other warriors.

This is not only support, but also a last-minute monitoring and escort to prevent the Salary Kings from doing anything in the initial furnace.

And these warriors who burn with the Salary King but cannot be called the Salary King are 'ashes'.

"I see."

Lann nodded.

"If things get really bad enough to get that bad, I'll ring the bell."

Once they had reached the priest's seat in the deepest part of the church, Priest Emma motioned for Rann to move the chair. Then she took out a ceremonial utensil in the shape of a basin and placed it in front of the statue behind her seat.

The statue is common in Lothric: a knight kneeling with a sword and his neck rubbing against the blade.

Symbolizes the devotion of the knights of Losric.

And after the basin was lowered, the stone statue seemed to come to life, and really pressed the blade of the sword against its neck in the sound of 'gurgling' stones.

Blood flowed from the neck under the helmet, down the blade of the sword, and was contained in the ceremonial basin.

Then, as if to meet the conditions, an escalator descended from the upper floor of the church.

Priest Emma and Rann looked at each other, and the Priest pointed to the escalator.

——

Lan En looked strange and climbed the escalator, then put the ladder away again.

From this height, he could even see the face of the priest Emma below.

It's not that you want to say it's just that high, so why bother with that? I can't climb up directly?

Lan En complained, it seems that there are really few warriors in this world who have a graceful style as the main style.

Most of them are steady and steady, and then cheat, seize the opportunity, and release [combat skills]. It seems to be quite difficult to get this height.

Lan En complained as he sorted out his mood and made himself nervous as he headed to the King's Courtyard.

"Go up the escalator and go left"

Lann muttered the way Emma had shown her as he set off.

Mentos also annotated information on his retina.

After walking a short distance, he stepped out from under the dome of the church and was outside the building.

Although it is tall, there are some tall trees that extend the canopy to the side of the road.

It's just that because of the lack of light during this time, the leaves on the canopy show a kind of decaying yellow.

Seeing that there was no one left and right, Lan began to rub the ring on his hand.

After a while, a sneaky sound of horses' hooves came from below.

The witcher looked up and down from the side of the railing, and the unicorn was carrying a flannel ball and looking up at the same time below.

"Ha, I knew you were clever enough."

The witcher and Eru gave each other a thumbs up.

The flannel ball was holding a torch in his hand, and it seemed that he had made it himself.

The three-flowered kitten stuck the torch in the gap in the armor of the harness on the unicorn's saddle, and then climbed up against the crack in the wall, and a fierce son pounced on Lan's chest.

"Great, Boss Meow! You're fine! ”

"Thankfully, you made us act a little more ordinary, and those knights in the city were so scary when they fought each other! Fortunately, they saw that the unicorn was an ordinary horse, and they didn't come to cut us down. ”

The flannel ball was rubbed by Lan En's head, and his mouth meowed about his experience with the Kirin.

The knights of the coup d'état wanted to kill, and they didn't have to kill horses.

So under Lan En's instructions, the honest unicorn, and the flannel ball under its wide rune cloth. During the most dangerous period of the coup d'état, no one bothered them at all, and no one even paid attention to them.

It was easy to dodge.

Later, in this increasingly dangerous city, the two of them did not dare to act rashly. He just dismantled the stables and lit a light fire with wood to dispel the darkness.

Now I can confirm Lanen's location through the contact of the magic horse harness, and he will come immediately.

I take the flannel ball off my chest and put it aside. Lan leaned down again, releasing a variant of the [Axifa Seal].

'Kirin, stand by below. ’

"Wow! (Why!) It's scary here! I don't want to be left alone! ）”

'Don't worry, where I'm going, I guess the darkness will be even more terrible than outside.' ’

The Holy King of Lothric locked himself up and did not come forward until now.

Lan En didn't believe that there was nothing wrong with it, but that something could make a problem for a Protoss who claimed to be the 'oldest and most powerful' of the day

Tsk, it makes people's scalp tingle just thinking about it.

Sure enough, as soon as Lan En said this, Qilin, who had no spirit of challenge in the face of difficulties, immediately lowered his head. He also took a good time to pretend to wander around as if he was walking in the neighborhood, and didn't look up again.

This made Lan En feel a little weak-hearted, this guy is so cowardly, it won't really happen in a while, right?

However, after Lan En pointed down viciously twice, Qilin still reluctantly snorted and said that he was on standby.

Seeing that his 'God Speed Moving Device' was working normally, Lan Encai led the flannel ball and continued to follow the route towards the King's Courtyard.

"You take these."

As he walked, Lan En took out a pile of red frosted paper-like things from the alchemy leather bag on his back and handed it to the flannel ball beside him.

"Meow?"

The small paws of the flannel ball took it, and I don't know why.

"This is a prop that can bring fire to the weapon in hand, and it is a gift I got when I had an adventure before, called [Fire Paper]."

Lan En explained as he gestured with his hand as he used it.

He himself has the [Ignifah Seal], and with the technique of [Airflow Blade], he can easily make the blade entangled. So this kind of hunting prop from Yanan, he has never had a chance to use it.

It's just right to give a flannel ball now.

"Just rub it on the strike end of the weapon. Now there is a special kind of monster in the city of Lothric, and its whole body is like a large cloud of asphalt. They are like mad dogs, powerful and unruly, but they are extremely afraid of fire. ”

"Got it!"

Elu's optimistic nature makes Lan feel some lightness even in this cruel world.

He was a little glad that he had signed a contract with Flannel Ball in the New World.

Witness the slow death and decay of a world. The psychological impact is significant.

At the end of this section of the road was an elevator, which was still the kind of technique that Lan En couldn't understand.

The complex terrain of the mountain town means that the buildings of Los Ric often have to be connected by steep staircases, escalators, and even such lifts.

On the elevator, Lan's hand pressed against the scabbard at his waist.

I was already secretly on guard.

After all, so far it has been easy and uneventful.

It would be surprising if such a means of a king closing himself off.

The prince's faction and the fire faction fought like this, but no one bothered the king, and it was not right to say anything.

However, even though Lan En was mentally prepared to face some strange and even dangerous situations.

After the elevator stopped, the scene in front of him still made his eyes widen unconsciously.

"It's."

A hesitant voice came from Lan's thin lips.

In the courtyard, you can vaguely see the exquisite vegetation planning and Gothic architectural style of this courtyard.

Like the open-air environment outside, there are flakes of ash floating in the air here.

It's just that the size of the flaky ash is larger than the outside. The density should also be higher.

Even the flakes of ash were piled up in the courtyard.

The originally fertile, flower-planted ground has been completely covered with gray-white!

The number and density made Lan En suspicious.

Those scattered around the city of Lothric, turning the inhabitants into the ones that changed into plants. Could it be that they all spread out from here?

(End of chapter)