"Tsk, that's hard."

The flakes of ash that had killed and injured the inhabitants of Lothric were too thick in this courtyard.

Originally, this elevator had an elevator room, which was indoors, so it should not be affected by these flake ashes.

But it was so much, so thick, that the piles of ash overflowed from the outside.

Lan En tried to step on it slightly, and the thickness of the white ash easily covered the soles of his feet.

And not long after stepping on it, black vein lines began to appear on Lan En's neck and face.

And there is a tendency to gather towards the eye sockets.

This is the reaction of the witcher's body after being attacked by a toxin.

Lan quickly withdrew his feet and looked at the white ashes.

It seems that the accumulation of flakes of ash is a special change, and if you step on it, these ash piles will escape a toxin and enter the body of the contact.

Lan En roughly estimated that the toxicity of this toxin was still very strong.

Ordinary people estimate that one bite will kill them.

But now, Lan En has no intention of backing down.

"Come to my shoulder and hold your breath."

The witcher said to the three-flowered kitten.

The flannel ball immediately grabbed the skirt armor of the Lan En Grandmaster-level Bear School and jumped onto his shoulder, squatting on it.

"If only there was an antidote or a Kampo medicine, meow."

The flannel ball whispered.

Both of these things are medicines made from plants in the peculiar ecology of the New World.

Thanks to the exuberance of the natural forces there, these two medicines can detoxify while being completely non-toxic themselves, and can be used by ordinary people or Ailu cats.

Lenn is ready to stock up on the next trip to the New World.

After taking a deep breath, the witcher walked briskly out of the elevator room and officially entered the King's Courtyard.

It was a lot better than he had expected in the elevator room.

The terrain in the courtyard was slightly undulating, so that the higher places were not covered by the ash pile, and the soil was still black, not the lifeless gray.

Lan En hurriedly ran towards the black earth in a low voice.

When he stood on the black earth without a pile of ashes, Lan En took a small breath.

The distance was only fifty meters, but on Lan En's face, it was almost as good as drinking several bottles of witcher potion.

The toxins collect through the blood vessels around the eye sockets, turning the whites of the eyes in the sockets black.

If it weren't for the [Gene Seed] and [Holy Song Gland] regulating Lan's endocrine system, then this pile of toxins would be more than even ordinary demon hunters could bear.

It's time to start eroding your body.

The flannel ball looked at Lan En worriedly on his shoulder, but the witcher waved his hand indifferently, and then took out a bottle of [High White Honey] from the alchemy leather bag.

After taking a sip, the black lines on his face disappeared in the blink of an eye.

For Lan, who is not short of money and has a full alchemy talent from beginning to end, he has already started to upgrade his potion reserves after obtaining advanced formulas for various potions from Kylemohan.

The potency of high-grade potions is very strong compared to that of low-level potions.

If you use the previous [White Honey] recipe, it is estimated that it will take a whole bottle to empty the amount of toxin that reaches the upper limit of the witcher's body.

"There are a lot of places to stay, much better than I thought."

Lan whispered to the flannel ball, his eyes scanning the courtyard.

Although today's king's courtyard has been covered with a thick layer of ash everywhere.

But you can still vaguely see the elegance and sophistication of the past.

The courtyard is littered with withered vegetation and traces of waterways that have dried up, and the remnants of the buildings are also imposing and regular.

But in today's environment, these things seem gloomy and calm.

The black earth and gray ash were intertwined, the vegetation was withered and yellowed, and under the traces of those waterways, there was a faint sticky 'chirp' sound, and I didn't know what creatures were moving underneath.

The original imposing stone Gothic building will only make people feel cold in this situation.

And in this gloomy courtyard, there were a few figures that were familiar to Lan En—those black mud snakes.

Or according to the name of the presiding priest Emma after his investigation, "human pus".

The priest said that it was what 'the puss of human nature was swollen'.

In a small courtyard, there were three or four heads of human pus wandering.

Their wizened human legs supported a large mass of asphalt-like writhing and tangled snakes on their upper bodies, and from time to time they let out heart-wrenching howls.

This made Lan En even more determined to have a certain guess in his heart.

The density of human pus is too great here.

On the walls of Lothric, although the people were made like plants by the flake ashes, there was basically only one in a few hundred people.

So when a group of them rushed back to the church, they only met the pus of the three-headed man along the way. There wasn't much resistance.

But here

Lan En frowned.

"Mentos, plan the route. Try to get as far as you can from the black earth, and we don't have to get entangled with these monsters, that's not our purpose. ”

Bio-Brain accepted the task request.

And soon, a signpost was projected on Lan's retina.

"Don't make a sound, flannel ball. We pass quickly. ”

"Got it!"

Eru whispered in agreement, covering her mouth with her paws.

The range of perception of these people's pus is not large, and Mentos collected this data in passing during his last battle with them.

At this point, this data is provided to the subject for reference.

Lan En's stealth ability is also quite good, after all, he studied with the Ashina Ninja at the beginning.

Although because of their own weight, they can't reach their light swallow moving efficiency. But when it comes to 'quiet movement', he's actually not far behind the ninjas.

With the silent pace movement on the Lone Shadow Ninja Technique Book, Lan En quickly walked beyond the perception of the three-headed human pus.

From time to time to step on the black earth, from time to time to step on the ashes of the white ground.

As he passed by the waterways, he saw what the sticky 'snapping' sounds were.

It was a swarm of human-sized black slugs, gathered together and seemingly devouring several human corpses.

On the edge of the waterway, Lan En also grabbed something.

It was a fairly small rock, and a bar couldn't handle it.

He now has a Blessed Gem in his hand, which Climt says is the result of a qualitative transformation of the cuneiform.

The stone looks a bit like a wedgestone.

Considering that the larger the block of the wedgestone, the greater the power it contains, Lan En took it with ease.

The depth of the courtyard is not large, and the distance of more than 200 meters from the elevator hall is in front of the main building in the depths.

This is supposed to be the king's residence in the courtyard.

After stepping onto the stone building floor, Lan En took another sip of [High White Honey] to remove the toxins from his body.

The flannel ball was finally able to jump off his shoulder and walk on his own.

In front of it is a gate, guarded by two knights of the church armed with large swords.

The Church Knight is a knight who was given the right to use the 'Giant Bird Crest', the personal coat of arms of King Oslois.

This is undoubtedly a sign of trust.

Considering the status and prestige of the King's Protoss, in this era when the power of politics and religion is unified in the hands of one person, King Oslois may really trust the knights of the church more than he does to the knights of Lothric.

At least in this courtyard, he did not arrange for the Knights of Lothric to mix in the guards.

As soon as Lanne and Flannel Ball approached, a church knight spotted them.

And walked down from his guard position, carrying the big sword on the sword, and walked towards a man and a cat.

The plate armor boots made a muffled 'knock knock' sound on the ground, heavy and menacing.

The other church knight, as if he had not found anything, continued to stand guard.

This kind of performance made Lan En feel that he might not need to fight.

"I'm a messenger sent by the Priest Emma and the head of the Knight of Lothric, and now there are a lot of changes happening outside that I need to report to Your Majesty, can you pass them on?"

As he spoke, Lan En pulled out a small flag from his arms.

That was the certificate that the Priest Emma gave him before leaving.

It was enough to prove his 'position' in front of King Oslois.

But Lane soon realized that he was wrong.

Perhaps this church knight who walked straight towards them had long since lost his human thinking and logic under his bucket-like helmet.

Perhaps the church knight felt that he didn't need the help of his companions to solve the problem of one man and one cat.

In short, his unhuman actions do not mean that he can communicate with Lan En reasonably.

"Whew!"

The big sword on his shoulder, with the momentum of stepping forward, slashed neatly!

The heavy, broad blade left a heavy roar in the air.

Lanne, on the other hand, took a step back as if it were just right. The wide, air-tore blade lifted only a few strands of hair from his forehead, and nothing else.

Lan's eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the church knight in front of him.

The hostility was clear at this point.

"I'm too optimistic to think of finding a normal person in this pile of ashes. But since you do it first."

"Poof!"

The projector on the armor of his left arm activated with a hook lock, and Lan, who took a step back, fired a hook at his diagonal back almost as soon as his footsteps moved.

"Then there will be no psychological pressure for us to fight."

With a click, the hook clawed onto a priesthood standing at the edge of the stairs on the upper floor of the building.

The priesthood had been crouching on the ground as if it were dying, but when the Church Knight was about to make a move with Lanne, it stood up again.

And shook the holy bell catalyst in his hand, as if to perform some kind of [miracle].

A faint golden light emanated from the priesthood and the knights of the church.

But before the golden light could fully take shape, Lan En's left hand tugged.

"Stab"!

The priesthood, which had been torn off the upper floor of the building, was directly in front of Lan En!

The great sword of the church knight tore the thin human body in front of him and the thin priesthood robe in two.

The blood should have splattered backwards towards Lann, but under the [Alpha Seal] that reduced the output, the minced meat, broken bones, and blood all smeared towards the face of the church knight.

"Meow!"

The flannel ball also flew up at the same time, and its two paws grabbed the iron bucket helmet and broke it up slightly. The helmet's observation hole was dragged to the knight's forehead, and his eyes were not aligned.

(End of chapter)