And after taking away the parchment and putting it away, I looked down and saw that there were still many corpses on this small platform.

Most of them remained in the same posture as the corpse, some wearing the armor of the Knights of Rosric, while others wore various other types of armor, indicating that they belonged to a different order of knights, or were simply wandering knights.

And there is also a kind of corpse among them.

Roughly in human form, with limbs and a head.

But to a greater extent, it's moving closer to dragons.

The skull already resembles a dragon's head, with horns on the head and a tail extending down from the vertebrae.

He was scrawny and bony, but on the severed limbs and sections of the corpses, the texture of these corpses was already similar to that of rock statues.

In this world of fire, the ancient dragon is an immortal being that is different from ordinary life, and the concept is similar to that of 'inorganic matter'.

This is the philosophy of the Biheim Dragon Academy, which is the basis of so-called magic, the 'duality of dragons' – life and matter.

"From here, you can go to the Ancient Dragon Peak?"

Lan En looked away from the corpses and looked forward.

The underground prison was built into the mountains of the Cold Valley, and the platform was perched on a cliff, with a towering mountain range in the distance.

"In what form will we go up? Transmission? Or something else? ”

"No, it's neither." Yur Shika shook her head, as if this method was a bit difficult to describe, so she frowned but still couldn't say anything.

"Okay."

Lan En didn't bother either, and turned his head to face the Kirin and the Flannel Ball.

"That posture Qilin shouldn't be able to pose, if you two see me disappear later, you can withdraw first. When I come back, I'll use the magic ring to connect with the Kirin's leg ring. ”

"Got it!"

After Lan finished speaking, he also sat cross-legged in the middle of the corpses of a group of warriors, facing the mountains in the distance.

Step into the path of the ancient dragon.

With this in mind, he began to control his brainwave activity, and the [Holy Verse Gland] gave him some degree of control over his brain.

This made it easier for him to get into a meditative state.

In a daze, he saw that Yu'er Shika was also sitting next to him, her soft gauze skirt and doll-like face making her feel as if she was about to melt into the moonlight in the next moment.

It was just a flash of effort, and Lan En felt in a daze that the touch under his ass was not quite right.

The ground, which was originally cold and hard but relatively flat, suddenly became a little relevant.

It's like sitting on a gravel road strewn with small stones.

A warm sensation that was a little unfamiliar, but more familiar, appeared on the face and chest.

When he opened his eyes, even with Lan En's knowledge, he couldn't help but widen his eyes.

The feeling of warmth is the heat of the sun.

After experiencing the 'Bloody Eclipse', 'Total Darkness', and 'Eternal Snowy Night', this warm, brilliant and normal sun actually made Lan En feel like a world away.

As far as the eye can see, there is a mountaintop area with no vegetation.

The sun shines brightly, and under the blue sky and white clouds, even the yellow sand and stones look pleasing to the eye.

Standing on the side of the mountain and looking down, there is an endless sea of clouds. The top of the mountain is above the clouds.

If this sky is so bright that it is even a little dazzling, it is really the same principle as the eternal snowy night of Ilusir, resulting from the influence of the Protoss on the environment.

It is maintained because of the presence of the [Sun Elder Man].

Then there is no doubt that he is indeed worthy of this identity and title.

"This is the Ancient Dragon Peak."

Another footstep came from behind Lane, the sound of bare feet stomping on the gravel.

Yu'er Shika's white gauze skirt was blown back by the wind from the top of the mountain, and slowly walked to the witcher's side.

"You've been here?"

Lan En hopes to have a guide to find the legendary nameless king as soon as possible.

But Yur Shika shook her head slightly.

"I know how to get here, but my brother said that I am not a warrior and do not follow the path of the ancient dragon, so I am not allowed to come."

"But I guess my brother doesn't want to disturb my brother, right?"

When it comes to 'eldest brother', Yuer Shika is still a little unaccustomed to it, because in her education, there is no such role at all.

When she was born, the eldest son of the Lord of the Sun had been removed from the Protoss for a long time.

"Then you'll have to look for it as you go."

Rann said dryly, and began to step forward.

Continuing on, they came across a patrol officer.

Len had seen them too, in the passage behind Osloes's bedchamber, the kind of worker who had built the wedge-shaped stone disc portico for him, the snake man.

Originally, Lan En thought that he would kill all the way up again.

But when the snake men saw Yu'er Shika, they stopped picking up their weapons.

Instead, he stood aside with a cower, not to say that he was respectful, but he also tried to act peaceful.

Lan En is sure that this is not due to the difference in strength.

After all, the snake man was still holding a knife and was about to rush at him.

"The serpent is a degraded dragon."

Instead, it was Yu'er Shika, whose education in the Protoss had taught her to understand what was going on.

The retreat of the snake people is not in strength, but in blood.

It's not even the blood of the gods on Yu'er Shika, but the blood of the dragon.

This is the ancient dragon peak, just by listening to the name, you know, this is a place that has a deep relationship with the dragon family.

With the half-dragon blood of Yuer Shika, the two of them were able to get along with these snake people without incident.

In addition to the regular-sized snake people that Lan En had seen before, there were also guys with large bodies among these guys.

A snake man who is more than four meters tall and carries a double-edged axe the size of a wheel.

It is also hidden on the door of a dilapidated tower, and if you don't pay attention to it, you will probably jump from it to give a 'surprise' to those who pass by.

On the top of Gulong, there are not only bare rocks and flying sand, but also many magnificent buildings.

It's just that these buildings look very dilapidated and old.

Let Rann feel a bit like the ruins of Athens in his home world, visiting Greece.

All that remains is the thick columns and the base of the building, which can still make people understand that there was once an incomparably large complex of buildings standing here.

Upon entering the tower with its large snake people, Lane noticed several large humanoid statues standing along the path, and the man depicted the statue holding a sword and spear.

Lane had seen him too, and in Rosaria's memory, he fought alongside the Sun King, Gwen, wielding thunder.

If that's right, this should be the image of the long man of the sun.

A huge wyvern flew in from afar and landed on the base of the building.

The width of the slender neck alone was enough to carry a two-horse carriage.

Lothric's Wyvern isn't even half its size.

He was still staring at the witcher menacingly, as if he was flying over to fight him.

But when it saw Yu'er Shika wagging its tail under the skirt, it only spilled a wisp of dragon flame from between its side teeth, and then stopped looking at the two of them again.

It's just that the huge body wanders through the ruins of this building, stepping on a heavy 'dong dong' sound.

Seeing that the giant wyvern had no intention of making a move, Lan and Yur Shika were able to walk quickly to the end of the complex.

It was a good building with a roof still intact.

Unexpectedly, in this building, in the last days of the fire in which the flames are declining, it seems a little. Boisterous?

All kinds of ancient and luxurious-looking gold and silver jewelry, gold plates, silver candlesticks, armor and weapons are piled up in this building, messy and random.

It's like these things are just things that no one cares about.

There are snake people here, too, but they are snake people who bend over like an old woman and hold a staff.

They shook the bells as if to soothe or motivate.

And in addition to these snake people, there are also undead figures here.

Lan En, a foreigner, is familiar to many people.

I had seen the corpse of a knight in the secret room of Ocelois's dormitory, posing as 'stepping on the path of the ancient dragon'.

There were knights in the same armor as him.

There are also the Knights of Lothric, some of whom are here, and it seems that they have been here for quite some time.

They even followed the etiquette of the Knights of Lothric by spreading a red cloth on one of the altars here, on which were placed the straight sword of the Knight of Lothric.

With the double meaning of 'fire and knight', this is a simple prayer table for the Knights of Lothric.

Prayers can be held here on a regular basis.

A heavy and grand bell rang suddenly, although it was not as good as the bell of the fire sacrifice ground, but it was enough to attract attention.

When Lan and Yur Shika walked in, no one even noticed them, but they all looked in the direction of the bell.

Only when the heavy bell had ceased did they look back at each other.

"Is that Prince Ricard? Challenging the Nameless King again? How many times did he die? ”

A Lothric knight asked the man in the armor of the Dragon-Blood Knight next to him.

The Dragonblood Knight replied uncertainly as he sharpened his sword.

"Say less. Two hundred times is it? Not many of us. ”

"But the frequency is a bit high, right? His armor was now left with a pair of underwear. Oh, and the crown on his head. ”

"After all, it's a newcomer who hasn't been here for a long time, and it's normal to be in an exciting period."

No one cared about the newcomers Lan and Yuer Shika, not even the old snake women who rattled the bell and nodded kindly to Yuer Shika.

Maybe only the old woman of the snake man who rattles the bell is hostile, and these people will get up and do it?

It stands to reason that among them, as a knight of the Fire Transmission Country, Lothric, no matter how he faces Yu'er Shika, a descendant of the Protoss, he should have some respect.

But in Gulongding, those who can come up are the top fighters, and when they come up, they are already determined to break with the previous society.

Lan En looked at the knights, and felt that the standard armor on their bodies and the prayer table they set up, these iconic things, were just the inertia of life habits.

Their inner cognition has long been free of these things to divide their identities, so they do not care about the meaning of their former identities.

Now that he has come up to the top of the ancient dragon, he analyzes it from the few words he knows from the conversation with Gwendrin and Yu'er Shika.

Lan En probably understood: from the moment they climbed to the top of the ancient dragon to explore the way of the ancient dragon, they were all just warriors in their purest form.

Nothing else.

But if this process of abandoning his identity and chasing his goal can be understood by Lan En, then there is one thing that the witcher is a little incomprehensible.

In the words of these warriors . An undead prince seems to have died more than two hundred times, which is not a high number among them.

But these immortals are still very sensible, and even somewhat humorous conversations with each other, and have not become wandering spirits.

(End of chapter)