Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 916 898. The spreading darkness

 “Be careful, Knight Commander.”

　　Emma’s old eyes under the hood of the priest raised their eyes and stared at Lorenzo for a while.

 “King Othroais is a holy king. He has supported the fire-passing ceremony for tens of thousands of years.”

The new knight leader pursed his lips and finally suppressed his temper.

“Then even if we don’t bother His Majesty, we must return to the inner city and regain our strength and power before we can proceed with the fire-passing ceremony!”

 This is the point.

Now that the coup has begun, the people in the city have become like this infected by the abyss because of those flaky ashes.

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

 Without fists, this fire-passing ceremony would never be able to advance at all.

 After all, before this, he was just an elite knight commander, and he did not need to care too much about political matters.

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

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

 And the inner city is where their strength lies. The high wall is nothing more than Lothric's gradually desolated outer defense. Neither the priest nor the knights put much effort into the high wall.

"If you are killed or detained, then it will be the same for a certain period of time. And if after this period of time, there is still no dragon knight reacting from the chaos and coming down from the inner city to look for the knight leader, then At once"

And will this prestige spread among the dragoons?

 Lorenzo was not sure.

With this advantage, the unknown Knight Dragoons may indeed be detained or completely destroyed.

 But now, no flying dragon has come down.

 Lan En has not finished what he said, and it is not suitable to finish it. None of the three people spoke, and the atmosphere became tense for a moment.

 But now, this is something he must consider.

 Lan En felt a little relieved after persuading Lorenzo.

 “Then it’s better to wait a little longer.”

 “Not a single one.”

 You should naturally know what this situation means.

 First, the flying dragons and dragoons were all detained or ‘disposed’ of in the inner city.

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

Lan En walked over, leaning against a stone pillar with his shoulder, and spoke calmly.

—The dragoons all mutinied.

Any words of "admonishment" are false, coups have begun, and the knights are divided and bloody.

“The greatest fighting strength of the Knights is the flying dragon, right?”

 Lorenzo pursed his lips and said with difficulty.

Hyperdragons can fly. Although the terrain of Lothric City is rugged, it is not an obstacle to them at all.

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

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

No matter which of the two possibilities it is, it means that the inner city has completely fallen and fell into the hands of the princes.

 Lan made a suggestion.

Lan En’s cat eyes looked at Lorenzo through the scattered silver hair. This powerful warrior rose from the rank of dragoon and elite knight commander to the leader of the knights.

“But I have to remind you that Lorenzo and Emma are the officiants.”

Lorenzo also looked at Lan En, who was tilting his head, but now in his eyes, that face that looked so unnatural could only give him a chill.

"Now that the flames have faded, Lothric, especially Lothric, who is responsible for the fire-passing ceremony, must not make any more mistakes."

“The city was in chaos just now. There were shouts of death, screams, and roars of monsters everywhere, but from the beginning to the end, not a single flying dragon flew out of the inner city.”

 “This is. This is a very serious accusation!”

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

 Actually, both of them knew that if they wanted the prince to spread the flames, the only way they could do it now was to press him with a sword.

If the dragoons thought about it, then no one should be able to stop them from descending from the inner city to the high wall to find their knight leader.

“I will try my best to gather the members of the Knights on the high wall and concentrate my strength. Lan En is right. It is too risky to rush up when the situation above is not clear.”

Lorenzo and Emma, ​​the priests, both turned to look at him.

 In the Knights who advocate strength and power, half of the prince faction can be divided. It can be said that it is entirely due to the prestige of Prince Lorian.

 The leaders of the two pillars of the Knights and the Priests are not in the inner city, but the leaders of the princes and sages who launched the coup are.

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

“But I think that if you go back to the inner city now, you are simply seeking death.”

He has to deal with the darkness hidden in his body, and he has to fight to survive in this chaotic situation. He has experienced how terrifying it is to live in a world with unstable underlying rules.

 “Thank you for persuading the Knight Commander and letting me put aside any unnecessary luck.”

Priest Emma approached Lan En, and the old voice whispered to him.

“The main strength of the priests has actually been in the inner city. If you hadn’t persuaded us, even if we didn’t go back in person, we would have sent some people to the inner city to take a look.”

"But from a rational point of view, those sages have a grudge against our priesthood. After long-term conflicts have accumulated, there should be no surviving priesthood above us."

 At this point, Lan En turned his head away in embarrassment.     “I'm sorry to dash your hopes.”

“It’s just a false hope born from my luck. It’s better to be gone. After all, if you really want to do something, you have to face the cruel reality.”

 Priest Emma shook her head heavily.

"Let's rest first, Lan En. When the people from the Netherworld Church arrive as mentioned in the letter, we can be more prepared."

 There is nothing more to say. In this exciting and violent day, everyone is exhausted physically and mentally.

—

 Darkness.

It is like a mass of mucus, black mud, and asphalt-like darkness that is entangled and clinging to the body and soul.

 Pitter-pattering, sticky and thick.

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

Even if it was just boring, inside the body, there was also a continuous feeling of being bitten by some kind of carnivorous insect.

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

 Finally, he felt his body being shaken, and this external force seemed to be his hand to get out of the darkness.

 “Suck~”

The witcher opened his eyes suddenly, and the vertical pupils in his pupils shrank unsteadily, and then stabilized.

 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's instinct was to tense up and defend itself, but then it was suppressed by a strong will, forcing the body to remain normal.

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

Lorenzo just felt that Lan En was a little difficult to wake up. A person with his skill level should be very sensitive.

Immediately after Lan En opened his eyes, he felt that the air was stagnant for a moment, but then everything went back to normal, just like an illusion.

"How are you?"

Lorenzo patted Lan En's shoulder, took his arm and asked him to sit up from the floor covered with a sheet.

 “You look very ugly.”

"No, it's nothing." Lan En calmly tightened and unclenched his hands, feeling his own physiological condition. 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 fact, he ate well and slept well the night before the coup happened.

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

The darkness that had been suppressed by Rosalia's [Miracle·Sunshine Moisture] began to stir again.

While repeatedly opening and closing his palms to relieve the strange feeling in his body, Lan En felt a little more anxious in his heart.

If it weren't for the super organ [Song Gland] in his head, he might have gone insane the first time he came into contact with this darkness.

 But now, as the initial fire becomes weaker and weaker, the darkness will spread and flourish greatly. This is the natural law of this world.

 There is no place to hide even if you want to, because this is a worldwide disaster.

 But even when facing this kind of problem, Lan En still keeps his face and tone calm.

 “Why wake me up?”

 He is not the kind of person who gets confused when he encounters danger. After experiencing many things, he knows that confusion will only make him fall into the grave faster.

 “Just like you said yesterday, Lan”

 Lorenzo’s teeth were clenched, and it was obvious that he was repulsed by the content of what he said.

 “There are dragoons coming down from the inner city.”

 “The result is not good?”

Lorenzo was silent for a while, and then said.

“When one came down, he couldn’t even control his flying posture, and then he lay down on a tower on the high wall and died.”

 “‘One’? What else?”

“Another flying dragon came down to chase us. It and its dragoons obviously didn’t expect so many members of the Knights to gather here.”

“We are dragon-hunting knights, so the corpses of the flying dragon and the dragoon are now outside.”

Lan En is not too concerned about the corpses of the two flying dragons. What he should be most concerned about now is how to keep the flames strong and get rid of the darkness.

And compared with the legendary immortal dragons in this world, these flying dragons are actually a bit ordinary.

  “What matters is the situation above.”

Lan En continued to ask while pinching his painful temples.

 Lorenzo has just taken up the position of leader of the knights, and none of the knights here have been in management before.

 So when he had something to do, he could only come to Lan En and Emma to discuss it.

But at least he has a clear head and is self-aware. I won’t make rash decisions when my brain is hot and I don’t listen to advice.

 And what Lorenzo said was just as Lan En estimated yesterday.

“Those in the inner city will inform the knights of the Order to gather in the chapel before they launch a coup.”

"The dragon knights had no chance to board the flying dragon. The other knights only carried a sword with them and were not even fully armed. Then in the chapel"

Lorenzo said, his iron-gloved palms creaking as he held them.