Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 933 915. Fireproof Female Exile

"I was sent by the Amarr Priest of Lothric to check the situation of the Fire Sacrifice."

 Lan pulled out the small flag given to him by the Emma priest.

Although the other party is a blind woman, as a fire prevention woman who guards the initial flame and the fire-transmitting sacrificial site, who would believe it without supernatural powers?

Sure enough, after Lan En took out the small flag, the fireproof girl seemed to confirm it, clasped her hands in front of her belly and bowed slightly to him.

If you put aside this obviously ancient and antiquated environment, the fire-preventing woman is very elegant in appearance and figure.

 But in this apocalypse of fire, everything must be sacrificed in order to inherit the flame.

The Fireproof Girl has a slightly messy but graceful pale braid that hangs down to her lower back.

 After she straightened up, she pushed back the braid that had slid down her back.

Lan En also bowed slightly in return.

"And the hero Guda who was originally scheduled to replace the salary king, there was an internal agent from the prince faction in the team escorting him. After Guda escaped from the trap, he killed the **** team internally and externally, and blocked the road in front of the Fire Sacrifice to prevent anyone from letting anyone in. Passed, and I killed him too.”

 It's just that the figure is really inconspicuous, short, thin, and has no breath of living things, just like a piece of dried firewood.

"King Osroais has gone crazy. He has spread experiments in the city that have not been seriously verified at all, hoping to turn his subjects into people who can live in the fireless era. Now there are not many people in Lothric. A living man. I killed him."

 This is King Xin?

 Lan En couldn't help but feel a little confused.

 She shook her head slightly at first, indicating that the situation was indeed extremely bad.

 But then, he looked over Lan En's shoulder and looked at one of the five thrones of desire high up.

 Let’s not talk about candidates like the hero Guda who are candidates for the salary king. Even the Demon King Osroais, who had given up most of his power and mutated himself, was more powerful than him.

She spoke softly.

 She also became serious.

 “There is a salary king from the past who has arrived not long ago.”

Lan En frowned, and then looked in the direction of the fireproof girl's face.

The fire prevention girl also understood how bad the current situation was under Lan En's narration.

 That was a dry little old man whose whole body was gray-white with death.

“But also. Only this one.”

Instead, it shows a kind of demureness and strength.

 That's why Lan En didn't notice his presence when he entered the door.

 But with good upbringing and training, she did not look at a loss like an ordinary woman.

“So far, none of the former salary kings who were awakened by the bells have come?”

"The situation is not optimistic." After returning the gift, Lan En talked about what he had seen and heard along the way, his tone solemn.

Although so far, the only salary king he has seen is [Saint of the Deep] Eldridge.

At this time, in the dim and flickering candlelight, I saw a figure sitting on the throne of desire second from the left.

However, King Xin, who was not known for his combat prowess, had left a deep impression on Lan En with the terrifying and profound nature of his power.

 After all, the darkness in his body now is only the product of seeing the essence of Eldridge's power.

Strictly speaking, the opponent just let Lan En chop him, and Lan En 'contaminated' himself.

 The power of King Xin and the high level of his personality can be seen.

But this little old man in front of me?

“If there are more than three salary kings who can sit on the Throne of Desire, then they can burn themselves in a form that does little harm, continue the initial fire for a short time, and buy precious time for the world. But now.”

The fire-prevention girl worriedly faced the only person who sat on the Throne of Desire.

“We have been waiting for the other two salary kings to arrive, but judging from the news you brought”

 Most likely no other salary king will come.

 “What will happen if there are no more salary kings to share the damage of burning?”

Lan En asked with a frown.

 A Salary King has arrived, and it stands to reason that he can activate the Throne of Desire and let him burn slowly.

 The reason why the Fire Transfer Sacrifice did not do this now, Lan En figured it out after thinking about it for a while.

The salary kings who can sit on the throne they long for are the candidates who will be the top candidates when the transition period of the Fire Passing Ceremony comes. It is not a one-time consumable, but something that needs to be awakened and maintained repeatedly.

 In the case where there is only one salary king sitting on the throne.

 “The King of Salary will burn himself completely and gradually, even if he is sitting on the Throne of Desire, which can control the burning speed.”

Sure enough, the words from the fireproof girl's mouth were consistent with Lan En's guess.

 The two fell silent for a moment.

 “But there’s no other way now, is there?”

 Suddenly, a soft and old voice came from the throne.

 It was King Xin who was the only one who rushed to the Fire Sacrifice Site who was speaking.

The fire girl and Lan En both raised their heads and looked upward.

His voice was smooth and soft, so soft that he did not look like a strong man who had been able to support the operation of the world order, but rather like an ordinary old man telling stories to his younger generations. “The world is about to sink into darkness. The bottomless, terrifying darkness.”

"To this day, since no one will come again, there is only one thing we can do in the end. The fire prevention girl who guards the initial flame."

Atop the throne, the short and thin figure with a shadowy figure spoke plainly.

 Sentenced himself to death.

 “Start the ritual and let the world see the light of day again.”

 “.Let me burn.”

Lan En looked at the figure on the throne and pursed his lips.

 Seeing with your own eyes the image of a person determined to sacrifice himself for a certain goal or a certain person will be shocking no matter what.

In this world where death is regarded as normal, the fire-prevention woman just lowered her head and then bowed to the short figure on the throne.

　　means that one will obey King Xin’s will.

 “I understand, Lord Ludos.”

The fire prevention girl said softly.

The ritual to activate the Desire for the Throne is very simple. In the middle of the Fire Sacrifice, there is a large basin filled with some kind of ashes.

 There is a spiral sword stuck diagonally in the basin.

The sword looked very rough and crude, like two steel cables twisted together and stretched into a sword shape, and then a handle and a sword grid were added.

There is only one special thing: even now, as the darkness sinks deeper and deeper, the sword still looks like it has just been taken out of the furnace, revealing a luminous dark red color after the steel has been roasted by the flames.

The fireproof girl walked to the side of the spiral sword and gently touched the hilt of the spiral sword.

“Puff”*N

The moment the fireproof woman touched the hilt of the spiral sword, a series of flames exploded into a large explosion!

 The entire fire-passing sacrificial site suddenly became brighter.

 Originally, there were only a small number of candles lit around a few people, but in fact there were many more in the Fire Transferring Sacrificial Site.

 But the candle that brings light can not only dispel the darkness, it can not be overwhelmed in the darkness, and it also requires the maintenance of strength.

 In this world where the concepts of ‘light and darkness’ are transformed into real and real forces, this is the operating law.

 The three people in the Fire Sacrifice can only maintain a small candlelight around them.

 But at this moment, all the unlit candles seemed to be supported by some kind of flame power and burned spontaneously!

The old woman who was sitting against the wall and could not move, and the sturdy blacksmith who was minding his own business, both stopped their actions at this moment and looked solemnly at the longing throne, which was the only one occupied.

 All five thrones were activated. The thrones were originally ordinary and looked like simple carvings from ordinary rocks.

Now it emits a dark red light, like lava between solidification and flow. Among the cracks in the stone material, a hot red glow can still be vaguely seen coming from the cracks.

 However, all five thrones are activated, but only one has a fuel king that can be burned.

Lan pursed his lips and looked at Ludos on the throne, his thin and short body suddenly tensed up.

At the same time, traces of burned dead branches appeared on the dark green corpse-like skin.

A series of burnt cracks were all over the body, and sparks and red light showed through the cracks.

 It is like a piece of firewood that is burnt on the surface but still burning hot on the inside.

 The process of burning oneself must be very painful for King Xin.

Lan walked along the steps and walked to the side of Ludos's throne.

Each throne is engraved with the name of its owner, and on Rudos's throne it is "Exile of Courland".

 He should be called ‘Ludos of Courland’.

“Ah, it’s so hot, my bones are burning, it’s so painful, please help me, kill me. No, no, this is too painful. It’s so hot, please save me.”

The sudden pain seemed to torture this skinny, short old man to the point where he lost consciousness and started talking nonsense unconsciously.

"Look, everyone, even if the fire is weak after I become the king, I can still continue the world. So forgive me, forgive me. Don't keep blaming me. Don't."

Even if you made a mistake and became an exile from your hometown, would you still beg for forgiveness from your hometown people?

Perhaps among the four consecutive salary kings, he came here not only because of his responsibility as salary king, but also because of his guilt?

Ludos' whole body was tense and trembling, obviously the pain of longing for the throne was too sudden and intense.

And as the firebender said, the price of having just one salary king sitting on the Throne of Desire is too high.

Ludos sat on the throne, his dangling feet unable to reach the ground. Starting from the tips of his toes, wisps of burned white ash were peeling off from above.

 He is literally being 'burned clean'.

 As for Lan En himself, the hidden darkness that had affected his mind more and more since the sky darkened seemed to be suppressed and became lighter at this time.

The King's painful murmurs on the throne gradually stopped, as if Ludos had finally begun to get used to the intense pain.

  No matter what his appearance is, he is a salary king who can maintain the world after all. As long as the willpower is strong enough, speaking and acting freely in pain is nothing more than a common thing.

 The trembling on his body was gradually suppressed.

 Yes, it’s ‘suppression’, not disappearance.

 Because Lan En was still watching helplessly, burnt white ash continued to fall from the tip of his toes.

 The pain definitely doesn’t stop.

 It won't stop until he's burned out.