"it's over……"

Watching everything around her gradually dissipate into mist, Maria raised her head and looked at the world in front of her. She had been trapped in this nightmare for an unknown period of time, but now, everything was over.

"Who are you, stranger?"

Maria looked at Fang Zheng. She had already vaguely sensed that this outsider was not a simple person. You know, even the Healing Church was not very clear about the origins of the ancient gods, but this outsider seemed to know everything here, even the true identities of those ancient gods.

"I am the watcher of the abyss, the undead army of Farran."

Fang Zheng retracted his sword and looked around. He didn't know when the big chin disappeared. Perhaps he was also a hunter phantom in this dream.

"To be honest, I also want to know what happened in this world and why it became like this?"

"Let me answer this question, Lord Ashes."

At this moment, suddenly, a voice was heard, and then Fang Zheng and Maria were surprised to see another figure appear in front of them.

"Fire girl?"

Looking at the fire keeper girl in front of him, Fang Zheng was stunned for a moment.

"How did you end up here?"

"Because this is also a dream, Master Ashes."

The Fire Keeper smiled at Fang Zheng and then raised her hand.

"I have been waiting for your return here, Lord Ashes. I have witnessed the changes in this world, and now it is time to tell you everything."

As the Fire Keeper took action, the world in front of Fang Zheng changed. The coast disappeared, and the next moment, a burnt battlefield appeared in front of him.

"This is……?"

Maria was shocked when she saw the battlefield in front of her. She could feel that this was not the place she had seen before. There were ashes everywhere, and the weapons stuck in the ground were already broken. In the sky, it was not the sun Maria was familiar with, but a dark ring with a bright red glow on the edge.

“This is so familiar.”

Looking at the broken sword and the burning bonfire in front of him, Fang Zheng sighed. The fire keeper quietly came to Fang Zheng's side. It was like a replay of that day.

"Lord Ashes, do you still remember? That day, you chose to extinguish the remaining fire of this world..."

The fire keeper stretched out her hand, and a small flame appeared in her hand. Then, she put her hands together and extinguished the small flame. As the fire keeper moved, the whole world began to gradually become dim, as if the sun was setting.

"The embers have gone out, the age of fire is over..."

“Crash…”

Fang Zheng heard the sound of water, and in front of him, he saw a raging flood sweeping away everything, covering the entire world in a sea.

“The era of the deep sea has arrived.”

"boom!!"

As soon as the fire keeper finished speaking, Fang Zheng and Maria saw the sea in front of them suddenly explode, and then, huge monsters emerged from it. They seemed to be prisoners who had escaped from prison, dancing wildly and releasing their excitement and joy. Seeing this scene, Fang Zheng snorted coldly.

"With the disappearance of the gods, the power of the abyss began to grow gradually. They once thought that this world would become theirs..."

The flood began to recede, and various powerful abyssal creatures emerged from the flood. Most of them looked strange, were huge, strong, and evil. They excitedly rushed to this place where the embers had disappeared and was no longer protected by the gods, and enjoyed everything here wantonly.

But no one noticed that on the shore where the waves were rolling, small figures slowly crawled out. They looked at the world in front of them with confused expressions, as if they didn't know what to do.

"As the embers died out and the gods vanished, the curse of the undead also dissipated, but they were still too weak for this world."

Next, the world in front of Fang Zheng began to spin rapidly, showing him the subsequent history of this world.

The embers disappeared, but humans did not gain freedom. The monsters of the abyss began to imitate the former Cinder King, enslaving these humans, forcing them to serve, building gorgeous buildings, cities, civilizations and everything. They were like prisoners who had been released from prison and were enjoying themselves, greedily enjoying everything in front of them.

Unfortunately, the good times didn’t last long.

Even the abyss did not realize that the disappearance of the embers did not just allow them to gain this world.

The temperature began to drop, and the cold wind blew across the land, gradually freezing everything. Although the abyss monsters possessed extremely powerful strength, it did not mean that they could face the cold erosion freely. The arrival of the long ice age made the abyss creatures feel fear, but it was too late at this moment. Most of the abyss creatures were frozen in the endless cold and froze to death. Others retreated back to the depths of the endless darkness of the abyss, and some who did not have time to escape chose to sleep for a long time.

"But... not all creatures can't survive this long winter..."

In front of Fang Zheng's eyes, when the first ray of sunlight penetrated the thick clouds and illuminated the endless darkness, ragged humans walked out of the cave one by one. They raised their heads, looked at the sun in the sky, knelt on the ground and raised their hands, as if they were praising or singing.

"After that, time goes by..."

The world fast-forwarded in front of Fang Zheng again, and Fang Zheng saw what happened in the land of Yharnam afterwards - the ancient gods who once enslaved the Sumerian civilization fell into a deep sleep during the long ice age, and the Sumerians began to become ambitious. They tried to seize the blood of the ancient gods to make themselves powerful and superior beings, but they failed.

Because so much time has passed, most humans have long forgotten where they came from and what they have experienced. The Abyss, the Dark Soul, the Dark Ring, the First Fire, everything has disappeared from everyone's memory with the passage of time. Those once great heroes, those once glorious deeds, everything that once happened in this country called Lothric has been buried forever in the sea.

This also led to the Sumerians not understanding at all what it meant to draw blood from the being they called "ancient gods" and then inject it into their own bodies.

The abyss is the sedimentation of human nature, and the creatures of the abyss are its incarnation. The result of the Sumerians doing this was that they were polluted by the abyss and then transformed into monsters of the abyss.

This also led to the demise of Sumerian civilization.

Until the river of time flows again and Yharnam appears... When the Byronvis Academy discovers the ruins of Sumer, it means the beginning of another reincarnation.

“That’s ridiculous.”

Looking at the scene in front of him, Fang Zheng shook his head. So many people once fought to seal the abyss, and even the gods were willing to throw themselves into it to protect the world. And now, this group of foolish and ignorant mortals actually took the initiative to throw themselves into the embrace of the abyss... The irony is that, as the Fire Keeper said, this is like a reincarnation. Humans came from the abyss, and became humans because they longed for and obtained the power of the First Fire, but now, they actually want to take the initiative to return to the abyss again...

The Sumerians and the Yharnamites did not know that the destination they had been longing for, seeking, and expecting was actually the place that their ancestors and their ancestors' ancestors had finally escaped from.

“This…this…”

Maria was stunned by what she saw. She looked at Fang Zheng and the Fire Keeper, not knowing what to say.

"This is a real travesty."

Fang Zheng watched the last scene disappear, and the coast before his eyes returned to the previous one. He couldn't help but comment.

"Humans always make the same mistakes and try to make up for them... Well, fortunately, those lunatics in Yharnam are finished, and they didn't spread blood healing to other places. I've had enough of those bastards in the abyss, and I don't want to be messed up by these lunatics again."

"Stranger..."

Hearing this, Maria couldn't help but take a deep breath and looked at Fang Zheng.

"Are you...a god?"

"I'm not some god."

Facing Maria's question, Fang Zheng waved his hand.

"As you can see, the gods who once ruled this world are dead, and the monsters in the abyss have basically gone away. This world is now the world of humans, and you are free... Well, maybe you should think about it and not give up this hard-earned freedom. You know, I made a great decision to turn off the engine."

"…So, what should I do next?"

"That's for you to decide."

As he spoke, Fang Zheng extended his hand to Maria.

"But now, let's get out of here."