“Plop.”

The old hunter's body fell to the ground, and his head kept rolling in the grass, and then leaned against a stone.

However, there was no pain or regret on the old hunter's face at this moment. On the contrary, he showed an expression of relief.

"Ah...it's been such a long time..."

The old hunter opened his eyes and looked at Fang Zheng in front of him.

"I am finally...free from this nightmare...thank you...outsider."

"You're welcome. This is what I should do."

Fang Zheng swung the sword, sweeping away the bloodstains on it. He looked at the old hunter in front of him again, and the old hunter smiled slightly.

"I can feel... your soul... your blood... I hope you can end this nightmare..."

However, the old hunter did not finish his words, because his head and body had turned into ashes and disappeared into the air.

At the same time, a bright red glow enveloped the entire flower circle.

Fang Zheng turned his head and saw that the silvery white moon had disappeared, replaced by a huge bright red blood moon. A dark shadow emerged from the blood moon and slowly fell.

It looked like a moving skeleton, with an upper body similar to that of a human, only a little larger. Its legs were very short, and behind its body were several tentacles that looked like a tail. Not only that, the "hair" of this monster was also rising upwards, looking like some kind of tentacle. Its face was also distorted, with nothing but five holes that looked like facial features.

"Come... Welcome to join my dream... Hunter... I am the God of the Moon. Submit to me and you will gain eternal truth..."

A whisper sounded in Fang Zheng's ears. At the same time, the monster fell to the ground and slowly stretched out its hands towards Fang Zheng.

"Come here, let us enter a brand new dream..."

This voice was so unreal and full of allure, as if it was stirring up the most instinctive desires in one's heart. But Fang Zheng just stood there, motionless. He frowned, squinted his eyes, and looked up and down at the monster in front of him carefully.

“…”

Perhaps Fang Zheng's reaction was a little unexpected, so the monster didn't know what to do for a moment. But at this moment, Fang Zheng's eyes became more and more weird as he stared at the Moon Goddess. He showed a look of disbelief and surprise, staring at the Moon Goddess, and then slowly spoke...

"...Aldrich?"

“……?!”

Hearing the name called out by Fang Zheng, the Moon God suddenly raised its head. Although there was no expression on its ugly face, its movements clearly revealed its reaction. Seeing the Moon God's reaction, Fang Zheng immediately became furious.

"Damn it, you bastard! You haven't died yet? And you come here to stir up trouble?!"

For Fang Zheng, Aldrich was not a strange name, because Fang Zheng had fought him in the Dark Soul world. As a fire king, Aldrich was the one that Fang Zheng felt most disgusted with. The reason was simple, because he loved to eat people!

That's right, Aldrich was once a priest of Lothric, but he was addicted to cannibalism and was eventually imprisoned in the Deep Church. Not only that, the king at the time also sent many priests to seal him, but these priests were eventually corrupted by Aldrich's deep and dark abyss power and were all swallowed up.

Because Aldrich devoured too many fresh lives and gained powerful dark power, he was designated as the Lord of Cinder to continue the First Flame. Originally, his sinful life should have ended completely, but in that era when the flames were gradually extinguished, Aldrich woke up again, and colluded with Pope Salivan, devouring the second son of the Sun King, Shadow Sun Gwyndolin.

Aldrich's series of crazy actions were because he had long foreseen that the flames would eventually go out and the fireless deep sea era was about to come. In order to continue to survive in the deep sea era, he was so eager for power and tried to devour the power of others to allow himself to survive that long deep sea era.

Unfortunately, in the Dark Souls world, Aldrich didn't have time to completely swallow Gwyndolin, and was chopped to death by Fang Zheng and dragged to the throne to be used as firewood. But what Fang Zheng didn't expect was... this guy actually revived and lived until now?

In fact, when Fang Zheng left Maria's dream, he had a vague feeling that all this might be related to Aldrich. Because after Fang Zheng absorbed the power of the Moonlight Greatsword held by the knight named Ludwig, he immediately discovered that this power came from the Shadow Sun - that is, the Dark Moon Sword Gwyndolin.

Not only that, after absorbing the power of the Moonlight Greatsword, Fang Zheng also felt the connection between himself and this dream - that is to say, the Yharnam dream he was in was actually shaped by this power. Considering that Gwyndolin was best at creating illusions, it was not completely unreasonable that the dream world was shaped by Gwyndolin's power.

But if this world is the future of the Dark Soul world that Fang Zheng once experienced, Gwyndolin is already dead, so who else will possess his power?

There is only one answer!

That's Aldrich!

Fang Zheng had doubted Yourshika, but when he killed the Kos orphan and watched the foolish Rom die, Fang Zheng felt something was wrong. Because he could feel that when these descendants of the ancient gods and their families died, their power was silently devoured!

And such a disgusting thing as eating corpses is not something that a fool like Yurshika can do. On the contrary, Aldrich is very skilled at doing this and he has done it countless times!

"So, you were behind all this?"

The more Fang Zheng thought about it, the more certain he became. At first, he thought that Byron Weiss had dug up the ruins just to get himself killed. Now Fang Zheng had begun to suspect that this bastard was behind all of this. He knew that the ancient gods would do anything to find offspring, and if Byron Weiss studied and began to try to contact the ancient gods, he would call other abyss creatures to come here to perform rituals in order to leave offspring.

During this process, Aldrich can use "guidance" or "revelation" to make the hunters of the Healing Church and the ancient gods fight each other, and then he can take advantage of the opportunity to devour the power of those dead ancient gods and their remaining sons of God!

The evidence is that when Ludwig saw the great sword before, he once said that the light of the sword guided his path... and according to Maria, Ludwig is the Holy Sword Knight of the Healing Church and has a very high status. In addition to his own strong power, another point is that he is in a high position and can definitely influence the decisions and orders of the Healing Church!

And if all of this was planned by Aldrich behind the scenes, then it would be understandable that the Healing Church was committing such a suicidal act!

"Who are you?!"

At this moment, the Moon Goddess' voice was no longer dreamy and calm, but was replaced by rage and panic. Upon hearing the Moon Goddess's question, Fang Zheng clenched the sword in his hand.

"Who am I? Aldrich, are you suffering from Alzheimer's disease and have forgotten me?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Fang Zheng clenched the sword in his hand and swung it violently. The next moment, a bright red flame suddenly appeared on the black sword in his hand!

Seeing the burning flames, the Moon Goddess screamed in fear and retreated in embarrassment.

"No...you, you can't...how could you be here? A fireless ember!"

"I'm here to see you, brother."

Looking at the panicked Moon Goddess in front of him, Fang Zheng chuckled coldly.

"How did you become like this? What happened to those two short legs? Did you suffer from indigestion after eating Gwyndolin?"

"You brought me all this! Embers without fire!"

At this moment, the Moon Goddess finally roared in anger.

"In order to survive, I even sacrificed and devoured Gwyndolin's clone and soul, but at least, I can still hope that the remaining fire can last a little longer, but what did you do? You extinguished the flame! It caused the deep sea era to come early! And I have to rely on this tattered skeleton to survive! It just so happens that I have always wanted to settle accounts with you! Now is no longer the age of fire! The flame has gone out, now is the age of the deep sea, the age of the abyss! Your tiny flame is just a candle in the wind!"

"In that case, let's give it a try."

Looking at the Moon God in front of him, Fang Zheng restrained his expression. He suddenly swung the sword in his hand and pointed it at the enemy in front of him.

"I've got the stove ready for you, big brother, it's time to pass on the fire."