What the hell is this?

The strange, sticky black substance turned into a hideous snake head. When it opened its mouth, it revealed a row of sharp teeth. Its dark neck stretched out more than ten meters as if it was wriggling, and it opened its mouth and bit the perilla fish in the air. At this time, the fat woman below was still able to move. Most of her head was crooked, but she could still hold the black leather book in her hands, and a ball of crimson flames was emitted in the strange chanting sound.

——"Psionic protective force field!"

Su Ziyu chose to withstand the fireball head-on, while swinging his sword to slash at the black snake transformed from human pus.

A strange sticky feeling came.

It was not the feeling of chopping flesh and blood. The Meteorite Sword was actually stuck inside. When he wanted to pull it out, he felt a huge pulling force. This was a substance that Su Ziyu could not understand. It seemed to have unique activity and thoughts. It could change its shape constantly. There was even some black sticky substance that spread bit by bit like blood vessels, and it seemed that it wanted to crawl along the sword body to Su Ziyu's body.

Crackling!

Light golden arcs jumped on the Meteorite Sword, and in an instant the snake head transformed from black matter let out a scream, and a part of the black viscous liquid that made up its body suddenly evaporated, and the spreading black veins also instantly retracted.

This damn thing doesn't take much physical damage!

Su Ziyu felt that its body was a bit like black asphalt. It had no texture at all when cut with a sword, and the damage caused was also quite limited.

In contrast, psychic lightning can directly evaporate the black matter that makes up its body. After evaporation, he can even hear faint wailing and screaming in his ears. That is the perception brought by spirituality. The pus of a person contains countless evil thoughts and desires, and may even devour the souls of many evil spirits.

Click.

The figure of Su Ziyu fell from the sky.

The strange black snake transformed from the man's pus shrank back again, hovered above the fat woman's head, and turned into a hybrid of a rat and a snake again.

This thing is much more difficult to deal with than the aberration's tentacles.

Su Ziyu carefully kept a distance from her, and then carefully observed the fat woman in front of him. There was still human flesh and blood under her crooked head, and the black substance spread out automatically like a boil. However, now a faint red light appeared in the enemy's pupils, and she even looked a little crazy, with an expression mixed with greed and killing. She growled, and a flame appeared on the surface of her body. She pounced directly at Su Ziyu, as if she wanted to capture him.

How could Su Ziyu let her hug him? That pile of fat alone was unbearable. She would definitely lose her appetite for food today after being hugged like this.

The host of the human pus should be this fat woman.

It is a little difficult to completely clean up the human pus, but it should be much easier to deal with this fat woman. Su Ziyu dodged with a leap and instantly swung the sword at the opponent's abdomen. The enemy had too much fat on his body, and it was not easy to judge the location of the kidneys.

clang.

The black human pus began to surge again, actually wrapping around the enemy's fat body, dissolving part of the attack. At the same time, a pale limb like a claw extended from the black snake's lower abdomen and directly grabbed Su Ziyu's head.

A crackling flash of lightning appeared.

Accompanied by two screams, Su Ziyu moved sideways, and after evaporating a part of the human pus, he instantly swung the sword and chopped at the enemy's head.

Phew.

A stream of blood gushed out.

As a head flew up, the pus on the man's body quickly shrank and turned into a pool of black water that spilled onto the ground, vaporizing and dissipating in the blink of an eye.

The only thing left there was an extremely fat headless corpse.

"Gain 3 points of source power."

The fat woman had been killed by Su Ziyu, but no one knew where the remaining human pus had gone, as if it had dissipated in this world.

——"The Holy Book of the Deep (Rare Item): A holy book that records some of the deep secrets. After reading it, one can cast dark magic."

Su Ziyu waved his hand and the black book fell into his palm.

He flipped through it casually, and suddenly he felt a warning in his spirit. This was a book containing evil power. There was nothing strange about it, except that the cover looked a bit like human skin. The things recorded on it were also very strange. It was actually a storybook, which roughly described a strange existence called "Aldrich", who was called the Devourer, a monster that liked to eat people.

The more Su Ziyu looked, the more his brows furrowed.

Aldrich was originally a priest, but was corrupted by something called the Fire of Sin and eventually turned into a man-eating demon.

In a normal world, such existence should be directly destroyed by humans.

But here He finally became the King!

——"The King of Salary!"

The story recorded in the entire Deep Holy Scripture is incomplete, as if a part is missing.

There is only one reason why Aldrich was crowned king, and that is because he performed a ceremony called "Transmission of Fire", and then obtained the title of "Saint of the Deep", becoming a special being worshipped by the church.

"Can such a monster be called a saint?"

Su Ziyu closed the Deep Holy Scripture in front of him and felt that the world he had entered this time might be very troublesome.

While reading this book, he had a vague spiritual sense, and vaguely seemed to see a terrifying existence like a pool of black mud. If he activated his clairvoyance at this time, he might see more, but he had a lot of past experience and knew that now was not the time to activate his clairvoyance casually.

The fat woman deceived him.

She served not the Mother of Rebirth, but a monster called Aldrich, a demon who loved to eat people.

What is the reason?

How could the people of this world be willing to serve such a terrifying monster? And call him a king? And worship him as a saint?

Su Ziyu turned and entered the library in front of him.

He skipped the other books and began to search for information related to the 'Lord of Fire', while flipping through those that might have recorded something related to the 'Fire Transmission' ritual.

Time passes by little by little.

Su Ziyu had spent most of the day here without realizing it. After flipping through all the well-preserved books in the library, he gained a general understanding of some things about this world.

The records inside are incomplete.

The first thing that can be confirmed is that there are gods in this world, and the king of gods is a guy named Gwyn.

But Su Ziyu doesn't have to worry too much, because this guy has been burned.

If it is burned, it shouldn't be corrupted, right?

Gwyn is a god from the First Fire Age. It is said that the world was originally dark, and only immortal ancient trees and dragons existed in the chaos. No one knew when the first flame was born, and all the differences arose from it.

Life and death, light and darkness, time and space... The species that were originally born from the dark mud were attracted by the flames, automatically gathered around the flames, and obtained the initial king's soul. They were the original god Gwyn, the original dead tomb king Nit, the witch of Chaos Izalith, and a forgotten dwarf.

In the Age of First Flame, the three kings who had obtained the supreme power of the First Flame began to join forces to deal with the Immortal Dragons. They obtained the secret of the Immortal Dragons' immortality from the marginalized scaleless white dragon Hiss, and launched a war against the Immortal Dragons. The Tomb King Nit released the death miasma, bringing the first death to the world and corroding the dragon scales of the Immortal Dragons. The Witch of Izalith released the flames of chaos, burning the ancient trees where the Immortal Dragons lived. Gwyn distributed the strongest soul of the Sun King of Light and Thunder to his subordinates, allowing his subordinates to gain the power of thunder and lightning and serve as the backbone of destroying the Immortal Dragons.

Thus, these oldest rulers were wiped out.

The Age of Fire thus begins!

For a very long period of time, the world was full of vitality and developed a brilliant civilization.

Gwyn is the origin of the gods in this world.

However, he is a little different from the gods that Su Ziyu knows. The gods in this world live with humans, a bit like the Nordic gods, and they rule over all things in the world.

Time passed like this for a very long time.

At some point, the power of the flame began to weaken.

Some undead gradually appeared in this world and began to spread rapidly. In order to continue the Age of Fire, the Sun King - Gwyn distributed the power of the king's soul to his subordinates, and then threw his body into the First Fire as firewood to strengthen the power of the First Fire and continue the glory of this era.

The term 'Salary King' was born at that time.

Over the following tens of thousands of years, in order to continue the power of the First Flame and prevent the world from being swallowed by darkness, generation after generation of kings were thrown into the First Flame as firewood, and this world has continued like this until now.

The information in the library is not complete.

A lot of information from the First Fire Age has been lost, there is very little data left about the gods, and the records of the fire transmission rituals are not complete.

Su Ziyu is only sure of one thing.

If one is chosen as the 'Lord of Fire', no matter what he has done or how evil he is, he will obtain a very high status and be worshipped by people, even if it is only superficial.

but.

If the chosen 'Cinder King' is unwilling to fulfill his mission and does not go to the Fire Transmission Shrine to perform the Fire Transmission Ceremony, then some undead will come to find them and take their heads back to use as firewood for the ceremony. This ceremony has been performed many times in the past, with some Fire Kings taking the initiative to go, and some Fire Kings being taken away passively.

Although the ritual of passing on the fire is still going on, the world is still decaying and falling.

The power of the First Fire gradually waned.

This is like a last gasp of survival. Now it is the situation that Su Ziyu has seen. There is not even a living person to be seen around. All are zombies swimming around, and the remaining ones have turned into various monsters.

Su Ziyu now has some doubts as to whether there are any normal living people in this world.

When the bell rang.

The fire transmission ceremony began. When Su Ziyu just woke up, he heard a strange bell sound. There were no big bells around this church.

The power of the flames is growing weaker and weaker, and the number of undead spirits is increasing.

This is what Su Ziyu has learned so far.

However, there are still many things he is not very clear about, such as where did the weird thing called human pus come from, and why he lost his humanity after entering this world.

There are no answers in this library.

What is recorded the most is something called "the depths", as well as many terrifying horror stories. The members of the church are also very puzzled that they can actually gain the ability to cast spells by reading these stories that record the terrifying existence of the past.

Is this a belief in idealism?

By putting yourself in the shoes of those horrible things, you gain some of their special powers?

Totally incomprehensible.

Su Ziyu did not gain any spellcasting ability from reading the Holy Book of the Deep. At most, he felt creepy and a chill on his back. This might be because he did not believe in the Deep at all.

There is a wilderness near the monastery.

The further distance was shrouded in gray fog. The entire monastery was not very large. Apart from the large number of graves, no difficult monsters were found. Su Ziyu went back the same way and killed the kneeling zombies. They were slow to react and rushed over with ritual daggers. They were easily killed. There was no spiritual reaction on the altar. The most powerful person in the entire monastery was probably the monster dressed as a bishop and the old lady who brought him here.

"Looks like we need to explore the surroundings."

Su Ziyu stood on the top of the mountain and looked ahead. He could vaguely see even taller mountains in the distance. There were no human towns or villages at the foot of the monastery. Instead, there were tombstones scattered in the distance. They were very old and it was unknown how many people were buried there.

If he counted them, he found that there were thousands of tombstones nearby.

There was a time when many people must have been buried nearby, because the tombstones all seemed to have been buried at about the same time.

Let’s first look for any normal living people!

If there were no normal living people in this world, Su Ziyu would have to reposition its difficulty.

Take a few books with you.

There were some gold and silver utensils in the monastery, but Su Ziyu didn't take them because they took up too much space. Many things had already decayed. After walking around, he didn't find anything special. He just picked up a "priest's soul that was about to dissipate" along the way.

It seems that souls in this plane can actually be picked up on the roadside.

No other strange objects were found.

The weapons were quite ordinary, most of them were rusted and unusable, and it must have been a long time since outsiders came here. Su Ziyu also discovered that there was basically no food in the entire monastery, nor in the cellar, only abandoned bones and thick dust. There was a circle of land outside the monastery, but no crops were planted there, only dozens of scattered tombstones.

"Don't they need to eat?" Su Ziyu shook his head, not wanting to recall what the old lady was cooking in the pot.

It doesn't feel like a good thing.

It's getting dark.

Just when Su Ziyu was about to leave the monastery to go out and take a look, a figure carrying a big sword suddenly appeared in his sight. It was a slightly thin man with a tall physique, estimated to be more than two meters tall, but with little flesh on his body. He wore a pointed hat and metal armor under a gray cloak. After leaning forward slightly to signal Su Ziyu, he suddenly reached out and pulled out the big sword behind him, and slowly said: "Unknown king!"

"Greetings from Hawkwood of Farran!..."

The sword in his hand was covered with wisps of fire, and with a heavy sense of oppression, the man approached step by step and said in a deep voice: "As a fireless ember, please allow me to take your head."

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