The three of them had no choice but to return underground along the same route.

Seeing that Su Ziyu was very interested in everything about ancient dragons, Sister Friede asked the Onion Knight some questions and learned a lot about the ancient dragon faith from him.

In the Age of Gods, powerful warriors were proud to hunt dragons, and the warriors of the Protoss forged many weapons specifically for fighting dragons. The Sun King, Gwyn, led the Protoss to slaughter all the immortal ancient dragons, but later someone created new dragons, which are now these huge flying dragons without scales, only thick dragon skins.

It is said that later flying dragons were all created by the scaleless white dragon Hiss using magic, but the white dragon Hiss was taken away and burned in the primordial fire, so this matter cannot be verified.

The warriors' belief in ancient dragons was born in the last one or two thousand years.

That is, when the Lothric royal family rose to power, the royal family mentioned by the undead refers to the current Lothric royal family, who are said to be the descendants of the hybrid of the gods and humans. In addition, there is another old royal force in this world, which is the direct descendants of the Sun King Gwyn. They live in Anor Londo, not far from here, and have not appeared in front of people for a long time.

The giant flying dragons that Su Ziyu saw in the Royal City of Lothric were not wild. They had a very close relationship with the royal family of Lothric and were regarded as one of the pillars of the kingdom.

It is even possible that those flying dragons were transformed from humans!

According to legend, the ultimate result of the ancient dragon belief is to become a dragon, but it is not purely for powerful strength, but has another purpose.

"To survive the dark ages without fire."

Sister Friede glanced at the Onion Knight walking in front and whispered, "It is said that the previous king of Lothric, the demon king Osroais, went mad because of his obsession with the power of dragons."

"However, the original purpose of the Lothric royal family's research on ancient dragons was to survive the dark age without fire by turning them into flying dragons."

Before the First Fire was born, the world was ruled by immortal ancient dragons.

Now the primordial fire has dimmed, not everyone can't foresee this. As the most powerful force now, the Kingdom of Lothric has secretly made two preparations. The first is to cultivate the Cinder King, purify the blood through some means, retain a stronger innate power, and even use the sinful methods of secret magic and blood marriage to give birth to some special offspring.

This way the divine bloodline can be preserved to the greatest extent, and the royal children will be born with amazing talents.

But a curse was born.

In the most recent generation of inheritance, although the Lothric royal family gave birth to the eldest prince Lorian who could fight the demon prince alone, it also gave birth to the second prince Lothric who was so weak that he could not even lift the lightest sword.

In Su Ziyu's opinion, this was a deformed child born from inbreeding, and part of the so-called curse came from this.

The ancient Egyptian royal family, the European royal family, and many royal families in ancient times on Earth practiced incest marriages and were abolished for the sake of so-called bloodline purity.

But the Lothric royal family may have mastered some special secrets to abolish one prince and give birth to another more powerful prince. However, no one expected that the eldest prince Lorian would be willing to bear this terrible curse together to protect his younger brother and become a sharp sword to protect him.

If the original fire really went out, in order to continue the fire of life, some people who turned into dragons might be able to survive the dark age without fire.

However, only the royal family of Lothric knew the specific secrets, and outsiders had no idea whether it was successful or not, because the flying dragon was only controlled by the royal family.

"The man turned into a dragon."

"Then humans will still be extinct, won't they?" Su Ziyu shook his head.

The dragon man's remains looked strange, and also showed signs of being a zombie, which did not seem like a successful work.

"I've been to the inner city of Lothric." Sister Friede thought for a moment and said softly, "In fact, in addition to the ancient dragon faith, they also have another angel faith that is denounced as heresy."

"It seems to have been born because of the failure of the ancient dragon faith."

"There are signs of a civil war breaking out in the royal city. Maybe they also fought because of conflicts in faith."

"Unfortunately, the dragon-hunting armor inside was too difficult to deal with, so I didn't go in."

Angel faith?

"Turning people into angels?" Su Ziyu asked curiously.

Sister Friede shook her head slightly and said, "No. It turned into something even stranger."

The Lothric royal family has done everything they can to survive the dark age without fire. It seems that even within the Fire Transmission Sect, there are people who believe that the original fire will be extinguished one day.

"In contrast."

"I think the secret preparations made by the former royal family, the Sun King Gwyn, are more appropriate." Sister Friede hesitated for a moment and said again, "The painting world of Eredel."

"It is said that this is a unique world created to cope with the future world where the flames will be extinguished."

"A place of refuge secretly prepared by the gods."

This is the third time Sister Friede has mentioned the painting world.

"Is this why you have always wanted to go to that painting world?" Su Ziyu asked softly.

"Yes." Sister Friede nodded and said, "I want to go and see."

Ancient dragon faith.

Trying to turn humans into dragons to survive the dark age without fire in the future.

It’s GG already.

Angel faith.

Trying to turn humans into strange angel-like creatures is also for the purpose of surviving the dark age without fire.

Also GG, and triggered a civil war in the royal city of Lothric.

As for the taboo mode of blood marriage to continuously give birth to the Lord of Fire, it was directly abolished because the two princes of Lothric refused to pass on the fire. They hated the passing on of the fire so much and openly opposed everything, which might not be unaffected by the more chaotic secrets within the royal family.

That demon king is still alive, although he has gone crazy.

Su Ziyu didn't get much accurate information from Sister Friede, but just from this information, he could understand the extent of the chaos within the Lothric royal family.

This is probably what it means to be crazy in despair.

"Do you think that painting world can serve as humanity's last refuge?" Su Ziyu asked slowly.

"At least it's a hope." Sister Friede nodded.

Wishing to put out a fire does not mean wishing for the extinction of all life.

Sister Friede should still hope that there is a place where the human race can continue.

"Hmm?"

"I seem to be lost!..." Just as the two people at the back were secretly communicating, the Onion Knight walking in front of the team scratched his head a little embarrassedly, turned around and said: "I don't know where we are either."

Su Ziyu and Sister Friede, who were secretly exchanging information about the painting world, couldn't help but stop.

They looked at each other helplessly, and then began to check the situation around them. The person who led the way at first was the Onion Knight. He said that he had been here before, but now he told the two people that he was lost.

It's really not reliable to let this idiot lead the way.

"We should have entered deep underground." Sister Friede observed the surroundings and said, "Let's go over there and have a look."

Su Ziyu had never been here before, so naturally he followed their arrangements.

The group walked for a while.

I don't know where we are, but there are a lot of corpses nearby, and some traces of a battle that happened long ago.

"There seems to be a cell there!" Sister Friede raised her hand.

Crack. Su Ziyu stretched out his hand to test the solidity of the cell, then took out the Dark Great Sword and chopped it open.

The cell was completely empty.

But there was a dried-up corpse in the corner, sitting on the far left, and it had been dead for a long time.

"It seems to be an undead." Sister Friede took a glance and suddenly her eyes lit up. She raised her hand and pushed away the dead body's hand. Soon, an extremely strange ring appeared in front of everyone.

It was a ring formed by a coiled golden snake.

"Here you go." Sister Friede picked it up and glanced at it, then turned around and handed it to Su Ziyu beside her and said, "This seems to be the legendary Greedy Golden Snake Ring."

“I didn’t expect to be here.”

——“Greedy Golden Snake Ring (Rare Item): Snakes are degenerated dragons, extremely greedy creatures. This ring can enhance its treasure-hunting ability, and it will sense when there is a treasure nearby.”

This seems to be a rare item used for treasure hunting.

Su Ziyu took it, looked at it, put it on his hand to experience it for a while, then shook his head and said, "It's not convenient for fighting."

"It's okay to wear it occasionally."

The coiled golden snake on the ring was too big and affected the battle more than the gem ring.

"It's a pity that it's not the Greedy Silver Snake Ring." Sister Friede said with regret: "It is said that the ring can increase the souls plundered after killing the enemy."

Yeah?

That is a very useful and unique item.

There was basically nothing here, so the group followed Sister Frieda and went back, twisting and turning in the dark and eerie passage for about half an hour. They killed many strange monsters with heads as long as snakes on the way, and finally came to a place that was a little different.

"We seem to have entered the area of ​​the City of Sin."

Sister Friede squatted down, picked up a cup on the ground, looked at it and said, "This is something from the City of Sin."

A very ordinary dusty silver cup.

Walked a few steps forward.

Su Ziyu saw a hint of gold again. He picked it up and saw that it was a plate made of gold. It weighed about half a pound and the purity of the gold was not low.

"The City of Sin once gathered the world's greatest wealth."

“Everything here is magnificent.”

"Nobles and merchants used tools made of pure silver and gold. Before the First Fire dimmed, they controlled most of the world's trade and greedily plundered all the wealth that could be plundered."

Sister Friede picked up another piece of melted gold and said slowly, "Until the fire of sin descends here."

"Greedy desire."

"It also brought the flames of greed."

All that was left in front of Su Ziyu was a ruin, which had been buried underground for who knows how long. However, by clearing away the remains of the ruins, he could still find a lot of gold and silver.

That was the currency used in this world when the flames were still strong.

Now.

These things are worthless.

"Let's go." The Onion Knight didn't even look at the gold and silver on the ground. His expression became much heavier after he came here. He said slowly: "I think I remember how to leave."

The further you go, the more gold and silver utensils you see.

There are so many that you can accidentally step on them on the road.

In their sight, there appeared some human remains piled up after burning. It was like a pile of melted corpses, with a lot of gold and silver scattered around. Legend has it that the fire of sin falls from the sky and only burns the flesh and blood of humans, while other things are not burned at all.

These should be the people in the City of Sin who were burned to death at that time.

Su Ziyu saw that many people were holding a lot of gold, silver and jewelry in their arms before they were burned to death. The remaining corpses were mixed with the gold, silver and jewelry to form a mountain of graves.

"careful!"

"There are enemies!" Su Ziyu suddenly stopped and said in a deep voice.

Heavy footsteps were heard.

In the sight of the group, a monster of considerable size appeared. They saw a fat body crawling on the ground, with moss growing on the gray-black skin. The head had disappeared, replaced by a big hand with eight huge gray-black fingers. When the fingers were raised, they could see that the palm was filled with densely packed eyeballs, which were scattered all over the palm, and drops of disgusting sticky liquid oozed out, which made people feel extremely disgusted and uncomfortable.

"What the hell is this thing!" Su Ziyu felt his mind was polluted after just one look at it. When the monster raised its body, he could see its ripped open belly, which was filled with a bunch of strange eyeballs.

Another of the same monster crawled out.

Their seemingly slow bodies became quite ferocious when approaching, and they just flipped over and pounced on us.

Phew.

thump.

With a flash of lightning and black flames, the two monsters were quickly dealt with. They looked a bit hideous and disgusting, but they were not difficult to deal with.

"Gain 1 source of power."

"Gain 1 source of power."

Su Ziyu discovered a faint spiritual light emerging from the corpse. When he got closer to take a look, he found two strange objects, but these strange objects made him feel a little disgusting.

——"Shit Block (Rare Item): A block of shit containing extremely poisonous substances that can be thrown at enemies. It is said that it can be found on the bodies of some giants."

Is this a giant?

Su Ziyu looked at the size of the monster and felt that it looked a bit like a twisted giant.

Two pieces of shit fell from a monster's body.

There are four in total.

All of them were marked as containing highly toxic substances. He finally knew where the shit that the Sun Knight threw at him at the beginning came from.

Do you want this rare item?

I always feel so disgusting.

Su Ziyu glanced at Sister Friede, who had a look of disgust on her face, and silently used his telekinesis to collect the four pieces of shit. Fortunately, he didn't have to use his hands to pick them up.

Put it away first.

If you meet that Sun Knight again in the future, throw this thing back.

You really eat shit!

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