Rumble.

Amidst the burst of golden lightning, the figure of the hero Guda slowly fell down.

"Gain 15 points of source power."

This battle was easier than Su Ziyu had imagined, because Sister Friede was quite familiar with the enemy's moves. Not only could she predict his moves, she could even remind Su Ziyu to move and dodge.

It seems that she really fought with this person.

"What are you looking for?" Su Ziyu asked Sister Friede as she looked at the corpse.

Sister Friede frowned and looked around, then said slowly, "Spiral Sword."

There is no spiral sword here.

After being killed, the hero Guda's figure gradually turned into dust and dissipated, and in Su Ziyu's sight there was only a glowing soul.

——"Soul of the hero Guda (refinable): The only thing that greets the belated hero is a fireless sacrificial field and a silent bell. After refining, you will gain 1500 energy points."

Su Ziyu took the soul and looked at it, and said softly: "He seems to be the one who was once chosen to pass on the fire."

A belated hero?

Su Ziyu looked at the dilapidated walls around him and slowly pushed open the door in front of him. A winding path led to the top of the mountain.

"Let's go."

"The Firelink Shrine is in front of us." Sister Friede said softly.

The two continued to explore this unique area, and soon some new enemies appeared in their sight. They were all zombified knights wearing the armor of the gods.

"The gods here have been in zombie form for a long time." Su Ziyu said slowly.

"Yes." Sister Friede nodded and said, "In another Firelink Shrine, there are no gods nearby."

A few minutes later.

An old, dilapidated building appeared before our eyes.

Sister Friede walked in first. She looked around and murmured, "It's almost exactly the same as the other Firelink Shrine."

As she was talking, she came to the center of the Fire Sacrifice Site, squatted in front of a fire pit in the center, and said hesitantly: "The fire here has gone out."

Sister Friede picked up a broken blade that had been burned black. She showed it to Su Ziyu and said, "The broken blade of the spiral sword."

——"The Remains of the Spiral Sword (Rare Item): The remains of a campfire that has completed its mission. The fragments of the Spiral Sword that coexist with the campfire. After use, you can return to the campfire at the sacrificial site."

The power of fire remains on this fragment of the spiral sword.

"Be careful! There's someone here!" Su Ziyu took a look, then seemed to sense something and suddenly spoke out.

There are still people here!

"Over there." Su Ziyu pointed to the top of the stairs.

Sister Friede jumped up lightly, followed by Su Ziyu. Soon, an old woman sitting on a chair appeared in their sight. She was wearing an old grey robe, and traces of zombies could be seen on her face. However, she seemed to still have self-awareness. She actually raised her head and looked at them, saying slowly, "Oh, oh, this is really strange."

"The bell didn't ring, but a lost person showed up."

Sister Friede looked the old woman up and down in front of her, and whispered in Su Ziyu's ear, "She is a maid from the Firelink Shrine."

The entire sacrificial site was completely empty, with this one living person being the only one there.

"What do you want from an old lady like me?" The old lady in front of them didn't stand up, but looked up at them and muttered.

Seems like they can communicate.

Su Ziyu took a step forward curiously and asked, "Where is this?"

"The sacrificial site where the flames have gone out." The old woman's voice sounded a little strange. Although she seemed to have self-awareness, she showed signs of being transformed into a zombie.

"Where's the Fire Keeper?" Sister Friede observed her carefully, as if trying to judge something, and suddenly asked, "Why are you still here?"

The old woman looked up at her and said slowly, "I am a maid at the sacrificial site."

"Even if the flames are out, you shouldn't leave here."

"Fire Keeper?"

"The fire keeper who completed her mission is naturally dead."

"Embers without fire?"

"You shouldn't stay here. There is a mission you need to complete outside."

After saying these words, the old woman in front of him fell silent and sat motionless on the chair, as if she had completely lost interest in communicating.

This is a person waiting to die.

Su Ziyu could feel that her soul had already dimmed.

"That's the blacksmith." Sister Friede looked around and turned to Su Ziyu and said, "Follow me."

After saying that, she walked forward for a distance.

After Su Ziyu caught up, he whispered, "I seem to remember something."

"This is where the undead passed on the fire."

Initially, it was the undead who were responsible for spreading the fire, but later they turned into fireless embers.

Sister Friede fumbled around as if looking for something. After a while, she suddenly hit the wall with her weapon, and then the wall gradually disappeared. What appeared before their eyes was a dried corpse that had existed for an unknown period of time.

"The original fire keeper." Sister Friede squatted down and muttered.

After saying.

Sister Friede took out a pair of crystallized eyeballs from the corpse, held them in her hands for a moment, and then showed them to Su Ziyu.

——"Eyes of the Fire Keeper (High-level Rare Item): It is said to be the eyes of the original Fire Keeper, and all subsequent Fire Keepers lost their light. It is said to allow the Fire Keeper to see things that they should not see."

Su Ziyu frowned and glanced at it and said, "Is there any problem with this eyeball?"

Sister Friede nodded and said, "An ancient ritual."

"The Fire Keeper will have his eyes removed."

"Only by embracing the darkness can they protect the flame."

Sister Friede hesitated a little when she said this, and then she said slowly, "I may need to go back to the Firelink Shrine."

go back?

Su Ziyu frowned and asked, "What are you going back for?"

Sister Friede showed the eyeball in her hand and said softly, "Give it to the Fire Keeper."

"I want to get closer to the original fire."

"We're going to need the Fire Keeper's help."

Sister Friede must have remembered something, but she was not willing to elaborate. Instead, she looked up at Su Ziyu and said, "Can you trust me?"

"Perhaps I have a way to extinguish the First Fire in a simpler way."

"But you must give me the souls of other Cinder Kings as proof."

After a moment of silence, Su Ziyu nodded and said, "Okay."

"But at least you let me know what you want to do."

Sister Friede pondered for a moment, then spread out the eyeballs in her hand and said, "This is a curse."

"The Fire Keeper's Curse."

"It will allow us to gain the Fire Keeper's help."

Su Ziyu looked a little incredulous and asked in confusion, "If we give this eye to the fire keeper, will she help us put out the fire?"

"Yes." Sister Friede nodded and said, "Because it will allow the Fire Keeper to see the time when the flames will eventually go out." "And a glimmer of hope for the future."

Su Ziyu was silent for a long time, then nodded and said, "Okay."

"You go ahead."

"I trust you."

After saying that, Su Ziyu took out the souls of the other three Fire Kings.

The speed of refining the demon gourd was not fast, and the other souls had not been refined yet. The souls of the fire kings were all kept by Su Ziyu in his private space. Su Ziyu had already gained a lot of divinity points in the previous battles. Even if Sister Friede ran away with the souls of the fire kings, he had already obtained the biggest gain.

Besides, he trusted Sister Friede more.

Sister Friede agreed with him, and although she concealed some things, Su Ziyu still chose to believe her.

Moreover, it is risky for Sister Friede to return to the Firelink Shrine this time. The soul of the Lord of Cinders should be a proof, a certificate to gain the trust of others.

The two did not stay at the fireless sacrificial site for too long.

It's too depressing and dark here.

Disturbing.

Except for a maid waiting to die in the sacrificial field, there was no living person to be seen.

The belated arrival of the hero caused the flames here to go out, and the abandoned fireless sacrificial site was sealed in the deepest part of the Royal City of Lothric. There may be a tortuous secret in this, but it has long been buried in history.

Sister Friede was teleported directly back to the Firelink Shrine through the spiral sword fragments.

Su Ziyu returned along the original route and prepared to go to the Ancient Dragon Summit. According to the plan, he needed the cooperation of the two princes of Lothric.

Fire sacrifice site.

Amidst the drifting sparks, Sister Friede appeared next to the campfire in the center.

As her figure appeared, the entire Firelink Shrine fell into deathly silence.

Hawkwood, who was squatting in the corner not far away, stared at Sister Friede in amazement. He opened his mouth to say something, but swallowed it back in the end.

"Why do you dare to come back?"

An old voice sounded, seemingly coming from the throne.

Sister Friede turned around expressionlessly and looked directly at the Cinder King on the throne. He was an old man with sparks burning on his body and his legs burned off. She said calmly, "Why can't I come back?"

After saying that, Sister Friede took out her giant sickle, looked at Rhodos on the throne, and said slowly: "As a firewood king, you don't have to stay alive."

"Rhodos."

"Do you understand?"

Hearing Sister Friede's words, the Fire King Rhodos on the throne obviously lost his momentum and began to stutter. He said angrily: "Here... this is the Fire Sacrifice Site!..."

Sister Friede turned her head and looked to her side. A female figure appeared in the darkness. She said slowly, "Of course I know this is the Fire Sacrifice Site."

Don't know when.

A shadowy figure appeared in the darkness, holding an invisible sword in her hand. She looked at Sister Friede in front of her and said, "Sister. How dare you come back?"

Yulia.

Julia of Londor, leader of the Black Church and sister of Sister Friede.

Next to her was another fireless ember, dressed as a witch. She was looking at Sister Friede with interest, and from time to time she would turn her gaze to the fire keeper beside the campfire.

The Fire Keeper stood there quietly.

However, everyone noticed that she had placed her white palm on the spiral sword stuck in the center of the campfire.

"You betrayed the fire!..." When Rhodes's eyes fell on the Fire Keeper, a hint of subtle fear flashed across his expression.

At this time, the situation in the Fire Transmission Shrine was very strange.

Almost everyone was paying attention to the changes in the Fire Keeper's expression. Although the Fire Keeper looked helpless, all the Fireless Embers knew that every generation of the Fire Keeper was not simple. The amount of soul carried by the Fire Keeper was the most terrifying. She was a container, and it was she who helped the Fireless Embers transform souls into power.

The Fire Keeper is unkillable.

The Fire Keeper once was ambushed and killed by a fireless ember, but she was soon resurrected from the bonfire and casually inserted the spiral sword into the body of the ash. Only after completing her mission could the Fire Keeper find peace in death.

The Fire Keeper will not turn into a zombie. No matter how many times she dies, she can be resurrected.

"I didn't betray the flame." Sister Friede's attention was always on the Fire Keeper. She slowly took out the Soul of the Cinder King that Su Ziyu had given her, showed it to the others, and said in a serious tone, "I just used the nameless king."

"Let him help me get the firewood."

One after another, the dazzling light of soul emerges.

The soul of the Cinder King of the Faran Undead Corps, the soul of the Cinder King of the Giant King - Youm, and the soul of the Cinder King of Aldrich who devoured the gods.

Sister Friede stood there with a calm expression and said slowly, "When you still have nothing to gain."

“But I’m almost there.”

"As long as I wait for the right opportunity, I can get all the firewood from the Fire King."

The Fire Keeper stood there with a frown on her face.

She looked at the souls of the Fire Kings in Sister Friede's hands, and always felt that something was missing.

But she still said softly: "Welcome back."

"Lord Fireless Ember."

The atmosphere in the entire Firelink Shrine suddenly relaxed. After the Fire Keeper spoke, everyone else fell silent, looking at Sister Frieda meaningfully.

Sister Friede slowly walked towards Julia of Londor.

However, when she passed by the Fire Keeper, she seemed to accidentally touch the back of the Fire Keeper's hand with her little finger.

"elder sister."

"You can't fool me. You don't want to pass on the fire." Yulia looked at Sister Friede expressionlessly.

Sister Friede sighed softly and said slowly: "Don't you think other people don't know why Londor wants to pass on the fire?"

"The Wandering King of Londor?"

"hehe."

Sister Friede raised a mocking smile and whispered, "Being the king of a group of zombies in such a hopeless world?"

“Does it make sense?”

Yulia remained silent, but said in a deep voice: "The era of the gods' rule has ended, and the era belonging to mankind will eventually come."

Sister Friede shook her head and said, "Human?"

"They are just a group of conscious zombies."

"The flame will eventually go out."

"Can a group of zombies survive the dark age without fire?"

"Are you still believing in the lies of the World Serpent? Give up! Only destruction can bring about a new life!"

Yulia was silent for a moment, then raised her head and said, "As long as we seize the original fire, humans will have enough heroes to continue the flame."

"You are stubborn and refuse to repent." Sister Friede said coldly.

After saying that, she turned and left, heading towards Hawkwood, causing the man to step back a little uncomfortably.

The fire keeper still stood quietly beside the campfire.

Sister Friede turned her head and glanced at the Fire Keeper, then found a quiet place to sit down, as if waiting for a suitable opportunity.

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