Mystery: Undead don't die from passing fire

Chapter 247 There is a price to pay for skipping classes

Audrey hesitated to speak:
"That, Carla..."

"Please call me Fireproof Girl." Carula interrupted her and corrected her.

Audrey saw that Carula seemed to have a deep obsession with this word, she nodded slightly and said:

"Okay, Fireproof Girl."

Carula smiled and said softly:
"Master Ember, what do you want to ask?"

"where is this place?"

Audrey thought for a moment and asked.

A trace of nostalgia flashed in Carula's eyes, and she said softly:
"This is the Fire Passing Sacrificial Site, where the thrones of paid kings stand."

"And what you have to do is to bring back the kings who abandoned their thrones to their thrones."

"Spread the fire..."

Audrey fell silent. She remembered that Ember had told her that spreading fire was his destiny.

Does this mean that what she is going through now is likely to be Ember's past?And what is the purpose of Kalula spending a lot of energy to create such a dream?What does this have to do with embers?
Audrey was full of doubts in her heart, but she didn't say these questions out, she just asked softly:
"Ka...fireproof girl, what should I do next?"

"You can try to explore the Fire Passing Sacrifice, and you can also communicate with other people in the Fire Passing Sacrifice to collect useful information, but the most important thing is..."

Carula gave some constructive suggestions, but then she pointed to the extinguished brazier in front of her:
"You need to retrieve the Spiral Sword and rekindle the campfire."

"Spiral sword?"

Audrey was a little puzzled, but soon remembered that the bonfire she encountered before also had a spiral sword stuck in it.

In other words, only the fire with the spiral sword inserted can be ignited?
But where is she going to find the Spiral Sword?
Audrey suddenly remembered the tall knight she met in the square, half kneeling on the ground, with a spiral sword stuck in his chest.

Audrey hesitated and asked:

"So, I have to go back to the square, pull out the sword from the knight's chest, and bring it back here?"

"Yes."

Carula smiled and nodded, "Your behavior, we generally call it skipping class."

Audrey blinked, so shouldn't she use psychology to hide from class?Wouldn't it be better for her to clean up all the living corpses she met along the way?With the help of psychological invisibility, it shouldn't be difficult to sneak up and kill those living corpses from behind.

But that knight, who was so strong at first glance, made Audrey, who had never had actual combat experience, a little bit drummed.

So she just kept all this in her heart silently, but she didn't return to the square immediately, trying to pull out the spiral sword.Because she remembered what Kalula said, she could explore the Fire Passing Sacrificial Site first and communicate with other people.

The fire-spreading sacrificial field is in the shape of a circle as a whole, and all areas inside can be connected to each other.

And on the 'second floor' of Chuanhuo Sacrificial Site, on the back of the five thrones, the names of the owners of the thrones are engraved, from left to right:
Deep Church - Saint Eldridge.

Rudos the Exile.

End of Blood—Holy King of Lothric.

Watcher of the Abyss.

The Capital of Sin - Giant King Youmu.

The five thrones are symmetrical to each other from left to right.

Among them, except for a thin old man on the throne of 'Rudos the Exile', the owners of the other four thrones are not on the throne, and the owners of these thrones are also the 'kings who abandoned the throne'.

And what Audrey has to do now is to bring these four people back to their thrones.

In addition, although the placement of the throne seems to follow a certain law, it is not strictly symmetrical in size.

The throne belonging to 'Ludos the Exile' is the smallest, followed by 'Watcher of the Abyss', followed by the thrones of 'Saint Eldridge' and 'Holy King of Lothric', which are on the far right and belong to The throne of 'Giant King Yum' is the largest.

Audrey guessed that this might have something to do with the size of these 'salary kings' themselves, she had seen 'three of them' in the dream——

Eldridge, Giant King Yum, Watcher of the Abyss.

Youmu is a giant, and his body size is naturally far beyond ordinary people. It is normal for the throne to be the largest.

Only the Watchers of the Abyss, like those Feysacs who are said to be descended from giants.Although it is still taller than ordinary people, it is still at a normal level.

But even so, it couldn't explain the doubts in Audrey's heart.

For example, there seem to be many people in the Abyss Watcher, and there seems to be no room for a throne, right?
There is also the Giant King Youmu. Although his throne is the largest, it is still nothing compared to his huge size.Even if he was really brought here, he might not be able to sit down at all.

Since Kalula spent a lot of effort to construct this dream, she would definitely not make such a low-level mistake.

So, is there any reason for this that she doesn't know?
Audrey wanted to ask Carula very much, but before that, she thought she could ask someone else first.

For example, Rudos, the only exile sitting on the throne.

Audrey searched the entire Fire Passing Sacrifice, but she only found five 'living people'.Except for Carula, who was a fireproof woman, there was only the knight with his head bowed, Ludos on the throne, an old woman, and a blacksmith.

And the one with the highest status should be 'Ludos the Exile', the salary king sitting on the throne.

Audrey stood under Rudos' throne and asked politely:

"Hello, sir, are you Mr. Rudos?"

"Oh, polite little girl."

Ludos seemed to have finally noticed her, and said with emotion: "Before you became a fireless ashes and a king, you must have been a well-educated noble lady. It turns out that it's not just a dwarf like me, even you People like this will be bound by the curse..."

"Ah, I'm sorry... I'm a little distracted, but you guessed it right, I'm Rudos from Courland."

"You may not believe it, but I am the salary king who once passed on the fire, and this body that is still suffering from the slight fire is an ironclad proof."

"This broken body, if you look closer, you should be able to see it clearly, right?"

Hearing Ludos' self-deprecating tone, Audrey subconsciously glanced at Ludos's lower body——

There is nothing there.

Yes, although he is the salary king who occupies the throne, Rudos has lost his legs.

As for this, Audrey actually had certain guesses.

Because in the picture she saw when she entered the dream, only three of the five new kings appeared:

Saint Eldridge, Watcher of the Abyss, and Yom the Giant King.

The Holy King of Lothric and Rudos the Exile are not among them, but perhaps not absolutely——

Like Rudos the Exile.

The other four salary kings all gave up their thrones, but only Rudos sat on the throne that belonged to him.That doesn't mean he didn't abandon his throne, he may have been forced to return to his throne.

Because in one of the scenes, Audrey saw a knight dragging a person with only the upper body back to the Fire Passing Sacrifice.And that person with only the upper body may be Rudos...

That is to say, Ludos's legs may have been dragged back after being interrupted by 'Ash'.

He may also want to abandon the throne like other salary kings, but his luck does not seem to be very good...

Although this was probably the truth of the matter, Audrey was very wise not to ask it in person.

Even in a dream, even if Ludos in front of him is just a product of dream fantasy, it is always bad to poke someone's scar in person.

Audrey considered her words and asked:

"Do you know anything about other salary kings?"

"Other salary kings..."

Ludos glanced at the other thrones on both sides, and said in a complicated tone:
"Although we are both salary kings, the time of spreading the fire is not the same, and there is no intersection before that, so my understanding of them is quite limited, and I have only heard some stories about them. Of course, if you really I hope to understand, and I can tell you something."

Audrey immediately showed an appearance of humbly asking for advice.

Ludos looked at the throne on his right, and said softly:

"Eldridge, it is rumored that he was once a priest of the White Sect."

"Originally he was the agent who represented Lothric in the capital of crime to study the fire of crime. He was affected by the fire of crime and had a habit of cannibalism. Therefore, he was dismissed and imprisoned in the deep church as a tool to deal with the undead. , those undead will be sent to Aldrich's mouth as 'sacrifices' along the road of living sacrifices."

"Years of cannibalism and the influence of the dark made him lose his human form and turned into a pool of mud, but the accumulation of souls also gave him the power to become a salary king. Lothric named him 'Holy One' as the first The wood for the fire, passed the fire and was buried in a coffin deep in the secluded church."

"cannibal?"

Audrey suddenly felt shuddering, such behavior is simply intolerable in the world!It is definitely not enough to be sentenced to death a hundred times in the Loen Kingdom!But in this world, in order to let him spread the fire, such a person is conferred as a 'saint' instead, which is absurd and bizarre.

Rudos didn't seem to notice Audrey's strangeness, and continued to introduce:
"Yum, king of giants, descended from the conquerors of old."

"Relying on his giant body, Youmu is invincible, helping the people of the city of crimes to repel foreign enemies and expand their territory."

"However, the people in the city of crimes don't thank Youmu for this. They are full of fear of Youmu, because they are afraid that Youmu's great power will threaten their safety."

"Until one day, the fire of sin karma fell from the sky, and the inextinguishable flame burned everything around. In order to solve this crisis, people elected Youmu to be the king of the city of sin karma."

"Although Youmu knew that the people who recommended him to be king were not sincere, he still agreed to their request. However, even Youmu was helpless against the fire of sin that could not be extinguished until he heard a rumor: The fire appeared because the first fire was about to go out, and as long as the first fire can be rekindled, the fire of sin can be extinguished, so Youmu, who wholeheartedly wanted to save the people of the capital of crime, resolutely chose to embark on the road of spreading fire."

"The monitor of the abyss, the Falan undead team."

"They are the successors of the will of the abyss walker Artorius. They signed a contract with the old wolf of Farland, shared the blood of the wolf, monitored the abyss and wiped out any signs of abyss erosion."

"In order to prevent the erosion of the abyss, even destroying a country will not hesitate. The undead team alone is not enough to make a salary. Their strength comes from the strength of the group. After sharing the blood of wolves, the undead team has the qualifications to become a salary. "

"In order to continue the initial fire, Lothric used the undead team that suppressed the abyss as firewood to spread the fire."

"at last……"

Ludos cast his eyes on the throne at the top, and said in a complicated tone:
"Lothric has two princes, the eldest prince Lorian and the second prince Lothric who was given the same name as his country."

"Prince Lothric was expected to spread the fire before he was born, but he was weak after birth, and he failed to become the hero wielding the platinum sword as the royal family expected."

"In order to protect his younger brother, the eldest prince Lorian even resisted the mission of spreading fire, thinking that it was a cursed path. This triggered civil strife in Lothric. The knights of Lothric fought against each other because of their ideas. Fighting, while the twin princes are hiding at the top of Lothric's great library, waiting for the day when the flames are extinguished and the era ends."

"It is precisely because Prince Lothric resisted the mission of spreading the fire that we, the ancient salary kings who have already passed the fire, will be awakened by the bell and perform the mission of spreading the fire again."

Audrey hesitated to speak. Is this what you mean by 'limited knowledge' or 'only heard of some rumors'?
This 'some' is too detailed!
Of course, Audrey also knew that this was just a dream, a reenactment of the past legend——

Not even an exact reproduction.

For example, Audrey always felt that Carula was full of private goods, otherwise, how could she have assigned herself the role of fireproof girl?
The real Rudos himself may indeed have limited knowledge of the other salaried kings.

But this is a dream, and the 'Ludos' in front of him is just a product constructed by the dream.And since the dream was constructed by Carula, all that Rudos said may only be said by Carula through his mouth.

And this also gave Audrey new guesses about Carula's purpose——

Spreading fire is obviously impossible.

This is just a dream, and it doesn't make any sense to spread fire in a dream.

Perhaps what Carula is after is just to re-tell the story of the past, to show the truth of all this to the world.

And everything that happened in the dream was just serving this goal.

Wanting to understand this, Audrey no longer entangled in the 'person' who told the information, but began to analyze the information itself.

Just judging from the experience of these five "salary kings", Chuanhuo itself does not seem to be as glamorous as its literal meaning.On the contrary, it is full of all kinds of dirty transactions. The superiors unscrupulously designate people with powerful souls as "salary kings". It is a matter of course that they are used as tools to spread fire, and even the undead team that suppresses the abyss is used as firewood... …

In order to spread the fire, even the abyss is abandoned. Is the fire really that important?
Even though she hasn't really started to experience all of this, Audrey has already questioned all of this.

Thinking of this, Audrey suddenly had a feeling——

Perhaps the questioning she had was exactly what Carula expected.

Carula wants her, or rather, wants everyone who enters this dream to have the same doubts.

(End of this chapter)