because i am stel

——However, this crystallization magic can instantly infect a healthy individual with a curse that is not much different from Originium disease, or even worse in nature.

She further analyzed the craft.She found that this magic has extraordinary tracking power and penetrating power—indeed, how can an attack on the soul level be resisted with armor?Whether it is a shield, armor, or even a solid city wall, it is as weak as thin paper under the washing of this crystalline breath.And when she spent a week learning how to track the crystal block, even the most agile mountain ape could not escape under her gaze.

The Fireproof Girl is right, this magic is indeed the supreme magic mystery of Lothric.

Because even if there is only one person, when the user of this crystal magic lets go of all scruples and uses his spells recklessly.Then even an entire fortress city with strong military equipment will be wiped out under this force that is irresistible, and even if it is resisted, it will lead to out-of-control expansion.

——Like an out-of-control source petrified life form...an extremely rare sublimation form among ore patients.Even in Terra, once such an individual is born, it will be accompanied by the destruction of several mobile cities.As for crystallization magic... I don't know what it will look like on Terra according to the world transcription rules speculated by Persephone.But if its efficacy doesn't mutate...

——I, became a controllable sublimated body?Mythical creature?

Kelsey wanted to laugh a little, but couldn't.Because she discovered that her ability to interfere with crystallization magic is similar to the spontaneous spread of source stone crystals in certain areas-she knows that source stones are alive, and that there is a strange pan-consciousness in source stones .And if the two phases prove...

——Deep in the land of Terra, there is an unprecedented super Originium life form...an ancient god, the sleeping source of Originium crystallization.And the life and death of all infected people, and even their life forms, are under its control.

Kelsey slightly adjusted the structure of the technique in the experiment, and the crystal that should have destroyed the internal structure of the living body stopped changing before it produced irreversible deformation—the crystal and the mouse reached a symbiosis, so that only Experimental animals with a lifespan of a few seconds can continue to survive.And as long as she activates a command, the growth-stopping crystal will destroy the remaining part of this life body in an explosive manner, just like a toothpick piercing butter.

——Sure enough, there is a reason why Originium Disease is difficult to cure... It is the same as I speculated before. .

—It can be contained, but it is difficult to uproot.And if it is not necessary to erase this curse from the body, it must use the power of the same level to succeed.

She thought of those few cases of cure of severe ore disease.And in those few cases of healing, without exception, Shirtel's power participated in it.

Power can fight power, and curse can fight curse.Just like his own crystal magic is powerful, but it will inevitably be broken by the same origin of the Lothric royal family, but more sophisticated skills.

— Stelter, Persephone.You really are the key.

——Ah, yes.On the land of Terra, ore disease is nothing more than a trivial matter after all.It has made many people suffer, but Originium is also the pillar of civilization, providing indispensable help to the industrial system of the entire world.Whether or not the Originium disease is eliminated, or whether the infected exist or not, is actually irrelevant to the entire Terra civilization.What really needs to be confronted and resisted are actually those ancient forces entrenched at the end of the earth.

—North of Sami, south of Sargon... those old gods, old evil monsters, even...

—even Terra itself.

She interrupted her thoughts.

Thinking about it so much doesn't really help much.Because if you can't beat it, you can't beat it. In Terra, even a technology that is too cutting-edge means a curse.

——It is impossible for a person to study how to burn coal without using the Origin Stone.

——No matter how hard I try, the development of Terra's technology tree will inevitably rely on the convenient and easy-to-reach traces from the ancient sleeping things.

——and this means that modern engineering technology can never escape the control of those ancient things.Because as long as there are such signs, they may wake up from their long dormancy.Just as a sleeping lion tolerates birds playing in its mane.But if the bird becomes a hyena, the power of the claws will be applied to the flesh and blood of the dog.

Raising her hand, those traces of crystallization disappeared with her will - she knew that she had a key.However, this key is just a trivial one among the thousands of keys in Shirtel's hands.She vaguely knew what kind of battles Shirtel had participated in during the years when he left Rhodes Island.And since the current Terra is still the former Terra, it means that even if there are thousands of keys, it is still not enough to face Terra's predicament.

——As for Terra, let’s talk about it when we return to Terra.

she thought.She knew that she had reached a certain limit in her growth in this world—the study of crystallization sometimes made her feel in a trance.Occasionally causes her to see apparitions of the plexus spreading.She often loses her sense of time when staring at the crystal, and she knows that it is the evidence that the crystal has cursed herself.

But the crystallization can't really hurt her. She sometimes has nightmares, dreaming that she turns into a crystal pillar, but when she wakes up, the crystallized limbs are intact and there are only pains like being ablated by flames.And this means that her research can only reach the current point.

——And what I should pay attention to right now is the turmoil in Lothric City.

Recovering, Ge Cide's action is imminent - the streets have become deserted and chilled for several days in a row.The knights belonging to the two forces no longer walked on the same road, and when they saw each other, their eyes were only indifferent.

A surprise attack was out of the question, and this was not so much a power struggle as a war about to break out in the city.On the eve of the war, Kelsey received some secret commissions.

One of them is from Ge Cide.

—'War is inevitable, Kelsey, my friend.Leave the royal city, I implore you to help me track down the traces of the undead in the border.I suspect there is some connection between them and Elsir. '

Besides Ge Cide, another commission came from Lorian, one of the two princes.

—'You are a righteous knight, Sir Kelsey.Your blood should not be shed on the streets of Wangcheng.I heard that you have been very interested in the phenomenon of crystallization curse death recently.And the outskirts of Wangcheng happened to have news of "lizard-like crystallized creatures" appearing recently.Maybe you'd love to explore? '

It's very interesting, even though she didn't have much dealings with that prince, Kelsey has a sense of the fallacy of being seen through.Perhaps his own study of crystallization magic is no longer a sufficiently hidden secret.But the original masters of this knowledge do not seem to intend to pursue too much.

——Because the existence of that scroll was originally a secret that only the Fireproof Girl and her brothers and sisters knew.

——Perhaps they regarded me as the ambassador and endorsement of the eldest princess in the royal city?

There is a vague guess in my heart.And this conjecture may be the truth.Kelsey knew that she had no choice, and when she stopped, she had already reached the outskirts of the royal city along the map provided by the princess and princes.

She found that she seemed to have come to a strange place-surrounded by cliffs, ruins, and scattered sarcophagi and tombs.A lingering mist lingers in the air, and remnants of living corpses can be seen everywhere in the corners.

It is a living corpse, but it is a living corpse that is completely dead.Wrapped in tattered black robes, they looked like priests of some kind rather than villagers or warriors.

—This may be an area related to religion... but it is deserted.

Kelsey stared at the surroundings, and carefully searched every place around her with a perception that was nearly ten times sharper than when she first arrived.

She soon spotted what the intel referred to as a 'Crystal Lizard' - something that looked like a baby wyvern.The whole body is covered by crystals that are similar in nature to crystal magic, but have lost their vitality.The limbs are strong, and the armor is tough.However, it is a dead thing that has lost its life.

The weapon that wounded it was a knife, some kind of sword-like knife—Kelsey knew that there was also a country called the Eastern Kingdom in Rhodeland.And the fighters in that country use a single-sided sword.

——The person who did it is not far from here.

Breathe lightly, remain vigilant, and walk deeper along the vague stone path towards the ruins full of tombs.

She crosses a cliff.

She saw a tall and burly warrior with a halberd guarding the center of a square—the warrior's body seemed to have been parasitized by some dark substance, but it was pulled out.And the body of the soldier seems to have already ushered in death.

No, not death.It's cadaverization.But this living corpse ignored her again.

Kelsey didn't understand why, but that didn't stop her from continuing inside.At the end of her vision, she saw a magnificent but equally ancient temple.It was dark inside the temple, but Mako's unique low-light vision allowed her to see clearly even in the worst visibility.

She saw five thrones--four smaller ones, but the one in the center was enormous.And in the entire temple, there is a lingering breath of fire.

——Fire Passing Sacrificial Site.

She suddenly thought of the name.

And when she compared the name with the concept in her mind, she heard light but swift footsteps.

'clang--! ! '

The invisible blade slashed on the crystalline shield generated out of thin air, and the emerald green dragon snake suddenly appeared and swung its blade foot towards the attacker in the dark - the latter avoided it, raised his hand to form a black giant blade and slashed down.And several crystallized soul blocks immediately separated from the space around Kelsey, and shot straight towards the shadow in the darkness!

Crystallization, tracking the soul and operation.

The black shadow moved erratically, misleading most of the crystallized soul blocks in a dozen consecutive steps in the gloomy temple and escaped.Intangible slashed down with a sword, and the raised air blade tore off the last crystal block but stopped at the dragon snake's crystal carapace.And the next moment, the dark temple ground turned red!

Spells, fire storms.

Hundreds of thousands of pillars of flame rose suddenly due to Kalshi's will, attacking and ablating all the surrounding stones, soil or living things.The shadows were drawn away at random, revealing a slender human body.

There was a thin and hasty chant sound, and that sound was accompanied by a circle of physical mantras that suddenly unfolded and the disappearance of thousands of pillars of fire.The crystalline shield on the Dragon Snake faded, and the assassin's sword followed!

The miracle of darkness, the prohibition of silence—the principle is not passed on to the world, but its effect is to completely ban all spellcasting abilities in the area, including yourself!

——I can still cast crystal magic, but the power will be weakened... The principle is that the darkness of human nature disrupts the operation of the flames within the area.As a result, complex casting cannot be formed.

——similar to jammers versus guided weapons?

The thought flashed by, and the Ulster gun he was carrying fell into Kelsey's fingers.The gun was faster than the sword, piercing the assailant's right eye before the blade reached the body.

But the attacker didn't retreat in the slightest—she completely ignored the fatal blow that pierced her head, as if she would bring destruction to Kelsey even if she died!

Undead—of course.

Kelsey had expected it a long time ago, so the impact of the dragon snake was faster than the same sword - the slender attacker also suffered the impact of the dragon snake while being pierced by the spear.And this blow distorted the hidden body imbalance!

The gun, tearing the flesh in the shaking.

The assailant's head exploded, and the next moment, the green-haired girl pointed a knife and pierced through her chest.

A heart filled with dried blood fell into Kelsey's hands.It was only then that the headless and pierced corpse knelt softly behind her—only then did she notice that the attacker was a young woman, and she was wearing a Lothric court dress.

The invisible sword fell to the ground with a crisp sound.And Kelsey's five fingers closed immediately, pinching this withered heart into broken flesh and blood.

The ban on silence was lifted.

But this does not mean the end of the undead - Miss Lynx raised her hand, and crystallized traces gradually formed from the limbs of the corpse.She didn't break the function of this guy's limbs, but she made the undead man unable to escape from her control after being resurrected.

And next...

She watched the face of the undead gradually recovering before her.

"who are you?"

..........................................

"Philianol."

When Shirter arrived in Ring City, she was greeted by an empty and colorful city—the ground was covered with fresh flower petals, and brightly colored flags fluttered in the wind.The air is filled with a rich and sweet smell, and the whistling of the wind is like some kind of celebratory ballad.

The story with Fireproof Girl did not last long.Because she felt that if she continued talking, the book in her hand might explode on the spot.

——I didn’t say anything strange.Just clean up the ruins of Izaris with her.Fixing her out-of-control siblings or something...well, does bathing in lava with her count?But it's just a back rub, it's not a big deal.

I don't understand, I don't understand.

If you don't understand it, don't think about it for now.

Looking around, she saw no one—did not perceive a single living thing.

All she saw was a red carpet laid from the entrance of Ring City to the central temple, and the end of the carpet was at her feet.

- There is a smell of war in the air.And Feilian Nuoer has been raising combat power before this.

—I see, no matter how I end up disposing of this world.The legions of the Ring City will all come to the world when the end is about to arrive.Suppress the entire Rhodeland, and then bring a new order to the earth?

——Also, it saves me extra work.If the fire of civilization is established, then if there are still many nations on the earth, there will be too many.

The girl nodded and took her first step on the red carpet.And after the first step, there are many, many steps.

The city remains silent and unpopular, but filled with joy and celebration.The surrounding pavilions are majestic and full of history, but they are decorated with various exquisite decorations.

She noticed that there were no settlements in Ring City—obviously, since the ancient times when the city was founded.It has always existed as a border fortress in the world.Except for the king of the dwarves who ruled here, there are only ancient warriors who have traveled here from all over the world for tens of thousands of years and sworn to fight for the city.

Maybe so.

Perhaps all the inhabitants ceased to exist after a certain point of time—Sirtel didn't care whether it was the former or the latter.Because no matter what kind of truth it is, it all comes from Fei Liannuoer's heart.

She just moves forward.

Passing through one splendid gate after another, crossing one broad bridge after another, the palace is at the end, and there is someone waiting for her in the palace at the end.

She sensed her gaze, not inside the palace, but a certain tower outside the palace—at the end of her sight was a female knight whose clothes were similar to those of Felianoer but inferior in every respect.And when she saw Shirtel's gaze turned, she bowed deeply to the visiting girl, then got up from the tower, and flew to a distant place under the black dragon's support.

The troops around the city gathered in that direction.

——Sheila, Fei Lianuoer's personal maid.I recognize her tiara, and she will sword and halberd at me in the game because Ashes offended Felianoer.

——And there is only one black dragon...Since even they have left, it means that they are in this Ring Seal City.There was really nothing left but Fei Liannuoer.

—Just me and her.

"Just me, and you." The girl with flaming hair said softly.

She walked into the most central palace.The goddess reflected in her eyes is more glamorous and moving than before - her starry eyes are bright, and her long hair that has returned to platinum luster is flying slightly.Felianoer was waiting for her right in the center of the temple, and the power container containing the soul of darkness was at her hand.

"Long time no see, Shirtel." The goddess' voice was soft, filled with joy and the joy of wish fulfillment.

"How long is a long time?" Shirtel walked into the palace and gradually approached her.

"The objective time is one month. Subjectively, I don't know how long it is." Felianoer just sat on the throne in the center of the temple, and raised his face when the visitor got close enough to answer.

"I won't stay in the lake of ashes for more than a day." Shirtel walked up to the goddess, stretched out her hand, and gently lifted the goddess's jaw with her fingertips—she stared at the eyes, the eyes In addition to herself, there is only the embodiment of responsibility and fighting spirit.

"My combat power has reached its peak 4000 years ago, and it is getting stronger every second."—So, you should know how big the gap is between you and me at this moment?

"Has your plan been completed?" The goddess just looked at her softly.

"It's still two steps away." Shirtel nodded, moved his hand up, stroked Felianoer's soft cheek and felt the slightly rising girl's body temperature. "The trial operation of the Heart of the World has been completed, and all I need to do next is to fill it with the Soul of Darkness as a transfer, and move the initial furnace to it. The success rate is close to [-]%, and this world will be reborn as if rebirth, and the fate of the gods will also be liberated.”

"...You saved the world, Sylter."

"I didn't save the world, but you can think that way." The flaming-haired girl shook her head and corrected. "Although in my opinion, I just gave the world a new way to go."

"And you are the reward I want from the world."

"...You can judge me as more valuable." Felianoer closed her eyes. "If...you just said that saving the world is for me. Then I would rather give up my responsibility and leave with you."

"So, you are still eager for a fight?" Shirtel didn't answer directly, but continued to ask her words.

"Well, because this is my responsibility." The goddess around the city nodded lightly, and took the container of the black soul into her arms. "My responsibility is to guard the Dark Soul. I have sat around the city for a long time that I can't even remember. Thinking of you is my only pastime in the retreat, and now, I want to Fulfill my last duty."

She got up, and the dress like a wedding dress bloomed brilliantly—the pure white gun fell into her hand.And the soul of darkness integrated into her body endowed her with soaring power.

"The mission around the city is over, and the end of this world will be the most suitable battlefield."

She raised her spear.

declare.

"Come, Shrter. End my duty, end my destiny."