Chapter 255 How to Draw the World
Where the former Fran Mausoleum used to be, there are now towering black tombstones. After Captain Fran's life faded away, Xia Yu and Hawkwood took some time to build cenotaphs for all the members of the Undead Squad.
Although Hawkwood was an escapee, he had not forgotten the names of his former comrades. However, since there were hundreds of members in the Undead Squad, it still took them some effort.
This time, the Faran Undead Squad finally fell into true eternal sleep, and the Abyss completely lost the opportunity to control the Undead Squad. The legend of the Abyss Watcher ended here.
Perhaps tens of millions of years later, the Fran Undead Squad, which was once a cause for trembling, will gradually be forgotten by the world along with the complete disappearance of the Fran Fortress.
The legend that a hundred people can destroy a country will also disappear in the long river of time with the changing of times.
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"How sad, this is the king."
Hawkwood and Xia Yu stood side by side in front of Captain Fran's tombstone. Looking at the name on the tombstone, Hawkwood felt a little uncomfortable.
Now, there are only him and Xia Yu left in the Fran Undead Squad. To be exact, he is the only one left. After all, Xia Yu has his own mission of passing on the fire, and it is impossible for him to put fighting the abyss first.
And... can he really inherit the name of the Fran Undead Squad?
Looking at Hawkwood's appearance, Xia Yu immediately guessed what he was thinking. It seemed that even if he had resolved his knot, Hawkwood still couldn't get rid of the identity of the discouraged brother.
Well, I still have to give him a beating.
Hawkwood, who was still feeling sad, suddenly saw Xia Yu clench his fists out of the corner of his eye. He was so scared that he stepped back away from Xia Yu.
"Don't mess around, I can't withstand your punch."
Looking at Hawkwood's appearance, Xia Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, loosened his clenched fists, and just walked forward and patted his shoulder.
"Don't let the captain down."
After saying that, Xia Yu turned and left.
Looking at Xia Yu's departing back, Hawkwood pursed his lips and said nothing.
Captain's expectations?
Recalling the captain's words before his life faded away, Hawkwood walked forward in silence, came to the captain's tombstone, and then reached out and touched the tombstone.
"I will walk the path you didn't take. This time, I won't run away."
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On the other hand, Xia Yu, who had left, no longer cared about Hawkwood. It was enough to do this. If he really wanted to take care of everything, wouldn't he become the nanny's victim?
Hawkwood is not a cute girl, so what does a rough guy want? Anyway, no matter what the ending is, it can't be worse than the original.
Now, the remaining firewood of the Fire King from the watchers of the Abyss has been obtained. Finally, he, Ash, is no longer an undeserved King Hunter.
Although the Faran Undead Corps is great, the Fire King Chai Xin is an indispensable part of meeting the First Fire, and in the end, he must inherit the remaining fire of all the Fire Kings to become the true Fire King.
Only by becoming the King of Fire can one have the strength to face the final incarnation of the King of Fire.
Of course, this is the worst ending Xia Yu imagined. The best ending is of course that the creator god Xia Yu will immediately join the group, and then use cheats to speed through the Dark Souls world.
Even if it's not the God of Creation, a saint will do, he won't mind.
While his thoughts were wandering, Xia Yu also took out the soul of the wolf blood in his body. The souls of the monitors who received the wolf blood were also the souls of the Wolf Blood Lord.
Therefore, the soul of Wolf Blood can also be said to be the soul of Fran Wolf.
This soul is like a golden flame with tiny sparks flying around it. Because the Undead Team became one after sharing the wolf blood, this soul is also the soul of all members of the Undead Team.
Xia Yu did not think about resurrecting the Undead Squad. Their lives were too tiring, and eternal sleep was the destination that the Undead Squad wanted.
But Xia Yu is not so crazy as to smelt this soul into a weapon. After all, this is no longer a game but a living reality.
If he doesn't like this group of souls, he can naturally smelt them into weapons with peace of mind, but it is obvious that the Undead Squad does not fall into this category.
Moreover, in the game, the only weapons that can be smelted from the wolf blood soul are the Fran Greatsword and the Wolf Knight Greatsword.
The Farlan Greatsword is a greatsword wielded by members of the Farlan Undead Corps. It is a special paired weapon combined with a unique dagger.
The Wolf Knight Greatsword is even more powerful. According to the introduction in the game, this sword is a knight's greatsword tainted by the darkness of the abyss. It is the weapon of the Wolf Knight, the watcher of the original abyss.
This almost makes it clear that this greatsword is the weapon of Artorius in Dark Souls. He is A, one of the Four Knights of the King, and his weapon is definitely not an ordinary weapon.
However, Xia Yu had no idea about these two weapons. If he wanted, he could forge them himself.
As for the combat skills carried by the weapon, he can completely search for the related memories from Wolf Blood's soul and then learn them.
He was still somewhat interested in those gorgeous sword techniques that were as good as street dance. As a member of the Fran Street Dance Team, how could he not know street dance?
But now is not the time to learn combat skills, he still has to stop by the Deep Church.
As for the underground cemetery of Casas and the Overlord Wolnir who is caught between the abyss and reality, there is no need to rush for the time being, as they can't run away anyway.
Besides, this is not in a game, and he doesn't have to open the map of the Catacombs of Kassus to go to the next area. Wouldn't it be better for him to fly directly to Irithyll in the Frigid Valley?
Thinking of this, Xia Yu put away the wolf blood soul in his hand and turned to fly towards the deep church.
The small purification church of the Deep Church is actually right next to the Fran Fortress. The two areas are not far apart, and it doesn’t take much time to reach the Deep Church.
Moreover, Xia Yu did not go to the Deep Church this time to defeat the BOSS, the Deep Bishops Group. In fact, he had already dealt with the Deep Bishops Group when he lit the three beacons.
He had also already obtained the ominous, deep blue, almost black souls of the group of bishops.
This time he went to the Deep Cathedral for the painting world of Ariandel, which is one of the DLCs of Dark Souls III.
According to the development in the game, Ashes will meet the slave knight Gale in the Deep Cathedral, and then because he touches a corner of the canvas of the painting world, he will be sucked into the painting world.
The last time he was in the Deep Church, he did not find the slave knight Gale, so he could not enter the painting world.
If he didn't enter the painting world, he wouldn't be able to set foot in the country of Eredel in the painting, so Xia Yu wanted to visit the Deep Church.
If Gail is still not there this time, he will just install a surveillance camera there. He doesn't believe that he won't be able to run into that old man Gail this way.
However, when it comes to the Deep Church, there is actually a person who is neither important nor unimportant, and that is the Mother of Rebirth, Rosalia.
The existence of this inexplicably appearing god is very unnatural, as if he appeared suddenly, but in the world of Dark Souls, the appearance of everything has a cause and effect.
The same may be true for Rosalia, but due to the fragmented narrative of the Dark Souls world, there are various versions of Rosalia's appearance.
Such as the former Princess of Lothric, the spreader of angel teachings, the angel's daughter Gertrude, or the former Sun Princess Gwiavia, and even the goddess of sin Belgara.
These speculations all have some evidence, but none of them can be conclusive.
To be honest, Xia Yu didn't know where Rosalia came from. It was possible that she was Gercide. After all, under the birdcage in the library where Gercide was imprisoned, there was a maggot man symbolizing Rosalia's power of rebirth.
Moreover, the maggot man's magic also has an angel miracle and has the same feathers. Even if the two are not the same person, they are definitely related.
But it is also possible that it was the Sun Princess or the Goddess of Sin. Clues related to both can be found, but these clues are vague and difficult to understand.
I'm afraid only a certain old thief wearing glasses knows who Rosalia is, but that old thief doesn't even say it, which is really hateful.
"Forget it. It's none of my business who Rosalia is anyway. Why think so much about it?"
Xia Yu landed at the door of the Deep Church and muttered to himself. He really didn't care who Rosalia was.
If you really care, then go find Rosalia directly and use the secret soul-searching technique to check her memory. By then, the truth will be revealed.
After all, he is already in the Dark Souls world, and the description in the game is the reality he is experiencing. He also has the ability to explore reality. The key is whether he wants to do so or not.
Rosalia, the mother of rebirth, is a beauty just by looking at her chin, but this beauty is holding a maggot man in her arms, and there are maggot people all around her. It is really hard to arouse his interest, even though this woman also has a huge treasure chest.
Maggot people and the like are just so disgusting.
After entering the Deep Church, Xia Yu began to think freely, but even so, his steps were not slow. Through the detection of his spiritual sense, he had already noticed a thin figure kneeling in front of the statue.
That was exactly the target of his trip, the slave knight Gale.
Currently, he is still a skinny slave knight, but he is the final BOSS of another DLC of Soul 3. Now is the best time to kill Gale without any harm.
"...Oh, goddess, mother of the forbidden who have no place in the world, please watch over our awakening. Please grant me the flame of Eredel, please grant me the flame of Eredel, grant me the ashes that can ignite the flame ."
In the solemn and magnificent cathedral, the candles that seemed to never go out brought some light to the place, and under the statue of the goddess with her face covered, there was a figure crouching and whispering to himself.
The figure was wearing tattered silver armor and a red turban on his head to indicate his identity. That was the attire given to slave knights. In the past, only the undead were granted the title of slave knights and were forced to participate in various tragic wars.
From this we can also see how the undead are treated in the world of Dark Souls.
However, the undead are burdened with the great mission of continuing the world, but this great mission of passing on the fire has not brought glory to the undead.
When Xia Yu walked into the church, this was the scene he saw. Gail was still kneeling there, praying to the statue of the goddess.
But when Xia Yu approached Gale, Gale, who was kneeling in front of the statue of the goddess, suddenly raised his head.
"Ah, you smell... the same as that woman. Oh, you are the fireless ash! Am I right? I have been looking for you."
The moment he saw Xia Yu, Gale suddenly started muttering to himself, his tone full of excitement, and he almost wanted to pounce on him.
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Seeing Gale's excitement, Xia Yu took a step back in disgust. This old man really didn't know what modesty was. Wasn't he afraid of scaring him away?
Also, what does it mean to have the same smell as that woman, feminine smell?
However, even though he complained like this in his heart, Xia Yu also understood why Gale was so excited, because of that sentence.
When ashes come in pairs, fire will begin.
The painting world already has an ash named Friede. With the addition of this ash, the painting world can ignite a special flame that burns corrupt things.
Only by igniting this flame can the young lady who paints the world in the painting repaint a new painting world, and that new painting world can also become a place for someone to live.
What can I say about the painting world? It is also one of the backup plans left by the gods. However, before this backup plan could come into play, the gods were all gone.
But the eldest lady of the world painting still performs her duty, which is to paint a new painting world, although she doesn't know who can live in this new painting world.
On the other side, when Gale saw Xia Yu suddenly take a step back, with a look of disgust on his face and not saying anything, he immediately panicked.
"Oh, oh, I'm sorry, I'm confused. I want to ask the fireless ash for a favor. There is a cold country called Airedel, where our young lady lives. I want to ask you to let her see the fire - the special fire that burns the corrupted things. If you were an ash, you would definitely crave for fire, right...?"
Um...actually I don't crave fire, but your eldest daughter is somewhat attractive to me.
Listening to Gale's words, Xia Yu silently answered in his heart, but if he really said that, then Gale would probably become the final BOSS now.
It's just that he himself wanted to go to the painting world of Airedel, so he didn't refute and nodded.
"Ah, thank you. This is worthy of being called fireless ashes... Wait a moment." Seeing Xia Yu nodded, Gale hurriedly thanked him excitedly, and then while speaking, he took out something from his arms, "This is Aredel's painting, a dilapidated corner of it. Come, stretch out your hand and touch it..."
At this moment, a small piece of broken canvas stained with paint is lying in Gail's hand. It is a corner of the painting world. As long as you touch it, you can enter the painting world.
Xia Yu also always practices the undead ancestral habit of touching things. No matter what it is, he will touch it first.
The moment Xia Yu's fingertips touched a corner of the canvas, a huge suction force came and his figure instantly disappeared in the church.
Seeing this scene, Gail's old voice rang out, echoing in the empty and quiet church.
"Legend has it...when ashes come in pairs, fire will be kindled. Now, ashes have come in pairs!"
