Chapter 488: The Eldest Lady
After kicking open the iron gate of the manor, Xia Yu walked in carelessly. The interior of the manor was different from the Crow Village outside. There were not too many bloody scenes, but it was not much better either.
There were a few dry old trees growing on the weed-covered ground, with no leaves on their branches. There were graves and tombstones piled up in the yard, and no one knew who was buried underneath.
The manor is filled with a sense of desolation and gloom, but there is still a hint of life.
Before Xia Yu had taken a few steps, several Crow Knights came to greet him with weapons in hand.
The sharp crow claws tore through the air, trying to chop the visitor into five pieces, but faced with attacks that were difficult to defend against in the game, Xia Yu in reality simply drew his sword and swung it, easily beheading the Crow Knight.
This group of crow men faithfully carried out Friede's orders, and anyone who wanted to approach the manor was an enemy that needed to be dealt with.
However, the enemy this time was a bit difficult to deal with. Even though all the Crow Knights came, they were unable to stop the enemy.
After dealing with the last Crow Knight who attacked him, Xia Yu slowly walked into the mansion with the door wide open.
Originally in the game, the knight Wehler would appear at this time and become hostile to the player. Then the player could kill Wehler and get the important item to open the mechanism stairs.
However, Wehler was still soaked in the abyss at this time, so even if Xia Yu wandered around casually, no one would appear to stop him.
"It really is a library. These books are not rotten."
After entering the mansion, Xia Yu casually pulled out a book from the bookshelf, flipped through it briefly, and then put it back.
These books are also a kind of resource. It is a pity that they are destroyed along with the painting world.
Thinking of this, the shadow under Xia Yu's feet spread and expanded, directly swallowing up all the books and bookshelves in the hall on the first floor.
After looting everything on the first floor, Xia Yu walked towards the mechanism he had already seen. By turning on this mechanism, he could open the stairs leading to the ceiling of the library.
As the mechanism opened, the ceiling shook and a large amount of dust fell from the air.
Then a wooden staircase suddenly fell down, leading directly to the ceiling. Seeing this, Xia Yu waved his hand to sweep away the dust in front of him and strode towards the attic.
The attic was very shabby, with dusty spider webs hanging from the beams, and the wooden boards creaked when you walked on them.
In the middle of this dilapidated house, a white-haired girl was lying there. As if she had heard the noise, she was looking towards the stairs.
Seeing that the girl had noticed him, Xia Yu strode forward and squatted in front of the girl.
The girl was wearing gray clothes, with long white hair hanging down to the ground, pale skin, fine dragon scales on both sides of her eye sockets, and red vertical pupils.
This is also her characteristic as a dragon person, but unlike Yurshika, the girl does not have a dragon tail.
"You smell like ashes. You must be the person Grandpa Gale talked about, the one who can let me see fire." Before Xia Yu could speak, the girl spoke first.
Hearing this, Xia Yu stretched out his hand and smelled himself: "The smell of ashes...do I have any smell? Why can't I smell it?"
"Hmm..." Hearing Xia Yu's words, the girl wrinkled her nose and took a deep breath: "It's a very warm smell, like fire."
"Fire?"
Xia Yu laughed and shook his head. Speaking of fire, there was indeed a lot of fire in his body.
"Do you want to see fire?"
After chatting with the girl for a few words, Xia Yu suddenly asked, and the girl nodded when she heard this.
"You were sent here by Grandpa Gale, so I don't have to hide anything from you. I want to paint. It's a very cold, dark, and soft painting. One day, it will be a place for someone to stay."
"But those who do not understand fire are not qualified to paint the world, so I want to see what fire looks like..."
Xia Yu pondered over the girl's words for a few seconds, then suddenly stretched out his hand and held it in front of the girl, and then a ball of fire ignited from it.
The moment the flame was lit, the girl closed her eyes and turned her head away. Seeing the girl like this, Xia Yu was confused but still asked.
"This is fire. Isn't it said that we should understand what fire is? Why don't we look at it?"
The girl with her eyes closed heard the question and shook her head gently: "I can't look at it. The flames are too dazzling. I will be addicted to them. Those who are tempted by the fire will not be able to enter the world."
"Hui Shi has a lot of requests..."
Xia Yu put away the fire in his hand speechlessly. Although he knew that this would not work, he just wanted to give it a try.
But the reason was that the flames were too dazzling? Was this a disguised form of complimenting him?
"Okay, that's it."
Xia Yu suddenly stood up and pulled up the girl who was lying on the ground. The girl was in good health and was lying on the ground just because she was too lazy to move.
The girl who was pulled up looked puzzled, as if she had misunderstood something, and hurriedly said, "Don't worry, I will go back over there, because you opened the door."
The attic the girl was talking about was where the drawing boards and canvases were placed. The attic was just above the church.
Because she was imprisoned, she could only stay here and could not return to the place where she painted.
But Xia Yu just shook his head: "Unfortunately, you guessed wrong. I didn't intend for you to continue painting the world. I don't know which wicked guy invented this idea of painting the world with blood."
To paint the world, one not only needs to understand what fire is, but also needs the blood of the dark souls of human beings as pigment. Using blood as pigment is fine, but the key is that this blood is not fresh.
The painting world drawn with blood will decay over time. After it decays, the painting world needs to be ignited and a new painting world needs to be drawn again, and new paint is needed at this time.
This is just a cycle that keeps repeating itself.
Now is the time to break this cycle of no progress. Although it is a bit nosy and no one asked him to do this, he wanted to do it, so he did it .
"No, I must draw a new world." Hearing that Xia Yu didn't want her to draw the world, the girl struggled hurriedly, but no matter how she struggled, Xia Yu did not let go.
"Don't think about it. You don't have any paint, and you don't understand what fire is. Just follow me. I will let you see the birth of a new world..."
As he was talking, Xia Yu suddenly closed his mouth. He suddenly felt like a weird uncle who abducted a little girl.
"I, I promised my mother..." The irresistible girl said with a little grievance: "I must draw a new world, and that world will be a place for someone to live."
The girl's aggrieved words did not move Xia Yu's heart, but instead made Xia Yu start to think about who the little painter's mother was.
Judging from the girl's dragon bloodline, one of her parents must be related to a dragon, but the girl has no tail, which means that her dragon bloodline has begun to dilute.
As for someone who is related to the painting world and has dragon bloodline, Xia Yu can only think of the half-dragon girl Priscilla. Could it be that the little painter is the daughter of Soul One Priscilla?
"Who is your mother?"
After thinking about it, Xia Yu simply asked the girl directly, but in response to Xia Yu's question, the girl pursed her lips and did not answer.
"Hey, you want to get punched by my hot temper?"
“Woo…”
The girl shrank back in fear. Seeing this, Xia Yu shrugged and stopped scaring her.
Although he has a bit of a bad taste, is a little bit shameless, and likes to ignore other people's thoughts, he is generally a good person.
So he would definitely not be worse than a beast and bully the little girl. Although there is no difference between him and bullying the little girl now, the little painter will understand his good intentions in the future.
He bears everything on his shoulders and hides his achievements and fame. He is not just a good person , he is simply a saint.
Retracting his thoughts, Xia Yu raised his hand and opened the portal. Behind the door was the Firelink Sacrifice Site.
Because he was holding the girl in his hand, he couldn't use the bone fragment to return, so he could only go back through the portal.
Regardless of whether the girl is willing or not, Xia Yu is quite willing. He now says, "I don't care what you think, I only care what I think."
Pulling the reluctant girl through the portal, the two returned to the Firelink Shrine. When the people at the Firelink Shrine saw that Xia Yu had brought back another person, they didn't have any questions.
Anyway, it’s not the first time. It should be said that except for a very small number of people, most of the people present were brought back by Xia Yu.
"Hmm? This girl you brought back..."
"That's great. Captain, please help me keep an eye on her and don't let her run away."
Seeing Youershika coming over out of curiosity, Xia Yu didn't wait for her to finish speaking. He pushed the girl towards Youershika and turned back to the portal.
"I have something else to do. I'm busy."
After entering the portal, Xia Yu and the portal disappeared from their sight, leaving only Youershika and the girl looking at each other in bewilderment.
On the other side, the library.
"Okay, now all that's left is to find old man Gale."
Xia Yu left the library in a good mood. Old Gale was either in the Painting World or in the Ring City. It was not difficult to find him anyway.
According to the time, he has already speed-run through the painting world.
"Let me see if you are here..."
Xia Yu muttered casually and released his spiritual sense, which spread outward with himself as the origin.
The painting world is not big. After all, it is just a DLC world and is definitely not comparable to the outside world.
After a moment, Xia Yu's face turned dark. He encountered the classic good news and bad news.
The good news is that Gale is in the painting world and he has not yet gone to the Ringed City. The bad news is that old man Gale's location is not very good and he doesn't want to go.
"Fuck! Why there at all?!"
Xia Yu hesitated for a moment, sighed deeply, and decided to go.
Forget it, if he doesn’t go to hell, who will?
Although Gale looks half-dead now, if he ignores him, he will most likely not die.
After all, Gale is also a real old guy, comparable to the blacksmith Andre.
Gale is one of the earliest undead who has existed since the Age of Gods. Although he is a slave knight, his journey is much longer than that of most undead.
Gail can even use the long-lost miracle of the White Church, the White Church Halo.
The classic ending moment of the Souls series game is to fight with an old man. Souls 3 is no exception. Gale is the old man boss that you have to fight in Souls 3.
But judging from the plot, the final battle is obviously a tragedy.
Gail has lived too long, and he has seen the Age of Fire clearly. As long as the Age of God continues, humans will never have a status and will always be slaves of the Age of Fire.
Gail wants to choose her own destiny.
At some unknown time, Gail met an unknown white-haired girl who called him Grandpa, and he also found his own destiny in the girl.
That is to help the white-haired girl draw a new world. This is the mission he gave himself and the destiny he chose for himself.
Perhaps the world described by the girl can have real warmth. Since then, Gail has been working hard for this goal, and the old and the young depend on each other.
In order to make the girl see the flame and to make the flame ignite, Gale went to the outside world to find another ash, because he knew that when ashes come in pairs, fire will ignite.
After the flames of Aelder were ignited, Gale immediately went looking for the blood of the dark soul, because that was the pigment used to paint the world.
After breaking into the Ringed City alone, Gale successfully found the dwarf king.
Because after the original dwarf obtained the dark soul, he distributed the soul to other dwarves under his command, so the one who possessed the dark soul was the dwarf king.
However, even after finding the dwarf king, Gale discovered in despair that the king's blood had long since dried up.
Without the blood of the dark soul, there would be no paint for painting, so Gale made a bold and resolute move. He swallowed the dark soul in one gulp.
His blood thus turned into the blood of the dark soul.
But because Gale is no hero, he goes mad under the influence of the dark soul.
He lost control and fought with Ashes who came in a hurry, until he was killed by Ashes, and Ashes also obtained the Blood of Dark Soul.
With the blood of the dark soul and understanding what fire is, the white-haired girl successfully drew a new world.
While painting, the girl was waiting for Gale's return and hoped that the new painting world would be a place for Gale to stay.
But what she didn't know was that the paint she used to paint was the blood of her grandfather Gale, and her grandfather Gale would never come back.
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"So, I'm doing this for your own good."
At the end of the recollection, Xia Yu said to himself that without him, the painting world would only bring tragedy and repeat the cycle without a future.
He is such a nice guy.
The good man Xia Yu walked out of the library feeling smug. Before leaving, he searched the entire library again.
Nowadays, even if a mouse sneaks into a library, it will run out crying.
Not long after, Xia Yu arrived at the top of the snow-capped mountain. Looking at the church without a roof and a man and a woman fighting in the sky, Xia Yu silently followed the mountain road to a cliff.
The cliff was inconspicuous, but very unusual. Before he even got close, Xia Yu's face was already filled with disgust.
He smelled the rancid smell of blood, which was torture to the nose.
In order to prevent his nose from feeling the pain, Xia Yu simply held his breath. Huijin didn't need to breathe air anyway, he just breathed normally out of habit.
Without the torture of the smell, Xia Yu finally approached the cliff. Below the cliff was a broken arena where he could play online in the game, but he was also fed up with the red tape.
The cliff is covered with huge twisted tree roots. On one of the roots there is a slightly flat platform with an entrance to a passage on the platform.
The foul smell of blood was emanating from that entrance, which was exactly Xia Yu's target.
