Chapter 916 898. Spreading darkness
“Be careful, Knight Commander.”
The old eyes under the hood of Emma’s priest raised their eyes and stared at Lorenzo for a while.
"King Osroais is a holy king. He has supported the fire-passing ceremony for tens of thousands of years."
The new knight leader pursed his lips, and finally suppressed He lost his temper.
"Then even if we don't bother His Majesty, we must return to the inner city and regain our strength and power before we can proceed with the fire-passing ceremony!"
This is the point.
Now that the coup has begun, the people in the city have turned into this image infected by the abyss because of those flaky ashes.
In the final analysis, the norm in the world has changed from 'reasoning' to 'looking at fists'.
Without fists, this fire-passing ceremony would never be able to advance at all.
Any talk of 'admonishment' is false, coups have begun, and the knights are divided and bloody.
In fact, both of them know that if they want the prince to pass on the fire, the only way to do it today is to press him with a sword.
The inner city is where their strength lies. The high wall is nothing more than Lothric's gradually depleted outer defense. Neither the priest nor the knights have invested much effort in the high wall.
"But I think that if you go back to the inner city now, you are just seeking death."
Lan En walked over, leaning against a stone pillar with his shoulder, and spoke calmly.
Lorenzo and Emma, the priests, both turned to look at him.
"The great fighting power of the Knights is the flying dragon, right?"
Lan stood leaning against the wall with his arms folded. At the same time, he stretched out a finger and pointed upwards, as if pointing at a flying dragon.
“But I have to remind you that Lorenzo and Emma are the chief priests.”
“There was chaos in the city just now, with shouts of death, screams, and monsters roaring everywhere. There was a sound, but from beginning to end, no flying dragon flew out of the inner city.”
"Not a single one."
Lan's cat eyes looked at Lorenzo through the scattered silver hair. This powerful warrior rose from the rank of dragoon and elite knight commander to the leader of the knights.
His qualifications cover almost all levels of the Knights of Lothric, and he is extremely familiar with the rules and composition of the Knights.
It is natural to know what this situation means.
Flying dragons can fly. Although the terrain of Lothric City is rugged, it is not an obstacle to them at all.
If the dragoons thought so, then no one should be able to stop them from descending from the inner city to the high wall to find their knight leader.
But now, not a single flying dragon has come down.
Lorenzo also looked at Lan En, who was tilting his head, but now in his eyes, that seemingly unnatural face could only give him a chill.
“This is. This is a very serious accusation!”
Lorenzo pursed his lips and said with difficulty.
If the flying dragon and the dragoons don't come down, there are only two possibilities.
First, the flying dragons and dragoons were all detained or ‘disposed’ of in the inner city.
The leaders of the two pillars of the Knights and the Priests are not in the inner city, but the leaders of the princes and sages who launched the coup are.
With this advantage, the unknown Knight Dragoons may indeed be detained or completely destroyed.
The second possibility, as Lorenzo said, is a serious accusation.
——The dragoons all mutinied.
Now that King Osroais has locked himself away, Prince Lorian's prestige has reached its peak after he killed the last hope of the demon race.
In the knights who advocate strength and strength, half of the prince faction can be divided. It can be said that it is entirely due to the prestige of Prince Lorian.
And will this prestige spread among the dragoons?
Lorenzo was unsure.
After all, before this, he was just an elite knight commander, and he didn't need to care too much about political matters.
But now, this is something he must consider.
"It's better to wait for a while."
Lan En made a suggestion.
"If you are killed or detained, then there will be a period of time and no period of time will be the same. And if after this period of time, there is still no dragon knight reacting to the chaos and coming down from the inner city Looking for the knight leader, then"
No matter which one of the two possibilities it is, it means that the inner city has completely fallen and fallen into the hands of the princes.
Lan En has not finished what he said, nor is it suitable to finish. None of the three people spoke, and the atmosphere became tense for a moment.
"I will arrange the defense." After a long time, Lorenzo wiped his face vigorously and put the helmet under his arm back on his head.
"I will try my best to gather the members of the Knights on the high wall and concentrate my strength. Lan En is right, it is too risky to rush up when the situation above is not clear yet."
< br>“Now that the flames have weakened, Lothric, especially Lothric who is responsible for the fire-passing ceremony, must not make any more mistakes.”
Lan En felt a little relieved after persuading Lorenzo.
The situation is getting more and more broken now, but he will still stay in this world for a while.
He has to deal with the darkness hidden in his body, and he has to fight to survive in this chaotic situation. How terrifying it is to live in a world with unstable underlying rules. This time he has experienced it.
“Thank you for persuading the Knight Commander and letting me put down unnecessary chances.”
Priest Emma approached Lan En and whispered to him in an old voice. .
"The main force of the priests has actually been in the inner city. If you hadn't persuaded us, even if we didn't go back in person, we would still have to send some people to the inner city to have a look."
"But with reason From a personal perspective, those sages have a grudge against our priesthood. After long-term conflicts, there should be no surviving priesthood.”
At this point, Lan En turned around in embarrassment. Headed.
"I'm sorry for breaking your hope." "It's just a false hope born from my luck. It's okay if it's gone. After all, if you really want to do something, you have to face the cruel reality."
Priest Emma shook her head heavily.
"Let's rest first, Lan En. When the people from the Netherworld Church arrive as mentioned in the letter, we can be more prepared."
There is nothing more to say. In this exciting and violent day, everyone was exhausted physically and mentally.
——
Darkness.
It's like a mass of mucus, black mud, and asphalt-like darkness, entwining and clinging to the body and soul.
Pitter-patter, sticky and thick.
Lan En felt a little difficult to breathe, as if his whole body was enveloped in thick darkness.
Not only is it dull, but inside the body, there is also a continuous feeling of being bitten by some kind of carnivorous insect.
These feelings made Lan En feel confused, but he couldn't get rid of it no matter what.
Finally, he felt his body being shaken, and this external force seemed to be his hand to get out of the darkness.
“Suck~”
The demon hunter opened his eyes suddenly, and the vertical pupils in his pupils shrank uncertainly, and then stabilized.
Take a sharp breath, as if you forgot to breathe during the break just now, and now you have to make up for it in one breath.
The body's instinct was to tighten and defend, but then it was suppressed by the strong will, and the body was forcibly kept normal.
However, these out-of-control behaviors only lasted for a moment, and even the person who woke him up didn't notice much.
Lorenzo just felt that Lan En was a little difficult to wake up. A person with his skill level should be very sensitive.
Then after Lan En opened his eyes, he felt that the air was stagnant for a moment, but then everything went back to normal, just like an illusion.
"Are you okay?"
Lorenzo patted Lan En on the shoulder, took his arm and asked him to sit up from the floor covered with a sheet.
"You look very ugly."
"No, it's nothing." Lan En calmly tightened and unclenched his hands, feeling his own physiological condition. At the same time, Mentos also The collected physiological information is reported to the subject.
"I just haven't rested for a long time."
The witcher said calmly.
But in fact, he ate well and slept well the night before the coup happened.
But last night, I don't know if it was because the power of the abyss was raging in Lothric City, and the darkness in his body was affected.
The darkness that had been suppressed by Rosalia's [Miracle·Sunshine Moisture] began to stir again.
While repeatedly opening and closing his palms to relieve the strange feeling in his body, Lan En felt a little more anxious in his heart.
If these darknesses were not for the super organ [Song Gland] in his head, perhaps he would have gone insane the first time he came into contact with it.
But now, as the initial fire becomes weaker and weaker, the darkness will spread and become stronger. This is the natural law of this world.
There is no place to hide, because this is a worldwide disaster.
But even in the face of this problem, Lan En still keeps his face and tone calm.
"What's the matter with waking me up?"
He is not the kind of person who will get confused when he is in danger. After experiencing many things, he knows that confusion in his mind will only make him The march into the grave quickens.
"Just like you said yesterday, Lan"
Lorenzo's teeth were clenched, and it was obvious that he was repelled by the content of what he said.
"A dragoon came down from the inner city."
"The result is not good?"
Lorenzo was silent for a while, and then said.
“When I came down, I couldn’t even control my flying posture, and then I lay down on a tower on the high wall and died.”
"'One'? What else is there?"
"The other flying dragon came down to chase. It and its dragoons obviously didn't expect so many members of the Knights to gather here."
"We are dragon-hunting knights, so the corpses of the flying dragon and the dragoon are outside now."
Lan doesn't care much about the corpses of the two flying dragons. He should be most concerned about it now How to keep the fire burning and escape the darkness.
And compared with the legendary immortal dragons in this world, these flying dragons are actually a bit ordinary.
"The important thing is the situation above."
Lan En continued to ask while pinching his painful temples.
Lorenzo has just taken up the position of leader of the Knights, and none of the knights here have been in management before.
So when he had something to do, he could only come to Lan En and Emma to discuss it.
But at least he has a clear head and is self-aware. I won’t make rash decisions when my brain is hot and I don’t listen to advice.
And what Lorenzo said was just as Lan En estimated yesterday.
“Those people in the inner city informed the knights of the Order to gather in the chapel before they launched a coup.”
“The dragon knights had no chance to board the flying dragon, and the other knights At most, they only carry a sword with them, and they are not even equipped with weapons."
Lorenzo said, his iron-gloved palms creaking from his grip. .
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