Astartes of the Bear School

Chapter 884 866. The first bell (3000)

[Flame] has a special meaning in this world.

After watching it all the way, Lan En felt that [Flame] was not only meaningful, it was simply a key factor in the survival and stability of the world.

As for [Fire Passing Ceremony] and [Salt King], these were two words he heard from the lumberjack who had not yet become a wandering spirit when he first arrived in this world.

Originally, according to the inertial thinking he had developed in the normal world, he had always thought that [King Xin] was just a host of the [Fire Passing Ceremony].

But now it sounds like the stable foundation of this world, [Flame], is going to burn qualified and strong people as [firewood]? !

It is also because this behavior stabilizes the existence of [Flame] that the strong man who spreads fire is respectfully called [King of Fire].

Lan En frowned and thought of the maggots who were voluntarily nailed to the wall in order to purify the goddess they believed in.

The cruel style of this world is consistent.

"Eldridge"

Suddenly, Lan En said this name, a name that was inseparable from the Netherworld Church along the way.

"Can you talk about this guy? I'm a foreigner, and I'm a little curious after hearing what you guys said."

"Then this is the first time I know that you don't even know the names of King Xin and [Sage of the Netherworld]. Your origins are really far away."

Sirius and Lan walked to other places together, and until there was no one else around them, they leaned against the wall and talked.

Sirius's cold voice had some echoes under the church's architectural structure, making it seem more ethereal.

"[The Holy Saint] was originally a magician. He was later promoted to the priesthood archbishop by King Osroais and was sent to Irushil in the Cold Lie Valley. It represents the symbol of the cooperative relationship between the White Sect and the Dark Moon Sect."

"But after he came back, he got into the bad habit of cannibalism."

Hearing this, Lan En's eyes narrowed slightly for a moment.

"This should have been a heinous crime, not to mention that he was still a holy archbishop at that time, so the crime was even worse. But the knights and priests who came to suppress him in Lothric discovered that Eldridge's soul was actually eating people. It continues to grow in the process.”

"So, King Osroais not only did not execute Eldridge immediately, but instead raised him in the Deep Church. This was originally a funeral church for dealing with undead people, and those undead people happened to be fed to Eldridge. For the great soul is the fuel of the fire.”

"Later, when Eldridge ate himself into a puddle of black sludge, the flames were about to fade away. Lothric's people took him to perform a fire-passing ceremony and burned him."

"Of course, in order to prevent the lofty name of [King of Salaries] from being tarnished, Lothrik officials hid the process and only named Eldridge the [Sage of the Deep]. Although there have been rumors about this among the people. "

Using the waste of cannibal criminals as fuel to stabilize the world is actually a good thing in Lan En's opinion.

But in this world, the nobility of [Xinwang] is unparalleled. Therefore, people like Sirius seem very sarcastic and disapproving of the fact that a criminal can also become the [Salary King].

The topic ended very neatly, no one here likes nonsense.

So after the conversation, Sirius was ready to leave. He just reminded Lan En when he turned around at the end.

"There are many sacred scriptures and books in the Netherworld Church, if you need them."

"But you also have to be careful, Lan En."

The cold eyes under the silver headdress stared closely at Lan En's cat eyes.

"Some knowledge should not be known to others."

"I understand the importance. Thank you for reminding me, Sirius. I also wish the moon can bless you."

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In the following days, it seemed as if the tit-for-tat confrontation between two archbishops and one archbishop had never happened, and the Netherworld Church was operating as usual.

But the sky outside the church was getting darker and darker even during the day.

The dim scene that Lan En saw when he first arrived has now become a luxury.

As the light dimmed, more and more people appeared outside the church, kneeling to pray.

Looking down from the upper floors of the church, a large number of people with haggard faces and ragged clothes almost fell to their knees.

Among these people, some hidden undead people suddenly went crazy, or some normal people suddenly had a ring of darkness appear on their bodies and became undead.

The bleaker the world becomes, the more people hope that faith can save them, even if the Netherworld Church actually has no good reputation after [The Netherworld Saint].

But even in the Netherworld Church, many people were cursed by the undead.

Those tower-like church knights now even serve as executioners.

Lan En had seen Klimt go to Archbishop Macdonald or another short Archbishop Louis many times, asking questions urgently.

You can vaguely hear 'Is there any news from Lothric? ’, ‘Why hasn’t the fire passing ceremony been carried out yet?’ and the like.

The answers of the other two archbishops remained the same.

'The prince is thinking about it', 'He doesn't really want to spread the fire', 'The officiant is persuading him', 'But the prince is prepared even if he doesn't spread the fire. Lothric captured a powerful warrior during the battle, and he can let him burn it first. With '.

Highlight a ‘procrastination’ and ‘don’t worry’.

But as I said over and over again, the situation outside was not good at all.

After knowing that passing fire meant being burned by the [flame], Lan En understood the prince's reluctance to pass fire.

But if what the other two archbishops said was true, why hadn't even the powerful warrior prisoner been burned?

What's the benefit of letting the world collapse?

We are in the end of the world, and it is still an end of the world that can almost be seen with the naked eye.

There is no doubt that this urgency is equivalent to putting a guillotine on the neck, but Lan En still remains calm.

He no longer looked at the increasingly chaotic and crazy situation outside the church, but instead immersed himself in the stacks of books in the deep church.

Since the situation is already chaotic, he cannot be chaotic.

Only with a calm mind can you have a chance to survive.

He began to understand the world on the verge of collapse from the books in the church.

The priests possess strange supernatural powers, so of course they should have a corresponding worldview.

A worldview is a perspective from which to explain the world. Science has a scientific worldview, and magic has a magical worldview. The [miracles] of the priests are essentially ‘telling stories’, so they should have a credible worldview.

Although there are still magicians who cannot deal with the priests, Lan En is not a person who listens to one side or the other. He just wants to get a basic understanding of the world from the books in the Netherworld Church.

Archbishop Macdonald and Archbishop Louis did not completely confine this group of people. On the contrary, Lan En's behavior of wanting to learn from the books in the Deep Church was greatly appreciated and supported by them.

And I specially recommended some books.

This made Lan En even more sure that Sirius was right: some knowledge can harm people.

Finally, with the help of Mentos, Lan En completed the recording of most of the books in the Netherworld Church with a jaw-dropping progress.

The biological brain connects these fragmented knowledge to form a system.

"It's really different."

The witcher closed the hard-cover book in his hand with a 'snap' sound and sighed softly.

Outside the Netherworld Church, there are almost no normal people left. Even the gravekeepers in the church who were working outside and holding two sharp knives had mostly become undead at this time.

The crazy howling can even penetrate the thick stone walls of the church, lingering in the ears endlessly.

And Lan En finally understood the basis of the existence of this world.

In the description of this world by the priests, at first only tall trees and immortal ancient dragons existed.

It was a chaotic and ambiguous world, with no concept of time, because there was no 'disappearance' and 'death' at all.

Then [flame] appeared, distinguishing cold and heat, light and darkness, life and death, and the concept of soul was born in the first fire, giving birth to intelligent life.

King Gwen of the Gods led his people to break the immortal scales of the ancient dragon. The witches of Izaris burned the big trees with flames. The first dead spread the miasma of death to corrode the ancient dragon's scale-lost body. Thus, the current world emerged.

The function of [Flame] is to maintain the current 'ruled' world and prevent it from returning to the way it was in the original era.

The [miracles] of the priesthood are to tell the stories of the gods and turn them into spells.

Of course they also want to maintain the world created by the gods and protect this stable world.

Magicians, on the other hand, are fundamentally different and rely on their own wisdom to conduct research.

They don't care much about the First Fire. After all, since they want to pursue a higher level of power and realm, isn't it clear that there is something more 'original' and 'ancient' than the First Fire in this world?

Therefore, their ultimate goal is to approach and even become immortal ancient dragons and trees.

Priests and magicians in other worlds cannot deal with each other. It can also be said to be a matter of favorability and compatibility.

But in this world, the route is fundamentally different.

After understanding these basic worldviews, Lan En was finally able to analyze the recent events in a series.

Thanks to Mentos's thinking aid, otherwise even he would have to work hard to connect such fragmented knowledge into a system.

And with these basic world views, he finally figured out what was going on with the knowledge in the books of the Netherworld Church that obviously made him feel something was wrong.

He had always been like Archbishop Klimt before, thinking that the other party was just making official remarks and trying to take advantage of the chaos when the world was on the verge of collapse.

But now, Lan En looked at the books recommended by the two archbishops.

“Fuck.!”

He blinked his eyes and couldn't help but curse.

In fact, they have no intention of continuing to live in this era stabilized by [Flame]!

At the same time, outside the Deep Church, the sky had darkened.

But it was different from the sunsets in the past.

This time it wasn't dark because the sun was setting.

Looking from a distance, the sun seemed to be undergoing a solar eclipse. Most of the area was covered in darkness, leaving only a ring of fire burning and shining.

And at the lowest point beside the circle of fire, like the sun bleeding, a beam of fiery red light was flowing downwards.

It was like the blood shed by the maggot man who was nailed to the wall at that time!

This was no normal sunset, and everyone realized it.

[First Fire] has declined to this point!

Immediately afterwards, a huge bell sounded from nowhere, resounding to every corner of the world.

Archbishop Macdonald and Archbishop Louis seemed to have expected this scene.

They and most of the priests stood respectfully in a hall at the deepest part of the Deep Church.

There was a huge coffin in the hall, which was making a slight noise.