Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Before the Age of Fire, everything was shrouded in gray fog. There was no concept of space and time here, and the gray fog could transcend time. There were gray rocks, towering ancient trees, and immortal ancient dragons everywhere. This era was called the Age of Gray Fog.

The Immortal Ancient Dragons were born before the void, and they stand high above the original ancient trees. They are the supreme existences above everything else. They possess invincible immortal abilities and supreme primordial power, and are the ancient overlords of the primordial chaos!
Until one day, the primordial fire ignited in the gray fog, and several species born from the darkness found the king's soul around the fire.

This begins an era in which fire drives away chaos and the gods and ancient dragons fight.

The Sun King Gwen led the Silver Knights and started a dragon-hunting war with the witch of Izaris and Tomb King Nite.

The scaleless white dragon Hiss betrayed the ancient dragon. He betrayed the secret of the ancient dragon's immortality to the gods.

Finally, the immortal ancient dragons met their end.

Gwyn and his knights gathered lightning spears and pierced through the ancient dragon's scales.

Nit stirred up a death miasma, causing the naked bodies of the ancient dragons to decay, giving them true death.

The old witch and her daughters unleashed a firestorm that swept across the world, burning the towering ancient trees where the ancient dragons lived.

In the end, the dragon hunting war ended with the victory of the gods, and almost all immortal ancient dragons were extinct.

Only the black dragon Kalamite, who possessed the power of disaster, and the betrayer, the scaleless white dragon Hiss, survived.

The end of the Dragon Hunt War also heralds the beginning of the Age of Fire.

The gods reside high in Anor Londo, the witches rule Izalith... With these two as representatives, the power and light of fire spread to every corner of the world. Their deeds become legends, faith creates miracles, and thus a brilliant and splendid civilization is created!
However, the fire will eventually be extinguished!
The light cannot illuminate the world, the night continues endlessly, and the world will be left with only darkness.

The cursed ring of darkness began to spread among the crowd.

The Tomb King is indifferent. He does not yearn for light, but devotes all his power to death, waiting for darkness to come.

The old witch hopes to recreate the First Fire with Chaos, which is like a mortal trying to get his hands on the power of God; it is arrogant and ignorant.

The out-of-control chaos swallowed up the old witch, and there was no longer the old witch of Izaris in the world, only a hotbed of chaos.Countless demons were born from chaos, and Izaris, which was once as famous as Anor Londo, completely became a paradise where chaos and demons raged.

But the flames are still dying, and darkness is about to fall.

In the end, the first god Gwyn created his own way of salvation - passing on the fire.

He led all the knights to the furnace of the primordial fire, and used his own kingly soul as a guide to keep the primordial fire burning!

From then on, there was no more Sun King Gwyn in the world, only the 'Original Lord of Fire' Gwyn.

however.

Gwen's fire transmission allowed the light to last for thousands of years, but it could not make the first fire burn endlessly.The gods who shared his power did not inherit his will. They left Anor Londo one after another and went to the human world to rule various countries.

They indulged themselves in pleasure, but no one took the path to pass on the fire. They just had a final revelry.

The cursed undead took on the responsibility of passing on the fire. They began to hunt the gods, hunt their souls, and finally embarked on the road of passing on the fire.

They are called the Fire Kings, kings who use their souls as firewood to continue the Age of Fire!
However, as more and more souls were thrown into the First Fire, there were fewer and fewer souls available to burn.

After a long time, the First Flame became weaker and weaker, and the world fell into darkness several times.

The undead could no longer bear the responsibility of passing on the fire, and the souls that survived through time were no longer enough to continue the flame. Therefore, the bells in the sacrificial field had to awaken the fire kings who once passed on the fire, and they needed to take on the responsibility of the original fire again.

However, the Lords of Fire abandoned their duties, driven by their obsession to complete their unfinished mission.

The giant king Yum returned to the City of Sin, but all he saw was the City of Sin baptized by the fire of sin.

The Faran Undead Squad returned to the Faran Fortress. They tried to suppress the rising abyss again, but sadly found that they had been eroded by the abyss.

The infamous Devourer, Aldrich was lured by Pope Sullivan into devouring King Gwyn's youngest son, Shadow Sun Gwyndolin.

The fire has gradually gone out, but the king is nowhere to be seen, and the remaining ashes without fire are coming in droves!

The former fire kings each had their own obsessions, and they abandoned the mission of passing on the fire. But they will eventually be brought back to the throne by the embers, and this is the meaning of the embers' existence - no matter when, the fireless ashes are eager for flames.

However, all this is meaningless.

The flame will eventually go out, and the Age of Fire will eventually end.

Chaos and darkness will once again sweep the world.

All Ember did was a futile struggle.

Therefore, He also gave up the mission of passing on the fire, and He denied the meaning of passing on the fire.

Darkness and light are twins. The world cannot remain bright forever, nor will it remain in darkness forever.

The extinction of the First Fire is only the accumulation of firewood. It will eventually burn again and spread light to the world.

So, the ember chose to put out the fire (usurp the fire).

The flame was extinguished, and the world entered its predetermined fate.

Darkness and chaos swept in. This is the deep sea era and also the era of chaos.

Creatures struggle to survive in the darkness, and chaos and madness dominate everything.

But in the chaos, the spark of hope is quietly growing.

At this moment, darkness and light are no longer opposites, they are two sides of the same coin.

Light and darkness alternate, day and night alternate, and the world is about to enter a new era.

When the first ray of light pierced the darkness, the first fire burned brightly and the fire was spread.

But the dawn of dawn did not completely drive out chaos. It needed to complete coexistence with the night, and chaos was still the main theme of the world.

And in the darkness, some creatures obtained these scattered fires, just like Gwyn, the Sun King, who obtained the King's Soul in the darkness!
But the Age of Chaos has ended, and the world has entered a new Dark Age - during this period, civilization has sprouted again, and it has thrived under the nourishment of life and fire, but it is not humans who rule this era.

The eight extraordinary races, including vampires, giants, dragons, phoenixes, magic wolves, elves, aliens, and demons that have survived from ancient times to the present day, rule the sky, sea, and land respectively under the protection of their respective ancient gods.

They fight against each other, and war breaks out every moment.And human beings are just appendages of extraordinary races, struggling to survive in misery.

But even humans have their own gods.

The goddess of night loves humans. From then on, darkness is no longer the enemy of humans. The gods protect humans in the darkness.

The God of Knowledge and Wisdom bestowed enlightenment upon mankind, allowing them to develop civilization and free themselves from the slavery of the extraordinary races.

The Mother Earth gave humans land to reproduce, allowing the human race to grow rapidly.

The Lord of Storms drives away demons with lightning and protects human civilization.

……

But human beings are too weak after all, and they have never been able to truly compete with those naturally powerful extraordinary races.

Until the first blasphemous tablet was born from the first fire, granting mankind the path to transcendence.

Under the protection of the gods and the guidance of the blasphemous stone tablet, the human race flourished. They defeated the extraordinary races that once ruled the world one by one. More and more gods began to protect humans. Humans thus truly became the masters of the world and ushered in the "glorious age" at the beginning of the Third Age.

After a long time, mankind finally stepped onto the stage of history for the first time.

But human civilization is not smooth sailing, the power of chaos is coveting in secret. Even with the protection of many gods, humans still ushered in a great disaster in the Third Age. Until the second blasphemous stone tablet was born, all this chaos came to an end, and a new era began - the Age of the Gods.

The gods often come to the world to give humans protection and enlightenment.

But Chaos is still watching, and some beings born in Chaos are coveting reality and the power of the First Fire. They will eventually come back. In order to better protect mankind, the gods have to move their kingdom to the astral realm to fight against those evil spirits that covet the world, and the world enters the Black Iron Age.

And now, it is the year 1351 of the Fifth Era.

The gods still protect humans, but they are not as close as a family. Instead, they have all kinds of conflicts. These conflicts drive their followers to fight wars one after another, and even the gods fall!
The most warlike god of war, the most arrogant eternal sun, they all died because of this.

But for the gods, the fall of a god does not mean the end.

Humans will not stop fighting each other because of this. They will still fight for their respective gods and for their beliefs.

This is the only lesson history has taught mankind - mankind never learns any lessons.
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Backlund, Queens, in the luxurious villa of Earl Dill.

In the morning, Fors woke up from his sleep and came to the living room, muttering:

“This dream feels so real.”

She had been having these dreams for a month straight, and it almost made her believe that this was real history—even though some of these stories were made up by her herself, Fors still believed in these legends.

Of course, Fors still had doubts.

But what she doubted was not the authenticity of history, but that this was the real history, but it was covered up by the gods of the past, and Mr. Fool or Embers was the truly ancient god who survived from that olden era.

They are not falsifying history, they are just restoring everything that has happened in this world!
And what she did was not a blasphemy to the gods, but to provide enlightenment to mankind under the guidance of the gods.

Thinking of this, Forsi's mood immediately improved a lot.

Hearing Fors's mumbling, a middle-aged lady in elegant clothes in the restaurant looked serious and said solemnly:
"Ms. Fors, that was not a dream, it was a revelation from God!"

Her expression was extremely pious, with stars dotted on her chest.

This lady is Xio's mother. Since Xio successfully overturned her father's case, the Dill family has been able to return to the noble circle of Belland. Xio has also been awarded the title by the king himself a while ago, and is now a real earl with a fiefdom!
Xio did not need to return home in glory, he just brought his mother and brother to the capital and bought this villa at the same time - by the way, this villa once belonged to a viscount who was caught by MI9 for collaborating with the enemy during the war.

In fact, he was not the only noble who colluded with the enemy country at that time. Even Earl Hall was secretly contacting relatives in the Republic of Intis, hoping to save his life after the war. But the viscount's actions were too obvious and too crude, so he was caught by Xio.

George IV was extremely furious about this. He did not hesitate to make an example of the unfortunate viscount and directly ordered a public execution. It was Hugh who was responsible for executing this order at the time. She was in charge of everything from arrest to property confiscation to execution.

That's why she bought this villa at a very low price and it became the new residence of Earl Dill.

Of course, the viscount's manor in the suburbs was also bought, and even his original fiefdom now belonged to Hugh, and it was expanded a lot. Hugh knew that this was the king's little trick. He didn't want Hugh, who was in charge of MI9, to have too good a relationship with other nobles, and using this method would obviously annoy a large number of old nobles.

Fors explained seriously:

"In fact, I also believe that these are revelations from God."

However, the gods she believed in were not the Goddess of Night, but the Fool and the Embers.

These things were first proposed by Ember. The Fool was His first partner, while beings like the Goddess of Night could only be considered the second tier.

In the eyes of ordinary people, beings like the Goddess of Night are obviously more worthy of awe than the unknown Fool, but in Fors's eyes, the Goddess of Night is obviously not as important as the Fool and Embers - these two are genuine gods, and even beings of a higher level than the gods!
This conclusion was drawn from her observations at the Tarot Club.

Not only did she think so, others thought so too.

Of course, this does not mean that Forsihui is disrespectful to the gods. The power of the gods is still worthy of awe, but it is not as sacred and inviolable as before.

For example, the Lord of Storms.

Among all the gods, this one currently has the lowest status. From the positioning of these gods in the dream, it can be seen that the others are indispensable, but the Lord of Storms is rated relatively low. What he can do can also be done by other gods, and the role of other gods, whether it is to enlighten mankind or to protect mankind in the dark night, is irreplaceable by the Lord of Storms.

This does not mean that the Storm Lord is really useless, but it means that the Storm Lord's position is not firm, so his evaluation in the dream is only slightly better than the Steam Lord.

"What are you talking about?" Xio came out of the room and asked curiously.

"Last night's dream." Fors said concisely.

Xio was lost in thought. Her eyes fell on the dining table. Her younger brother, Lou Dill, was reciting words in the ancient Feysac language while eating breakfast. This was a prerequisite for studying law and becoming a lawyer.

Her mother was instructing two servants to remember to clean the garden. (End of this chapter)