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"...Lord Li You, please kneel down to the spiral sword in the campfire in front of the Fire King.

"This ceremony is for you to inherit their remaining fire and to become the true Fire King."

Since Li You has made up his mind, the Fire Keeper can only follow the process even though she is not sure.

On the five thrones, the only living Fire King, the Exile Rhodos, also looked down at Li You below.

To inherit the remaining fire of the Fire Kings, they must burn again. Not to mention that the other four Fire Kings have only their heads left, even Rhodos's body will be burned after the ceremony begins, and he will once again feel the burning pain that he cannot forget even in his dreams.

But despite this, despite talking in his sleep In the language, he would also groan and pray because of the pain he suffered from the fire. At this time, Rhodos looked at Li You, but he was not timid, only encouraging the latecomers and the relief of finally completing the mission.

Li You came to the campfire without saying a word, and was about to kneel on one knee according to the ritual in the game, but at this moment, he suddenly received another system message.

[Ding! ]

[Tip: You are about to go to the furnace of the initial fire. The initial furnace is a special map. Those without a brand cannot enter the initial furnace. ]

[If there is no brand, a specific ceremony must be performed before entering the initial furnace.]

Li You was also stunned after reading it, and then he realized what it meant.

Is this saying that you can't summon companions at the initial furnace?

...Ah this?

Li You was a little confused, and this news was indeed beyond his expectations. After all, apart from anything else, if you go to the ending of the Wandering Soul King in the game, the white shadow of Londor and even Yulia herself will leave a summoning mark at the initial furnace to provide help to the player. Why is it that in this world, the initial furnace is off-limits to outsiders?

But Li You looked at the second half of the prompt and thought about it carefully, and it seemed that it didn't make sense.

Londor, the country of wandering souls, deliberately wanted to usurp the fire, and even the eldest sister of the three sisters herself was ashes. Combined with the other ending of Soul One besides passing on the fire, it is normal for Londor to have a way to avoid the rules and enter the initial furnace. But others may not be able to do it.

"...I knew I shouldn't have killed Yulia so easily, it would be better to torture her first. "

Li You was also somewhat helpless. "In the ending of the Wandering Soul King, so many people from Londor ran to the initial furnace to welcome the protagonist's ashes. Obviously, this ceremony is not uncommon in Londor... Tsk, but now I really can't find anyone from Londor."

So, in the third world of Soul, the easiest way to pass the level is to become the Wandering Soul King?

If you choose this ending, the difficulty of the overall process and the final boss battle will be significantly reduced.

As for the risk...If you want to become the Wandering Soul King, you have to bear the Dark Ring and then accept the Dark Mark. This is the biggest risk.

The Dark Ring given by the system will absorb his humanity. If the people of Londor poke eight holes in him, the speed of losing humanity will be super doubled.

Under such conditions, Li You doubted whether he could get out of the Undead Settlement before becoming a zombie...If that's the case, he can only eat the BOSS soul as a meal all the way to maintain his humanity.

What's more, becoming the Wandering Soul King Anri has to be sacrificed. So Li You just thought about it for a while, but he didn't regret it at all.

He just felt sorry that the old thief was always evasive when telling stories, so he didn't know about this limitation of the initial furnace. Otherwise, he must have captured Yulia and tortured her severely, asking her to hand over the ritual of Londor before sending her to see the dark snake Kaas.

As for now, there is no other way. He can't just go to Londor to kill, right? Even if he can find the way, he doesn't have the time.

Just at this time, the fire keeper saw that Li You was still distracted and reminded him again. Li You returned from his thoughts, took a deep breath, and then knelt on one knee in front of the campfire without delay.

The fire keeper then stepped forward, stood beside Li You, looked up at the five thrones and the five fire kings, and slowly spoke:

"Great fire kings.

"The fire is extinguished now, but the king is nowhere to be seen."

As her voice echoed in the Fire Sacrifice Field, the firewood on the throne - the heads of the fire kings, now had wisps of flames rising from the bottom.

The flames were not strong, on the contrary, they were even a little inconspicuous, just clinging to the skulls of the fire kings, burning quietly.

And the only living fire king, Rhodos, was also wrapped in flames at this moment with the chanting of the fire keeper. He was short, but the flames that burned his flesh and blood suddenly rose quite high, burning his body very quickly.

In just a moment, there was only a crown left on the throne, buckled on the pile of heavy robes.

At that moment, the face of this "dwarf" was not only without fear or pain, but also without the previous relief, but only with a solemn face.

Rhodos, the fire king, went to die happily.

"Everyone, give your fire... to the inheritor." The fire keeper continued to chant slowly. As she spoke, the inconspicuous flames on the firewood of the five fire kings flew out one after another and gathered towards the fire keeper.

As the flames on the firewood of the Fire King fell away, even the candles of different heights under the throne all lost their light. The entire Fire Sacrifice Field was darkened for a moment. Only the campfire burning in the center and the five flames converging towards the Fire Keeper illuminated the surrounding world.

The five flames fell into the hands of the Fire Keeper and converged into one, but they only became slightly brighter, and there was almost no difference. The Fire Keeper carefully held the flame and turned to Li You.

She came in front of Li You, held the flame in both hands, and then the flame gradually turned into scattered ashes, falling on Li You's head and body.

Obviously, this is the most critical step to receive the remaining fire, so the dark ring on Li You's chest reacted, automatically lit up, and absorbed all the falling ashes.

Seeing that Li You had indeed "fused into one" with the falling ashes, the Fire Keeper was relieved. She had been worried that Li You would be burned by the First Fire because he was not an ash or an immortal, but he was forcing the ritual. But now it seems that Li You can indeed inherit the remaining fire of the Fire Kings.

So, the Fire Keeper, who was relieved, opened her mouth and recited the last prayer.

"——And he will kill the ancient gods who inherited the First Fire with his sword."

Just at this moment, the flames in her hands had all turned into ashes and fell, merging into Li You's body. Li You only felt the dark ring on his chest tremble violently, and then he fell into complete darkness.

Of course, he did not faint, but all the light really disappeared.

In the darkness, there was no sound.

When the world was once again lit up with a faint light, Li You opened his eyes and found that he seemed to be still in the same place, still in the Fire Transmission Sacrifice.

But he knew very well that this was only an approximation. He was in a dilapidated sacrificial site with all the fire extinguished. It was even more dilapidated than the fireless sacrificial site behind the demon king's courtyard, so that many passage structures had collapsed.

In front of him was an extinguished campfire.     The campfire could still be lit, but it didn't matter here. Out of habit, Li You lit the campfire, and then walked out along the only road of the dilapidated fire sacrifice site and came to the outside of the fire sacrifice site.

What caught his eye at this time was the scene he had reproduced in the spiritual world before, where all things in the world gathered towards the furnace.

In front of the tilted and surrounded city, you can see the trunk of an extremely huge ancient tree, with only the roots left on the trunk, and the original furnace was on its broken end.

The "battlefield" that Li You reproduced before was on the broken end, and you can imagine how huge the original furnace looked.

Outside the ruined fire sacrifice site is a cliff. It is still some distance from the initial furnace. Fortunately, there are campfires left by the previous fire bearers, which saves the later ones from a long journey.

Li You did not rush to the initial furnace, but opened the system panel first.

As expected, the companion section prompted that the companions had no imprints and were excluded from this area and could not appear.

Li You shook his head without any hesitation. Since it was the result of his choice to give up the Londor line, there was nothing to regret.

Compared with this, he found that since he came to the vicinity of the initial furnace, the dark ring has been vibrating very violently, as if it wanted to jump out.

Li You raised his hand and pressed it on his chest. After sensing it, the dark ring temporarily settled down.

However, thinking of the various performances of the dark ring for so long, Li You actually had a guess in his heart.

Your dark ring is not just a dark ring, right?

Now that we have come to the furnace of the initial fire, it is time to see what is hidden in this thing.

After a good rest and recuperation, Li You is now in full condition, including the divine power value has basically recovered. Although there is no cooperation from his companions, there is only one enemy. With his current strength, he is not without confidence.

So, Li You touched the campfire left by his predecessors and went to the initial stove.

—— Going up along the road that has long lost its original appearance, the stairs on the ground have long been only half left, revealing the ground covered with dust below.

If you look back at this time, you can see a whole city that seems to be overturned and pressed down, and even the whole world!

At the end of the era, all the remaining things will gather towards the stove of the initial fire. This is the law of the dark soul world. Therefore, there will be a DLC2 map, the birth of the gathering place.

If it is in the game, DLC2 can go directly from the stove of the initial fire in addition to going through the DLC1 painting world, but Li You also did not find the teleported campfire here.

But his focus now was not that. He continued to go up along the dilapidated stone steps with protruding tree roots, and there was a place that should be the gate.

Why should I say "should"? At this moment, the "gate" was only left with brick columns on both sides, of different heights, and on one side of the column there was a strange structure that looked like a horizontally growing stalactite.

The brick road ended here. Going forward, there were battlefield-like ruins over there, the core of the original furnace. The ruins were full of ashes, and various weapons were scattered everywhere. But in the chaos, there was also a kind of red and white small flower, the flowers were connected into a piece, swaying in the wind, shaking endlessly.

Li You stood at the door and saw that in the stove in front of him, almost where the light under the black sun in the sky pointed, there was a campfire that was so dim that it was almost invisible. Even though there was no flame, it was still burning tenaciously, and waves of heat slightly distorted the surrounding scenery.

Behind the extinguished fire, there sat a charred figure, who seemed to be also carrying flames, but it was not clear because of the distortion of the heat wave.

However, Li You certainly knew that the figure was the final BOSS of the main plot of Dark Souls 3, the incarnation of the fire kings.

As for why this final BOSS was given such a name? It's very simple, because in this body wrapped in charred armor, there are the remnants of the fire kings of successive generations. This empty body is the incarnation of the fire kings' will to pass on fire!

Only by knocking down this incarnation can the later ones take over the responsibility of the predecessors, turn into firewood and burn themselves, so that the first fire can continue.

Looking at the incarnation that was sitting in front of the campfire in the same posture as the ash, Li You stood at the door of the initial furnace, took a deep breath again, and exhaled slowly.

Then, he pulled out the Thunder Moon Shadow, took out the Dragon Hunting Sword and Gun, shrunk it into the shape of a short sword, and held it in his left hand.

Although the Dragon Hunting Sword and Gun was originally prepared for Yuzu, since his companions could not show up at this time, it was natural for him to use it.

At the same time, the incarnations of the Fire Kings were the weakest in terms of resistance in the game, so Li You chose this weapon specifically.

Then, Li You stepped into the furnace of the Initial Fire.

At this moment, the one who reacted most violently was not the Fire King incarnation in the distance, but the Dark Ring on Li You's chest!

The Dark Ring trembled with unprecedented intensity and suddenly rushed out of Li You's chest!

The ring of flames was suspended in the air, and the darkness inside was slowly flowing, which was strangely similar to the black sun in the sky.

Li You narrowed his eyes slightly. He didn't expect that the Dark Ring would react as soon as he stepped into the Initial Furnace. He thought that he would have to wait until he defeated the Fire King's incarnation.

But what happened next was something that even Li You didn't expect.

From the center of the Dark Ring, a large number of ownerless soul light spots quickly flew out and gathered around the Dark Ring.

After a burst of dazzling white light, those ownerless souls actually condensed into a human figure!

Even Li You couldn't help but widen his eyes at this moment, with a look of surprise on his face.

What's going on! ?

Finally, with a "clang" sound, the shape of the figure completely solidified, and the ownerless souls on the surface immediately flew away, revealing the true appearance underneath.

Li You looked closely, but was slightly startled again.

The person who emerged was wearing a heavy silver iron armor, and the simple knight's helmet that covered his face only had two sunken lines on the left and right that looked like tear marks on the visor as decoration.

Li You could never mistake this set of equipment, it was the standard equipment for the knights of Dark Souls 3, the lower-level knight set!

"This...!?"

The knight in armor tilted his head, looked at Li You, and then laughed softly:

"I've been following you for so long, but it's rare to see you show this expression, Li You."