“Wow…”

(O)

Come to the city from a small road and look at the broken, bleak and dilapidated ruins in front of you, Anne couldn't help but widen her eyes.

"No, this is Stoneville City?"

=('ヮ'=)

To be honest, she never expected that the Stoneville City, which the uncle from Datou, who had been instructed by her before, would be such a ruined place?

Anyway!

After coming here, Annie saw that the houses, streets and everything around here were dilapidated. It would be better to say that this is a street, but it is a broken eaves and walls?

Wherever my sight was, there were dilapidated roofs, broken walls, collapsed bricks and rotten wooden boards, which were sprinkled on the streets, and I don’t know how long it took no one to sort them out.

Weeds are stubbornly spreading out of the houses of the residents, and it is not difficult to judge from the dilapidated houses and the lush weeds that this city, Stoneville City, will definitely not be like this for a day or two.

In this situation, it is likely that nine out of ten rooms have been empty, and it may even be a little more serious than that?

Anyway, when Annie walked in from the broken exterior wall, she saw only such ruins, and there was no such bustling crowd, bustling streets, and delicious food from other worlds that she imagined.

In fact, let alone food, she saw only a handful of normal living people along the way. After seeing her or the unstoppable furnace knight behind her, they disappeared without a trace in an instant like frightened rabbits. As for the remaining people who did not run away, they were either cursed people with thin hair, pale skin and dull expressions like walking corpses, or those dead people who were walking corpses at all.

“…”

At this moment, behind Anne, the furnace knight who had been following him with a stern face was shocked. After all, the current Stoneville City was completely different from what he remembered.

Swish!!

However, shock, it did not prevent him from swinging at a dead man who roared at him and rushed towards him with one sword, and successfully split it into pieces that fell to the ground and remained motionless.

“…”

Then he took a step forward and walked to the head of the dead man who had been cut off by him, and looked at the other party's eyes that were still flashing with light and fell into deep thought.

"Yes."

"The news we received on the way is indeed true..."

"The ring of Elden's law has broken, and the golden law has had huge problems. Not only me, but everyone has lost their blessings."

"After the shattering of the Elden Far, people cannot live forever, nor can they die normally and be reborn under the blessing of the golden tree. The roots of death began to spread in the world, and this world is dying little by little..."

After saying that, the furnace knight sighed, then raised his leg and slashed the head that had been cut off by him into pieces. He had only so much he could do.

Immediately afterwards, as the small group of Lun completely dissipated into the air, he slowly looked up and looked towards the sky in the northeast.

There, the golden holy tree that covered the sky was still huge, but the light was even more dim than when it was sealed.

"eternal life?"

く(＾_)ゝ

Anne ignored the follower behind her and just continued to walk forward.

Unlike the other party’s words about the blessing of the golden tree or the broken ring of the Elden Ferris, in Anne’s view, the key root problems in this world are not those, but the confusion of rules and the random interference of some outsiders!

Otherwise, the world would not have evolved into its bad appearance now.

Moreover, the so-called blessings mentioned by the other party were not good at all in her opinion.

A long life does not mean that you can obtain eternal life. Without the baptism of reincarnation, fragile souls often cannot withstand the erosion of time. Even those powerful undead lichs are the same. Their souls are powerful, and their perseverance cannot be said to be unrestrained. In order to obtain the so-called eternal life, they will distort and curse their bodies and souls. But in the end, how many lichs can maintain their original hearts in that long time?

When there was only a twisted soul and a rotten body, it was like the dying dead man around him and this twisted world. So, Anne felt that the root of the problem was planted at the beginning and had no much connection with the subsequent shattered rings.

"Maybe!"

()

However, the above things have nothing to do with her, Queen Anne, so she didn't agree and just kept walking forward.

"before……"

"Stonville City is a giant fortress city known as only smaller than the royal city. Here, the permanent population of Stonville Castle was surrounded by at least 100,000 at its peak..."

"But now, this place has become like this..."

Continue to move forward, along the dilapidated and bleak street, which is similar to the ruins, slowly following the still cheerful steps of a careless little girl in front of her, the furnace knight said with a little at a loss.

"I don't know..."

“How many people are still alive here?”

He didn't know how many people there were in the Stoneville Castle Fortress, but the city outside the castle's high walls is now, with the broken eaves and walls that almost completely disappeared in front of him, which are almost completely lost to business and residence, and are afraid that even a thousand people are missing?

Of course, the thousand he said must refer to the kind of living people who can still live normally, rather than those who rush up to them when they see people.

"have no idea!"

()

"but……"

(○ε○)

"The people in the castle must know something, right?"

(°〼°〃)

Anne, who was walking in front, kicked away a rotten wood blocking the road, then looked up at the condescending Stoneville Castle built along the mountain.

She saw that under the dim sky, the tall Stoneville Castle Fortress also had many traces of destruction after the battle, but its overall appearance was still relatively complete, and the main structure was not damaged much. There were even flames and flags flying on it. She also faintly saw soldiers' heads scattering on the wall, so if you go there and ask someone for the situation, I believe there will be no mistakes.

"I advise you not to go..."

The Knight of the Furnace seemed to have thought of something, and suddenly spoke to Annie with some concern.

"I just want to go!"

(òó)

"And! Uncle, you really don't follow me anymore. They don't know you very well, really!"

(ˇεˇ)

"Let's go, Teebos, let's go to that castle to have a look!"

(灬灬)~

After saying that, she felt that it was too messy and there were too many messy things. She didn't want to take action on her own, so she let out her own bear, then jumped onto its shoulder, and then shouted in a soft voice, signaling the other party to lead her forward.

“…”

However, the furnace knight behind him who was released from the seal prison by Anne had no intention of stopping, and still stubbornly raised his foot and followed.

“Really…”

(lll￢▽￢)

"never mind!"

ε=(ο｀*))) Alas

Anne glanced behind her, but in the end she didn't say anything more.

What she knew was that the other party must have been rescued by her, so she felt a little disgusted and wanted to protect herself in order to repay the kindness... But who is Queen Anne? How could she need someone else's protection?

Besides, the other party couldn't even beat her little bear, so he slapped it away easily. What else can he use to protect her?

(…)

(●￣￣●)

“Huh?”

Σ(°△°)︴

"Tibers, it seems like someone is talking there. Hurry up, let's go over and take a look?"

ヾ(^▽^*)))

Just as she was about to continue saying something, Anne suddenly noticed that there seemed to be a sound coming from the street in front, and it seemed to be a human being. Although the sound was not loud, it seemed particularly harsh on the quiet and declining street today. So she hurriedly patted Tibers' head and signaled the other party to follow the sound quickly to take a look.

...

"Who is there?"

˙˙)

"scare!?"

!(;o)o

Soon, Anne, who turned a corner and arrived at the scene, was startled.

It turned out that she saw that it was a group of soldiers pressing against a group of living people, and some men, women, young and old who seemed relatively normal were walking into the castle fortress?

“!!”

“!!”

And while Anne saw those people, the soldiers also followed the sound and the furnace knight who was drawing his sword in his hand.
To be continued...