Traveler of the River of Time and Space-Chapter 428 - 39: City of Sin (Part 2)

"Yes," Sister Fried nodded, "I want to see it."

Ancient dragon faith.

They tried to transform people into dragons to survive the age of darkness without fire.

Already GG.

Angel faith.

They tried to turn people into strange angel-like creatures, also to survive the age of darkness without fire.

Likewise GG, and it triggered a civil war in Lothric Royal City.

As for the forbidden practice of bloodline marriage that continuously produced Lords of Cinder, it was rendered invalid because the double princes of Lothric refused to transmit the fire. Their hatred of fire transmission and open opposition might have been influenced by more chaotic secrets within the royal family.

The so-called Demon King is still alive, though he has gone mad.

Su Ziyu didn't get much concrete information from Sister Fried's mouth, but from these pieces, one can glimpse the depth of chaos within the Lothric royal family.

This might be the madness in despair.

"Do you think that the Painting World can serve as humanity's final sanctuary?" Su Ziyu asked slowly.

"At least it's a hope," Sister Fried nodded slightly.

The hope of extinguishing the fire does not mean hoping for the extinction of all life.

Sister Fried likely still hopes for a place where the spark of humanity can continue.

"Hmm?"

"I seem to be lost!..." As the two continued their discreet exchange, the Onion Knight at the front of the group scratched his head awkwardly and turned around, saying, "I don't know where we are either."

Su Ziyu and Sister Fried, who were secretly discussing the Painting World, couldn't help but stop.

They exchanged a look of helplessness and then began checking their surroundings. Initially, it was the Onion Knight who led the way, claiming he had been here before, but now he informed the two that he was lost.

It was indeed unreliable to let this iron buffoon lead the way.

"We should have entered the depths of the underground," Sister Fried observed the surroundings and said, "Let's try going that way."

Su Ziyu had never been here before, so he naturally followed their arrangements.

The group walked for a while.

Somewhere unknown, anyway, there were quite a few corpses nearby and some traces of ancient battles.

"It seems there's a cell over there!" Sister Fried raised her hand and pointed.

Crack.

Su Ziyu reached out to test the cell's sturdiness, then took out the Dark Greatsword and swung it, opening the old cell door.

The cell was empty.

But in the corner, there was a dried-up corpse sitting on the far left side, dead for a long time.

"Seems to be an undead," Sister Fried glanced and then suddenly her eyes brightened, raising her hand to dial open the corpse's hand, revealing a peculiar ring to everyone's sight.

It was a ring formed by a coiled golden snake.

"For you." Sister Fried, after taking a look at it, handed it to Su Ziyu beside her, saying, "This seems to be the rumored Greed Golden Snake Ring."

"Didn't expect to find it here."

— "Greed Golden Snake Ring (Odd Artifact): Snakes are degenerate dragons, extremely greedy creatures. This ring can enhance one's treasure-hunting ability and will sense when there are treasures nearby."

This seems to be an artifact used for treasure hunting.

Su Ziyu took it, examined it, and tried it on a little, then shook his head and said, "Not convenient for combat."

"Fine for occasional use."

The coiled golden snake on the ring was too large, more cumbersome for combat than a gemstone ring.

"Too bad it's not the Greed Silver Snake Ring," Sister Fried said somewhat disappointedly, "It's said that ring can increase the souls plundered after killing an enemy."

Really?

That would indeed be a useful artifact.

With not much else around, the group followed Sister Fried again in twists and turns through the eerie dark passages for about half an hour, killing quite a few bizarre creatures with snake-length heads along the way, eventually reaching a different area.

"We seem to have entered the area of the City of Sin."

Sister Fried squatted down to pick up a cup from the ground, "This is from the City of Sin."

A very ordinary dusty silver cup.

Taking a few more steps forward.

Su Ziyu noticed a glint of gold, and when he picked it up, it was a plate made of gold, weighing around half a pound, and with a high purity of gold.

"Once, the City of Sin amassed the world's largest wealth."

"Everything here was resplendent."

"Nobles and merchants used utensils made of pure silver and pure gold. Before the First Fire dimmed, they controlled most of the world's trade, greedily plundering everything plunderable."

Sister Fried casually picked up a piece of melted gold and said slowly, "Until the Fire of Sin descended here."

"Greedy desire."

"Also brought the flame of greed."

Before Su Ziyu lay only a broken ruin, buried underground for who knows how long, but by digging through the remnants of ruins, quite a bit of gold and silver could still be found. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

That was the currency of this world before the flame dimmed.

Now.

These things were worthless.

"Let's go," the Onion Knight said slowly, without even glancing at the gold and silver on the ground, his expression much more somber since arriving here, "I think I remember the way now."

The further they went, the more gold and silver utensils appeared.

So much so that one could step on them if not careful.

Their vision also revealed some charred human remains piled together, like they had melted and coalesced in piles, with a large amount of gold and silver scattered beside them. Legend has it that when the Fire of Sin descended, it fell from the sky, burning only the flesh of humanity, leaving everything else untouched.

These should be the people from the City of Sin burned to death at that time.

Su Ziyu saw many burned people, still clutching gold and jewelry in their arms before they died, these leftover remains mixed with gold and jewelry to form a hill of graves.

"Watch out!"

"Enemies!" Su Ziyu suddenly halted, speaking in a deep voice.

Heavy footsteps sounded.

In their view appeared quite a large monster, crawling on the ground with a bulky body covered in gray-black skin and moss growing, the head part gone, replaced with a large hand with eight enormous gray-black fingers, as they raised the fingers, palms covered with numerous eyeballs, a drop of slimy liquid oozing out from each eyeball, extremely disgusting and unsettling to see.

"What the hell is this thing!" Just a glance made Su Ziyu's spirit feel polluted. When the monster lifted itself, he could also see its ruptured belly full of strange eyeballs.

Another similar monster crawled out.

Though their bodies seemed sluggish, as they neared, they turned extremely fierce, flipping and pouncing immediately.

Splat.

Thud.

Accompanied by a flash of lightning and black flames, the two monsters were quickly eliminated. They looked menacing and disgusting, but weren't hard to deal with.

"Gained 1 Source Power Value."

"Gained 1 Source Power Value."

Su Ziyu noticed a faint spiritual light floating from their bodies, and upon inspection, he found two odd artifacts, though they made him feel a bit revolted.

"Dung Pie (Odd Artifact): A dung pie containing venom, can be thrown at enemies, said to be found on some giants."

Are these giants?

Su Ziyu looked at the monster's size, feeling they were like twisted giants.

One monster dropped two dung pies.

In total, four.

All marked as containing venom; he finally knew where the dung pie that the Sun Knight threw at him came from.

Should he take this odd artifact?

It felt so disgusting.

Su Ziyu glanced at Sister Fried, who had a look of disgust, and quietly used telekinesis to collect the four dung pies, glad he didn't have to touch them with his hands.

For now, keep them.

If he encounters that Sun Knight again, he'll throw these back.

Truly eat shit, you!

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