Secret: The undead do not die in the fire

Chapter 373 You are confused
As Justice and the others left one after another, the gray fog returned to silence, as if the previous gathering was just an illusion. Klein bent his fingers and tapped the edge of the mottled long table, presenting the partially completed "Words of Fools" sacrificed by Miss Magician.

In an indescribable state of freeze, Klein stared at the cover of the Holy Word with a solemn expression.

The five big words "Words of Fools" made Klein feel a little conflicted.

To be fair, he didn't want his church's holy book to be named like this. He could accept it whether it was called "The Book of Fools" or "The Holy Book of Fools", but the name "The Words of the Holy One" really made Klein feel a little resistant.

But if he asked Miss Magician and others to change their names just for three words, it would really undermine Mr. Fool's dignity.

But when he saw the words "Holy Words", Klein couldn't help but start to diverge:
"The Emperor had twenty sons, half of whom betrayed him."

"There are twenty-two positions in the Tarot Club. If you remove me and my vest, there are exactly twenty..."

"No, it's not. It's just a coincidence. Well, it's just a coincidence."

The corner of Klein's mouth twitched slightly. He comforted himself and then forced himself to restrain his scattered thoughts.
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8 month 14 day.

The Intis Republic and the Feysac Empire, which had been fighting separately, reached a secret agreement. The Intis Sea Fleet and the remaining Feysac Conquest Fleet joined together to form a joint fleet to fight against the Loen Kingdom's Sea Fleet.

This wiped out the original advantage of the Loen Kingdom's inter-sea fleet, and it once again returned to a passive defensive stage.

8 month 15 day.

Under the organization of Ms. Hermit, the members of the Tarot Club went on another group tour. This time the tour destination was the Hornachis Mountains, and as a ticket for the tour, a War Bishop from the Republic of Intis paid the price of his life.

8 month 25 day.

The Feynaport Kingdom and the Intis Republic's Misty Sea Fleet formed a joint fleet and crossed the Raging Sea, attempting to bomb the port of Disi Bay. However, on the way, they encountered the Loen Kingdom's armored fleet patrolling nearby, and a fierce naval battle broke out between the two sides, resulting in losses on both sides.

8 month 28 day.

The coalition forces of Intis and Feysac launched a large-scale landing on Constanton, and the fleets of the two countries also engaged in a fierce naval battle around Constanton.

9 month 3 day.

Under the cover of the combined fleet, the coalition forces of Feysac and Intis successfully captured a port in Sivelas County. The Inter-Sea Fleet and the Loen Army fought fiercely around the port for a week, but they were unable to recapture the port. The coalition forces of Feysac and Intis successfully gained a foothold.

9 month 7 day.

A key node in the Honachis Mountains defense line was breached by Intis, and the battle became increasingly fierce.

9 month 12 day.

During the half-month landing operation, Intis and Feysac successfully captured the Constanton beachhead and used it to establish a counterattack base with a depth of 17 kilometers. The Kingdom of Loen was forced to switch to defense. Feysac and Intis quickly expanded their victory, and the coalition landing force reached 50 people.

9 month 15 day.

The coalition forces of Intis and Feysac launched an attack on Conston City, and the Kingdom of Loen urgently sent reinforcements to support it.
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Backlund, Queens, in the Hall family's luxurious villa.

Audrey sat down in front of the dressing table, thinking about what had happened recently. She couldn't help but pursed her lips, feeling complicated.

Over the past month, the war situation has become increasingly unfavorable to the Kingdom of Loen.

The huge loss of the Conquest Fleet forced Feysac to make concessions in the negotiations with Intis, but this did not dispel the idea of ​​the Feysac people to invade, but instead promoted the cooperation between the two countries. It is conceivable that Intis gained huge benefits in the negotiations with Feysac, so it was so straightforward to send out the entire sea fleet to cooperate with Feysac.

The situation in the Sonia Sea was not bad. The Feysac, Intis, and Feynaport fleets on the sea were suppressed by several armored fleets of Loen and could only barely maneuver to protect the sea supply lines.

As for the Amanda Mountains defense line, with the support of the Church of Evernight, Feysac's two-headed giant army has never been able to break through any fortress, and this defense line remains solid.

Only the coastal defense line has gradually fallen into disadvantage under the fierce attack of Intis and Feysac. Perhaps in less than a month, Constanton will fall, and even the Honachis Mountains will be the same.

By then, Feysac and Intis could completely march straight in, occupying Sivelas County and Jianhai County, while advancing all the way to the southeast and joining forces in the Backlund region.

And once Backlund also falls under the attack of the two countries' coalition forces, the consequences will be disastrous!

In order to stop all this, they organized several assassinations against Intis and Feysac's top leaders over the past month, but most of these operations ended in failure. Among more than ten assassinations, only two operations were successful.

Because the top leaders of both countries have been prepared, each of them is followed by multiple demigods from different paths.

This means that unless the Tarot Society can kill all of these demigods at the same time, as long as any one of them has the opportunity to ask the angels for help, the Tarot Society's assassination will inevitably end in failure.

In fact, Audrey knew in her heart that what they could do was close to the limit.

Even if they tried their best, all they could do was to hunt down a few more demigods, but that would have little impact on the war situation. Because the war would not end until both countries had exhausted their national strength.

Only a war of gods can change all this.

Whether the war between gods will break out or not will not change according to their will...

Audrey was inevitably a little frustrated, but that didn't mean she gave up.

Audrey's green eyes flickered, and she couldn't help thinking:
"The food that Ms. Hermit helped smuggle has been almost consumed. If I want to get more food, I can only go to the Kingdom of Feynapotter in person and talk to the merchants who sell food..."

Although it was a talk, it wasn't a talk in the literal sense.

In order to obtain higher profits, those merchants would not mind selling grain to the Kingdom of Loen at the risk of treason. However, the selling price would definitely not be the lowest price, but would double or even several times the original price.

This is not surprising, after all, the nature of these merchants is to pursue profits. If the profits are not high enough, why would they take the risk to do such a thing? If those merchants go too far, then the price of her smuggled grain from the Kingdom of Feynaport might be higher than the price she bought at home.

Under such circumstances, Audrey knew very well that the effect of negotiations would be very limited.

So she knew what the Hermit meant by "talking" and used the extraordinary ability of the Audience Path to talk. With the strength of a demigod, she could easily hypnotize those grain merchants and buy the grain at a lower price.

But this is also risky, because the Feynaport Kingdom will definitely send people to monitor these grain merchants. Smuggling a small amount of grain is fine, but if there are too many grain merchants who are "manipulated" and the scale is too large, it will inevitably arouse the vigilance of the church and the government, and the government may send demigods to investigate...

However, she can rent 'Lemano's Travel Notes' from Miss 'Magician'. With the extraordinary ability of 'travel' in hand, she does not have to worry about being caught even if she is discovered.

The witch's voice sounded beside her ears:

"You seem troubled?"

Audrey came back to her senses, turned her head to look at the lady who suddenly appeared in the room, wearing a long black dress, who called herself the 'Witch of Envy', and said in a complicated tone:

"Kalula, in your world, in Lordran, has there ever been a war like the one we're having now?"

Carla looked at the girl in surprise, her voice became gentler, and she said softly:

"You should have understood it in your dream, right?"

"The wars that broke out in Rhodeland will only be more numerous and larger than this world."

"The Sun King led his knights to launch a dragon hunting war, ending the rule of the immortal ancient dragons. The ancient dragon clan was destroyed, and only a few creatures with ancient dragon blood remained..."

"Overlord Vornir also conquered many countries and traversed mountains of blood and mountains of corpses. Believe me, the carnage he caused is far beyond your imagination." "The dream world is only a small fragment after all, and it is not enough to describe that huge world."

"Lothran is the land of the gods, but that is not the whole world. Outside of Lothran there is Balder and Dolan Gureg..."

"And no matter which world it is, humans are the same creatures."

“Whatever their natures are, whatever the threats they face, conflict is inevitable, and war is inevitable.”

"So, you don't need to feel confused about this..."

"No, I'm not confused."

Audrey blinked and whispered.

She wasn't lost, she just needed someone to talk to. But it was obvious that Carla wasn't a good person to talk to.

Carla's expression froze for a moment, then she immediately straightened her face and spoke word by word:

"No, you're confused now!"

"I am the 'Dream Weaver'."

Audrey said seriously, "I know I'm not lost."

A demigod of the Audience Path can completely peek into a person's heart through the changes on the island of the mind. Similarly, they can also peek into their own hearts, face up to every thought of theirs, and correct any possible mistakes and weaknesses.

So even if it is out of control and pollution, it is just some kind of mental illness for the "audience" approach and is completely curable.

Under such circumstances, how could Audrey not know what she was thinking?
She is not confused, nor does she regret her choice, but her inner emotions are sometimes difficult to control and she becomes sentimental.

Audrey was a little helpless, she just expressed her feelings and hoped that she could confide in Carula.

But she has become a "dream weaver", and it seems that even Kalula can't easily see through her heart.Of course, there is also a reason why Karula didn't use extraordinary abilities. Karula doesn't seem to like the feeling of using extraordinary abilities to spy on others wantonly, so she has been avoiding using abilities as much as possible.

Well, Audrey didn't like it either.

After going through so many things, she increasingly understood one truth:
Demigods in the spiritual realm must know how to restrain themselves and respect others.

Even though you can normally interpret other people's true thoughts from their body language, facial expressions, and emotional fluctuations, if you are still not satisfied and are extremely greedy to explore other people's hearts and dig out their privacy and secrets, it may backfire on you in the end.

This is a very simple truth:

Everyone has some dark and bad thoughts to a greater or lesser extent, but they are all able to control them well and not let them affect their own behavior. In this case, if the demigod in the spiritual realm is still obsessed with digging out these thoughts and the ugly parts under the mask, he will easily become disappointed with human nature, be infected by all kinds of negative consciousness, and gradually go crazy without knowing it.

This is one of the reasons why the 'audience' can clearly 'comfort' themselves and treat the corresponding psychological problems, but are still prone to becoming abnormal or crazy.

They are both safe and dangerous.

Therefore, the code of conduct that Audrey set for herself was to only observe and "read the minds" of acquaintances and try not to enter their dreams. There was no restriction on entering the dreams of strangers, and if it was not necessary, she would not enter anyone's spiritual world.

Carula is even more strict, she has even omitted the process of reading the mind, and most of the time she only makes the most superficial observations.

This is what Audrey can't do, not because she wants to read minds, but simply because it has become her instinct. Just like humans can't stop breathing, she can't stop reading minds now.

Carla was able to do it because she was an angel, while Audrey was just a Sequence 3 Dream Weaver.

However, even when Audrey reiterated that she was not confused, Carla still said seriously:

"That's because you are so confused that you don't even know you are confused."

"Eh?"

Audrey tilted her head. So, Carla was angry?

Are you angry because you wanted to comfort her, but found out that she didn't seem to need comfort?

Audrey is a little strange, because judging from her experience with Carula.

Carla is not the type who likes to comfort others. On the contrary, she likes to play tricks on others.

So, why did she suddenly want to comfort herself? Was it because her own 'confusion' aroused the softness in her heart and made her recall the warm memories of the past? When Carla was confused, perhaps someone else had comforted her as gently as she did now, and led her out of the dilemma. So Carla was moved by the scene and tried to imitate her own immediate vigilance to comfort her?

Because of my own experience, I felt sympathy for her and tried to comfort her.

In the end, this kind of comfort was ruthlessly rejected, and the other party even felt that it was a bit like "mocking"...

Well, thinking about it, even if it was Audrey, she might be a little dissatisfied.

But even if that's the case, you shouldn't be angry, right?

Kalula is the angel of Sequence 2, is it really so easy to get angry?

No way, right? !
Audrey's instinct as a 'dream weaver' enabled her to subconsciously analyze the truth of the matter, and she couldn't help but complain quietly in her heart.

PS: I recently read the introduction of Dark Souls items and suddenly discovered something.

For example, the firewood king:

【The remaining firewood of Prince Lothric.

If the Firewood King refuses to return to the throne, then just take the firewood back.

Lothric was overly pursuing an heir to his bloodline.
Finally, it deviated from common sense and its actions degenerated to an unacceptable level.

It is enough to prove that passing on the fire is a cursed road. 】

There is no doubt that Princess Lothric is the Sun Princess.

The man she originally married was the 'Fire God' Fran, and there is a secret saying that the Fire God Fran died in the war to seal the Overlord Wolnir.

The person who later inherited the throne of Lothric was the 'Demon King' Ocelot.

And judging from the "over-pursuit of a connected bloodline heir" in the text, the "Demon King" Ocelot is likely to be the son of the "God of Fire" Fran and the Sun Princess. After the death of the "God of Fire", the Demon King inherited his father's throne, and in order to ensure the continuation of the "connected bloodline", he married his mother.

The king of Lothric has been changing, but the queen of Lothric has always been the same.

In addition, I don't remember where I saw a saying that the second prince Lothric is actually the son of the eldest prince Lorian and the Sun Princess. Well, it sounds a bit outrageous, but it's actually quite reasonable.

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(End of this chapter)