Mystery: The Undead Don't Die from Linking the Fire

Chapter 12: Kesong's Self-Destructive Scene

Due to the effects of the Embers and Old Neil's corruption, Klein was in a state of extreme mental confusion.

Even the tuxedo clown's "resurrection" seems insignificant.

Due to the changes in Old Neil's life.

The four Embers, who were supposed to return to Backlund, stayed behind, and Dunn would take care of them.

Klein was eager to find out Ember's identity, but he did not stay.

She quickly completed her task and then returned to her house on Narcissus Street in her father-in-law's carriage.

He breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that Benson and Melissa had not yet returned home.

Immediately return to the bedroom and lock the door.

He then headed towards the gray fog without even having time to take off his tattered formal attire.

Although he really wanted to ask Ember in person, that would be the most direct and quickest way.

But that's clearly not a wise move.

Even if he asked the other party, would they tell him? Besides, he couldn't find time to be alone with Yu Jin.

Asking those questions in front of the captain and the others would only make you look like you have a problem.

Therefore, he chose to use another method—

Go above the gray fog to divine.

Above the boundless, hazy gray-white mist, within the majestic and magnificent ancient temple.

Klein sat at the head of the long bronze table, with a newly "manifested" parchment in front of him.

"call!"

Klein took a deep breath; he had considered many possibilities before coming.

I've also thought about how to do divination and what to divine.

Therefore, he did not hesitate for long before writing down the divination statement on the paper.

"The origin of the embers."

After writing the divination statement, Klein suddenly hesitated.

He didn't know if the word "ember" alone could point to the other party, but he didn't have a clearer indication at the moment.

Therefore, we can only make bold assumptions and carefully verify them.

If that doesn't work, then we'll think of other ways.

"The origin of the embers."

After silently reciting the divination phrase seven times, Klein gripped the paper, leaned back in his chair, and drifted into a deep sleep above the gray fog.

Soon, he saw an endless, illusory, grayish-white mist.

A few seconds later, Klein's eyes darkened, turning from brown to black, as he entered a meditative state.

His eyelids drooped, and he "saw" a hazy, illusory dream.

It was an endless, illusory, grayish-white mist.

Soon, the fog slowly parted, and the scene behind the fog gradually became clear.

It was a cemetery.

A cemetery located on a snow-capped mountain, with what appears to be a church in front of it, but that's not the main point!

Klein's gaze was completely fixed on the figure that crawled out of the stone coffin!

He emerged from his coffin amidst the blood moon, clad in full armor unlike any he had seen during the day in the ash.

But Klein recognized him immediately.

The armor Ash wore was clearly the initial knight's set from Dark Souls 3!

He watched as Ember sat up from the coffin, gazing ahead.

It was a bonfire made of bones!

He saw Ember walk forward step by step, then conjure a spiral sword out of thin air and insert it into the blade.

In an instant, flames rose up.

But next second.

Klein's vision went black, as if someone had suddenly unplugged the power cord, plunging him into complete darkness.

Klein suddenly opened his eyes.

However, the next second, he found that the 'gray fog' in front of him was being covered by 'darkness' at an extremely fast speed.

Almost instantly, darkness had swallowed everything around.

Both the majestic palace and the ancient, mottled bronze table are gradually disappearing.

Klein could only watch, horrified and bewildered, as all of this unfolded.

But fortunately.

The darkness vanished just a second before it reached him.

The gray fog filled his vision again, and the once-hidden majestic palace and the mottled bronze table reappeared.

"What's going on?"

Klein's eyes widened, and he gasped for breath.

Looking up and around, everything returned to normal, as if everything that had just happened was just a dream.

But he could clearly sense that it was definitely not a dream!

"Could it be a goddess?"

Klein was not unintelligent; he simply pieced everything together after a moment of panic.

The cemetery, located high in the snow-capped mountains, offered few clues.

But the church located on the snow-capped mountain instantly reminded him of the headquarters of the Church of the Night, the Church of Tranquility.

Moreover, the "darkness" just now corresponds precisely to the goddess of the night—

"She is the goddess of night, more sublime than the stars and more eternal than eternity; she is also the lord of crimson, the mother of secrets, the queen of calamity and fear, and the lord of slumber and silence."

Klein gave a wry smile.

Although there was no evidence, he felt it was probably true.

The one that just "intruded" into the gray fog was probably the goddess of the night.

Fortunately, the gray fog was more mysterious than he had imagined, and he managed to thwart the invasion of a god.

"call."

Klein let out a long breath and began to ponder the clues he had just obtained.

"First of all, Ember is probably the Ember I remember."

"Waking up in the cemetery and lighting a campfire, it all matches the 'procedure' I remember perfectly."

"And judging from the 'spark' on him, he should have already passed on the flame once? Maybe more than once. No, this is reality, not a game, there are no multiple playthroughs, so it should only have been once."

"Of course, it doesn't necessarily mean 'passing on the fire,' it could also be 'extinguishing the fire.'"

"But all of this seems out of place in this world. I've never heard of any legends like 'Linking the Fire,' 'Lords of Cinder,' or 'Undead' in this world."

"Although there are instances of the dead returning to life, these were laws specifically enacted by the seven major churches and royal families of various countries more than a thousand years ago at the end of the last era in order to reduce and eliminate water ghosts, zombies, and vengeful spirits."

"These things clearly don't match the undead, and the undead are cursed beings, not beings who become undead after death."

"Or is this a world after the fire was extinguished, and the linking of the flame and the Lord of Cinder occurred during the 'Zero Era'?"

"Could it be that the First Age has been a post-apocalyptic world until now? If so, why would there still be gods?"

"No, it doesn't necessarily mean the world after the fire is extinguished!"

"It's also possible that the other person is a 'transmigrator,' but he traveled from the world of Dark Souls to this world."

"But how do you explain the campfire? Ember just crawled out of the grave, and the campfire was right in front of him. It was clearly not something he made while he was sleeping in the grave."

"Also, the moment the embers lit the campfire, everything was plunged into darkness; that must have been the power of the goddess."

"So, 'lighting the campfire' startled the goddess, causing her to cast her gaze upon the embers?"

"Was that flame rising from the campfire truly the First Fire? And why was the goddess watching him?"

"Him, Yu Jin, is there any connection between him and my time travel?"

"Wait a moment!"

Klein suddenly woke up with a start, cold sweat beading on his forehead.

In the scene we just saw, there was clearly a scarlet full moon above Ember's head!

On the day he transmigrated, there was a crimson blood moon in the sky!

Did they travel through time on the same day?

"If that's the case..."

Klein gritted his teeth. "I have to find a way to get him above the gray fog!"

He would not give up as long as there was even the slightest clue to getting home!