Traveler of the River of Time and Space-Chapter 427 - 39: City of Sin

The three had no choice but to retrace their steps underground.

It seemed Su Ziyu was very interested in everything related to Ancient Dragons, so Sister Fried pried some words from the Onion Knight, gaining a lot of information regarding the faith in Ancient Dragons from him.

In the Age of Gods, it was an honor for powerful warriors to hunt Giant Dragons, and the warriors of the Divine Race forged many weapons specifically to deal with dragons. Sun King Gwyn led the Divine Race in slaughtering all the Immortal Ancient Dragons, but later, new dragons were created, which are now these large Flying Dragons, devoid of scales, with only thick Dragon Skin.

It is said that the later Flying Dragons were created by the scaleless White Dragon Heath through Magic, but all White Dragon Heaths were burned in the First Flame, and this matter cannot be verified.

The faith in Ancient Dragons among warriors originated in the last millennium or two.

This coincided with the rise of the Lothric royal family when the House of Lothric, mentioned by the Undead, came into prominence. They are said to be the descendants of mixed blood between the Divine Race and humans. Besides that, there is another old royal force in the world, which is the direct descendants of Sun King Gwyn, residing not far from here in Yanorlund, though they have not appeared before people for a very long time.

The large Flying Dragons Su Ziyu saw in Lothric Royal City were not wild; they had a very close relationship with the Lothric royal family and were considered one of the pillars of the kingdom.

There was even a possibility that these Flying Dragons were transformed from humans!

Legend has it that the ultimate achievement of faith in Ancient Dragons is to become a dragon, but it is not solely for the sake of great Power; it encompasses another purpose.

"To pass through the unkindled dark age."

Sister Fried glanced at the Onion Knight walking ahead and whispered, "The former King of Lothric, Demon King Oceiros, was said to have gone mad obsessed with dragon power."

"However, the original research purpose of the House of Lothric on Ancient Dragons was to rely on transforming into Flying Dragons to pass through the unkindled dark age."

Before the First Flame was born, the world was ruled by Immortal Ancient Dragons.

Now, the First Flame has dimmed, and not everyone can foresee this; as the strongest force now, Lothric Kingdom secretly prepared two strategies. The first was to cultivate Lords of Cinder, purify the bloodline in some way, retain stronger inherent Talent, and at the cost of sin through Secret Technique and bloodkin marriages, produce some special descendants.

This could preserve the bloodline of the Divine Race to the greatest extent, with royal children born possessing astonishing Talent.

However, a Curse was born alongside this.

In the recent generation of inheritance, although the Lothric royal family birthed a great Prince Lorien who could duel the Demon Prince, it also birthed an extremely weak second Prince of Lothric who could not even lift the lightest sword.

To Su Ziyu, this seemed entirely like malformed children born from close-kin marriages, with part of the so-called curse derived from this. 𝑓𝘳𝘦𝑒𝑤𝑒𝘣𝘯ℴ𝘷𝘦𝓁.𝑐𝑜𝑚

In ancient Egypt and the European Royal Family, many royal families on Earth did just this kind of close-kin marriage in pursuit of so-called bloodline purity, resulting in failures.

But perhaps the House of Lothric held some special Secret Technique—sacrificing one prince to give birth to a stronger prince. However, no one expected that Prince Lorien would willingly withstand this terrible curse to become a sword to protect his brother.

The second strategy was the faith in Ancient Dragons.

If the First Flame did truly extinguish, to extend the seed of life, some individuals who transform into dragons might survive the unkindled dark age.

But only the House of Lothric knows the specific secrets, and outsiders have no idea whether they succeeded because the Flying Dragons are under royal control.

"Humans turned into dragons."

"Wouldn't humans then still face extinction?" Su Ziyu shook his head.

The remains of those dragon-people looked strange, exhibiting signs of Zombification, not resembling successful creations.

"I visited inside Lothric Royal City once." Sister Fried pondered and softly said, "In fact, besides faith in Ancient Dragons, there's another heretical Angel faith."

"It seemed to arise because the faith in Ancient Dragons failed."

"There were traces of an internal conflict within the royal city; perhaps they fought due to this faith struggle."

"Unfortunately, the Dragon-Hunting Armor inside was too difficult to deal with, so I did not go further."

Angel faith?

"Turning people into angels?" Su Ziyu asked curiously.

Sister Fried gently shook her head, "No. Rather, it transforms them into something even stranger."

The House of Lothric used every means to pass through the unkindled dark age, and it seems that even within the Fire Transmission Faction, some believed the First Flame would one day extinguish.

"In comparison,"

"I think the secret preparations by the former royal family, namely Sun King Gwyn, are somewhat more fitting." Sister Fried hesitated momentarily and then continued, "The Painting World of Airelde."

"It's said to be a unique world created to cope with the eventual extinguishment of the Flame."

"A refuge secretly prepared by the Divine Race."

This was the third time Sister Fried mentioned the Painting World.

"So, is this the reason you always wanted to enter the Painting World?" Su Ziyu asked softly.