Traveler of the River of Time and Space-Chapter 444 - 48: Pilgrim Butterflies

What is that?!

Su Ziyu was startled, instantly activating the spiritual protection field, then looking around.

It was only then that he noticed that within a certain area inside Lothric Royal City, some inconspicuous tiny glowing particles were drifting around. They seemed to be coming from a courtyard in the distance, as there were more and denser particles in that direction. If examined closely with the naked eye, they appeared similar to spore-like small glowing clusters.

——"Spiritual Vision!"

Su Ziyu directly activated the spiritual energy ability, as a wisp of white light appeared in his eyes. In his vision, in the distant courtyard, a black, mud-like spirit realm projection emerged.

"Human pus?"

"What is that? Why is it projecting such a form in the spirit realm?" Su Ziyu wasn’t too sure what that was, but he was certain that the pollution there was particularly severe.

Boom.

A muffled sound came from the front of the palace on the right.

After the spiritual protection field isolated those glowing particles, unknown pollution warnings no longer appeared at Su Ziyu’s ear. However, if there was a battle, he needed to ensure the spiritual protection field didn’t break.

Throughout Lothric Royal City, there were some drifting particles like this. They seemed to be sources of pollution from human pus.

Sister Fried mentioned that before the outbreak of civil war, Lothric Royal City had experienced a terrifying plague, which was infected with human pus.

Invisibility Cloak.

Su Ziyu immediately entered the invisible state.

Lothric Royal City is roughly divided into three parts. The first is the courtyard with drifting particles, where it’s said the Demon King Oslorais is imprisoned. He went mad researching transformation into dragons, and it’s rumored that human pus is the disaster he brought. The second is the palace of the twin princes of Lothric, where in front of the palace, there are some pilgrimage zombies that seem to have died kneeling before the palace, praying for the prince’s fire transmission.

The last is the Great Library, which seems to be shut off.

Su Ziyu directly headed towards the source of the noise, and soon a very eerie creature appeared in his sight.

——"Pilgrimage Butterfly! [Pollution Source][Mental Control]"

Su Ziyu saw a bizarre creature with tree-like wings. Its wings hung down like branches, and in the center was a hunch-backed humanoid zombie-like presence silently floating in mid-air without needing to flap its wings. It seemed to possess some peculiar ability. Ahead were some eerie trees. Su Ziyu had seen them before; the center of the trunk seemed like a praying humanoid zombie, which upon close inspection, was similar to the center of the pilgrimage butterfly.

"Could this thing have transformed from those trees?" Su Ziyu cautiously approached, frowning.

Very soon.

The figure of Sister Fried appeared in his sight.

Though at this moment, Sister Fried seemed a bit disheveled, carefully avoiding a huge creature. It looked like she was significantly injured, as she dodged the enemy and also needed to be wary of the nearby pilgrimage butterfly.

——"Dragon-Hunting Armor[Mechanical Body]!"

Su Ziyu tapped his foot, launching into the air for over twenty meters, landing on a rooftop of a building, then taking out his Gauss sniper rifle, directly aiming at the pilgrimage butterfly not far away.

Since this nasty thing was a source of pollution, it needed to be dealt with first.

Bang!

A light gunshot sounded.

The floating pilgrimage butterfly suddenly shuddered, and the next second, an astonishing wound appeared on its chest. However, it didn’t die but quickly locked onto Su Ziyu’s position, suddenly firing a dark energy beam.

Whoa!

This nasty thing can shoot lasers?!

Su Ziyu didn’t dare take it head-on, quickly flipping off the roof, then switching to the anti-material sniper rifle.

Bang bang bang!

Su Ziyu fired three shots in quick succession, then charged forward to close the distance a bit, extending his palm towards the sky.

——"Thunder Strike!"

Rumble!

An astonishing lightning bolt descended from the sky.

The pilgrimage butterfly’s life force was quite tenacious, enduring all of Su Ziyu’s attacks. Despite its body being damaged beyond repair, it still hadn’t fallen.

——"Thunder Spear!"

Su Ziyu decisively began gathering a thunder spear, directly using telekinesis power to fiercely throw the dragon-hunting spear in his hand.

Boom.

Sister Fried rolled aside, dodging the gigantic battle blade that was slashing at her. She gasped slightly, regaining her strength, then sidestepped backward and gripped her scythe tightly. Her state wasn’t particularly good, having just dealt with a dangerous enemy and unexpectedly being attacked by that eerie creature in the sky.

Dragon-Hunting Armor is a grand weapon of Lothric royal family.

It’s always been controlled only by core members of the royal family, yet now it’s fallen into the hands of those eerie pilgrimage butterflies. She wasn’t sure what happened here, but she was having trouble getting away.

Bang.

Upon hearing the gunshot from very close by, Sister Fried, who was already exhausted to the point of nearly finishing her elemental bottle, instantly perked up.

She made a light leap onto the nearby pier, and then her left hand summoned a second scythe. As she swung it out, visible ice quickly spread forward.

Reinforcements have arrived!

Su Ziyu’s gunshot signified counterattack; his companions should be nearby now.

Rumble.

Accompanied by an explosive thunder sound, the pilgrimage butterfly in the sky finally fell.

Meanwhile.

The dragon-hunting armor in front also trembled all over, its movements becoming chaotic.

Sister Fried didn’t hesitate, leap-forwarding straight onto the heavy giant shield of the dragon-hunting armor, shouting as she swung the giant scythe towards the enemy’s head.

Crack.

Boom.

After the pilgrimage butterfly in the sky was slain, Sister Friede instantly cut the dragon slayer armor in the head, accompanied by a dull thud as it fell to the ground, she landed gently and squatted down, panting.

"Are you okay?" Su Ziyu descended from the sky, reached out, and removed the invisibility cloak.

This peculiar item is becoming increasingly useless.

Many enemies with strong spiritual power can directly sense his position, without needing to use their eyes, and some don’t even have eyes at all.

"I’m fine." Sister Friede stood up while panting, casually throwing over two glowing souls, and shaking her head said, "I need to take a rest."

"I’m out of elemental bottles."

Su Ziyu reached out to catch the two souls, glanced at them, then kicked the heavy armor at his feet, asking, "What is this?"

"Dragon-hunting armor," Sister Friede said softly, "A war puppet controlled by the Lorric royal family."

"However, it seems to have been dominated by those monsters."

The pilgrimage butterfly landed not far away.

Sister Friede looked at the grotesque corpse in the distance and said slowly, "There are quite a few of these ghastly things inside Lothric Royal City."

"Let’s retreat first."

Su Ziyu nodded in agreement, then asked, "Who teleported you away at the time?"

"The high priest of Lothric Royal City," Sister Friede said softly, "She mistook me for the embers of fire and wanted me to kill the Lothric prince."

"To help him ascend to the throne of the Lord of Cinder."

Although Sister Friede is an ember, she is not prepared to transmit fire.

The two retreated along the original route temporarily, and Su Ziyu noticed that the glowing flecks falling on Sister Friede were completely harmless.

In other words, she was completely immune to this pollution.

"Will emberless not be infected by human pus?"

"Then why am I polluted?" Su Ziyu frowned slightly.

The Lothric Royal City was littered with corpses.

Besides ordinary soldiers, there were also a large number of headless knight corpses and some significantly large winged knight corpses.

They are knights who turned to angel faith.

——"Dancer’s Soul (Refinable): A descendant of the divine race, twisted into a beast-like dancer by Shalivan’s magic. Refining it grants 1,800 energy value."

——"Dragon-Hunting Armor Soul (Refinable): A mechanical entity with a soul, a killing machine controlled by the Lorric royal family. Refining it grants 1,600 energy value."

Sister Friede seemed to have undergone several battles.

At this time, it was unwise to delve deeper into the city, so Su Ziyu followed and temporarily returned to the bonfire on the outskirts.

"What’s the situation here?" Su Ziyu turned and asked.

Sister Friede shook her head and said, "Very chaotic."

"The courtyard where the Demon King is imprisoned is full of human pus, and there are two flying dragons polluted by human pus over there."

"There are many corpses outside the Lothric Prince’s palace."

"Some pilgrimage butterflies are still hovering nearby."

"It’s unclear what’s happening at the Great Library, but there probably aren’t many living people."

Sister Friede took out the spiral sword and ignited the bonfire in front of her, saying softly, "How did you fare on your end?"

"It’s been handled," Su Ziyu replied, "I used some special means to resurrect Gwendolin, but he turned into an unconscious living corpse."

"You’Er Xia has already taken him ahead of us to the Painted World."

Painted World?

Sister Friede’s eyes lit up at the mention, nodded, and said, "Good. This puts my mind at ease."

Flames began to burn in the bone fragments.

Su Ziyu took out the demon gourd and poured out the second portion of jade dew, handing it directly to Sister Friede’s face, saying, "For you."

"What are your suggestions for the next course of action?"

Sister Friede, unreserved, took it and drank it all, then said, "Those pilgrimage butterflies are dangerous and eerie."

"However, I still suggest visiting the Lothric prince first."

"They’ve sealed the doors to the palace, wanting to wait for the initial flame to extinguish on its own."

"But that’s too slow."

"Perhaps we can persuade them to help."

Although the Lothric twin princes refused to transmit fire, they didn’t dare to go to the fire transmission ritual site directly to extinguish the fire. This faction just finds a place to hide, waiting for the initial flame to extinguish itself over several years.

This is slow.

It also gives the emberless some time.

Of course.

It may also be because there’s something at the fire transmission ritual site that they fear!

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