Ark Undead

"I'm not in the mood to play around with them. However, someone else has already kept them outside the world's barriers."

The doctor paused for a moment.

He hadn't expected that Komikus wasn't the only one to emerge from the flames.

Who is the other one?

"Could it be that senior?"

The doctor's words were unconsciously tinged with respect.

Unlike Komikus, that predecessor had a similar past, but ultimately they both chose this path.

The twelve new generation of Abyss Children, all under her witness, betrayed their innate mission and turned their gazes toward the blinding flames.

Using the suffering of the abyss as a foundation, it becomes the kindling to walk into the flames.

Komikus nodded slightly.

"After all, she was once a woman in the abyss herself, so she's the most suitable person to deal with those people."

...

In the heart of Agor, in front of the World Barrier.

On a writhing, crimson membrane clinging to the world's barrier, countless open eyes are fixed on the plaza in front of the barrier.

It was the physical body of the Lord of Dreams, who was the leader of the new generation and possessed the ability to create and control dreams, who watched as the messenger from the abyss confronted another woman who stepped out of the fire.

In His simple mind, these two should be completely opposed.

Yet He sensed in that woman the suffering and filth that belonged to the abyss, even more intense and pure than in the two who called themselves messengers of the abyss.

That is proof that the woman fell into darkness.

"Why should you stop me? You are also a member of the Abyss, witch."

One of the pardoners' bodies has completely transformed into an abyssal creation.

“I have come here with the king’s command to return the world to darkness, where there is no light or fire. The primordial chaos is your homeland.”

His body could no longer be called human; a human head grew on the shell of an insect, and he also possessed other characteristics belonging to the Abyss, making him a powerful tool for spreading the Abyss's doctrines.

However, the human in front of him, who could be identified as having female characteristics, possessed an aura of the abyss that was even purer than his.

But she stood on the opposite side, preventing him from starting the ceremony.

The woman, referred to as the witch, slightly adjusted the limp triangular hat on her head.

"Hometown, what an alluring word."

Her face was obscured by the enormous hat, and on her fair palm, which was raised to the right, thick, dark mud first emerged, and then, just before it touched the ground, it was covered by a clean and gentle light.

It's fire.

"You have never understood the true nature of fire, and you are indulging in false darkness. The chaos you speak of is as pathetic as your disgusting methods."

460. Wedge Stone: The World's Barrier

"In fact, there is a certain connection between fire and the abyss."

On their way to the core of the World Barrier, the Undead was chatting with Patches and Kal'tsit beside him.

As Patch walked, he recounted the facts he had witnessed over the years.

"Even the Undead cannot deny this: the decline of fire is related to the Abyss, but it is by no means a result of the Abyss itself."

"In a sense, where there is fire, there is also abyss."

As Patch spoke, he glanced at the undead out of the corner of his eye, then turned his gaze to Kal'tsit.

He was somewhat worried that the undead wouldn't accept this theory. After all, nominally, he was the first undead Lord of Cinder and the last Lord of Cinder of the Age of Fire.

Now, he walks across the land of Terra as the guardian of the First Flame.

However, the Undead did not object to Patch's theory; he even nodded slightly and said...

"Yes."

"Oh?"

Patch looked at the Undead with some surprise and said.

"You actually agree with this view? I thought you only cared about fire and didn't understand the abyss at all."

The Undead's eyes, hidden in its head and legs, turned and glanced at Patch, but its head did not turn.

The immortal spoke.

“I’ve seen him, Manus. He is the one I killed.”

This statement surprised Patch.

"But...isn't it that wolf rider who walked alone in the abyss...?"

"Do you remember that the spacetime in Lordran was distorted?"

The Undead didn't drastically change Patch's philosophy; instead, they pointed out a key point and let Patch figure it out himself.

"In the past, among my weapons collection, there was a chance to own a Wolf Knight Greatsword."

"If not, for protection, Schiff, there will be another shield."

Patch's eyes widened as he understood everything.

"You killed that wolf rider?!"

"Yes."

The immortal nodded calmly.

"He was tainted by the abyss. I helped him to be freed."

In fact, Artorias the Wolf Knight, one of the Four Knights of the King, is indeed very strong.

However, his power was still insufficient to rival Manus, the Lord of the Abyss, who was comparable to Gwyn, the Old Witch of Cinder, in his prime.

Even though the wolf rider had made thorough preparations, he was still corrupted during his battle with the abyss, and arrived at the edge of the abyss in a daze, hoping that someone would come and kill him.

Coming from the other side of time and space, the undead personally granted this hero, who was venturing into the abyss for the first time, liberation.

Then the Undead took up his will and went to the Abyss to end the tragedy caused by Manus.

"The dissipation of that dark soul..."

"it's me."

The immortal nodded calmly.

But it was precisely because of this that the Dark Soul shattered into countless fragments, becoming an indelible force within the bodies of all dwarves.

Therefore, the profound humanity that arises from the human body as nourishment may have initially included the immortals.

But the reality is not like that. The abyss and fire are opposites, but they can also transform into each other.

Just as flames can use darkness and abyss as fuel to intensify the fire.

The abyss can also take root in humans who are strong enough to withstand the power of fire, and grow into a deep abyss.

If the Undead truly held a completely negative attitude towards the Abyss, then they could never have become the incarnation of the First Flame.

"I have studied abyssal magic."

As he spoke, the Undead immediately raised his right hand, and a ball of energy, as twisted and dark as human nature, gathered in his palm, as if it would form a dewdrop and fall to the ground in the next second.

The Undead perfectly controlled the energy within, preventing any leakage.

Patch then realized that he had underestimated his old friend.

He had assumed that the Undead, as Lords of Cinder, would be extremely averse to the existence of the Abyss, but he never expected that the Undead would have the leisure to observe the shadows even under the light of the flames.

Kal'tsit spoke up at this moment.

"So, you discovered very early on that humanity exists within Originium?"

"Ah."

The immortal nodded.

He had discussed this issue with Onstan a long time ago.

The power of Originium is peculiar; it is a mixture of soul and humanity, which is why it contains such a vast and unstable energy.

Only purified Originium can be refined and used.

The purification process itself is a process of eliminating unstable human nature.

At that time, neither the Undead nor Ornstein had any idea how Originium came to be.

After all, a soul doesn't appear out of thin air, nor does humanity.

There always needs to be a seedbed for these things that inspire fear to grow.

It wasn't until they learned of the existence of the World Barrier that the Undead realized that Originium was already a neutral power.

At least it wasn't as uncontrollable as rampaging human nature.

And as the driving force behind the world's barriers, wedges and flames are the most perfect solution.

"When we were designing the new humans, we did not consider the Abyss as a completely hostile substance."

Kal'tsit recalled that this topic had been brought up when everyone gathered to discuss how to adapt to the Abyss.

"I, the Doctor, and many of my friends were born in the Abyss. At the time, we couldn't understand why the chaotic and disordered Abyss allowed us to develop reason. Later, we realized that it was a coincidence, but it was not a coincidence either."

"Therefore, even the Terrans today possess some power capable of resisting the Abyss; otherwise, they would be unable to use Originium."

"Strictly speaking, Oripathy is also a process of abyssification. But it has largely lost its power to erode human sanity."

"Kal'tsit said."

“We do not have the idea of ​​completely eliminating the abyss. The abyss is made up of countless aspects of human nature, and human nature is rooted in the deepest part of everyone’s soul.”

This is an unavoidable issue; human nature cannot be eradicated.

That's why humans capable of using Originium Arts were born, and why Deepsea Hunters, who share the same lineage as the Sea King, were created.