Ring of Fate

Chapter 1176 "Accommodation"

The "King of Decay" felt that the cries to the "God of Disease" were all directed at the "root of trouble" on the opposite side, which made the identities of both parties overlap and provided Him with an opportunity to directly occupy the target's body.

But He did not take advantage of this opportunity. He was not stupid. He thought that killing the "Root of Trouble" first and then accommodating the source essence was the only correct choice!

Occupying the opponent's body now means that the two sides will engage in a confrontation at the level of consciousness and spirit. The "King of Decline" is not sure of victory at the moment. If he loses, he will be contained and swallowed by the "Root of Trouble" and become a part of that consciousness complex. Moreover, after entering the war at the level of consciousness and spirit, if the "King of Decline" loses, he will not even have a chance to escape, after all, he is an opponent of the same level.

Therefore, any "Old One" with normal thinking ability would not take advantage of the opportunity that Lumian offered.

For Lumian, since he had prepared this plan, he must have a follow-up strategy:

You are sane, you are not stupid? It doesn't matter, I will make you stupid!

When the believers called out to the "Great Sick God" and the "Lord of Decay" launched an attack that would "certainly hit" and "certainly kill" him, Lumian activated the seal of the contract from Mr. Fool. He could use it once more:
"Fool"!
This contract was signed after Klein the Fool took in Sefirah Castle, and the lent ability already carried a hint of stupidity.

As the mark of the contract on Lumian's body lit up a dark blue color, the movement of the "Decadent King"'s left palm suddenly slowed down.

He hesitated, He stopped.

For a truly great being like the Decayed King, the "deception" imposed by half of the "Lord of Mysteries" could only last for a limited time, and the effect would not be so good as to make him lose his mind on the spot and act entirely on instinct, but Lumian never expected that this would be successful.

At this time, the head in the middle of him laughed with a strong sense of provocation, as if saying "A natural great being like you is not as good as a tiny person like me who has been promoted. If you don't seize the opportunity and use it now, just wait to be accepted by me! Has the desire to survive been stimulated by the 'Mother Tree of Desire'? You don't even have the courage to confront the consciousness of a tiny person like me? You might as well shrink back into the belly of the 'Fallen Mother Goddess' and let Her give birth to you again with a new consciousness."

At the same time, Aurore and Janna looked at the "Decay King" in turn with smiles on their faces.

"Provocation" plus "charm"! "Provocation" plus "charm" has reached the symbolic level!
Lumian's other body, the Chaos Vortex Face, was driven by his main consciousness, and the gathering power of the "City of Disaster" was revealed.

Tudor's face, which was full of desire for challenge, and Chick's face, which was quite interested, cooperated very well with this attempt. They used the law of aggregation of extraordinary characteristics to send the most attractive invitation to the "Decay King":
Come, come and contain this essence, come and occupy our bodies!
The "Decadent King" who was still in the "stupid" state could no longer control himself in the face of the combined power of "provocation", "charm" and Beyonder characteristics. All that was left in his eyes was that hateful yet charming and seductive thing. He stepped in front of Lumian without hesitation and let the pieces of gold covering his body fall off naturally, revealing a highly decayed body oozing with yellow-green and blue pus.

The body expanded rapidly, instantly embracing Lumian, who had three heads, three bodies and six arms.

A moment later, in Lumian's consciousness, a disgusting yellow-green fungus blanket appeared on the blood-stained stone floor, and the "Decadent King" saw multiple figures appear in front of him:
They were Aurore with black hair and dark brown eyes; Janna with a look of disgust; Chick with an excited face; Alistair Tudor with crazy eyes; and the Chaos Vortex face standing still.

Behind them was the coiled "evil dragon" with its body entwined.

Behind the "evil dragon" is a staircase leading to an infinite height. Lumian, wearing a white shirt, black vest, and dark trousers, is sitting on a throne stained with crimson blood. He puts his right foot on his left knee and looks down at the "decayed king" with a smile on his face.

After becoming the "root of evil" and transcending the sequence, Lumian's consciousness has actually become a whole in definition. Now it is still a whole. He just uses the ability of "Dreamer" to manifest the six arms of his own consciousness into six figures, so that he can launch different attacks later. In the real world, his six arms can also use different abilities respectively, but not including symbols.

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The consciousness and spirit of the "Goddess of Fate" that had returned from the intertwined destinies in the mercury river was about to float to the surface, escape from here, and regain her body, when she suddenly saw the "Lord of Mysteries" Klein, wearing a half-high silk hat and a long black trench coat, appear above her.

Klein extended his left hand, which was covered with a pitch-black glove, to Him.

"steal"!
Klein wanted to extract the consciousness and spirit of the "Goddess of Fate" from the River of Fate and steal it into his own hands!

He didn't do this before because the "Goddess of Fate" herself had no intention of leaving the mercury river. She was intertwined with the fate of all things in the universe, making her extremely heavy and impossible to steal. And when the "Goddess of Fate" regained her body, the "Lord of Mysteries" could not "steal" the consciousness and spirit of an "Old One" directly from Her condensed body. Only now could he achieve his goal.

An object had floated up in front of Klein's body at some point. It was a strange tree-like figure covered in dark mucus. It was a Sequence 1 "Divine Evil" Beyonder characteristic of the "Bound One" pathway.

After stealing the consciousness and spirit of the "Goddess of Fate", he would immediately stuff this intangible thing into the extraordinary characteristics of "Divine Evil" and then use the symbol to complete the seal.

——The “Bound One” pathway has the symbol of “binding”, and the corresponding high-sequence Beyonder characteristics are very good sealing materials.

The consciousness and spirit of the "Goddess of Fate" uncontrollably broke away from the mercury-colored illusory river and was about to appear in Klein's palm. At this time, crimson moonlight fell, and a broken oak tree grew out in the void, "fixing" the consciousness and spirit of the "Goddess of Fate".

The "Fallen Mother Goddess" came to help His eldest daughter.

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In Lumian's consciousness space.

The "decayed king" who still had some residual influence of "stupidity" stretched out his left palm towards the figure of the "evil dragon" from a distance, which meant "definitely a hit" and "definitely death".

He also used the symbol of "decay" with all his might, slowing down the time around him and rushing towards the end.

The "evil dragon" that represented one of Lumian's arms did not try to dodge, nor could it dodge. Its two heads, one on the left and one on the right, spewed out a destructive black flame that bound madness at the rotten palm.
Chike's figure created the end of the world in front of him, creating a chaotic vortex that contained all possibilities and colors, and let it spread rapidly towards the left palm and body of the "Decay King";
Arista Tudor's brow was marked with a bloody mark. He clenched his right hand into a fist and blasted into the void in front of him. The void suddenly broke apart, driving the entire space and time to collapse towards the "Decay King". This was a symbol of "destruction" from the "Red Priest";
Aurore did not use the power of "Original Scourge" or "Destruction Scourge" itself. She shared the corresponding abilities from her teammate "Eternal Darkness" Amanesis, allowing a dense, silencing darkness to descend upon the "Decay King".
In Janna's hand, an orange-red dusk sword condensed and slashed towards the "Decay King";
The Chaos Vortex Face held a pale book made of coiled feathered serpents and opened it silently.

At this moment, chaos, destruction, death, eternal silence, dusk, and the attack just now by the "Decay King" gathered together in the space of consciousness. Some of them repelled each other, while others blended together, quickly collapsing into a deep and terrifying black spot.

This black spot pulled at the entire consciousness space, absorbing all the power into it, causing countless cracks to appear around it and igniting dark and deep flames.

Under this influence, time will come to an end and space will return to that unstable black spot.

Regardless of whether it is Lumian or the "Decadent King", at this moment, they cannot escape from the space of consciousness and escape the unified time and space and the singularity of all things!
Although this does not reach the power of the true fourth pillar and can only last for a very short while, it is enough to kill the consciousness of the "Old Ones". Moreover, the "loop" node of this area has disappeared, and the "Ring of Fate" is still being dragged by the "Eternal Darkness" Amanesis, making it difficult to save the "Decay King".

Therefore, Lumian was not afraid of the "inevitable hit" and "inevitable death" blow at all.

Everyone here will die.

This is just like what happened before when the "Master of the Dark House" and Fabti attracted the "Eternal Whispering" into their bodies and then "cursed" themselves. However, the strength of their consciousness was too different to form a battle within the consciousness space. They could not delay the "Eternal Whispering" and had to rely on the "Key of Light" to help them truly restrict their opponent. Moreover, they had no ability to kill an "Old One" and could only severely injure him.

Lumian is a truly great being. Once he enters the containment process, without the help of external forces, the "Decay King" has no way to escape the battle on the consciousness and spiritual level. Lumian can also gather the power related to the fourth pillar and wipe out the "Decay King" while killing himself.

The space of consciousness that began to collapse towards that black spot was filled with dark and deep flames. The "Decay King" was standing there with only one thought:
Kill the "root of trouble" first, so that the power of the fourth pillar will lose its maintenance, become unstable, and collapse on its own!

This is the only way for the "decayed king" to survive.

At the end of the stairs leading to infinite heights, on the blood-stained throne, the consciousness space around Lumian had already cracked, filled with burning deep black flames.

Lumian remained seated with his right foot resting on his left knee, looking down at the "decayed king" who was trying to kill those phantoms in order to kill him, and his smile became unusually bright.

it's useless.

I will die, and you will perish too.

(End of this chapter)