Ring of Fate

Chapter 689: Both illusion and reality
"What kind of person?" Lumian perked up.

He hadn't expected that Amandine's hallucination would bring him such unexpected benefits.

"I can't see clearly, I can't see clearly. It's not him who can't see clearly, it's me who can't see clearly." Amandine straightened up again and seemed to have recovered a little.

She thought for a moment and said, “It turned out that I didn’t fall asleep after touching the black stone, no, the black ancient tomb. When I woke up, I found that I had extraordinary powers. There were some other things in between, but I had no memory of what happened before. I felt like I fell asleep.

"The hallucinations I saw may come from the depths of my soul, from the forgotten memories. No, they are not forgotten. They just fell asleep and are now becoming active, waking up little by little..."

Amandine carefully examined her condition, looking for the source of the abnormality.

He has a pretty good brain and a good attitude, and he has maintained basic composure... Lumian commented in his mind.

This kind of Amandine also made Camus feel a little unfamiliar.

In his impression, Amandine was not only beautiful, but also cheerful, optimistic and lively. She was the kind of girl who could make people around her unconsciously infected with happy emotions. However, due to her young age, she still seemed rather naive, childish and immature.

Who knew that after the encounter at the "Dream Festival", the other party would gradually show an openness, maturity and calmness that he had not expected.

Amandine was puzzled:
"Why didn't Robert ever mention the memory of being asleep, or the fact that I didn't fall asleep immediately after touching the ancient tomb? Father Kali also said that I fainted, and when I woke up I had extraordinary powers?

"They must have participated in the Dream Festival and visited the Black Tomb more times than I have..."

Lumien understood what Amandine wanted to say:
First, why did Father Carli and Robert, who had been to the Black Tomb many times, still believe that they fainted on the spot and possessed extraordinary powers when they woke up, without experiencing hallucinations similar to what Amandine was experiencing now?
Second, Robert saw Amandine touching the black tomb. Didn’t he know that she suddenly fell to the ground and fell asleep?
Lumian thought for a few seconds and said:

"Perhaps the person you saw standing in front of you has caused all the related memories to fall asleep, and you are from the 'night' path, a 'nightmare', so there are special things about dreams and sleeping. The closer you are to the black ancient tomb, the more likely it is that the dormant memories will awaken, causing hallucinations."

Amandine said "hmm", accepted the speculation that she was special, and continued to move forward with confidence.

Two minutes later, Lumian suddenly raised his right hand again, made a downward motion, and said in a low voice:
"Hide nearby."

He heard soft footsteps.

Camus immediately rolled to the side and hid behind a palm tree, while Riya took a few steps and climbed up another tree, hiding herself with the help of its branches.

Lugano looked at the jungle where there were countless poisonous insects and snakes hiding, and kept telling himself, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. I can heal myself if I get bitten."

He quickly shrank behind a pile of huge, colorful mushrooms.

Amandine had experience hiding in places like this, and that was how she had seen Tewanaku go to the Black Tomb.

She moved nimbly, taking advantage of the cover of night and relying on her own inspiration, she passed through a large number of low green plants and hid behind a giant tree farther away.

Suddenly, a thick vine hanging on the giant tree came to life, swung towards Amandine, and opened its bloody mouth.

That was a dark green python!
Amandine's eyes fluttered shut and she clenched her fists.

The python then fell into a deep sleep, swinging backwards weakly, swaying several times, and finally fell to the ground.

Seeing that his teammates had already hidden, Lumian's body suddenly disappeared, blending into the vast shadows brought by the night.

After ten or twenty seconds, a figure crossed the road from the front.

Ruiya, who was standing high up, saw through the gaps between the branches and leaves that the figure was wearing a very complicated black robe with a distinct sense of layering. He had a fluffy black hat on his hair, and a gently swaying white feather was inserted on the edge of the black hat.

Lumian, who existed in the form of a shadow creature, also saw the general appearance of the figure.

His spirit suddenly tensed up, and doubts emerged in his heart:

Isn't that Ivelista Eggers?

How did this "Temperance" member of the "Church of Fools" appear in the dream and become a participant in the "Dream Festival"?
Lumian has been to Tizamo Town, the surrounding plantations, and the barracks outside the town these past few days, and knows exactly which new outsiders have arrived, and Ivelista is not among them!

"He arrived here after the Dream Festival started?
"Well, he once said that his original mission was to investigate something in the primitive jungle around the Port of Paros, and then he accepted a temporary order to deal with the contact of 'Siso'... The matter he investigated would not be related to the black ancient tomb, right? The 'Temperance Faction' is a 'prisoner' path, and the Eggers family is the descendant of the 'God of Death'. It is normal that the black ancient tomb and the cold corpse in it attracted Eggers, a 'Temperance Faction'...

"Ivelista Eggers encountered the 'Dream Festival' while searching for that primitive tribe in the jungle?"

While Lumian was analyzing the reason why Ivelista appeared here, he looked at Ivelista's expression through the shadows.

He saw that the pale face of this "temperance" member was unspeakably hideous, his dark brown eyes were filled with a beast-like ferocity, and were stained with a bit of blood under the dim red moonlight.

"Although there is no influence from the dream projection formed by extreme emotions and desires, it is still difficult to control myself and restrain myself in the 'Dream Festival'..." Lumian was not surprised at all.

Ludwig and Kolob are examples.

Considering Ivelista's current state, Lumian did not come out of the shadows, but waited patiently for the other party to leave the area and the footsteps gradually faded away.

“Judging from the direction he’s heading, he’s also heading for the black tomb…” Lumian turned back into a human, standing on the overgrown road, looking towards where Ivelista’s figure disappeared.

He raised his right hand, snapped his fingers and said:

"You can come out now."

Camus, Rhea and Lugano left their hiding places one after another, and the former even went out of his way to wake up Amandine.

"Continue?" Amandine looked at Lumian and asked.

Lumian answered without hesitation:
"continue."

This time, they moved forward more cautiously, always paying attention to the surrounding situation.

Another three or four minutes later, Lumian, who was ready to deal with Ivelista and Reysa, followed Amandina's instructions and passed through the gap between several giant trees.

A black, huge, familiar stone came into his sight.

At first glance it looked like a boulder the size of a house, but a closer look revealed lines on it, abnormal bumps and depressions, and thread-like gaps that were invisible to the normal human eye.

This is indeed more than just a stone.

All around the black boulder, sections of tree roots emerged from the ground, covering an area the size of a square, just like the protruding blood vessels of every human being, but they have all been dead for a long time and are dry and withered.

At this moment, the place was empty, without a single figure.

"Ivelista didn't come here? Reyaza's destination is not here either? Did they get lost along the way? Or, only those who have received the gift of the ancient tomb or the corpse can truly reach this area?" Lumian looked around in confusion.

Amandine's brows furrowed once again, and she couldn't help but press her hands on the sides of her head.

She said with some pain:

“Then, the vision became clearer, and I, I saw more.

“The figure walked up to me, stretched out his hand, and placed it on the top of my head!
"He, he's wearing a strange hat..."

Camus, Rhea and the others did not interrupt Amandine to see if she could recall more or be stimulated to awaken more dormant memories.

Amandine murmured to herself:

"Is this what gave me supernatural powers then?"

While listening to Amandine's words, Lumien stared at the huge black stone that was said to be an ancient tomb.

He felt a little familiar.

As a "conspirator", Lumian quickly searched for the source of the familiarity in his memory.

Soon, he had the answer.

The black ancient tomb gave him a feeling a bit like the "Samaritan Woman's Fountain", the "Samaritan Woman's Fountain" before it was dyed with pale color!
Sure enough, it was something closely related to the realm of death... Lumian checked the remaining aura of the "Blood Emperor" in his right hand, confirming that it was not affected and was about to be activated.

At this moment, the surroundings became extremely quiet.

The rustling sounds in the jungle, the shouting of wild beasts, the gunshots and screams from Tizamo Town seemed to disappear all at once, and the deep night fell into complete silence.

Amandine raised her head and cried out in horror:
"I remember, I remember, when I gained supernatural powers, this place was also so quiet, it didn't feel like the Dream Festival at all!"

The next second, Amandine's pupils suddenly dilated:
"He, he, that figure, that figure appeared!"

Huh? Ruiya, Camus, and Lugano all looked at the black ancient tomb with solemn and blank eyes. They didn't see any human figures, nor did they find anything unusual.

Amandine's voice suddenly became shrill:
“Didn’t you see?
"He, he's coming towards me... coming towards me!"

For a moment, Lumian and the others were unable to determine whether Amandine's hallucination was so clear that it was almost real, or whether something really happened.

"No! Don't come over!"

Amandine looked at the empty area ahead and shouted loudly with a broken expression.

As the shout progressed, Lumian felt the entire area begin to shake slightly, and the surroundings became blurry.

In the blur, scenes stand out, like different fragments of a dream.

These scenes are all centered on the black tomb, but with different people standing next to it.

In some scenes, Reyaza, who was wearing a thin black formal suit, was standing. In some scenes, Ivelista, who was wearing a feather hat, was standing. In some scenes, a man and a woman were standing side by side. In some scenes, people were surrounded by humans wearing black robes.

One of the humans in a black robe turned his head and looked at Lumian with a smile on his face.

He had light brown skin and flax eyes tinged with dark green. He was none other than "Siso" Tewanaku.

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(End of this chapter)