Ring of Fate

Chapter 690 Emergence
Lumian raised an eyebrow and looked back at "Hisoka" with the same brilliant smile.

The two people in different scenes looked at each other through the vague void, and then each turned their gaze to different places.

Reyaza, Ivelista, and the man and woman who had just arrived in Tizamo Town tonight also obviously saw the people in other scenes. They were all surprised and stunned by this incomprehensible and strange situation, but it did not affect each other.

The gravekeepers in the same scene with "Hisoka" seemed to be praying, and it was unclear whether they were unaware of the changes around them or just took it as a normal occurrence.

After looking around, Lumian vaguely understood what was going on.

“No matter how real this place is, all encounters will be reflected in reality to varying degrees. It is still essentially a dream. Affected by the black ancient tomb or the cold corpse in the tomb, this area is split into multiple dream fragments. Every time a group of people arrive, a new fragment is generated...

"If it weren't for Amandine or my arrival triggering some anomaly, people in different fragments wouldn't be able to interact with each other. They couldn't attack each other, nor could they see, hear, or discover each other's existence.

"This should be the reason why the gravekeepers disappear every time the Dream Festival begins.

"They didn't disappear, they were just in a different dream segment from the participants of the 'Dream Festival'.

“And according to the results of the previous psychic communication, this is some kind of hiding?

"But the black ancient tomb has not been opened yet..."

As Lumien's thoughts raced, Amandine's voice became sharper and full of fear:

“He walked up to me!

"help me!
"help me!"

Lumian stared at Amandine who kept retreating and trying to avoid the invisible object, but he could not find the figure she was talking about.

In the short period of more than ten seconds from the time Amandine started to get scared to now, Lumian used his abilities such as "clairvoyance", "weakness detection", and "fortune observation" in succession, but did not find anything abnormal.

He was just about to take out his "Mystery Glasses" and "Eye of Truth".

Lumian reached into the Traveler's Bag. Without understanding the general situation, he didn't know how to save Amandine, who was so frightened that she collapsed.
Just as his fingers touched the "secret-seeing glasses", Amandine was suddenly stunned.

After a second, she turned her head to look at Lumian and said in a daze:

“He, he turned and walked away.

"He seemed to recognize me..."

"Recognized you?" Lumian felt it necessary to confirm whether Amandine's mental state was normal.

Amandine replied with a confused look on her face:
"Yes, he nodded to me and then left."

Is this why after the "Dream Festival" begins, if you want to get close to the Black Tomb, you must have someone who has received the gift of the tomb or the corpse to lead the way? Robert and Father Cali should have played the same role in similar scenes, but they are not from the "Night" path, have no dream-related abilities, and have never noticed... Have those people in other dream fragments also received the gift of the Black Tomb or the cold corpse? Lumian's heart moved, and he asked Amandine:
"Where did he go? Where did that figure go?"

Amandine's eyes moved to the edge of the scene in which she was.

Her eyes gradually widened, and with a lingering fear and excitement, she raised her hand and pointed to the dream scene where the man and woman were:

“He went there.

"He got through, he got through!"

Following Amandine's "explanation", Lumian and the others felt that the black ancient tomb had become a little more solid and heavy, and the entire area was shaking even more violently.

At the same time, Lumian noticed a familiar burning sensation in his left chest, but there was no whispering in his ears that seemed to come from infinitely far away yet so close.

His head was dazed for a moment. He saw a huge whirlpool of water, a gloomy village filled with gray fog, and the figures in the village.

There was the fatalistic shepherd Pierre Berry, and Lumien's friend Azema Lizier. All of them raised their pale arms as if shouting silently.

Lumian also saw his own two-story half-underground house and Auror, who was sitting quietly on the orange-red roof with her knees hugged.

Lumian no longer resisted the hallucination.

He also roughly understood what was going on:

As the figure entered other dream fragments, the changes in the black tomb became more severe, and it contained the power of the realm of death, which "awakened" the villagers of Cordu Village who were sealed in the air.

These villagers are already dead, with only soul fragments remaining, so they will naturally be affected by the power of the realm of death.

This realization made Lumian feel the long-lost pain, sadness and bitterness again.

He "looked" at Auror, who had thick long blonde hair, light blue eyes, and was wearing a light blue dress, and did not try to fight against the invisible force of death.

"He walked up to the woman," Amandine continued to explain responsibly.

That woman? Camus, Réard, and Lugano all turned their attention to the corresponding dream fragment.

Having just arrived in Tizamo Town tonight, the lady in the light-colored long dress did not hear what Amandine said, but she knew that everyone in the patrol team was looking at her.

Her spirit had a bad feeling, so she quickly turned her head and asked her companion:

"Devaho, do you sense any malicious intent?"

The man named Dewaho, who was wearing a dark grey suit, shook his head slowly and said:

"No."

In the dream sequence where Lumián and the others were, Amandine excitedly "explained" again:

“He, that figure, stretched out his hand!

"His hand was on, on the woman's head!"

As soon as Amandine finished speaking, Devarho saw his companion, the lady in the light-colored long dress, suddenly kneel down, her expression stiff and her face extremely pale.

Woo!
In all the dream fragments, a cold and chilly wind blew.

Lumian "saw" Aurore on the orange roof stand up and look up into the sky with a dazed expression, as if she sensed something.

She opened her mouth and uttered a few words almost instinctively.

Lumian didn't understand the corresponding language, but he had heard similar things before.

That was the language used by "Armored Shadow" Chen Tu, and it was the language to which the one or two words that Franka occasionally uttered belonged!

Although he didn't understand, perhaps because of the connection between the two at the soul level, Lumian still vaguely understood what his sister was saying.

She was mumbling something to herself:

"The immortal stroked my head, tied my hair and granted me immortality."

In the dream sequence where Dewaho was, the lady in the light-colored long dress who knelt on the ground unconsciously had her hat fly off.

On her neck, the back of her hands, and the surface of her face, the pores opened one after another, and white feathers stained with light yellow grew out one after another.

Dewaho watched the scene with a serious expression. He did not try to interrupt his companion's transformation, but took a few steps back.

He didn't understand what was going on. Although he hadn't sensed any ill intentions towards him, he still cautiously kept a distance from the abnormal person.

The lady in the light-colored long dress had lost her focus in her blue eyes, looking extremely confused and lifeless.

In just a few blinks of the eyes, the white feathers stained with pale yellow oil seemed to have their own consciousness and life, and they frantically emerged from the gaps in the fabric of the long skirt and from between the strands of hair.

Soon, the lady in the light-colored long dress was enveloped in white feathers stained with pale yellow oil.

Her body became very light, gradually floating up, becoming more and more illusory.

She looked at Dewaho with her blue eyes and shouted with a hollow and excited voice:

"I have become a god! I have achieved immortality!"

The monster covered with white feathers hovered above the black tomb, shouting:
"I have become a god! I have achieved immortality!"

In another dream sequence, Lumian hears Aurore change her story.

She whispered with some fear on her face:
"Transcend into an immortal..."

The next second, a virtual monster covered in white feathers, whose original appearance could no longer be seen, flew towards the black tomb in his own dream fragment.

She passed through the stone wall on the surface of the tomb and disappeared there.

Suddenly, the icy and chilly wind that had just blown stopped and solidified.

The black ancient tomb began to shake noticeably, and the door of the tomb, which was outlined by a hairline-like gap, made a heavy friction sound, as if someone was trying to push it open.

Aurore in front of Lumian's eyes and the village of Cordu around him began to fade, as if they had been erased by an eraser.

Lumian glanced at the tomb door that was slowly opening, then turned his head to look at "Siso" Tewanaku in another dream fragment.

This dream projection was not at all surprised by the sudden change, nor did it show any fear. Instead, the gravekeepers around him who had been very quiet all stood up.

With the illusory sound of water, the door of the black ancient tomb was completely opened.

Along with this change, all the dream fragments that appeared in the blur seemed to be pulled by an invisible force and blended together.

Devaho, Reaza, Ivelista, "Siso" Tewanaco and the grave keepers appeared in front of the black tomb at the same time, near Lumian and others.

"Siso" Tewanaco laughed, as if he had already anticipated that one of the outsiders would become a "god" and that the door of the ancient tomb would open at this moment.

He took out a golden mask from his black robe.

The mask seemed to be made of pure gold, with white or black paint smeared around the eyes and on the face, making it look quite strange.

Tewanaku put the golden mask on his face, and then unlike other grave keepers who retreated and fled, he ran towards the black tomb and the open door of the tomb.

thump! thump! thump!
Lumian heard a clear heartbeat.

That came from inside the Black Tomb.

(End of this chapter)