Ring of Fate

Chapter 691 respective preparations

As Lumian heard the heartbeat, a hand stretched out from the open door of the black tomb.

The palm was neither rotten to the bone nor wrapped in yellowed bandages. Its surface was covered in gold, sparkling with mysterious colors under the dim crimson moonlight.

As soon as he saw the golden hand, Lumian felt his soul being compressed inward by an invisible force and instantly lost connection with his body.

Then, he found that his body seemed to have turned into a cold and solid wall, preventing his spirituality from spreading out and out of his control of his own consciousness.

At this moment, Lumian's soul seemed to be locked in a cage, unable to escape. He could only see limited images through his eyes and hear louder sounds through his ears.

Everyone present turned into statues, standing still, motionless.

Faced with this situation, Lumian suddenly remembered a sentence:

The body is the prison of the mind, and the world is the prison of the body.

In the stasis scene, the only person still moving is "Sisso" Tewanako.

The golden mask on his face glowed dimly, and he quickly approached the black ancient tomb, and the golden hand that stretched out from the tomb.

Although Lumian cannot move and use his abilities at this time, his soul is only "imprisoned" and does not affect his thinking.

After seeing that "Siso" Tewanaco was almost unaffected by the golden palm, Lumian quickly figured out many things:
"The gold that 'Siso' took away from the gold mining city of Davis was most likely used on the cold corpse in the black ancient tomb.

“The item he got from the devil of the North family is most likely the golden mask he wears on his face now.

"The former is to revive the frozen corpse to some extent, which is equivalent to what Franka said about reshaping the golden body. The latter can ensure that Hisoka can approach the target without being affected after the frozen corpse is 'resurrected' and achieve a certain purpose?
"Did Hisoka plan to use this to control that cold corpse and gain the power of a demigod?

"After I kill him in the real world, he in the dream wants to 'resurrect'?
"Well, Hisoka's 'ghost' power is the same as that of the cold corpse. Maybe there is a way to make the corpse think that he is its original spirit and accept his control...

"From the information we obtained previously and what just happened, humans who have received the gifts of the Black Tomb and the Frozen Corpse can open the tomb without waking up the Frozen Corpse. In order to wake up the Corpse, an intruder must be granted 'eternal life' by an invisible figure, become a god, and enter the Tomb.

"And intruders will only be attacked by invisible figures if there is no Dream Festival recipient to lead the way...

"It would be best if the intruder could stay awake?

"How did Hisoka know that outsiders would participate in the Dream Festival this year and arrive in the Black Tomb area?
"He didn't have this plan originally? Because he didn't know he would die at the time. If the Dream Festival this year fails to complete the plan, the dream projection will completely dissipate within the next few months, leaving him without the last glimmer of hope for resurrection...

“The participation of outsiders was a pleasant surprise for him?

"No, this is too much of a coincidence. Reyaza could be said to have discovered that I was investigating the Dream Festival and was worried that I would not have the chance to get what I wanted after this year, so he came here specially. Why did Ivelista come to this primitive jungle to investigate something during this period of time? Why did two extraordinary people who can stay awake in special dreams arrive just before the Dream Festival started?

“Also, why did the ‘Rose School’ send people to Matanibong in the last few months of this year to collect all kinds of detailed life intelligence?

"'Siso' Tewanako originally intended to complete his plan at this year's 'Dream Festival' and deliberately threw out some information and clues to attract the interest of different forces?

“The intelligence these forces received was not detailed enough, so they had to send personnel in advance to conduct corresponding investigations, or bribe the patrol team members in Matanibong…

"This is most likely the truth, a truth that does not rely on coincidence. The only thing Hisoka did not expect was that he would die before the Dream Festival began.

“Now, the ‘Dream Festival’ has become his last and only hope for resurrection.

“If he fails to complete the planned task, he will be completely dead after today!
“No wonder he talked about everything in his dreams, but was very secretive about what happened in Tizamo Town…

"'Siso' is really a cunning demon who is good at playing with people's hearts. If he hadn't wanted to kill me, and his identity gave him a good opportunity to stay in Paros Port, he would have been difficult to kill. Well, if I had played by the rules and didn't have the goodwill of some high-ranking people, I would probably have died in his hands.

"The devils of the Noth family were also planning to take advantage of the cold corpse in the black tomb, and they also wanted to use the Dream Festival. So when Hisoka mentioned the Dream Festival in his dream, he was immediately attacked by the Shadow...

"Who among these people here is the devil's minion?

"Or maybe the devil from the North family hasn't arrived yet and wants to wait until the end, until the situation becomes clear, before taking action to complete the harvest?
"With only a dream projection and no cooperation from the real body, Hisoka's plan should have a big loophole. Where is that loophole?"

Imprisoned in his own body, Lumian was unable to stop "Sisoka" and watched him run to the open gate of the Black Tomb.

"this……

"Since the Black Tomb gives me the feeling of 'The Samaritan Woman's Fountain', I can try that method..."

Lumian did what he thought and focused his consciousness on the right hand of his spirit without any hesitation.

The remaining aura of Alistair Tudor did not just corrode the body!
And this "Blood Emperor" is closely related to the "Samaritan Woman Fountain"!

"Hisoka", wearing a golden mask and with his body becoming uncontrollably ethereal, was about to hold the hand of a corpse that stretched out from the black ancient tomb, when he suddenly felt an extremely terrifying, extremely crazy, and extremely violent aura appear behind him, rushing straight into the sky like an explosion and sweeping the surroundings.

The light of the red moon grew dimmer, and Sisso Tewanaku's body instinctively stiffened and began to tremble violently.

Wow!

An illusory sound of flowing water was heard in the black ancient tomb, and the palm covered with gold seemed to be dragged by something and was pulled back into the tomb.

The feeling of the souls being imprisoned in the bodies that the other people present had felt disappeared, and Lumian quickly stopped the dissipation of the "Blood Emperor" aura.

Although Amandine, Camus, Devarho and others had instinctively felt fear, because their souls were imprisoned in their bodies and their eyes were fixed, they had no way of finding out where the all-conquering aura came from or where it originated.

Without bothering to find the source of the terrifying aura, Ivelista, with a ferocious look in his eyes, followed his most instinctive desire and took out an item from the secret pocket of his clothes.

It was a palm-sized rag doll, wearing a black Gothic dress wrapped with eerie vines, with long golden hair and blood-red eyes.

This doll was extremely evil, and just by looking at it, Lumian felt his flesh begin to itch beneath his skin.

thump! thump! thump!
The heartbeat inside the black tomb suddenly became intense and loud.

"Siso" Tewanako, who was standing right next to the tomb door, felt cold all over, as if he was being stared at by an evil creature.

He instinctively recalled one thing:
Many years ago, the grave keepers found a half-withered evil heart near the black tomb.

The tomb keepers believed that this heart was lost by the ancient corpse in the tomb due to some kind of mutation. After all, the characteristics of the power were the same and the status seemed to be similar, so they put the heart back into the tomb.

Just now, the long-dead heart began to beat, and now, it beats even more powerfully and urgently!
Not far from Ivrista, Reysa also took action.

He pulled out a mask.

The mask was also made of gold, and was very similar to the one worn on "Hisoka's" face, with white or black paint around the eyes and on the face!
The difference between the two golden masks is that the one in Reysa's hand is darker in color, as if it had been eroded by death.

Then, Reysa took out a human skull carved from crystal.

He put the dull golden mask on the crystal skull's face.

A chilly wind blew up, forming a huge vortex, which lifted the crystal skull wearing a golden mask and made it float up, as if it had grown an invisible body made of wind.

Intense coldness and chill spread out in all directions, causing a layer of white frost to condense on the ground.

The man called Dewaho reached his hand behind his head and grabbed something in his hair.

He pulled hard, causing the skin to be torn off along with the dark grey formal suit.

Devarho had changed into a different look, with black hair and brown eyes, a cold expression, high cheekbones, and was in his thirties or forties, wearing a white shirt and black trousers.

He turned the human skin in his hand over, revealing the dense, dizzying blood embroidery underneath.

Dewaho opened his mouth and spat out large mouthfuls of blood into the human skin, blood that emitted a strong smell of sulfur.

The blood immediately propped up the human skin, forming a green-eyed man wearing a dark gray suit.

The "man" walked towards the black ancient tomb with a playful smile.

Lumian glanced around quickly and his eyelids twitched three times in succession.

He couldn't help but complain:
"You all have divine powers that you can use? Even though they seem to be disposable...

"You just bullied me, didn't you?"

Although Lumian was complaining in his heart, he quickly recited a list of honorific names in ancient Hermetic language.

That is the honorific name of Ms. Magician.

However, this failed to penetrate this special, secret dream.

Lumian was not discouraged, because his goal was not the black tomb, nor the cold corpse and its beating heart.

After figuring out the whereabouts of "Xi Suo's" gold, there was only one thing he wanted to do:
Kill the dream projection of "Hisoka", take away the golden mask, and kill him completely!

(End of this chapter)