Ring of Fate

Chapter 705 "Life Hunter" (Second update, please give me the guaranteed monthly ticket)

Before Lumian could, Franka started talking about the part of the "Dream Festival" related to the "Underworld Man".

She said excitedly:

“The interaction between the two worlds is closer than I thought!
"I didn't expect that besides the 'Samaritan Woman's Fountain', there are similar points of interaction between the two worlds, and they are all related to that imaginary river."

At this point, Franka muttered in her heart:

Unfortunately, the man who appeared on the fourth floor of the catacombs and was suspected to be from our world has not been found yet... "007", no, why is the efficiency of the "Eternal Sun" Church so low? The traitor who cooperated with "April Fools' Day" has not been found yet...

After Franka finished speaking, Lumian briefly added the origin of the black tomb and the situation of the ancient corpse.

"Hela", still dressed as Black Widow, listened quietly and nodded gently:
"What is clear now is that the imaginary river is not the same as the Styx in the underworld. It should be something of a higher level than the Styx."

“Yes.” Lumian was not surprised at what Hela said. “The Black Tomb not only reflects the power of the ‘Death’ path, but also the ‘Night’ and ‘Warrior’ paths.”

The current world's Styx legends are all related to death.

Lumian felt that this might involve beings such as "Fusheng Xuanhuang Tianzun", "Mother Tree of Desire" and "Great Mother", which occupied multiple paths and multiple thrones.

"Hela" glanced at Franka, and after a moment of silence, said:

"If what the Armored Shadow said is correct, the Dark Man's condition should be wrong. If you want to contact him, you must be very cautious and make sure you have a way to escape from the corresponding area."

"The Armored Shadow" told the underworld man that he "threw himself into the river", which means he gave up his body or life.

“I understand.” Franka sighed, “I plan to consider this matter after I become Sequence 5.”

While sighing, she thought smugly:

Recently, the "Joy" potion has been digested to a great extent. Even if there is no other opportunity, the "Pain Witch" promotion ceremony can be prepared in two or three months... Now I have to start collecting the corresponding potion materials...

I can't say it, I can't say it, I can't tell Lumian, showing off this kind of thing makes me look vulgar and disrespectful to Jenna...

Lumian looked back and forth between "Hela" and Franka with some confusion.

He felt that Ms. "Hela" seemed to have something important to say to Franka, but she didn't say it in the end.

Lumian rarely sensed that Ms. Hela was "worried". The way she looked at Franka and the few seconds of silence made him sense some hesitation.

It's a pity that Franca is often careless and doesn't pay attention to details. Otherwise, if she asked directly, she might be able to find out something... Lumian thought about it and thought that since Ms. Hela didn't say anything now, she must have her own reasons. So he suppressed his doubts and pointed to the front of the ruined palace and said:
"I'm going to prepare for the ceremony."

"Okay." Franka replied with interest.

Although she had watched Lumian acquire the power of "Ascetic", that was in Trier in the Fourth Epoch. Various dangers were intertwined, making her tremble with fear. She had to pay attention to the surrounding situation at all times and could not "appreciate" it in a relaxed manner like she was doing now.

Lumian thought for a moment, then pulled out a small metal bottle from his vest pocket and threw it to Franka:

"If I'm in a very bad state later, you will forcibly break the 'spiritual wall' and throw it in front of me or on me."

"Do you need to unscrew the bottle cap?" Franca asked with a smile.

“What do you think?” Lumian raised an eyebrow.

"Of course." Franca said with a smile, "It's just a joke. The purpose is to make you relax."

"Thank you!" Lumian turned around and walked to the huge stone chair in the deepest part of the ancient palace.

His intuition told him that this huge, mottled stone chair might have some connection with Mr. Fool.

This would allow him to better gain Mr. Fool's attention during the following ceremony.

Seeing Lumian using the stone chair as an altar, placing the corresponding items, and solemnly placing a Rune gold pound in front of the gray-white candle representing the gods, "Hela" said in a calm tone:

“Don’t worry about not being able to respond.

"Those who want to keep secrets will naturally be kept secret, and those who don't want to keep secrets will not be kept secret."

Lumian felt relieved and consecrated the silver dagger to create a "spiritual wall".

The sound of Franka and Hela's conversation suddenly became faint, as if it came from far away.

Lumian didn't rush to hold the ceremony. He lowered his voice and took the initiative to "provoke" Thermiporos:

"I'm going to drain your power again. What do you think?"

He hoped to anger Thermipoulos to a certain extent so that the other party might reveal hidden problems when responding, allowing him to grasp in advance whether this angel of fate was secretly planning and what he was planning.

Early detection, early treatment, early resolution!
Thermopylae's magnificent and layered voice rang out:
"The further we go, the closer we get to the end. This is fate and it cannot be changed."

"Is this your way of comforting yourself?" Lumian laughed at Thermipolos's riddle-man behavior.

Thermiporos' voice echoed in Lumian's body:
“Gifts will bring the recipient closer to the giver. You may seem to be drawing strength from me, but in reality you are constantly pushing your own destiny towards me, making yourself more and more like me.

"It made me see something through your eyes, through your destiny.

"You and I are actually the same, both are bugs trapped in fate. Except for the great beings, all living beings are like this.

“In the near future, you will find:
"Death is the end of everything, madness is the eternal melody."

It's as good as saying nothing... Is Thermiporos hinting that I will suffer a blow in the near future? Lumian laughed and said:

"Are you saying this on purpose, wanting me to acquire the power of the Life Hunter with worry and fear, and then die here?

"Don't worry, death and madness can't stop me."

After saying this, without waiting for Thermipoulos's response, Lumian looked at the candlelight and recited in a low voice:
“The power of fate!
“You are the past, the present, and the future;

“You are the cause, the effect, and the process;

"..."

As the ceremony progressed, Franka and "Hela" saw that all the objects in the altar had changed: the stones softened, the candlelight expanded, the ground seemed to rot into a swamp, and countless strange insects appeared and disappeared in the void.

The darkness outside the ruined palace grew darker and darker. A silver-black liquid flowed out of Lumian's chest, covering his entire body, as if he had turned into a contaminated mercury statue.

Lumian rolled over in agony. During this process, his body sometimes twisted, sometimes bent, and sometimes assumed other postures that went against the structure of the human body, as if he had no bones and his skin and flesh were filled with mercury.

This made Franca stunned and she felt an inexplicable pain.

In the midst of extreme, familiar pain, Lumian saw Aurore.

Aurore, with her thick long blonde hair, is trying the "necromancy"!
Lumian stepped forward and stopped Aurore.

Just when he was delighted that the problem had been nipped in the bud and Aurore would no longer split into the evil personality of Roche Louise Sanson, he was shocked to find that Aurore's body had changed drastically, swelling from a bloody mess into a monster with three heads, six arms, and sitting cross-legged.

Lumian saw Auror trying to ask Hela for help again, and he reluctantly offered his help so that his sister would not forget the incident. But when Hela arrived, Auror had not yet performed the final ceremony and had become a giant three-headed, six-armed monster.

Lumian then saw several Aurores at different stages of their lives, about to make crucial choices.

Lumian tried eagerly to save the fate of these Aurores and prevent them from sliding into the abyss, but he succeeded in diverting their fate to another tributary every time. The final outcome was that Aurores' souls and bodies collapsed and they became monsters with three heads and six arms.

Is this fate? Is this an outcome that cannot be changed? Lumian's eyes turned bloodshot, and he made more and more frantic efforts in vain.

At this moment, he smelled a light and sweet scent, and heard chanting that made him feel peaceful.

Lumian quickly regained his thoughts, his sanity, and his consciousness.

The Aurores in front of him suddenly disappeared, leaving only the candlelight still burning quietly.

Lumian subconsciously looked back and found that Franka and "Hela" were approaching, and the "spiritual wall" had been broken.

At the same time, Franka saw that in Lumian's eyes, the two colors of silver and iron black kept flashing, alternating with each other, and finally merged together and settled into silver and black.

Lumian breathed a sigh of relief, knowing that he had escaped from danger and successfully obtained the power of the "Life Hunter".

But he still felt a strong sense of frustration and loss in his heart.

What happened in the hallucination just now seemed to foreshadow what the final outcome of his wish to resurrect Auror would be.

It took Lumian more than ten or twenty seconds to finally break free from that emotion and become firm again.

There is no such thing as giving up before actually trying!

Seeing this, Franca breathed a sigh of relief, screwed the bottle cap on, and asked with a smile:

"How is it, what new abilities do you have?"

You really don't consider yourself an outsider. How can you just ask others what new Beyonder abilities they have acquired? Lumian criticized Franca in his heart and carefully examined his own changes.

His eyes, which had just returned to normal, were once again dyed silver and black, reflecting the figures of Franka and "Hela".

He immediately saw the mercury-colored illusory rivers corresponding to the two ladies, the main trunks and rippling waves of the rivers representing their past and present, and the many tributaries branching out from the present.

The illusory river slowly moved forward, swallowing up all the tributaries, leaving only one, which became the main trunk, and the main trunk continued to differentiate into new tributaries...

Lumian discovered that whether it was Franka or "Hela", one of the tributaries was faintly black.

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(End of this chapter)