Ring of Fate

Chapter 755: In the Dark (Ask for double monthly tickets at the beginning of the month)
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Although Lumian had the idea of ​​taking a risk, he had not yet made up his mind. When the white candle suddenly went out, he couldn't help but curse in his heart, and subconsciously activated the black mark on his right shoulder to "teleport" directly out of the catacombs.

At this moment, he felt a bone-chilling coldness in the palm of his right hand, causing a slight tingling pain.

This made him more mentally clear-headed, and he did not notice any other bad changes in his body.

As expected...Lumian regained his composure in an instant and gave up the idea of ​​using the "Spiritual Travel" ability.

His guess was confirmed!
He quietly clenched his right palm to prevent the exposed "Underworld Man" seal trace from being "seen" by other things in the darkness.

After being mistaken for one of his own kind by the old, decayed, and obviously abnormal tomb keeper, Lumian suspected that this was caused by the seal of the "Underworld Man".

You know, the "Samaritan Woman's Fountain" is closely related to the "Underworld Man", and one of the important reasons for the construction of the Trier Catacombs is to seal the overflow of the "Samaritan Woman's Fountain". The tomb managers will also take turns guarding the huge tomb chamber leading to the "Samaritan Woman's Fountain".

Since the tomb manager who had undergone the anomaly can walk in the darkness of the catacombs without carrying a lit white candle and will not disappear, then theoretically I who have been sealed by the "Underworld Man" should be able to do so too!
Of course, this is very risky. If you guess wrong, even the traces of your existence will die. So even though Lumian has crazy thoughts, he still can't make up his mind.

In the pure darkness where his eyes could no longer see anything, Lumian felt like he was in an underground river in Trier, surrounded by cold, damp, heavy and dead silence.

But his breathing did not become difficult. His body and his soul were absorbing air from the thick dark "water" in a strange way, maintaining their existence.

He seemed to be a fish at the bottom of a deep water.

The darkness was indeed like a stream of water, covering and pressing down layer by layer, isolating this space from the surrounding areas and the outside world.

The next second, Lumian heard the hoarse and cold voice of the old administrator:
"During this time, three people tried to get close to the spring, but I stopped them."

Three people...Lumian said with a cheer:

"Which three people?"

"Once it was a follower of darkness and death with a 'hunter'." The old administrator described it in his own way.

The followers of darkness and death are bringing the "hunters"... Isn't this me and Ms. Hela? No, Ms. Hela and me? You still remember us... Lumian suddenly realized it, and then he muttered to himself.

He had previously thought that this old administrator was different from the more active administrators such as Kendall, and was almost in a corpse state. He did not recognize people by eyes, but by sensing their breath. When Lumian entered the catacombs and came to the "Old Ossuary Entrance", he met two catacombs administrators who were showing tourists around. They did not regard him as one of the same kind. Instead, they reminded him to try not to wander around alone and to always keep the white candles burning and lighting.

"Who is the other one?" Lumian asked.

Is it Harrison, or is it Monite, the Amun incarnation active in the catacombs?

The old grave keeper said woodenly and hoarsely:

"He was an outsider. He felt very close to us, but also different. So I stopped him."

It feels very close... a different place... an outsider... After Lumian chewed on these descriptive sentences for a while, he thought that it was most likely Harrison, a visitor from Easter Island!

"What does he look like?" Lumian controlled his emotions and asked calmly.

His sight could not penetrate the darkness, and he could not even see the outline of the old administrator, but he could clearly sense that the other person was right in front of him, no more than two meters away.

He then heard the old administrator answer:

“I’ve been an administrator for so long that I’ve forgotten a lot of things.

“Even death itself will disappear here, let alone our memories.

"I don't remember what he looks like. I only know that he looks different from us Intis people, and he doesn't look like Loen people or Feysac people either."

After a brief pause, the tomb manager said in a calm tone:

"I should go back and rest..."

Lumian did not dissuade him, nor did he ask any more questions.

This was because although he did not hear any footsteps or feel any movement in front of him, he suddenly had a very clear thought:

"That person has left."

He doesn’t look like an Intis, Loen, or Feysac person… an outsider… has been to the fourth floor of the catacombs in recent months… Lumian went over the answer of the catacombs manager in his mind again and again.

Suddenly, he thought of something:
Franka mentioned that she met a man in the catacombs who was suspected to be from the world of "Tianshi", that is, the world before they crossed over. Her judgment was based on the fact that the man looked very similar to the people in that world, and was somewhat different from the people of Intis, Loen, Feynaport and Feysac!

"So, the person Franca met was the one the old administrator had advised her to leave? And that person was most likely Harrison, a visitor from Easter Island...

“Easter Island is actually a node where two worlds meet?
“The reason why the sea chart leading to Easter Island is wrong is that it does not contain any mystical content. Even if you reach the designated sea area, you will only encounter danger and cannot see the goal?
"This can well explain Franka's divination result of 'the sea chart is true' and the fact that the adventurers could not find the Easter Island. The sea chart is indeed real, but it does not record the method of opening the 'island door'!

"If this is true, there should be a deeper explanation for why Franca and the others were transported across time, and why the residents of Easter Island are haunting the North and South continents...

"The good thing now is that Franca has seen someone who looks like Harrison, and a corresponding portrait has been drawn through a ritual, which will help us find the target later.

"Haha, during that exploration, Franca and Janna obtained a lot of key information about important things, and it felt like they were arranged.

"This may not be done by that person, but it is likely related to the incarnation of Amon who often appears here..."

What Lumian is most puzzled about now is why the "True Creator" or Amon would attach importance to this matter. The "help" they provided before was basically related to fighting against the evil gods outside the barrier and did not involve issues in another world.

“Well, is that Tianzun considered the evil god outside the barrier?

"He comes from the world of 'Tianshi'?
"Is this also considered part of the evil god's invasion?"

Lumian made a brief guess and considered another question:
That is whether to tell this matter to Franka, to "007", to Ms. "Hela", and to other members of the "Curly-haired Baboon Research Society".

Lumian could already imagine what the scene would be like:
Some members of the "Curly-haired Baboon Research Society", including Franka, went out to sea frantically and one after another, looking for the Easter Island marked on the nautical chart. It would be dangerous if they didn't find the Easter Island, and it would be even more dangerous if they did find it!
Lumian would rather see Franka remain in her current state:
Apart from the gender issue, I have always been happy.

After a moment of silence, Lumian laughed a little inappropriately, and whispered to himself in the dark underwater environment:

"Will you not seek a way to revive Aurora because of the danger and other people's expectations?
"Will you give up resisting because of the danger and other people's expectations?
"Will you not fuse Omibella's bloodline because of the danger and other people's expectations?

"will not!"

Lumian made a decision and began to focus on his surroundings.

He couldn't see anything, but he vaguely felt that there were figures wandering in the darkness, and that there were hands reaching out to him, grabbing his arms, ankles, neck, and body, but without any real impact.

No, one thing was that Lumian was noticeably colder, and with the physical characteristics of a "reaper", he could hardly help but shrink his pores and shiver slightly.

He also heard vague, painful, desperate cries, but could not tell from which direction they came.

“Are these the people who disappeared into the catacombs before?” Lumian tried to listen carefully, find one or two missing people, and figure out their current situation, but it was of no use.

Suddenly, he shuddered.

The coldness and deathly silence filled his mind.

His thinking became a little slow and his recollection of some things became a little fuzzy.

"The seal of the 'Underworld Man' only prevented me from disappearing on the spot and even killing all traces of my past, but it couldn't stop me from being slowly eroded by the abnormalities here, just like those tomb managers? Moreover, I was eroded obviously faster than them..." Lumian flicked out a flame and lit the white candle in his hand.

The feelings of darkness, coldness, heaviness, silence, dampness, etc. suddenly disappeared as the light spread.

Lumian stared at the candle in his hand, nodded and said to himself:
"Just now I understood the seal of the Dark Man as a different kind of white candle flame. Now it seems that they are different, completely different in nature.

"One comes from the sealed anomaly, and the other uses the power of the seal here?"

As his thoughts raced, Lumian held up the burning white candle and returned along the same path.

When he returned to the "Old Ossuary Entrance", he saw that the college students who had been there were gone.

“Are you scared away so easily?” Lumian sneered, slowly left the catacombs and returned to Purgatory Square.

Memorial District, 9 Orosei Street, Apartment 702.

Franca, who was about to go out to collect information about the "people in the mirror", saw Lumian again.

"Why are you here again?" the "Witch of Joy" asked with a slight twitch of her mouth.

PS: Asking for double monthly tickets at the beginning of the month~
(End of this chapter)