Ring of Fate

Chapter 770: The Underworld (April Monthly Ticket First Extra Update)

As Lumian's figure disappeared in front of the crystal skull, the human skulls that already had countless cracks suddenly lost their support.

They shattered with a loud bang, and shadows from the sky fell down, and the wilderness covered with weeds broke into pieces.

Osetto's "other world" collapsed towards the equally cracked crystal skull, and everything there turned silently into dust.

The undead disappeared, the light was extinguished, and the darkness of nothingness swallowed up everything.

I don't know how long it took, but a little soft light lit up in the absolute darkness, illuminating a desolate, dim, pale, and almost solidified wilderness.

In the middle of the wilderness is the holy and clear Dash Lake.

The headless lady in a gloomy black dress and holding four heads quickly outlined beside the lake, quietly gazing at the transparent water surface without any ripples.

…………

As soon as he passively passed through the bronze gate, Lumian felt that he was being stared at by countless eyes, and his body became colder and numb.

At the same time, arms stretched out from nowhere and grabbed his head, neck, chest, abdomen and legs.

Some of them had dull skin and white teeth, some had flesh and blood rotted to the point of falling off, and in the ulcers there were worms that were also highly rotten slowly crawling, some had no skin at all, and some had only illusory spirits left...

What they all have in common is that they all bring a chill that can freeze the soul.

The golden mask on Lumian's face, which was painted with white or black paint, emitted a faint and pure light. The arms that tried to reach out first stopped and then retracted.

The eyes that were watching him from the depths of darkness also withdrew their gaze.

Lumian regained his thoughts and awareness of his body.

He discovered a deep pit below him with no visible bottom and no edges.

The edge of the deep pit is made up of layers of blurry worlds that surround the deep pit and go down continuously to the end of the sight.

These blurry worlds overlapped chaotically, and Lumian couldn't see clearly what was inside them. He only knew that each of them was more vast than the Star Plateau, and that the previous sights all came from the bottom of the deep pit, in the seemingly endless darkness.

Lumian fell suddenly, and in the blink of an eye he landed in one of the blurry worlds.

He magically stood in a wilderness with exposed gray-white rocks, surrounded by piles of white skeletons, which were densely packed and stretched to different distances.

At this moment, these bones are still, as if sleeping in time.

Is this the underworld? I wonder where the part of the body with the abscessed hand is? Lumian looked around and muttered to himself.

It was because he realized that this was an opportunity to enter the underworld that he took the initiative to help, using the golden mask of the Eggers family and the seal of the "Underworld Man" to push open the bronze door inside the crystal skull.

The problem now is that the underworld is much more vast than he expected, and he has no idea where to start looking.

Similarly, no one knew where the rotten baby that Osetto sent in had gone or what it was trying to do.

Perhaps I can rely on the contract I signed with the Abscessed Hand to find it. It is essentially one with the rest of its body and has a mystical connection with it. The contract I signed with it is, to some extent, equivalent to the contract I signed with the rest of its body... Lumian quickly came up with an idea and said in a cold and hoarse voice:

"Sword Knight, are you guys coming in too?"

"Yes." The voice of Sword Knight Maric became a little vague.

He paused and said:
"One of my companions has also come in."

Lumian nodded:
"Why don't you come out?
"You are now in the state of resentful spirits, so don't worry about dying instantly in the underworld."

Since they are all undead creatures, why should we be afraid of the special features of the underworld?

The "Knight of Swords" responded:

“But we are still living creatures in essence. If we stay in the underworld as resentful spirits for too long, we will not be able to transform back into humans and will exist forever as resentful evil spirits.

"And with the help of your body, we can temporarily avoid the influence of the underworld and come out at the critical moment."

“I see…” Lumian looked up at the pale and gloomy sky. “I can’t wear this Eggers family mask for too long. We only have about three hours.”

As he spoke, Lumian tried to activate the black mark on his right shoulder without using it. It was the "spiritual world shuttle" from the "abscessed hand".

With the help of this mark, he vaguely felt that something was calling him at the end of the wilderness on the right.

Is that the part of the body of the Abscessed Hand in the underworld? Just as Lumian had this thought, he saw a figure emerging in front of him.

She was a young woman with very delicate features but an unusually pale face. Her eyes were deep blue, without any emotional ups and downs. Her long light blonde hair was tied into a slightly serious bun, and she wore a soft hat with fine black gauze on it. She was wearing an intricate and exquisite black Gothic court dress.

Is this the temperance demigod that possessed me before? Lumian recalled the two blurry figures he saw with the help of the crystal ice.

One of them is exactly the same as the lady in front of me!
The temperance demigod floated in the air, turned slowly, then pointed in a direction and nodded at Lumian.

The place she pointed to was exactly the end of the wilderness on the right.

“You mean that Osetto’s premature, rotten baby is probably over there?” Lumian asked as if to confirm.

The lady in the black bonnet nodded slightly in the affirmative.

She then disappeared into the air, and Lumian felt a chill running through his body.

They are all in that direction... coincidence? No, it's not a coincidence, it's more likely that something in that direction has attracted them... Lumian turned his body sideways, and was about to "teleport" to the edge of his sight.

Just as his figure became transparent, pale hands suddenly came from nowhere and pressed on his body and grabbed his arms.

Lumian experienced the feeling of paralysis all over his body again, and his soul seemed to be torn apart by an invisible force.

This time, the faint light emitted by the golden mask did not work.

Lumian tried to ignite a blazing white flame to dispel the cold, stiffness and paralysis, but he was suppressed by the invisible terror and shivered, unable to make an effective response.

When he regained consciousness and reason, he found that he was still standing in the same place, but all the white skeletons in the surrounding area stood up, surrounding him layer by layer, as if protecting him.

At the same time, Lumian heard the voice of the Sword Knight Maric:
"When you put on the mask of the Eggers family and become a pure undead creature, you will also possess all the characteristics of undead creatures. One of these characteristics is that you will be suppressed by high-ranking people in the 'Death God' path, and it will be difficult for you to have the idea of ​​resistance. Your body and mind are willing to accept slavery.

"Comparatively speaking, the impact on us, the less pure 'Wrathful Spirits' that can switch states freely, will be much lower."

Is this why I couldn't resist just now? I wonder if the "Sword of Courage" can offset this effect, but in theory it should be able to... Lumian suddenly realized:
"You guys saved me just now?"

The Sword Knight did not continue the topic, but instead reminded Lumian:
"Currently, it seems that in the underworld, you can 'teleport' but you cannot 'teleport'. That seems to be considered a blasphemy against the 'God of Death' and will attract punishment from the underworld."

According to the occult knowledge mentioned by the "magician", the underworld comes from the spirit world, so it is normal to be "teleported", but "teleporting" is too blasphemous to the "God of Death", isn't it too hierarchical? This is in line with the suppression of low-order people by those with high positions in the "God of Death" path... Lumian thought for a few seconds and bent his back slightly.

A blazing white flaming spear suddenly shot out, illuminating the pale and dim sky and heading towards the end of the wilderness.

As the blazing white and red trails disappeared inch by inch, Lumian's incarnation of the flaming spear threw out continuously, hurrying along at the fastest speed he could currently achieve.

During this process, he noticed that the wilderness had a downward angle, and the destination of him, the "Knight of the Sword", and the Temperance Demigod was at the bottom of the "hillside".

After a while, the blazing white flames spread out in all directions, and Lumian, wearing a thick jacket, fell to the ground.

In front of him was a dark, illusory river so wide that he couldn't see the other side.

The river comes from the edge of the sky and flows to the end of the sky, silently and extremely quiet.

“Is this the River Styx?” Lumian asked the Temperance Demigod within him.

The one who answered him was still the "Knight of the Sword" Maric:

“It should be. It penetrates every level of the underworld. Going past it is equivalent to entering the depths of the underworld.

"If you hadn't stopped and flew above it, you would have fallen directly into the river and no one would have been able to rescue you."

Fortunately, the "teleportation" experience just now reminded me to stop when I encounter a potentially problematic environment... Lumian glanced to both sides and saw that the wilderness was covered with withered blood flowers, and among the blood flowers were many corpses, bones, and shadows.

"How do we cross the river?" Lumian felt that the missing part of the body of "Abscessed Hand" was on the other side of the Styx.

As soon as he finished speaking, before the Sword Knight could respond, a tattered, extremely gloomy black boat suddenly appeared on the dark and illusory river.

A figure covered in debris stood on the boat, rowing with a long oar, and the boat moved to the front of Lumian and stopped at the edge of the river.

Lumian looked intently and saw that the "boatman" was a highly decomposed male corpse. Many parts of its body were exposed, and its eyes seemed to have been dug out, leaving only empty holes with thick blood vessels and yellow pus flowing.

“Take this boat?” Lumian asked the temperance member in his body in a low voice.

The Sword Knight Maric replied in a vague but slightly solemn voice:
“This is the only way.

"But you have to be careful with the Boatman. Something strange has happened in the underworld, so there may be problems with it as well."

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(End of this chapter)