Ring of Fate

Chapter 778 Cunning
When the goat-faced demon approached and stared at him, Lumian's hand had already grasped the hilt of the "Sword of Courage".

Facing the white leg bones that were falling down, he quickly pulled out the iron-black straight sword that was burning with blazing white and green flames and rushed forward to meet it.

when!
As the sound of the collision echoed violently, Lumian's palm cracked and black, coagulated blood spilled out.

The tremendous force from the sheep-faced devil made it impossible for him to hold the "Sword of Courage" anymore. He was knocked away and fell into a pile of rubble with a thud.

The sheep-faced devil stepped over the iron-black straight sword that had fallen to the ground, took two steps to Lumian, and raised the white leg bone again.

Suddenly, the figure of the temperance demigod Sharon appeared in its dim eyes that were oozing with blood and pus, and its raised hands froze in mid-air.

Seeing that the sheep-faced devil's movements became unusually slow, as if it was fighting against something, Lumian instantly ignited a blazing white flame, which turned into a flamboyant spear. He whizzed past this high-ranking undead creature and came to the place where the "Sword of Courage" fell.

Perhaps because the sheep-faced devil was not an undead spirit transformed from a Beyonder on the "Death" path, it had little deterrent effect on Lumian, an undead creature, and it did not have the feeling of being able to enslave Lumian's body and mind, allowing Lumian to muster up the courage to resist.

Lumian picked up the iron-black straight sword and released the spiritual energy that had been accumulated using the ability of "Ascetic".

At the same time, his eyes took on an iron-black color, reflecting the various colors of the sheep-faced devil.

He quickly found the pale spot, ran two steps towards the sheep-faced devil, and jumped high.

While in mid-air, Lumian adjusted his posture, holding the "Sword of Courage" with both hands, and looked down at the sheep-faced demon who was still fighting against the temperance demigod Sharon, with slow and stiff movements.

This time, he used the "Harvest" of the "Sword of Courage"!
His spiritual power rushed madly towards the iron-black straight sword, causing the white and blue flames on the surface to instantly expand and then condense inwards.

With a "puff", Lumian slammed heavily on the sheep-faced devil's back, stabbed down with both hands, and inserted the "Sword of Courage" into the connection between the sheep-faced devil's neck and body, and sank into the rotten black flesh like cutting butter.

Amid the disgusting pus splashing, the blazing white and blue flames covering the iron-black straight sword all poured into the body of the sheep-faced devil.

Boom, a dull explosion sounded, and the temperance demigod Sharon escaped from the body of the sheep-faced devil in time.

The sheep-faced devil then disintegrated into a pool of sticky black liquid that looked like the evil thoughts condensed from human hearts.

The black liquids were scattered to different places in the ruined church by the expanding flames and the shock waves that swept around. Then, they swam away quickly and drilled into the dark hole leading to the pale kingdom, as if they were trying to reorganize themselves inside.

Lumian, holding the "Sword of Courage", consumed two-thirds of the spiritual energy he released in one go. He wanted to catch up and fight the sheep-faced devil again, but he felt his body suddenly stiffen and his soul was locked in an invisible cage.

"Take your target item first." The weak and increasingly ethereal voice of the "Sword Knight" rang in his ears.

Yes...Lumian agreed with the "Sword Knight" reason.

Anyway, I am not afraid of that sheep-faced devil, so I can just put the body of the "abscessed hand" into the "traveler's bag" first!

He transformed himself into a blazing white spear and came to the bone torch in a flash. In order to better move the half body of the "abscessed hand", he temporarily stuffed the "Sword of Courage" back into the "Traveler's Bag".

A moment later, Lumian felt scared:
I only have one third of my spirituality left, why am I still thinking about fighting a life-and-death battle with the sheep-faced devil?

Moreover, Ms. Sharon's condition is obviously very bad!

At this time, shouldn't I quickly pick up the target object and escape from this half-collapsed church before the sheep-faced devil reassembles his body and catches up?
Fortunately, the "Knight of Swords" acted as a valve for courage and found reasons that effectively convinced me!
Lumian no longer hesitated, and grasped half of the body of the "abscessed hand" with both hands, trying to lift it up.

This body is very heavy, as if it is made of metal. Fortunately, Lumian is currently Sequence 5 and is in a path known for his strength.

During this process, Lumian was still worried that the body would suddenly turn into a zombie and deal him a fatal blow, but fortunately, after being cut by the sheep-faced devil for who knows how many years, the half of the body of the "abscessed hand" seemed to have lost its activity long ago and did not show any abnormal reaction.

Lumian placed the blue-black, pus-filled half of the corpse at the opening of the "traveler's bag" and watched with delight as it "sank" inside.

——Flesh and blood with vitality cannot be put into the "Traveler's Bag", and the remains of the "abscessed hand" have previously shown the ability to heal itself. Lumian's idea just now was that if he couldn't put this half of the body into the "Traveler's Bag", he would just carry it on his back, or ask one of the "Sword Knight" and Ms. Sharon to attach to it and control it to run.

After collecting the mutilated body of the "abscessed hand", Lumian heard a creaking sound coming from inside the dark hole.

He immediately transformed into a spear of blazing white flame and hurled it toward the outside of the half-collapsed dark church.

With a whooshing sound, the blazing white flames left burning marks in the dark sky and quickly spread to the distance.

There is no pale erosion here, and Lumian can fly far away in one breath.

Under the illumination of the golden human-shaped street lamps, Lumian, who had transformed himself many times into a blazing white flaming spear, finally returned to the illusory and dark Styx.

He saw the gloomy, shabby boat reappear and slowly move closer to him as the "boatman" rowed.

Lumian waited anxiously, not daring to fly to the boat in the form of a flaming spear.

According to the "Sword Knight" Maric, that would cause him to sink directly into the depths of the River Styx, and no one would be able to rescue him.

Behind him, pale green flames burned quietly, sometimes swaying with the violent shaking of the earth, and sometimes shaking up and down in some kind of tremor.

Lumian was on edge, feeling that some kind of danger was getting closer, but he didn't know whether it was caused by the changes brought about by the awakening of the corpse of the ancient god of death, or the pursuit of the sheep-faced devil.

He looked at the gloomy boat that seemed to be moving at the same speed, and used the "hunter's" method to calm his emotions.

He laughed softly and said to the "Sword Knight" Maric in his body:
"I used to think that the Goat-Faced Devil was very powerful, only slightly inferior to the Ancient Gods. Otherwise, why would it have hatred for the Demon King and want to kill him? Why would it desire the bird egg under the corpse of the Ancient Death God? But now it seems that it is only at the level of a Saint, and only a corpse is left without any extraordinary characteristics."

The "Knight of Swords" did not respond.

Lumian continued to speak:

"The Sheep-Faced Devil's initial proposal to kill the Demon King as part of the deal was probably just a bluff to make us more easily accept the second condition. I subconsciously thought that was not bad. In fact, if it weren't for the interference of the premature baby Osetto, we would have a chance to steal the bird eggs. We would have to face the wrath of the ancient death god's corpse afterwards, but that has nothing to do with the Sheep-Faced Devil himself.

"At the same time, it also used the commission of killing the Demon King to establish its own image, making us think that it was very powerful and had a high status. We did not dare to attack it directly, nor did we dare to give up the bird egg mission easily.

"What a cunning devil..."

As he muttered to himself, Lumian suddenly remembered the accusation of the goat-faced devil:

He took the egg for himself!

When did I take possession of the egg? The egg was clearly still under the body of the Phoenix Progenitor. I just had a little resonance with the creature inside the egg, heard what it heard, saw what it saw... Because of this resonance, I was secretly infected with the breath of the creature inside the egg, and the goat-faced devil mistakenly thought that I had taken the egg and broke it? As an undead creature, the goat-faced devil should not have much brain left now, even if it was a saint-level devil before, and it was just acting on the devil's cunning instinct... As Lumian was seriously speculating, the shabby and gloomy boat finally arrived at the shore.

Lumian immediately jumped onto the boat and stood behind the "boatman".

Although this "boatman" may launch an attack in the future, compared with the pursuit of the sheep-faced devil and the changes brought about by the awakening of the corpse of the ancient god of death, it can be called "friendly".

This is something that can be dealt with.

The gloomy, tattered boat rocked away from the dark shore and slowly moved towards the middle stream of the illusory Styx.

Lumian looked back into the depths of the underworld and found that the thick darkness had calmed down. There was no more violent shaking, and no more heavy noises.

Then everything returned to peace.

Lumian's tense spirit relaxed a little and he breathed a sigh of relief instinctively.

This "trip to the underworld" is really "compact"...

It was only then that he began to ponder the problem of the pitch-black giant egg:
The thing growing inside seems to have some relationship with Omibella!
From this incident, Lumian felt that the "Great Mother" used Omybella from ancient times as the name of her Son of God. It should not be purely to rely on the strong mystical symbolic meaning to erode the authority of the "Mother Earth Goddess". Omybella, the long-fallen "Harvest Goddess", still has a lot of secrets.

“However, Omibella was not one of the eight ancient gods who ruled the sky and the earth at that time. She was only the queen and subordinate god of the giant king among the ancient gods, which is equivalent to an angel today. Why can the secrets of Her affect the current era?
"Alas, at present, a lot of key information has been obscured by the mist of history. Only a few high-ranking people who have truly survived from the Second Age to the present know a little bit..."

Lumian sighed as he watched himself getting further and further away from the dark land deep in the underworld, until his vision was filled with the illusory, dark water of the Styx.

He suddenly felt that this matter had come to an end.

(End of this chapter)