Ring of Fate

Chapter 811 Return
Not far from the abandoned neighborhood, Albus Medici separated from Gusin and walked along the shadows on the side of the road towards the cemetery.

Suddenly, he stopped, as if he felt an undercurrent surging in the darkness nearby.

Albus laughed, and thick fog suddenly surged out around him, covering his figure and half of the street.

After more than ten seconds, the fog gradually dissipated, but Albus was no longer there.

He disappeared.

In the shadow that was shrouded by fog just now, Julie, wearing a slit long skirt and with her hair tied up, walked out and stared at the place where Albus had been standing for several seconds.

On the middle finger of her left hand she wore a gold ring with a blue gemstone.

Julie withdrew her gaze, looking somewhat gloomy, and walked towards the blocks where the exiles were gathered.

I don't know how long it had been, but in the deep night, a man's sharp and painful screams were heard from a room.

…………

Lumian returned to the full-length mirror in his room, walked out, and lay down on the bed.

After discovering that Julie had quietly left the "Carnivore" bar, he knew that the "witch" had been following him and Gu Xin in secret.

This was one of the goals he wanted to achieve.

Otherwise, he would not have discussed with Gu Xin at the bar about finding Albus Medici and accepting the corresponding test.

That was so that Julie, who was temporarily acting as the bartender, could hear it!
——Although he and Gu Xin both lowered their voices, at such a close distance, with the "witch's" hearing, it was impossible for her to fail to capture key information.

Of course, Lumian did not use Julie as a backup plan at that time, because Gusin had previously witnessed the battle of the "witch" castrating Vijayan, and then he obviously noticed that she was beautiful and charming after becoming a bartender.

In this situation, if Gu Xin had a little knowledge, he would have guessed that Julie was a "witch" and would not have been careless, knowing that the other party might have heard the conversation.

Lumian originally just wanted to judge how far the Witch Cult had progressed on the "0-01" matter through Julie's reaction:
If the Witch Cult has already completed its preparations with the help of the long-term exploration of "witches" such as Celeste, and only lacks the opportunity to launch the final action, then Julie will definitely not cause any more trouble and will patiently maintain the status quo. In that case, Lumian will have to keep a close eye on Julie and Celeste and not let them get ahead.

If the witch sect is still not sure enough and there is still a lot of information missing, then Julie will most likely take this opportunity to see if she can get more intelligence from Guxin, the second most dangerous person in Morola, and the rioters connected through him, so as to make her own action plan more complete. Lumian will not have to be so anxious and will not have to keep following the footsteps of the "witches". He can devote his energy and time to do some exploration in other aspects.

In this regard, he achieved his goal perfectly.

Now, Lumian was more looking forward to seeing how Julie would react and what she would try after she followed Gusin and himself and discovered Albus Medici.

"Should we assassinate them on the spot, or wait patiently until Albus and Guxin separate and then fight them one-on-one? Or, should we go to Sally to discuss it first? Unfortunately, I don't know where they will meet, so I can't watch the fight on the spot and confirm what cards they each have. In that case, if I'm lucky enough, maybe I can kill them both when they are both injured..." Lumian sighed regretfully on the bed.

After an unknown amount of time, he sensed some movement in Julie's room.

The "witch" is back.

Lumian sniffed and smelled a faint smell of blood.

He laughed secretly and mocked in his heart:

"Albus, have you lost your treasure? I wonder if it can grow back after you become the 'Iron Knight'...

"Just now, there was not much movement in the entire Morola, and it didn't look like there had been a fierce battle... So, Julie failed to lock on to Albus, and just found a random man to vent her emotions?"

Lumian waited patiently for a while, until the "exiled city" of Morola fell completely asleep in the thick night, then he suddenly transformed into a shadow creature and merged into the darkness in the room.

He swam quickly, returned to the abandoned neighborhood with the volcano, came to the crack in the basement, and stared at the empty hole filled with thick fog again.

He felt that it was necessary to explore this area carefully, which would help him better understand certain contents of the "0-01" seal data and further understand the situation of the underground mausoleum.

And neither Guxin nor Albus would have thought that he would come back here again, especially since they might have been attacked by Julie!
"The fog is not as thick as before, and the visible range is about thirteen or fourteen meters... Did Albus and Gu Xin use their own special items to strengthen the fog of war?" Lumian looked at the fog in front of him for a few seconds and made a preliminary judgment.

He immediately formed a ball of blazing white fire to illuminate the area and slowly walked into the fog of war.

The feeling the fog of war gave him was similar to before, with no other changes. Every time Lumian walked a certain distance, he took out a bottle of perfume and dripped a few drops on the ground.

This is in preparation for the subsequent return.

The place Lumian is going to now is the statue area marked by Gu Xin on the map.

In the foggy environment, which was so quiet that it was almost deathly silent, with only the sound of light footsteps quietly echoing, Lumian identified the terrain and passed by a number of iron black puppets hidden in the mist.

Finally, relying on the ability of "Hunter" and the memorized map, he arrived at the target location.

There, standing against the rock wall, there are four gray-white stone statues more than two meters high.

These statues are facing each other in pairs, their faces are blurred, their clothes are quite strange, and they all have a square scarf wrapped on their heads.

Surrounded by them was a half-high stone platform with an unlit oil lamp on it.

"Who made these statues? They shouldn't have been there originally. According to the seal information of '0-01', this is not an underground mausoleum, but a normal underground place... After the volcanic eruption, some of the power of the underground mausoleum leaked out. Someone took advantage of this to build four statues and place oil lamps here? What's the purpose?" Lumian stared at the blazing white fireball and muttered to himself silently.

Judging from the style of the statue and its overall layout, he felt that it was not used by the Church of Knowledge to reinforce the seal, but was most likely made by the "Iron Cross", which was why Gu Xin knew the situation here so well.

At the same time, Lumian felt the call from the ground become stronger.

It seemed to be just behind the rock wall, waiting for him to pass.

Lumian took a breath and suppressed the impulse in his heart.

He walked around the four statues and the oil lamp on the half-high stone platform several times, but found nothing special about them.

Lumian thought for a while and came up with two ideas:

One is to light the oil lamp and see what happens; the other is to take this opportunity to destroy it and trigger possible changes.

“Forget it. Lighting the oil lamp is too dangerous, and it’s not necessary yet…” Lumian considered for a moment and chose the second idea.

It is always easier to destroy than to build!
Moreover, if an accident really happened, it would definitely make more sense to leave a mess behind and escape than to leave this place intact.

Lumian stretched out his hand and pulled out a bright white fireball, which he placed at the foot of one of the statues, causing it to explode in a delayed state.

After setting up five "time bombs" one by one, Lumian walked about ten meters away, hid in the thick fog, and snapped his fingers.

Rumble!
The four statues and the half-high stone platform encountered a violent explosion at the same time. They cracked from the bottom, disintegrated rapidly, and collapsed into piles of rubble.

The explosion slightly dissipated the thick fog in the area, allowing Lumian to see the condition of the statue and the stone platform.

Nothing unusual happened, no danger appeared... Very good, now it depends on whether Gu Xin and the others will notice the movement here and come to check the situation, and I will ambush here, waiting to give him a fatal blow... Lumian is more and more puzzled about the role of the statue and the stone platform, and plans to use it to set a very simple trap for Gu Xin, but because it is in the blind spot of thinking, it is easy to be overlooked.

——If the statue and the stone platform were really important, after Gu Xin discovered that something went wrong here, his first reaction would definitely be to rush over to confirm the situation, and he would subconsciously believe that the destroyer had escaped, so as to avoid being besieged.

Lumian was about to shrink further into the thick fog when he suddenly noticed that the five piles of rubble began to move.

They kept colliding, and in an instant they rose from the ground again, returning to their original forms as stone statues and platforms.

Exactly the same as before.

“This…” Lumian’s eyes froze.

Can the stone statues and half-height stone platforms restore themselves?
That's why the "Iron Cross" didn't send anyone to guard here...

They are not afraid of these things being destroyed!

Lumian quickly came to his senses and made a new attempt.

This time, after blowing up the stone statue and the stone platform, he packed some of the rubble in his "traveler's bag" and waited about ten meters away.

The stone statues and half-height stone platforms were restored to their original state, drawing materials from the earth, while the gravel in Lumian's "traveler's bag" became ordinary.

Lumian gave up on the destruction for the time being, dumped the rubble, walked back to the four stone statues, and reached out to pick up the glass-covered oil lamp.

The oil lamp was filled with semi-solidified and semi-liquid yellowish oil, and on top was a wick that looked like it was woven from black hair.

The more Lumian looked, the more familiar it felt.

He began to think about the source of the familiarity.

Ten seconds later, he suddenly reached into the "traveler's bag" and took out something.

It was a pale yellowish and reddish semi-solidified substance contained in a transparent glass bottle, with a thicker black wick inserted on the top.

Corpse oil candles!

Corpse oil candles made by mixing the corpse oil of the 'Iron Knight' and the 'Desperate Witch' with other things!
The oil lamp on the half-high stone platform looks a bit like it.

Lumian muttered to himself silently:

"Ms. Magician said that Trier and Bansi Harbor in the Fourth Epoch are the two most suitable places for corpse oil candles to work...

"What about the underground mausoleum of Morola, which is very similar to Trier in the Fourth Epoch?"

(End of this chapter)