Ring of Fate

Chapter 829 Enter
Lumian directly activated the black mark on his right shoulder and "teleported" himself to the endless cemetery and the entrance to the underground mausoleum.

This place seemed to be built like the mouth of some giant beast, with gray-white stone steps extending from the mouth all the way into the depths of the dark esophagus.

Lumian suspects that Julie has entered the underground mausoleum.

No matter what the witch sect's plan is, it will ultimately be unable to avoid "0-01" sealed deep in the underground mausoleum!
Lumian detected the scent of the entrance area, only the scent of grass, trees, and soil after rain, but no scent left by Julie.

At the same time, he also examined the gray-white stone steps at the bottom that were submerged in darkness, looking for fresh footprints - there had just been a long rain after the thunder and lightning.

“There is no trace of Julie being here…” Lumian turned his body sideways and transformed into a blazing white flame spear, which flew over a distance of hundreds of meters and landed on the side of the Church of Knowledge.

He didn't take a detour, but opened the nearest stained-glass window, jumped into the church, and ran to Heraberg, who was wearing a plain white robe inlaid with brass thread.

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, do you know which room Celeste lives in?" Lumian's breathing was still even, but his speech was quite fast.

Archbishop Herraberg of Morola smiled and replied:
"The third floor, the room closest to the cemetery where you can see the entrance to the mausoleum."

Lumian was stunned for a moment:
Uh, you know all of this...

He didn't waste time asking any more questions. White flames ignited on his body again, and he dragged out a brilliant tail of light and flew into the stairs like a javelin.

After several twists and turns, Lumian came to the room of the "witch" Celeste.

He reached out and grasped the brass handle, turned it gently, and pushed open the wooden door.

The room was very clean, without any unnecessary things, just a single bed, a desk, a chair and a shelf for books and other sundries, which gave off a monastic-like feeling.

"Sure enough, Sally's gone too..." Lumian confirmed his judgment.

He didn't enter the room immediately. He felt that it was filled with invisible spider webs carrying pathogens, like the nest of a poisonous spider.

While preparing to set fire to the invisible things, Lumian made further observations.

He found that perhaps in order to play the role of an experimenter who had suffered some kind of contamination, Sally did not place anything other than the necessities in the room. At this time, with her disappearance, even the black robe for change was gone. Everywhere was empty. The most eye-catching thing was a mirror placed in the window area of ​​the desk.

That mirror was a very common dressing mirror, and it was reasonable for it to appear in the room of a "witch".

But Lumian had a connection with this:
"Salister left through the mirror world?
"Law enforcement teams come in and out in groups. It's unlikely that she would go to the Church of Knowledge to gamble and walk out of the church alone...

"She and Julie will meet somewhere in the mirror world?
"Could it be that Julie and Sally relied on the mirror world to get to the underground mausoleum, so there is no trace of the entrance area to the underground mausoleum?"

Thinking of this, a network of thoughts consisting of various information and different ideas once again appeared in Lumian's mind.

He quickly made a guess:
"Salister patrolled the underground mausoleum several times as an experimenter and replaced the puppets. Was it to place mirrors at different key points or to obtain the coordinates of similar mirrored objects?

"When I used the Mirror Buckle before, I couldn't determine which mirrors were in the underground mausoleum, nor could I tell whether they were dangerous...

"This is the preparation of the Witch Cult. Now that Sally has mastered the world of mirrors in the underground mausoleum, can we officially take action?

“Why not start right after she finishes her last shift?
"Does it take a few days to make other preparations?"

With thoughts rushing through his mind, Lumian lowered his voice and said:
"Thermipolos, do you think I should go into the catacombs now, or continue studying and hope that Julie and Celeste cannot achieve their goal?"

Without waiting for Thermiporos to respond, Lumian smiled and said:

“I will not pin my hopes on others failing on their own.”

He has made his decision.

That is to go to the underground mausoleum to destroy and stop the actions of the Witch Cult, and try to delay it for a few more days!
The only problem was that he had to be blindfolded in the underground mausoleum, so he couldn't read books and continue his studies in his free time.

I wonder if there is a way to convert text into sound... Aurore's wizard notebook contains relevant ideas and preliminary experimental results, but unfortunately I am not a "wizard"... Lumian just sighed in his heart when he heard Thermiporos, who had not spoken for a long time, utter a magnificent and layered voice:
“That’s dangerous.”

He really answered me... Was this guy's answer this time kind or was he hiding a conspiracy? He only pointed out the danger and didn't give a strong persuasion... No matter, whether Thermiporos opposes me going or intends to seduce me to go, I will go... Lumian quickly calmed down his mind and laughed:

"Perhaps both of us will become puppets of '0-01'."

"Not me," Thermipolos responded in a powerful voice.

Really? Lumian transformed into a flaming spear once again and quickly returned to the church hall.

He came to Heraberg, took out three books, smiled and said:

"Your Excellency the Archbishop, I still have two and a half books to finish. Do you have a way to convert the remaining knowledge into sound information so that I can learn while exploring the underground mausoleum?"

The wrinkles on Heraberg's face gradually smoothed out, and his brows and eyes became gentler:
"Okay, okay, that's exactly the kind of learning attitude we need."

He took out a thin brass sheet and took the book from Lumian.

Suddenly, countless symbols and words formed a vortex in his amber eyes and began to spin.

Lumian saw tiny glimmers of light rising from the three books. They were so dense that they gathered into a river and poured into the brass sheet in a mighty manner.

What kind of secret technique is this... Lumian was stunned by what he saw.

Before coming to Lundburg, he deliberately collected detailed information about the Church of Knowledge from various channels, including some information about the "Reader" path.

As far as he knew, Sequence 5 of the "Reader" pathway was called "Mystic Tutor," and could invent and create some unique spells on their own.

Soon, the glimmer disappeared, the brass sheet became much more moist, and the symbols and patterns on the surface became more three-dimensional.

With two snaps, Heraberg broke off two corners from the brass sheet and kneaded them into a straight cylindrical shape.

Lumian's mouth opened slightly as he watched:

Without the help of flame, I think it would be quite difficult to break off two pieces of brass with my bare hands, let alone use my fingers to knead them like plasticine...

Your Excellency, Archbishop, are all your "Readers" so violent, or are you special as a puppet? Your two fingers can grind my bones into powder...

Or is this a side effect of the secret technique?
"Put it in your ears. The activation spell is the ancient Hermetic word 'listen'. I know you only know this language and haven't mastered Giant and Elvish well. The closing spell is 'stop'." Heraberg handed Lumian the brass sheet and two straight brass earplugs.

Lumian subconsciously argued:
"I also understand Hermetic."

He understood that Archbishop Hraberg was referring to the language that could leverage supernatural powers.

"Hermesian?" Heraberg laughed.

Lumian sensed contempt from his laughter and expression, contempt for Hermes' language.

Time was running out, so Lumian didn't ask any more questions. After putting on a brass earplug and putting away the rest of his things, he immediately transformed himself into a blazing spear of white flame and flew through the open stained glass to the entrance area of ​​the underground mausoleum.

Lumian calmed his breath and took out a calcium carbide lamp and white bandages from the "traveler's bag".

After lighting the carbide lamp, he wrapped the bandages around his head and covered his eyes.

Lumian's vision gradually darkened and he could no longer see anything.

This is definitely not a good experience for "hunters" who rely heavily on their eyes.

Lumian fumbled to pick up the calcium carbide lamp and walked down carefully along the gray-white stone steps in the entrance area, step by step.

He tried hard to keep his balance, fearing that he would miss a step and roll into the underground mausoleum like a wheel.

He was not afraid of getting hurt, but he was afraid of the calcium carbide lamp in his hand being extinguished.

“It’s really bad to be blind…” Lumian muttered as he constructed a three-dimensional map in his mind.

Most of the map's content came from the sealed data of "0-01" and the book "Examples of the Construction of Underground Tombs", and a small part came from the scenes in the nightmares of the past two days.

Relying on the map in his mind and his super hearing, smell, and body control abilities, Lumian gradually adapted to the darkness in his vision and descended more and more steadily.

Finally, he walked up the stairs and officially entered the underground mausoleum.

He felt the darkness around him surge in like a tide, eroding his skin, bringing with it a chilling chill and the slow drain of vitality.

Almost at the same time, the palm of his right hand turned cold.

The abnormality of the life force being lost uncontrollably disappeared.

“The mark of the ‘Underworld Man’ has been activated?” Lumian muttered to himself thoughtfully. “Under the current circumstances, even if I don’t bring a lit calcium carbide lamp, nothing should happen in the darkness of the mausoleum. Hehe, when I meet Julie and the others later, I can try to use the ‘Hunter’s’ ability to affect fire to directly extinguish their lanterns. But Julie has a special feature, and Sally Star probably has the same feature too. They may not be easily swallowed by the darkness…”

Blindfolded Lumian turned left and right, using the half-activated black mark on his right shoulder to sense where the head of the "abscessed hand" was.

He planned to find this thing first and then stop Julie and Celeste.

At that time, he could throw the separately stored pieces of "abscessed hands" together to see what changes would occur and give the enemies a "surprise".

Perhaps because they were in the same underground mausoleum, Lumian quickly sensed the call of the body of the man with the severed hand and that special connection.

It's not far away!

(End of this chapter)