Ring of Fate

Chapter 837 God descends
The whole world seemed to turn gray, and even the almost blue flame on Vanak's body solidified into stone.

Lumian's first reaction was to insert his right hand into the "Traveler's Bag" to take out the "Mirror Buckle" and use "0-01" to destroy the barrier of this mirror world and infiltrate power into it. However, Julie had no time to take care of this matter, so she directly left the mirror and returned to the real Corpse Mountain to avoid the subsequent war of gods.

He could see that Julie had just been praying for God to come.

And now, a little power of the "Original Witch" has arrived!

Lumian was inevitably affected, his body also turned gray and stiff, relying on the intense burning pain brought by the residual breath of the "Blood Emperor" in the palm of his right hand to barely move his arm, letting it slowly and dully reach into the "Traveler's Bag" and grasp the glass-like cufflinks.

He just retracted his hand and before he could activate the "mirror button", he saw Julie, with her hair floating in the air, turned around and looked at him.

The hair of this "witch" had turned black at some point, like a long and thick poisonous snake, and her eyes were azure blue, crystal clear and beautiful.

Lumian and Julie just looked at each other for a moment, and instantly lost control of their bodies.

From the corner of his eye, he saw the grayish-white color nearby becoming thicker and extending rapidly upward from under his feet. Wherever it passed, every inch of skin and every piece of flesh turned into real stone.

“Why was I the first target of the attack?

"There are the more dangerous Vanak and Albus here, and the 'abscessed hand' who doesn't seem to be dead yet. Why are you targeting me, the weakest one?

"Shouldn't you affect me during range attacks?
"Then I'll have a chance to escape from this mirror world and wait for the time of God's descent to end!"

Faced with this desperate situation where he was completely powerless to resist, Lumian, as an "ascetic monk", could not help but feel a strong sense of unwillingness and anger.

During this process, he did not give up struggling. When his hands and feet had turned into stone and he could not make any more movements, he tried to spread his spirituality to activate the "mirror buckle" tightly grasped in his gray and white palm and the various contract marks on his body.

But as soon as his spirit approached the thick gray-white color spreading upwards, it suddenly solidified and turned into stone chips, falling to the ground like rain.

Lumian's neck turned to stone, and his face and brain began to turn gray.

He finally forced himself to move his eyes and glanced at where Albus Medici was.

The wilderness was now deserted.

The descendant of the "Red Angel" is missing!
I don't know when he disappeared or ran away!
"Raised by a sow..." Lumian couldn't help but curse.

The next second, even his thoughts seemed to have turned into stone.

In his gray eyes, Julie, whose appearance had changed a lot and whose charm was so strong that even stones could turn, had flown into the air, her whole body burning with black flames.

The witch descended like a giant bird, leaving behind her a trail of black flames that covered half the sky. The ends of the black flames were twisted and forked, like countless pythons entwined with each other in the air, with their long tails swaying gently.

Silently, the world in the mirror began to collapse. The dark void mixed with black flames continued to collapse inward, swallowing up the "abscessed hand" that was still in a skeletal state, swallowing up Vanak who was unable to break free, and swallowing up Lumian who had turned into a stone statue...

The end has come here.

The dead silence and darkness without any thoughts filled all the blanks.

After an unknown amount of time, a violent invisible flame leaped out and illuminated Lumian's mind.

Lumian immediately felt the burning pain and cold decay in his right palm, and the burning sensation in his left chest.

He suddenly opened his eyes and saw a hundred-meter-high mountain made up of corpses and bones.

"I, I'm still alive?" Lumian was very confused.

His last memory was of himself turning into a statue and Julie plunging the entire mirror world into darkness and destruction.

He instinctively lowered his head and saw the gray on his body fading away rapidly.

This means that what happened just now was not a nightmare or an illusion.

“Then how did I survive?

"What being has offered help?"

Lumian himself didn't believe that he could survive such an apocalypse.

At this moment, he heard the smiling voice of Albus Medici:
"So you can travel through the Mirror World, too. Your plan is completely in sync with my escape plan, and you were able to accomplish it while still being petrified. I admire you so much.

"You rely on the cufflink in your hand?"

Lumian turned his body quickly and saw Albus, who was wearing a tattered black jacket with red stripes and a crystal necklace wrapped around his wrist.

At this moment, Albus Medici had his eyes tightly closed, but he was surrounded by several undead soldiers wearing iron-black armor, with pale or dark red flames burning in their eyes.

Lumian was stunned for a moment before he remembered that he should close his eyes as well.

This is most likely the area around the real Corpse Mountain. If you open your eyes, you will most likely be replaced silently by the "Man in the Mirror"!
Nothing happened... As expected, I am now Vanak's companion, the same kind as the dangerous ones, and a puppet of "0-01". I don't have to be afraid of certain taboos and rules... It's a pity that I didn't react in time and was still in shock and confusion. Otherwise, I could close my eyes before Albus looked over and trick him at the critical moment... Lumian felt regretful, but he also roughly understood how Albus avoided the descent of the "Original Witch":

He had the same idea as himself. They both wanted to take advantage of the time when "0-01" destroyed the barrier of the mirror world and infiltrate power into it. Julie, who was praying for God to descend, had no time to take care of him. So they relied on an item that could accomplish the "mirror travel" and escaped back to the real mausoleum.

The only difference is that Julie, whose God's Descent was not yet completely completed, had already set her sights on Lumian and ignored Albus, so one ran away and the other didn't.

"Look at what I was doing. You should have focused on blocking the entire world so that no one can escape!" Lumian criticized Julie in his mind, thinking that he must have survived because he finally activated the "Mirror Buckle" before his mind was completely petrified.

But after a quick inspection, he found something wrong.

The “Mirror Buckle” can be used twice!
He hadn't even used this extraordinary item just now!
This... Could it be that Archbishop Heraberg secretly helped me? After all, the gods also need to rely on special arrangements to bring a little power to the underground mausoleum of Morola. It is unlikely that some external existence suddenly intervened... It can't be that Julie remembered the kindness of my boss and pushed me at the last minute, pushing me out of that mirror world? Lumian decided not to think about this aspect for the time being.

Now is not a good time to seek the truth!

There are still many crises at present!
He glanced at Albus and found that the descendant of the "Red Angel" was looking at him thoughtfully with the help of the undead soldiers around him.

"Sure enough, Albus didn't take the opportunity to attack me just now, not because he didn't want to, but because he had some concerns. He probably felt that my performance exceeded his expectations, and the fact that I was able to escape was full of mystery. He was worried that if he acted rashly, he would fall into a trap..." Just as Lumian had these thoughts flashed through his mind, there was a sudden change in the sky.

Julie's figure, wearing a long slit skirt, emerged from the sky slightly illuminated by the firelight.

Lumian's scalp tingled instantly:
She is not dead yet, and is still in the state of divine descent?
Lumian immediately discovered that Julie's figure was unusually transparent, and the sapphire ring on her left hand was gone.

Huh... He heard Albus Medici let out a long sigh of relief.

Julie lowered her head and looked toward the top of the mountain of corpses.

Lumian followed her gaze and saw a two or three meter tall iron-black metal pole and a burnt flag hanging on the top of the pole. On the flag, there were a lot of dark red or black blood spots and traces of blood.

Just by taking a glance, Lumian felt dazed, with an inexplicable tingling pain in his neck and a smell of blood oozing from his brows and different places on his face.

"0-01"? "The Blood Flag of Salinger"? My contamination has significantly deepened... It seems that I don't need to finish reading the rest of the books. I should be able to just study this one... I can't save time by contaminating directly like this. It's easy to exceed the critical point... Lumian quickly retracted his gaze and glanced at Sallyst, who was standing not far from the flag.

The "witch" was wearing a black robe and was looking down at the place where the iron-black metal flagpole was inserted into the top of the mountain of corpses.

The next second, she sensed something, raised her head and looked at Julie high in the sky.

The corners of Julie's mouth turned up, revealing a beautiful and bright smile.

She opened her moist lips, as if to say, "I'll leave it to you."

In a blink of an eye, Lumian saw Julie's figure fade and shrink rapidly, turning into a pool of dirty blood.

The dirty blood was only the size of a palm and fell straight down.

It fell towards the charred flag of "0-01", and seemed to become one of the many blood spots and traces on it.

Sally finally came to her senses and cried out in extreme pain:

"Julie!"

At this moment, Albus's face changed slightly, and he turned into a blazing white spear with blue flames, and threw it into the air, above the flag with "0-01".

He seemed reluctant to see the pool of Julie's remaining blood stained on the charred flag.

You're finally starting to put in some effort... Lumian muttered, not in a hurry to follow Albus to the top of the Corpse Mountain to find a chance to leave a mark or stop Albus and Celeste from doing so.

He planned to wait until Albus and Celeste had been fighting for a while before "joining"!
Of course, Lumian could see that Albus attached great importance to Julie's pool of blood and did not want it to become a mark on the "0-01" flag. If Albus performed poorly and failed to successfully prevent the pool of blood from falling to the designated location, he would "teleport" over in time to help.

Seizing this rare opportunity, Lumian took out an item from the "Traveler's Bag".

That is not the "Sword of Courage", but the "Devil's Whisper" bone ring derived from "Sisoka".

(End of this chapter)