Ring of Fate

Chapter 838 Source of pollution

As soon as Lumian's fingers touched the dark and shiny bone ring, he felt a burning pain spreading from the point of contact to his entire body.

He lowered his head and saw wisps of blue-purple sulfur flames coming out of every pore, which scorched the nearby skin bit by bit and emitted a pungent smell.

Lumian was so familiar with this kind of pain that he just frowned slightly and clenched his teeth, without even a noticeable change in his expression.

He then took out the "Devil's Whisper" bone ring, put it on the middle finger of his right hand, and adjusted the twisted and painful demon face to face upwards.

Lumian's eyes began to grow cold, and deep within his blue eyes there was a dark area that no light could illuminate.

The evil in his body quickly spread, overwhelming the "ascetic"'s endurance, and the excess part started a fierce tug-of-war with his own will, forming a fragile balance.

Lumian took out some of the "Ice Lemon Fish Fillets" from the "Traveler's Bag" and stuffed them into his mouth, chewing and swallowing them to temporarily increase his resistance to fire damage, while sensing the malice around him.

He is looking for Guy, the "Man in the Mirror"!
One of the negative effects of "Devil's Whisper" is that it makes the wearer and people within a hundred meters of him more likely to have evil thoughts and act impulsively. The "man in the mirror" himself has an extreme and twisted personality, so the impact will definitely be more obvious.

Under this premise, "Devil's Whisper" also has the ability of "malice perception", which allows the wearer to perceive whether the people around him have malicious intentions towards himself. Although it cannot detect the brewing danger in advance like a real "devil", it is also a mystical perception.

As long as the "man in the mirror" has malicious intentions towards him and is within a certain distance, Lumian feels that he should be able to find him with the ability of "malice perception"!

With sulfur flames slowly burning his body, Lumian glanced coldly at the surrounding area. He saw corpses wearing iron-black full body armor lying all over the wilderness. There were still residual fires burning in many places, just like a war that had just ended.

Similarly, there were almost invisible flames burning in different locations on the Corpse Mountain.

They illuminated the wilderness and the sky, preventing the place from being ruled by darkness, and allowing Lumian, Albus, and Celeste to not disappear even though they had lost the calcium carbide lamps and lanterns they were holding.

After just one or two seconds, Lumian's lips curled up slightly, revealing a cruel and cold smile.

He sensed a strong malice directed towards him about ten meters behind him!
It came from a dead body. No, it came from the dead body's mirror-smooth black breastplate.

Found you... Lumian didn't turn around. He slowly moved and suddenly "teleported" to the side of the dead body, and activated the "Mirror Button".

Inside the pitch-black breastplate, Guy, the "man in the mirror", was spying on the situation outside through the metal mirror.

After relying on the power of the special mirror world to discover that two "witches" had arrived in this area with the help of the mirror world, he quietly retreated and left this place to Julie and Sallyste.

He was not worried that this would allow the two "witches" to get "0-01" first, because based on his knowledge and the information collected from field investigations, he believed that before Vanak, the agent of "0-01", was eliminated, no one could get the recognition of "0-01", no matter by using violence or taking advantage of loopholes. Only when the "throne" was vacant and chaos was caused, would others have a chance.

Guy was very glad that he made such a wise choice. As he was closely related to the special mirror world, he truly felt the destruction of the world projection just now.

It was a doomsday scene where just a little aftermath could turn him into ashes.

He used this to confirm Vanak's death, and then relied on the ordinary mirror world to sneak back to the vicinity of Corpse Mountain, looking for an opportunity to gain the approval of "0-01" and take it away.

He saw Julie turning into dirty blood and falling, saw Albus Medici transforming into a flaming spear to stop this, saw Celeste cursing Albus Medici with a painful expression, and saw Lumian Lee calmly putting on the ring, wanting to make the final appearance and reap the fruits of victory.

Guy suddenly developed a strong malice:

"It's all your fault! You're the ones who prevented me from completing my mission!"

After entering "Morola", as a rare "reader" of the "Mirror Man", Guy was originally quite confident. While he went to the Church of Knowledge to supplement his knowledge, he also conducted field investigations to collect information for the final action.

But after secretly observing the performance of Albus Medici, Vanak, Julie, and Lumian Lee, Guy gradually began to doubt himself:

I can use the special power of the mirror world, which one of them can I beat in a one-on-one fight? I'm afraid I can only deal with Lumian Lee, the guy that the leader told me to pay special attention to...

If we were to compete in studying, although my learning efficiency was many times higher than Lumian Lee's, the pollution my body could withstand seemed far less than his...

Am I the one with the least hope among these people?

This blow made "The Man in the Mirror" Guy formulate a plan to use his special abilities to hide in the dark, wait for those powerful guys to target and hurt each other, and then come out to clean up the mess.

So far, his plan is going pretty smoothly:
The biggest obstacle of this operation, Vanak, and the most dangerous opponent, Julie, are both dead, with their souls completely annihilated. They can no longer rely on the overflowing power of "0-01" to return as undead creatures!
"When Albus Medici and Sally Stone decide the winner, I can join the fight, kill the remaining one, and fight the weakest Lumian Lee...

"Should we take advantage of Lumian Lee's lack of preparedness and launch a sneak attack on him? He's not a 'witch', nor is he a 'man in the mirror'. He doesn't have a stand to use, and if he's hit, he'll really die..."

Such malicious thoughts gradually became clearer and stronger in Guy's mind.

Before he could make a decision, Lumian in his sight suddenly grew larger and came very close to him.

Then, Lumian disappeared before his eyes.

A pool of sticky black liquid immediately emerged under his feet, as if it was made up of the deepest sinister desires in people's hearts.

"Desire incarnate"!
The pool of black liquid suddenly rose up and wrapped Guy inside.

Click!
There was a sound of glass breaking inside the illusory black liquid, and Guy's figure was outlined on the edge of the dark and empty area behind the metal mirror.

He saw the black liquid quickly condense into Lumian's image, and smiled softly like a teacher:
"Don't you know I have a 'mirror double'?"

This direct attack can only consume one mirror for me.

Before Guy finished speaking, an extremely violent emotion suddenly surged in his heart.

He instinctively touched his neck and felt bright red blood.

The pain immediately pierced his mind from there.

Click!
Guy took the initiative to use the "Mirror Stand" to cause countless pieces of glass to fall to the ground.

His figure was re-outlined in another corner of the area behind the mirror, but a thin, deep bloodstain still remained on his neck.

His emotions had become completely violent, brutal and crazy. The skin on his face aged and withered rapidly, as if it had turned into pieces of brown bark. The voice of "My child, my child" echoed in his ears. The flesh on both sides of his shoulders squirmed, as if a head was about to grow out of each.

His abdomen was swelling up little by little, his eyes were dyed with silver and black, his breath was rapidly dissipating, and his body was visibly collapsing, blood and flesh fell off in clumps, and he was writhing like a maggot...

Lumian saw the pollution in himself in an intuitive way.

This is such a hodgepodge!
After he used the "Desire Incarnation" just now, the illusory black liquid contained not only his own emotions and desires, but also the emotions and desires brought about by the pollution that was closely connected to him and deeply affected him.

This is an irresistible pollution for any creature that does not possess divinity. Even saints will suffer serious effects!
In the face of these high-level pollution, if you don't actively use the "mirror substitute" to avoid it in the first place, and wait until the illusory black liquid contaminates you, and then passively activate the "mirror substitute", it will be too late and you will have been contaminated!

Now, Guy is a monster with a lot of pollution.

Seeing that the "man in the mirror" was developing in an indescribable direction, Lumian had a hunch that if he continued to watch, he would also experience similar changes.

He immediately took a step back, broke away from the metal mirror, returned to the corpse, and returned to the wilderness around the mountain of corpses.

He then saw wisps of black air seeping out from the mirror-smooth surface of the breastplate, like illusory shadows, as if trying to grab him.

Lumian quickly turned around and ran towards the mountain of corpses.

Sometimes he transformed into a spear of blazing white flame and flew forward for a distance, and sometimes he "teleported" dozens of meters, constantly crawling to the top of the mountain which was made up of corpses and bones and scattered with many residual fires.

He wanted to lead Guy, the "Man in the Mirror" who had lost control and collapsed due to pollution, to Albus Medici and Celeste, and say "You're welcome" to them.

No matter whether Lumian was climbing with his hands and feet, or relying on the power of the contract to "teleport" a short distance, or ascending with the posture of a flaming spear, he always felt a strong sense of oppression from behind, and an indescribable and constantly changing black shadow was projected onto his body and reflected in front of him, which inevitably made Lumian feel fear.

Now he had no idea what the monster chasing him looked like or what state it was in. He only knew that it was definitely not something a normal human should observe and identify.

Suddenly, Guy's deep voice rang in his ears:

"Mother……"

Mom… Lumian’s mouth twitched. He realized that even though he had so many strange contaminations on his body, the one from the “Great Mother” and the bloodline of Omybella was still the most outstanding one. After all, what Mr. Fool left behind was a seal, not contamination.

Lumian ran faster.

Finally, he saw the top of the Mountain of Corpses and saw Celeste and Albus Medici.

(End of this chapter)