Ring of Fate

Chapter 867 The Center of the Vortex

Area 14, in the botanical garden, a wooden hut belonging to the manager.

This was the safe house that Lumian had prepared before he went to Morola. He did not rent it, but conquered the botanical garden manager with money and told him that he must give it up when he needed it, and also pretend that he still lived here.

After observing the lush trees around her, Franka retracted her gaze and walked over to Ludwig, who was sitting at a small wooden table and eating a donut. She smiled deliberately and asked:

"How about I give you some homework?"

Ludwig raised his head quickly, looked at Franka warily, and moved his body back instinctively.

Franca laughed immediately and said silently to herself:
I felt the angel's pain and felt another bit of the "pain" potion digested!
"Why are you bullying a child?" Janna said with a smile when she saw this.

"What kind of kid is that?" Franka explained with a smile, "I had guessed before that letting Ludwig feel the pain of studying and doing homework would also help me digest the potion, but I didn't dare to try it for fear of ruining Lumian's 'training' for Ludwig and making him want to run away from home. Now, the vortex may be coming soon, so the more we can digest, the better. Anyway, Ludwig won't be able to form a tacit understanding with us so quickly."

Ludwig looked at Franka, and his brown eyes clearly revealed one sentence:

You witch!
Jenna thought about it carefully and felt that what Franka said seemed to be correct. After Lumian completed his promotion and she reached the "Witch of Pain" stage, this could be one of the ways to digest it.

Ludwig's eyes moved back and forth between Franka and Janna several times, and he said in a reassuring tone:

"I will try my best to develop rapport with you!"

"Not bad." Lumian clapped his hands and said to Franka and Janna, "You also have the potential to be 'conspirators'. Now Ludwig is not opposed to teaming up with you."

But I didn't expect this result... Franca looked around and felt that Lugano and Anthony's eyes seemed to say, "See, you have pushed other people's children to this extent."

Lumian threw a piece of chocolate wrapped in the shape of a gold coin to Ludwig and asked thoughtfully:

"After eating the chef's stomach, you should have recalled a lot of knowledge, right?"

Ludwig quickly peeled off the chocolate wrapper and answered very frankly:
"Ok!"

The effect of this training is quite good... Seeing Ludwig being so well-behaved, Franca looked at Lumian with a little surprise and a little admiration.

Lumian pulled a chair over and sat down, then asked in an inducing tone:

"Do you know anything about the 'broker' approach? Do you know what the vortex they are talking about is?"

During this period of time, Lumian was busy training Ludwig and giving him tasks. He almost overlooked that Ludwig was an evil angel from outside the barrier, and perhaps he had some understanding of the "broker" approach.

——After knowing the Whirlpool Project, before going to Morola, Lumian asked Ludwig a similar question. At that time, Ludwig shook his head to indicate that he had no impression, but now he has recovered a little and has become much more obedient.

Ludwig chewed the chocolate, his mouth lost in thought.

After several seconds, he said uncertainly:

"It seems to mean more complex transactions involving more traders, not one-on-one."

As he was talking, Ludwig took a stack of bread slices from the side and placed them on the table one by one, acting as different traders.

Then the little boy pointed to the slices of bread and said:

"Transactions can occur in any group of them, or in three-party, four-party, or more-party transactions. When the corresponding lines are connected together, it is like weaving a spider web or creating a vortex that involves many people."

Lumian understood what Ludwig meant and thought for a moment.
"It seems that the transaction between the Mother Tree of Desire and the Great Mother is only one part of the vortex. Then where is the center of the vortex?"

…………

In the square area, outside a single-family villa where several members of the hedonistic faction of the "Rose School" live.

Angouleme de François and a group of "Purifiers" have arrived nearby.

For this mission, he borrowed a seal from the Inquisition in the market area. It was the Level 1 seal he was used to using, the "Sword of the Sun". Now, it was inserted into the spine of the gray-white humanoid mechanical creature.

Angouleme looked at the sky with white clouds and not too strong sunlight, looked around and said:

"The first team follows me in, the second team lies in ambush in Trier underground, and the third team goes around the back door..."

After instructing the team members, he slightly opened his arms and said:
"Saint-Vieve and Saint-Plessis are watching here, and we shall triumph!
"Praise the sun!"

"Praise the Sun!" Every "Purifier" responded.

When the different teams were in position, Angouleme, wearing a brown tweed coat, moved from stillness to running towards the villa, with the gray-white humanoid mechanical creature following closely beside him.

Angoulême was not too worried about this mission, which was said to involve the presence of a demigod from the School of the Rose, because Saint Plessis, Archbishop of Trier, and Saint Vieve, the patron saint of Trier, were not only watching but were already nearby, ready to purify the evil at any time. The main purpose of himself and others was to force those bloody members of the School of the Rose to leave their hiding place. If necessary, they could directly destroy the entire villa and purify both those extraordinary people and ordinary people who believed in the evil god.

Although Angouleme felt that those ordinary people might still have a chance to be saved - some of them might not have such a deep belief in the "Mother Tree of Desire", but the premise for saving them was that the safety of his team members was guaranteed.

As the captain, he must first be responsible for his subordinates!

With a rush of speed, Angoulême rushed through the garden and arrived at the main entrance of the villa.

At this moment, he saw a white, thin mist filling the room. The mist kept distorting its shape, highlighting one real, painful face after another on the glass windows and walls.

Angoulême paused, ready to summon the "holy light" to purify the mist.

Suddenly, deep in the thin white mist, in a room on the second floor of the villa, rays of light resembling crimson moonlight lit up.

They quickly outlined a stiff, dull, distorted and blurry figure.

For some reason, when they saw the crimson figure, Angoulême and his teammates all felt as if they were shocked by extreme beauty.

They stared in fascination at the crimson figure in the depths of the white mist walking slowly towards the window, completely forgetting what their mission was.

The sound of a baby crying rang in their ears.

Following the crying sound, there was also a sinister voice that could not be distinguished between male and female:

"You came just in time."

…………

Deep in the pristine island, where the trees suddenly disappear.

Bernadette, the "mysterious queen" who circumvented her father's "ban" with the help of someone, once again saw the black mausoleum built by hollowing out the mountain.

Most of this black mausoleum belongs to the mountain itself, and a small part has traces of human intervention. There is not a single weed or vine on the surface, and it is over a hundred meters high, extremely magnificent.

Sleeping here is Bernadette's father, the former emperor of the Intis Empire, Roselle Gustav, who created an era.

The surface of the mausoleum is engraved with the Civil Code formulated and promulgated by Roselle, as well as the new social trends he created and certain items he invented.

Emperor Roselle forcibly jumped from the "Secret Peeper" path to the "Lawyer" path in an attempt to become the "Black Emperor" of Sequence 0, but ended up dying during the deification ceremony.

This was an effect he deliberately wanted to achieve, because he had been to the moon once in his later years and suffered from severe, hidden pollution. He could only consider getting rid of that pollution by considering that the nine tombs of the "Black Emperor" were immortal and the order he had established would not perish, so that he could be resurrected and return.

After he is killed, the extraordinary characteristics of the two paths, "Mystery Voyeur" and "Universalist", will be completely separated. When he is resurrected, only the pure "Black Emperor" extraordinary characteristics will be summoned and return to his body. He will not fall into a semi-crazy state like the "Blood Emperor" in the Fourth Epoch who forcibly jumped to a non-adjacent path.

Unfortunately, because the "Black Emperor" ritual had been completed and Roselle, who had attained the status of a true god, discovered that the hidden pollution could not be escaped even by death.

It is constantly being reborn.

So, Roselle, who was not completely dead but not alive, sealed himself to avoid being completely changed by that kind of pollution.

Bernadette had been to the Black Emperor's mausoleum once before, and with the power of a certain "0" level seal on her body and the help of Mr. Fool, she further sealed and protected her father.

She came here today, intending to use the method of multiple pollutions to tie each other up to achieve a balance so that her father can initially get rid of his current state and revive. After that, she can wait for Mr. Fool to wake up and make the best seal for the pollution. In this way, even if it is not Mr. Fool who wakes up, but Fu Sheng Xuan Huang Tian Zun, her father can barely survive by relying on his own balance.

To this end, she was willing to take risks and promote some gray transactions. Of course, she also made a lot of preparations based on her foreseen future to prevent the situation from deteriorating.

Along the way, Bernadette did not encounter any obstacles or attacks like last time, and arrived outside her father's mausoleum very smoothly.

She used this to determine who one of the traders found by the "broker" Perle was.

And this transaction may involve more than two parties!
"We can now perform the ceremony to allow the pollution you want to enter the mausoleum." "Supervisor" Perle said to "Mysterious Queen" Bernadette with a smile, "But I need the 'Wishing Magic Lamp' as a medium."

"0-05", "Wishing Lamp"!
Bernadette said calmly:
“That’s not what the deal is about.”

Perle sighed and laughed:

“That would make the ceremony simpler and more effective.

"But it doesn't matter. The transaction you helped me get here made my master very satisfied. I have obtained a new gift and can try to complete the ritual by myself and the corresponding items."

As he spoke, Perle opened his arms and his body gradually turned into white mist. The mist expanded and slowly rotated, forming a vortex.

(End of this chapter)