Ring of Fate

Chapter 903 History (Please give me a monthly ticket in the last two days)

Outside an abandoned castle.

The "Magician" lady waited with Lumian for a while before following the spiritual reminder, taking a step forward, arriving somewhere inside and stopping in front of a vermilion door.

Knock, knock, knock, knock. The holder of the Major Arcana knocked on the door three times in a row.

After a few seconds, a soothing voice came out:

"Please come in."

As these words were spoken, the vermilion door slowly opened backwards.

Lumian then saw the heavy curtains, the sunlight struggling to shine through the cracks between them, casting a golden hue on parts of the room that reflected the floating dust.

On the other side that is not affected by the sunlight, a pitch-black coffin is quietly placed instead of the common bed.

Opposite the coffin, the desk close to the sunlight was piled with letters.

At this time, a man in loose pajamas was sitting in front of the desk. He had just put down the gold-tipped, black-bellied fountain pen and folded a piece of paper filled with words.

The man stood up and walked towards the door, his back to the sun.

Lumian had gained dark vision through the "witch" path, and saw the man clearly:
He was about 40 years old, of medium build, with bronze skin, no beard, black hair and brown eyes, and gentle features. His eyes revealed an indescribable sense of vicissitudes. There was a black mole under his right ear that could only be seen if one looked closely...

"Good afternoon, Mr. Azik." Ms. Magician greeted the man respectfully.

Lumian also said something similar.

They spoke the ancient language of Fusac.

The middle-aged man called Azik suddenly looked dazed, as if he had instantly received a large amount of information from the spirit world and his own subconscious mind.

He nodded and said softly:
"Thanks to your help, I was able to wake up early and my soul was healed to a certain extent."

"It was mainly due to this little boy who made the contribution." The "Magician" lady pointed at Lumian beside her.

She immediately introduced to Lumian:

"This is Mr. Azik Eggers, the son of the 'God of Death' of the Fourth Epoch, and the former governor of the Balam Empire."

The son of the God of Death, the former Archon of Death of the Balam Empire... Lumian suddenly recalled some of the contents of the Holy Scripture of the Church of Fools:
The 'Angel of Death' is the being who has followed my Lord the longest, and is the Archon of the Underworld...

Could this be the Angel of Death beside Mr. Fool's throne? Lumian asked again.

"A 'witch'." Azik glanced at Lumian and nodded slightly, "You have the aura of the source of the Styx."

The "Angel of Death" called the river that runs through the two worlds the source of the Styx? Lumian was stunned and said:

"That is the seal of 'Underworld Man'."

"'Underworld Man'..." Azik muttered to himself, as if he had never heard of this person.

The "magician" lady smiled and changed the subject:
"Mr. Azik, we came to visit you today mainly to ask you something."

Azik glanced at the corridor outside the door:
"Let's take a walk around the castle and chat while we walk. This is an important part of my life."

"Okay." Ms. Magician made way.

Lumian and she followed Mr. Azik, who was suspected to be the "Angel of Death", through the corridor and up the stairs, step by step.

Along the way, the ancient wall lamps embedded in the wall lit up one by one, burning with cold and pale flames.

Lumian saw that there were oil paintings hanging on both sides of the corridor. There were paintings of Azik himself, but with a more lively expression and even a smile on his face. There were also beautiful ladies with their hair tied up and some children teasing wild deer.

Azik's eyes slowly swept across the paintings, pausing occasionally. He waited for a long time before speaking to the Magician and Lumian:

"What do you want to ask?"

The Magician was wearing a purple magician's robe today. She asked directly:

"Mr. Azik, do you know why the 'Original Witch' sought cooperation with your father, the 'God of Death' of the Fourth Epoch, after the 'Four Emperors' War? Have you discovered any problems with the 'Original Witch'?"

Hearing this question, Lumian was stunned for a moment, then he came to his senses:
Yes, this person was an eyewitness to those events in the late Quaternary period. If not him, who else should we ask?
He is indeed an ancient angel who has lived for more than a thousand years...

The “magician” lady should be similar, but my spiritual intuition tells me that she is still very young…

Azik recalled for a few seconds and said:
"It took more than a hundred years from the end of the Four Emperors' War to the beginning of the Pale Disaster. The arrival of the Original Witch was probably in the middle. We don't know what she and my father talked about. I only know that she declared to us that she wanted to avenge the Blood Emperor, to make all seven gods of the northern continent fall, and to bring Trier and the Blood Emperor's bodies sealed underground back to the surface."

"Is this true love? Two against seven, all wanting revenge for the Blood Emperor...

"No, if the 'Original Witch' really achieved her goal, it would mean that the special mirror world would no longer be sealed and would be able to show all its problems. However, the current Witch Cult does not seem to have such an idea and even intends to nail the coffin lid more firmly to prevent those 'Mirror People' from achieving their goals...

"Also, wasn't it the 'Underworld Emperor', the 'God of Death', who dealt the final blow to the 'Blood Emperor'? The uniqueness of the 'Red Priest' fell into the hands of the 'God of Death', and there is also a thing called the 'Samaritan Woman's Fountain' under Trier..." Lumian was extremely puzzled, but did not interrupt Mr. Azik's narration.

Azik said:
"There is no doubt that the 'Original Witch' is the most attractive woman in the world. Every living being who sees her will inevitably be fascinated by her, including me, my brothers and sisters, the undead creatures in the underworld, and even our father. He is inevitably attracted to a certain extent."

"Undead creatures are also attracted to the 'Original Witch'? This is already a concept and a charm of authority..." The "Magician" lady sighed, "Your father, the 'God of Death' of the Fourth Epoch, finally decided to forcibly accommodate the uniqueness of the 'Red Priest'. Was he bewitched by the 'Original Witch'?"

Lumian had some understanding of the unique connection between "Death" and "Red Priest" when he read the "0-01" seal data, but this was the first time he clearly came into contact with the essence of the matter.

As his thoughts raced, Azik shook his head slightly and said:
"The instigation of the 'Original Witch' should be one of the reasons, but I don't think it is the most important one, otherwise my father would not have done that thing decades later."

The "Magician" lady said "hmm" and repeated the previous question:

"Did you find anything wrong with the 'Original Witch'?"

Azik passed by an oil painting and slid his finger across it:
"Every time I encounter the 'Original Witch', I lose my mind. How can I possibly discover the problem of Her existence?

"If there is anything abnormal, it is that there were a few times when His charm was a little weaker than normal. That should be because He deliberately restrained His charm."

As a "witch", Lumian knew that a "witch" would present two different states when she naturally exudes charm and when she deliberately restrains her charm. But after experiencing the incident with the fake "Black Witch", he suspected that there were other possibilities.

The Magician thought for a moment and changed the subject:

"Mr. Azik, do you know the body of the Phoenix Progenitor in the depths of the underworld?"

Azik glanced sideways at the two women:
"My father felt that it was a waste to destroy the ancient god's body like that, and that it could play a more important role. For example, it could help my father better and more completely control the underworld, or make Him, the 'God of Death', more powerful.

"The extraordinary people in the realm of death will never reject a powerful corpse that they can control."

Before the "magician" could ask any more questions, Mr. Azik added:
"My father also mentioned that the body of the ancient god, the Phoenix Ancestor, hides some secrets."

"Secret?" the "magician" lady asked curiously.

Azik paced forward and said:

"He didn't tell me the details. He just said that the story of the Ancient Sun God killing the Phoenix Ancestor at the end of the Second Epoch was a lie. Well, a more accurate description is that the process was right, but the result was wrong. The Phoenix Ancestor was only severely injured by the Ancient Sun God and did not die on the spot. He fled to the southern continent and hid himself."

"Yes, if it was really the 'Ancient Sun God' who killed the Phoenix Progenitor, it is unlikely that the corpse of the god would be obtained by the 'God of Death' and appear in the underworld, unless it was arranged by him again." Ms. "Magician" agreed.

Azik continued:

"Similarly, the Giant King Ormir did not die on the spot. He probably escaped and passed his power to his eldest son, who later became the 'God of War', Badheir, before he died."

Is this related to Omybella? Well, the two ancient gods who were not killed on the spot by the "Ancient Sun God" seem to be related to Omybella. One corpse laid eggs and was hatching Omybella, and the other was Omybella's husband... Lumian glanced at the "magician" lady, and after obtaining her consent, he asked:
"Mr. Azik, what is the relationship between the Phoenix Ancestor and the 'Harvest Goddess' Omibella?"

Azik shook his head:
"I was born in the Fourth Age, and the history of the Second Age I know is from what my father occasionally mentioned."

Having said this, He smiled and said to Lumian:
"Speaking of which, I should give you a little reward."

As He gently raised His right hand, a large amount of white bones gushed out from the ground, forming a huge skeleton.

The skeleton respectfully handed a shiny Rune gold pound to Mr. Azik.

Azik took the gold coin and handed it to Lumian:

"Can I use it as payment?"

“Thank you.” Lumian thanked him sincerely and took the lucky gold coin with the aura of Mr. Fool.

PS: I’m asking for monthly tickets in the last two days~
PS2: I recommend a book, a wasteland novel, which tells the story of a modern man who wakes up in the wasteland after a long sleep, transforms the wasteland, and rebuilds the glory of mankind. It is quite interesting and the various settings are also relatively novel. The title of the book is "Wasteland Development Diary".

(End of this chapter)