Mystery: Starting with the Night Pope.

Chapter 93 Destiny

"Captain!" Kono saluted his captain.

Captain Raymondo glanced at Conno and nodded slightly. "You've come at the right time. Now come with me to examine the body."

"Yes!" Kono's expression instantly turned serious as he followed Raymondo deeper into the law enforcement bureau.

"Use the 'Bracelet of Desire'!" Raymondo reminded him.

Kono placed his hand on the badge he always wore, and a strange power surged from the badge, acting on Kono.

His face began to turn cold, devoid of any emotion or desire, as if he had become a "puppet" or a "machine".

"Why suppress emotions?" Truman and his companions soon found out the answer.

After a short period of walking in the dark, they arrived at a hidden room underground.

A grotesquely twisted and bizarre corpse appeared before the three of them.

Many bright kerosene lamps illuminated the room, revealing all the details to the viewer.

The corpse was three meters tall, with a fair complexion and covered in tumors and flowers, resembling a strange tree.

However, the true trunk of this "strange tree" is composed of countless naked corpses.

Judging from the expressions of ecstasy on the corpses' faces, it's not hard to guess how they merged together.

Dozens of tentacles were scattered around the corpse, each tentacle resembling a brown branch with a withered, sticky flower at its tip.

This tree is visually striking; anyone who sees it will be overwhelmed by a sudden surge of desire within them.

"This..." Both Amon and Bethel were stunned by the bizarre shape of the corpse.

In terms of strength, this corpse might not have reached the level of a demigod. What truly shocked them was the presence of something they were already familiar with: the corruption of an Outer God!

"The Mother Tree of Desire..." Truman shook his head slightly, not expecting to see this thing.

"With the addition of the 'Ring of Destiny,' this world now possesses the blessings of at least two Outer Gods."

It is a "gift" rather than a pollution.

This is a very important distinction.

If we're really talking about pollution, everyone here has actually been corrupted by the "Ring of Destiny," carrying its aura, and can only survive within "destiny."

"Is the outside world really that terrifying?" The fact that they had already encountered the corruption of two different Outer Gods in less than a day was a huge mental shock to Bethel and even Amon.

"The purpose of the 'Bracelet of Desirelessness' is to suppress all emotions, so as not to be aroused by this thing and have one's own desires. Otherwise, one would probably be corrupted and merge into this strange tree."

As for the corruption carried by the followers of the "Mother Tree of Desire," the aura of the "Ring of Destiny" on Kono and Raymondo was enough to resist it.

This is similar to the mechanism by which the Dream Phosphorescence resists the pollution of the Outer Gods; only the "Old Ones" can fight against the "Old Ones".

"The 'Badge of Desirelessness'? I wonder how many lives were lost to discover its secrets." Truman shook his head, casting two dreamlike phosphorescent beams that sheltered Amon and Bethel.

Two cold, emotionless law enforcement officers conducted a procedural inspection of the tree trunk, recording all the details.

Without lingering, the two quickly left the hidden underground room, simultaneously deactivating the power of the "Desireless Badge".

"Another cult of desire!" Kono looked at the record sheet in his hand, and only now did he feel indignant, but there was nothing he could do.

"It is indeed troublesome..." Raymondo sighed, but his tone was somewhat relaxed.

Kono sensed his captain's relaxation and, feeling puzzled, asked, "Captain, you...?"

"This kind of case shouldn't be within our scope of responsibility." Raymondo smiled and lightly shook the record sheet in his hand.

"You mean... 'The Ones Favored by Fate'?" Kono realized something, his face brightening with obvious longing.

"You've been with the law enforcement agency for a while now, but you haven't met them yet, have you? Come on, I'll take you to meet them." Captain Raymondo said with a smile as he led the way.

"This... seems to be against the rules!" Kono was both longing and somewhat fearful. "Destined Ones" were people of extremely high status in the Enforcement Bureau, and only the captain was qualified to understand them.

Furthermore, only those who have reached the "Master" level in their own class can be invited to become extraordinary individuals and thus become "Destined Ones".

What is a "Master" class?

A "master" sheriff among law enforcement officers, a "master" chef among chefs...

"I'm about to become sheriff, so I'm qualified to take you there," Captain Raymondo said with a smile.

Kono immediately had no more worries.

Truman watched all this and smiled. Under his guidance, everything could no longer be hidden and was fully revealed.

Now he really needs to meet these "destined ones".

"Interesting!" Amon was also observing all of this and had basically figured it all out.

Bethel also connected this to the meaning of "fate" and suddenly realized the truth.

"What do you understand?" Truman asked, testing him.

"The key lies in the word 'destiny.'" Bethel himself was still at the third level of Sequence, and his grasp of information was far inferior to that of Amon and Truman. Only now did he realize this.

Not to mention Truman's control over information, he already understood this when he left the Connor's house.

Amon had already sent out his clones, but since he couldn't "parasitize" them and thus couldn't obtain more information, he still saw enough people.

When they hear words like "master," "rank," and "destined one," they understand them perfectly.

"This is a world of 'destiny'," Bethel replied after organizing his thoughts.

"Everyone should have a profession that is predetermined at birth or inherited from their ancestors; this is the beginning of destiny."

"It was destiny!"

"Achieving a certain level of success in this profession is also a step further in terms of 'destiny.' Once you reach a certain level, you may receive the favor of someone, be granted a gift, and become an extraordinary person!"

"It's similar to role-playing; they're getting closer to that person!"

"This is a system for advancing to extraordinary individuals, similar to the Sequence Potions system!"

"Very good!" Truman nodded in satisfaction. The Bethel people were somewhat rigid and boring, but they were very perceptive in these aspects.

Such a civilization, polluted by the "Ring of Fate," is filled with a sense of abnormality, and the idea of ​​predetermined professions seems utterly unreliable to Truman.

But by some strange twist of fate, it became a reality under the power of that ancient past, even forming a "destined" civilization.

"'Destined Ones'? What kind of system is this...?" Truman and his two companions followed Raymondo through a maze of underground passages until they arrived at a church on the ground.

"'The Chosen One'?" Truman's gaze sharpened slightly as he saw a priest in divine robes kneeling before a symbol made of intertwined thorns, praying devoutly.

"The Ring of Fate"!

(End of this chapter)