Lord of the Mysteries 2: Circle of Inevitability

Just like the previous two times, the silvery white and black candlelight condensed a beam of light and landed on Lumian's left chest, which was already in pain and confusion.

Amidst the diffuse gray mist and strange black wind, silver-black illusory liquid flowed out from there.

At some point, Lumian forgot about the pain and dizziness, as if he had become a different person.

He stood in the wilderness, opened the wooden bow in his hand, and shot a long arrow with a blue luster at the prey in the sky.

Vaguely, Lumian still remembered who he was, but he felt that all of this was extremely real and that he was experiencing it right now.

The pointed blue arrow cut through the sky and penetrated into the belly of a gray-black vulture.

Severe pain suddenly flooded into Lumian's mind, and he saw himself flapping his wings and falling to the ground with a sharp arrow that almost shot through his abdomen.

No, how could I turn into a vulture... In a vague way, Lumian had such a realization, and was not fully assimilated by the current scene and physical condition.

boom!

He fell heavily to the ground, feeling his bones broken one by one, and the pain was excruciating.

Lumian almost fainted when he saw a hyena rushing towards him. First URL

Warm and fishy flesh filled his mouth, and he found himself chewing on the body of a gray-black vulture, and the arrowhead with a faint blue luster had been broken inside the body of the raptor.

It tastes so bad... I'm not that little monster like Ludwig... Lumian couldn't help but cursed in his heart.

He didn't completely think that he was a hyena, but he continued to bite and eat the prey uncontrollably, not sparing the parts that were contaminated with poison.

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his back and was pinned to the ground by sharp claws.

The attacker was a strange lion with multiple parts of its body rotten and bleeding yellow pus.

Lumian bit the hyena's throat in one bite and hid in the nearby grass with it in his mouth.

While watching this scene from the perspective of a bystander with a sense of detachment, he quickly dismantled the hyena and put it into his belly.

Feeling both satisfied and disgusted, Lumian's abdomen began to hurt. The extraordinary power that was already on the verge of losing control was completely stimulated by the toxin, causing changes.

He quickly lost his mind and became crazy, leaving only the desire to destroy everything in sight and wanton destruction.

No, it can't be like this... The most important thing has not been completed yet... Lumian sniffed the scent mixed with the elegant and sweet fragrance of gray amber, and did not allow himself to immerse himself in that kind of madness.

During the cathartic run, he saw a hunter and pounced on him.

Lumian, who was holding a wooden bow, smelled a strong fishy smell and saw a lion whose body was rotten and had two head-like tumors on its shoulders.

The mouth with traces of bright red flesh was opened to the limit.

Lumian was horrified, and finally regained his complete self-awareness, and found that the hunter's "body" had disappeared together with the vulture, hyena, and lion, turning into complex words and strange symbols of silver and white with black.

These words and symbols were connected end to end, forming a ring, and suddenly shrank into the human body.

Lumian suddenly opened his eyes and saw the quietly swaying silver-white with black candlelight, and the half-meter-high stone that served as an altar.

The experience just now was so real... It was like being a vulture, a hyena, a lion and another human being... Lumian rubbed his painful head and stood up slowly, recalling the previous experience and digesting his mind. The extra knowledge within.

He couldn't remember when he was rolling on the ground in pain.

Huh... After a brief period of recovery, Lumian confirmed that he had received a new gift and became a "received person".

He quickly packed up the altar, lifted the "spiritual wall", put on the carbide lamp, and was ready to leave this quarry hole at any time.

At the same time, Lumian examined his own changes and the abilities of the "contracted person":

His spirituality has increased a lot;

His flexibility from "Dancer" and his ability to endure more extreme environments from "Mendicant Monk" have been improved to some extent, but not much;

His intuition for sensing fortune has also been slightly enhanced, but after discovering that Thermibolus can affect his own destiny and judgment, he rarely uses this ability anymore and is wary of the other party;

The range of influence of "Dance of Enchantment" is larger, and the level of the weird creatures that can be forcibly possessed by it is also higher;

The "contracted person" only adds one new ability, which is to sign a contract with the summoned creature and directly borrow the ability of a certain trait.

Unlike Lumian's expectation, this special contract was integrated into his body and soul when he was promoted and could not be transferred to others.

In other words, he itself is equivalent to a component of the contract, and it is also the most important part. This must be relied upon to write out the remaining part of the contract and give it to the target creature to "sign".

After a period of pondering, Lumian roughly grasped the specifics of the ability to "receive":

The contract must be signed with the consent of the target creature;

After signing the contract, you can choose the traits you want according to your own will;

Every time you sign a contract, you get not only an ability, but also a certain influence from the contracted creatures. The higher their status, the greater the negative impact they cause;

The number of contracts you sign depends on your own ability to bear it. Those with higher status or very powerful traits may only be able to bear one. The more common ones that are equivalent to one's own level are definitely three. The ones that are particularly weak and have low enough status Yes, it can be more;

When signing a contract, you need to pay a price, part of which is given to the contract creature, and the other part is given to the witness of the contract. The price can be life, limbs, blood relatives, lovers, sacrifices, spiritual limits, part of your sanity, etc. Specifically, they are It depends on what the contracted creature wants.

Therefore, most of the knowledge Lumian gained through this gift was information about the corresponding creature, including the specific abilities and characteristics and the "rewards" the other party wanted to obtain.

But most of these strange creatures are evil and weird, and the price they need to pay is the same. Lumian doesn't want to choose among them.

Of course, the main reason is not this, but that these creatures contained in the mystical knowledge of the power of fate may have a certain relationship with the being named after fate. Lumian is worried that signing a contract with them will cause hidden dangers. The influence caused his own destiny to slide into the abyss.

For this reason, Lumian did not intend to use that being as the object of prayer and the witness of the contract when signing the contract.

He has better options:

Mr. "Fool"!

According to the content of the holy text that Lumian heard in the Church of the Fool, this great being is the master of the spiritual world, and the Holy Spirit angel next to his throne is in charge of the spiritual world on his behalf.

Even if this is an exaggeration, it is enough to show that Mr. Fool has a strong influence in the spiritual world.

In this case, when Lumian, who is sealed by Mr. Fool and uses Mr. Fool as the object of prayer and the witness of the contract, tries to target the spirit world creature as the contract target, it is likely that there will be considerable bonuses and hidden effects. The benefits of sex are just like other "contractees" who sign a contract with strange creatures in the gift of knowledge.

Lumian quickly combed through the knowledge he had just gained and found that some of the descriptions were very vague and seemed to contain multiple possibilities.

For example, "the consent of the target creature must be obtained before signing a contract" does not limit the method of obtaining consent. Bribing with sacrifices to make the other party agree is consent, and beating it until it surrenders completely is also consent. Similarly, later The “remuneration” demanded by the author should be negotiable.

In addition, the combination of the two knowledges "contracted creatures will bring certain negative effects" and "their own endurance is limited" can rule out Lumian's cheating by relying on the seal of Mr. Fool, the master of the spiritual world. It is possible to sign a contract with a high-level creature for a sufficient price and obtain divine power.

But no matter what, the characteristic of being able to choose any combination of abilities within a certain range makes the upper limit of the "contractee" very high. Of course, the lower limit is also low. If you choose the wrong ability and pay the wrong price, you may even be worse than an ordinary person. The best in it.

Lumian calmed down and whispered happily: "Thermipolos, do you have anything to add?"

Frankly speaking, when entering the underground, what Lumian was most worried about was whether Thermipolos would take advantage of this ritual of praying for gifts to do something and try to sabotage it. After all, the power levels of the gifts he had obtained were getting higher and higher. The higher it goes, the more it starts to endanger this fateful angel. Even if it is tightly sealed, it will find ways to cause trouble and is unlikely to sit there waiting to be weakened.

When the ceremony of praying for blessings is held, the seal will definitely be opened slightly so that the power of fate can flow out, which will give Thermipolos a certain chance.

Lumian originally planned to ask for blessing before formally praying for the gift. Unexpectedly, Monet's strange appearance and the existence of the angel behind him brought the matter of blessing forward, and Thermipolos became He was relatively calm and did not make any obvious disturbing behavior in the future.

Thermipolos's voice was still magnificent as he replied: "The entrance to the mine."

Mine entrance...what do you mean? Lumian held the carbide lamp and walked towards the entrance and exit of the current quarry in confusion.

As the yellowish light tinged with some blue illuminated the area covered with gravel, he saw a piece of neatly cut cardboard.

It wasn't there when I came in... Lumian tensed up and slowly moved closer. He saw a monocle that was almost a rubbing on the surface of the black paper, with four lines of thick, bright red Intis words written on it:

“Distinct” Cabaret

"Lover's Night

"On the last day of every month at 7 p.m.

"You are invited to participate."

"Different" Cabaret...Monocle...Lover's Night...Monit wearing a monocle in his right eye socket instantly appeared in Lumian's mind.

He clearly prayed for the blessing of Mr. Fool's angel, and did counter-tracking many times, but he still couldn't get rid of that strange fraudster?

"No, Mr. Fool's angelic blessing has a high-level anti-divination and anti-prophecy effect. Unless Monit has been hiding around me and has never been thrown away, it is impossible for him to catch up again!" Lumian felt reassured. Startled, he looked around almost instinctively.

In the darkness at the edge of the quarry, everything was so quiet that it was deathly silent, but Lumian had goosebumps, as if there were countless pairs of eyes hidden in the air.

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