Lord of the Mysteries 2: Circle of Inevitability

Lumian had always thought that the lizard-like elf was something, or a projection of something in a dream, with more symbolic and metaphorical meaning than reality.

But now, he really saw the lizard-like creature in the transparent lake!

It really exists!

Moreover, it also appeared in the "other world", in the deep pit left by the "Tree of Shadows", and in this abnormal event involving high-end power!

Aurore crawled out of her mouth. The lizard just now couldn't be a real thing, could it?

What exactly does it represent and what purpose does it want to achieve?

Lumian frowned and his expression was slightly distorted. His whole body was in pain, shock, confusion and withdrawal.

Stimulated by this, he felt that he should be able to retrieve some memories to verify the authenticity and determine whether it was a symbolic representation in the dream or something that really existed in reality. But this time, he was not like when he received psychotherapy and after listening to After Mrs. Pualis's words, the corresponding picture flashed in his mind, and what he remembered was still that dream.

At this moment, the majestic voice of Thermipolos sounded in his ears: "You don't really think that all the abnormalities and misfortunes that happen around you are caused by me, do you? You don't think that just because of The sealed me and you, who only have Sequence 7 strength, can successfully escape from the hands of Susanna Mattis, who is close to a demigod and has a backhand, with a weapon that barely reaches the Sequence 5 level, right? You don't think that Susanna Matisse's failure was simply because she was an evil spirit, extreme, extreme, impatient, and held the ceremony without sufficient preparation. Is there no other reason?"

These words poured into Lumian's mind in an overlapping and resonant manner, allowing him to understand them clearly in a short period of time.

Lumian was stunned for a moment, feeling like he was slowly sinking into an unfrozen icy lake from early summer to winter.

He blurted out: What on earth is that?

Thermipolos did not respond, as if he noticed something and understood something.

In an instant, Lumian felt ecstasy in his heart, and felt that the heavy boulder pressing on him suddenly disappeared: "Does this mean that Aurore was really killed by that weird lizard-like creature? Controlled? So, when she occasionally wakes up, she will not feel that there is anything wrong with her and seek help from the outside world with me? No, she should have realized that something was wrong at that time. The correct reading order of the letter is: We are getting more and more It’s getting weirder and people around here need help ASAP!”

At this time, Franka pushed Lumian: "Why are you in a daze? Quick, let's get out of here, the official Beyonders and clergy are coming in!"

Lumian came back to his senses, carrying the charred clothes stuck to his body, holding the trunk that came from the main body of the "Shadow Tree" instead of the one made by Susanna later, followed Franka, and headed towards the other side of the street. Run to the end.

During this process, he suddenly figured out two more things: "Thermipolous, as the angel of fate, has just shown his insight into various issues. It is impossible to imagine that Susanna Matisse will use me as The main body, without undoing the seal, also gave her to the Mother Tree of Desire as a sacrifice. She was not a newcomer to the world of occultism like me! Therefore, she never thought from the beginning that she would wait to be sealed by Susanna... The ending that Matisse opened up, the reason why she said that, was purely to use the situation to bluff me, to force me to ask her for help, to agree to some of the unequal conditions she proposed, and to create opportunities for her to truly escape from the predicament. What she did not expect was that I would choose to bluff Susanna Matisse, so as to force her to provide help based on the information provided by the other party. No, she must have thought about this possibility, but she will not lose anything if she gives it a try. Didn't you have the corresponding quick wit at that time? Damn, it's so insidious! You will be deceived by her if you are not careful!" Similarly, Susanna Mattis is not an honest person.

Since she had sought revelation from the "Mother Tree of Desire" and thought that there might be an angel sealed in my body, how could she not consider the possibility that that angel could transmit some power through the seal? She did pray for it later, and it was enough to resist the leaked influence of Vulmibolos, or even stronger. I didn't even see it at the time, it was still far away, and I was almost contaminated.

If he hadn't escaped from the "Tree of Shadows" in time, being contaminated would have been an inevitable outcome.

Suzanne. Why didn’t Mattis seek help in the first place?

Is it because that kind of pollution is dangerous for her too?

Well, although something went wrong during the ceremony in Kordu Village, the priest, as the host of the ceremony, was protected by the power of fate and did not become a monster or part of the three-headed giant like others. Successfully escaped.

Suzanne. Matisse also wanted to use the protection of sacrificial rituals to fight pollution?

"So, she has been stalling for time, waiting for the preparations for the ceremony to be completed! She didn't target me and control me from the beginning because she knew that forcing Thermipolos too much would cause Thermipolos to join the corresponding battle in advance. , there would be too many unknowns.”

"So, she was always trying to give me an illusion of being able to resist and hope to escape. When I took the initiative to bring up the angel thing, she used a bunch of words that seemed to have been spoken and arranged to delay time and hide it. The real backup is waiting to be obtained. Thermipolos helped me make the wrong choice and step into the trap she set.

Although she did not expect the attack of Montsuri's ghost, if there were no changes in the outside world and someone took advantage of the gap created by Montsuri's ghost, I still would not be able to escape from the inside of the Tree of Shadows, and she was obviously about to officially open it. The ceremony was protected.

grass!

Beautiful actors can indeed deceive people! "

After Lumian and Franka ran for a while, their eyes suddenly became unreal, with various layers of rich colors and indescribable weird creatures appearing layered together.

His head suddenly became dizzy and his vision blurred.

When he regained his vision, there was no longer a chaotic street in front of him, and there were no longer thick patches of color.

He stood on a grassy hillside, opposite a "magician" lady wearing an orange dress.

She's here too!

Lumian glanced left and right, but did not find Franka's figure.

As if aware of Lumian's doubts, Ms. Magician smiled and said: "The Two of Cups followed her Major Arcana card and wanted to exchange some things."

"Two of Holy Grails?" Lumian looked confused.

"That's Franka. She is also one of us. Her code name is the Two of Cups, just like you are the Seven of Wands."

Ms. Magician explained casually, "You have officially joined us now. You can go back and talk to the Two of Cups and ask her to introduce the situation of our organization. I won't go into details."

Is Franka not only a member of the Curly Baboon Research Society, but also a member of the secret organization codenamed Tarot Cards?

Lumian was surprised, but also a little happy.

This means that he and Franka are teammates in the true sense.

Ms. "Magician" looked at it carefully and saw that Lumian still had a charred face and a body stuck with pieces. She took out a simple brown men's formal suit from somewhere and threw it away: "Change into it later." Well, although it is not a big news that Trier people are naked and running on the streets, people cannot be completely assimilated by the environment. They must know how to stick to themselves. Only in this way can they resist the erosion of magic medicine and stay away from it as much as possible. Risk of loss of control.”

After Lumian caught the clothes, the magician lady said thoughtfully: "Tell me what happened recently in detail. Although I knew that you would encounter the followers of the evil god and have entanglements with them, I did not foresee that you would." Directly, get involved in something of this level. "Lumian first arrived in Trier and used the "Dance of Invitation" to attract Susanna Matisse. He focused on the sacrifice just now, the performance of Thermipolos and the lizard-like snake. Weird creatures.

Ms. "Magician" listened, her expression became a little solemn. After Lumian finished speaking, she nodded slightly and said: "It's very abnormal. Whether it's Termipoulos or the "elf", neither normal."

She looked at Lumian and said in a straightforward tone: "Inside the Tree of Shadow, it was not Termipoulos who helped improve the ability of the fallen mercury and caused the ghost of Monsuli to arrive in advance."

"Not her?" Lumian had just guessed where Ms. "Magician" would find the problem, but he never thought that she would bring up such a clear thing first.

In that situation, who else could be there besides Thermipolus?

Moreover, it was indeed after the fateful angel compromised that subsequent changes took place.

"I don't know either."

"Ms. Magician" shook her head slowly, "What I am sure of is that the seal of that great being cannot allow Thermipolos to penetrate. Such a high-level power. If she could, she would have controlled it long ago. Please help her." The seal has been lifted. "Seeing Lumian confused and confused.

Ms. "Magician" further said: "What Thermipolos can do is only influence your judgment and choices. After all, she is sealed in your body, and your fates are connected to some extent. To put it simply That is to say, regarding the matter of Charlie, Thermipolos had no way to let Susanna Matisse recover in advance, and could not decide when and how she planned to come to find Charlie. She could only use this matter to Let you have the intention to use the magic of transshipment to help Charlie change his destiny and improve the corresponding tendency. From this perspective, do you think she has the ability to improve the ability to corrupt mercury and let the ghost of Montsuri arrive in time? Help you bear it The past scenes of the Tree of Shadows are okay. Therefore, what I have always said is that on matters that are both critical and dangerous, seek my opinion in advance instead of making decisions on your own."

Lumian's heart felt like a sea, turbulent and ups and downs.

He revisited the incident of Charlie being taken underground by Rentas, and found that it was indeed as "the magician lady said: Charlie's bloody disaster and death fate came from two aspects, one was the danger given by the "Blissful Society" through Rentas, and the other It was Lumian's own choice at the node of destiny. Therefore, after Rentas was killed by them, Charlie's luck only improved a little. After Lumian made the right decision, it completely returned to normal. There was no trial. More traces of Mibolus' influence.

If she could influence Charlie the same way she influenced the ghost of Monsouli, Lumian would most likely have been fooled.

"Furthermore, Susanna. Matisse knows that Thermipolos can exert a certain influence, so after she left the Shadow Tree, in such a weak state, why did she still want to capture me alive with the indirect help of angels? Unless, after the battle inside the Tree of Shadow, Susanna gained some divinity with the help of the Tree of Shadow. Matisse has discovered that Termipoulos cannot exert influence and is perfectly sealed. The problem has another source! And the source didn’t come out! Damn it! What I was thinking at the time was that even if my judgment was wrong or the exchange of fate would take a long time, Thermipolos would not let Susanna go. Matisse captured me alive, so she She will become a sacrifice, who knows, she has no ability at all!"

Lumian substituted his speculation into what happened just now and got a more reasonable explanation.

"What is going on?" he asked with a little pain and anger.

Ms. "Magician" thought for a few seconds and said: "Combined with those misfortunes, I suspect that Thermipolos has helpers from the outside world. In other words, there may be an extraordinary person lurking around you who can affect your destiny. The idea that Boros passed on accomplished something covertly, but not so much that it would be discovered.”

A word suddenly flashed in Lumian's mind: "Sufferer!"

In the dream, he and the Laien team broke into the underground altar and got the aura of "victims"!

The owl and the other "him" in the wizard's tomb always gave him the feeling of the source of the problem and the manipulator behind it before being exposed.

Are these also symbols?

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