Lord of the Mysteries 2: Circle of Inevitability

When he was still in Kordu Village, faced with this kind of thing, Lumian would probably pick up the invitation letter, and at the end of the month, he would go to the "Different" Song and Dance Hall with a playful attitude and make a big scene. Playing a prank, he returned all the fright he had just received.

But now, having a certain understanding of the world of occultism and having experienced a lot of abnormalities, he flicked his finger and let a little red spark fly out and land on the black-backed hard paper.

In the rapidly expanding firelight, Lumian held the carbide lamp and left the quarry cavity directly, heading towards the nearest underground Trier exit.

On the way, he doubted this and that, and felt that the moss on the rock wall, the insects in the dark, and the invisible things in the air had all turned into Monit's eyes, looking at him motionlessly.

This couldn't even be called a hallucination, but it made Lumian's spirit always highly tense and his heart beating violently.

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The only thing that comforted him was that Thermipolos didn't speak, showed no anxiety or worry, and the problem didn't seem to be serious.

A quarter of an hour later, Lumian climbed up the steel stairs to the ground.

When the clear sunlight penetrated the blue sky and white clouds and shone on his face, he felt like he was finally alive.

Huh, no wonder Ms. "Magician" said that you should try your best to live under the sunshine of Trier... Lumian extinguished the carbide lamp, identified the location, and returned to White Coat Street.

After entering the safe house, the first thing he did was to summon Ms. Magic's messenger to inform the holder of the Major Arcana card about the subsequent developments. www.youxs.org

Ms. Magic’s reply was very simple:

“Well done, stay away from being different’ cabaret.

"Mr. Fool's Time Angel will pay attention to this matter."

Will Mr. Fool's "Time Angel" pay attention to the problem of the "different" dance hall? There really is an "Time Angel"... The angels who believe in those liars in the "different" dance hall and Mr. "Fool"'s "Time Angel" "Angel" has some degree of connection or hatred? Lumian thought for a while and couldn't figure out the specific situation.

He temporarily relaxed and fell on the bed, using sleep to restore his mental and spiritual state.

At noon, Lumian ate two meat pies and drank a glass of apple sour wine. He sat down at the table and carefully read the "Index of Spirit World Biological Information".

While reading quite quickly, he held a black absorbent pen and drew a circle on the paper from time to time to outline a target that felt more appropriate.

After more than an hour, Lumian initially screened out fifty or sixty spiritual creatures with relatively suitable abilities and low levels of danger. According to the marked page numbers, he pulled out the manuscript and began to conduct detailed research.

He read for a while and rested for a while. In the evening, he finally read through the corresponding manuscript, mastered the knowledge contained in it, and made the final choice:

The first is the "Abscessed Hand". This spiritual creature once left a legend in the central and southern regions - it was summoned by some occult enthusiasts and strangled everyone present.

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According to the on-site records, the deceased were distributed in different places in the forest. Except for those who died first in the hunter's cabin, the rest of the time of death were almost exactly the same. This shows that after the "abscess severed hand" strangled one person, it immediately appeared in another target. came forward and pinched his neck.

Judging from the picture shown in the dream divination, it is a blue-black severed hand that has rotted to the point of swelling and oozing pus. It always suddenly appears in front of the victim, pinches his neck within two or three seconds, and then flashes to another place. A victim, even if the two sides are hundreds of meters apart.

It is precisely based on this characteristic of the "swollen severed hand" that Lumian believes that it has a strong ability to "travel through the spirit world".

And its degree of danger, according to the description of Ms. "Magician", can only be considered ordinary, and it will be bound by the power of the summoning ritual.

However, the holder of the Major Arcana card also made a special note: "It is suspected to be a component of a certain creature."

If there are severed hands, are there also severed legs, heads, torsos, and internal organs? What will happen if they meet each other? What will they look like if they are put back together again? Lumian recalled the previous page While looking at the index, no similar creatures were found. After all, he mainly browsed abilities, traits and danger levels, and did not pay attention to the corresponding names.

Of course, there is another possibility, that is, the remaining parts of "Swollen Broken Hand" belong to the "powerful" and "dangerous" categories and have not been read by Franka, Jenna and the "Rabbit of Knowledge".

If "Swollen Broken Hand" does not have the ability to "travel through the spirit world" as expected by Lumian, or if he has to pay a price he cannot afford to sign the contract, he has several other options.

As for the ability to camouflage, the spiritual creature he likes is the "Headless Bride":

Its legend lies in the Hagati Kingdom of the Southern Continent, and its original form is a girl who eloped with her lover.

When she and her lover held a private wedding, she was found by her parents and family members, and her brother killed her on the spot and cut off her head in the name of violating the sacred marriage and clan rules.

This girl may be special, or she may have come into contact with things related to the spiritual world during her elopement. So, catalyzed by the pain, unwillingness, resentment, and resentment before her death, she absorbed the power from the spiritual world and became a Evil-like creatures.

Wearing bridal clothes with red background and gold patterns, it hunted and cursed its own clan crazily, causing them to encounter various disasters in the next thirty years until their bloodline was cut off.

Today's "Headless Bride" is active in the spirit world and will transform into different appearances, luring surrounding creatures and passing "travelers" to approach and kill them.

For the "arsonist," this is a target that can be dealt with under the protection of ritual.

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An alternative to the “Headless Bride” is the “Mantis with a Human Face”:

“This is a unique spiritual creature who was a playboy with great grace and appearance during his lifetime.

“He is a teacher in the Sein area of ​​Bass Honakis Province in the Republic of Intis, and he is loved and sought after by ladies and ladies.

“He had literary talent, was good at writing poetry, and had a lot of lovers.

"This life continued until the spouse of a lady reported to the church that he was a witch and had used witchcraft to control his wife.

Investigators sent by the Church of the Eternal Blazing Sun questioned a large number of local men, and the answers they received were similar to the content in the report letter. Most of these men did not know each other and had never been in contact with each other.

"On the contrary, the ladies and ladies believed that they were voluntary and tried their best to defend the dandy.

"Amid the dissatisfaction of the local men, the trial was quickly concluded and the playboy was burned at the stake.

"In subsequent reviews, officials confirmed that Playboy was not a wizard and that all the accusations stemmed from collective jealousy and hatred.

"It is said that there is an instigator's shadow in this matter.

"After the playboy died, he turned into a mantis with a human face in the spiritual world. He hated everything and was good at transformation and hunting..."

Lumian was quite emotional after reading these two pieces of information.

Having lived in the countryside for almost six years, he could really feel that the villagers were ignorant in some aspects.

And this also let him know that not all spiritual world creatures come from nature. Under special circumstances, dead humans can also be transformed into long-lasting spiritual world creatures. This may be the reason why some places are haunted.

After repeated consideration, Lumian gave up the "invisibility" and "hiding" abilities, leaving the last contract slot for traits that can directly affect the spirit body.

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His two alternatives are Thousand-Eyed Evil and Screaming Shadow.

Both of these creatures are "natives" of the spiritual world and only occasionally appear in some horrific dreams and notes of real wizards.

The "Thousand-Eyed Evil Thing" is made up of pieces of flesh and blood flowing with pink liquid, and each piece has an eye without eyelashes.

After being reflected by the black pupils in the thousands of white eyeballs, whether the target is a human, a beast, or a creature with only a spirit body, it will quickly fall asleep and enter a deep sleep.

There is also a certain connection between the "thousand-eyed evil thing" and dreams. In the recorded horrific dreams, their figures are occasionally seen at the deepest and most frightening level.

"Screaming Shadows" are a large group of transparent shadows that merge together. They scream frequently, causing creatures close to them to fall into coma.

In addition to screaming, they also have all the characteristics of ordinary shadows.

Lumian copied all the information on these alternative targets on new paper, folded them, and put them in his pocket.

He stayed at the Breeze Ballroom for a while, then left Market Avenue around ten o'clock in the evening, walked around Lister Quay, and entered the two-story building he had burned down.

The fire here has long been extinguished, and the house is dark and empty.

Lumian considered that this time he was asking Mr. "Fool" to witness the contract, not the existence in the name of fate, so he did not plan to go to the underground to summon, lest he run into those weird and dangerous people in the "Different" dance hall. fraud.

All he needs is to choose a relatively secluded place with no one nearby, so that even if something goes wrong with the ritual and the summoned creature loses control, it will not affect the surroundings and he can calmly deal with it.

Lumian briefly cleaned up the environment and set up an altar in a relatively intact room deep in the dark building.

According to the knowledge brought by the "contracted person", he did not summon "in his own name", but lit two additional candles symbolizing the gods.

Mr. "Fool" will be the prayer object and witness of this ceremony.

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After creating a "spiritual wall", lighting candles, and dripping essential oils and hydrosol, Lumian did not rush to recite incantations, but took out an iron-gray military flask from the inside pocket of his brown jacket.

The inside of the bottle mouth of this military flask is inlaid with additional string added by Lumian, and its other end is connected to the "respectable" brooch sunk in absinthe.

This design ensures that Lumian can quickly and accurately remove the sealed object without pouring out the wine to search for it or groping inside with two fingers.

Lumian hooked his index finger, and the gorse brooch was pulled up.

Red sparks flew out and broke the knot at the end of the sealed object.

Lumian did not hesitate and put the golden "decent" brooch on his chest.

He thinks that paying a price to sign a contract with a spirit world creature is equivalent to a "bribery", and "respectability" may play a certain role in this scenario.

After fastening the brooch, Lumian looked at the three candles burning quietly, took a deep breath, and prepared for the ceremony.

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