Lord of the Mysteries 2: Circle of Inevitability

Lumian was not in a hurry to find the three strangers, Lain, Liya and Valentine. He went straight to the old tavern to try his luck.

If that mysterious lady shows up, he'll have a lot of questions he'd like to ask!

Anyway, you have already accepted the free gift, and you will definitely pay the price in the future. It is better to take advantage of the opportunity to gather more wool, like Aurore said.

As soon as he entered the old tavern, Lumian's eyes lit up.

The mysterious lady was sitting in her usual place in the corner, with two glasses of emerald absinthe in front of her.

Two glasses? Did she know I was coming? Lumian walked over and said hello with a smile:

"Good morning."

The lady was wearing a white women's shirt with an arabesque pattern on the neckline today, paired with a beige ankle-length loose skirt. She had a pale red women's beret on hand.

Lumian was influenced by his sister's various magazines and knew that this was the latest trend in Trier.

The lady looked up at him and said:

"It's late, it's almost noon."

Isn't this just to accommodate your schedule? Lumian cursed.

Meeting this mysterious lady instantly made him feel at peace.

He sat down and said very directly:

"I've encountered a lot of things recently."

The lady pushed a glass of absinthe to Lumian. The sloshing green liquid seemed to be the goddess of joy in everyone's heart.

She didn't say that she could talk about it, nor did she say that she couldn't talk about it.

Lumian picked up the glass of absinthe and took a sip. He felt that the wine was rich and refreshing, with a faint bitter taste, which was somewhat different from the absinthe he drank before.

"This is it?" he asked doubtfully.

"Another kind of absinthe is very popular in Trier recently. To distinguish it from the past, everyone prefers to call it absinthe and anise, especially writers, painters, and poets." The lady also said slightly. Take a sip.

In the transparent glass, the green liquid seemed to have a psychedelic color.

The three main ingredients of absinthe are absinthe, fennel and anise. The formulas of absinthe produced by different distilleries are slightly different, and some even add lemon essential oil and other things.

Went to Trier a few days ago without showing up, just to bring back some absinthe and ouzo? Lumian could not understand the behavior of the lady opposite.

He didn't ask any questions and talked about what he had experienced during this period, including reality and dreams.

The lady sipped the small glass of absinthe and pastis and listened quietly to Lumian's story.

"That's about it. Is there any way that I can master that mysterious dance in the shortest possible time?" Lumian went straight to the point.

As for the key to breaking the cycle and the secret of dreams, he believed that he would not get an answer even if he asked based on his previous experience.

The lady gently shook the emerald liquid in the cup, smiled and said:

“You will never learn without gaining extraordinary improvements in flexibility.

"Of course, you can force the jump to complete a section, but you will definitely suffer injuries such as ligament rupture and muscle tearing. How can you hunt monsters then?"

Lumian is very sensitive to the hidden meanings in other people’s words:

"Is there any way to greatly improve my flexibility?"

The lady chuckled lightly:

"You have to ask yourself that."

"..." Lumian was defeated by this unclear prompt again.

If the opposite person is someone who is relatively familiar and not so mysterious, he will definitely say a few words:

"Speak clearly to me!

"Don't make me get down on my knees and beg you!"

As if hearing his inner voice, the lady smiled and added:

“The way to achieve extraordinary improvements in your flexibility is within yourself.”

"Huh?" Lumian looked confused.

The lady took a sip of absinthe and pastis, sighed and said:

"Didn't your sister teach you ritual magic?"

Lumian found that strange emotion in her eyes appeared again.

"Taught me." Lumian felt reassured, "Pray to yourself?"

The lady looked him up and down, smiled and said:

"Who do you think you are, and what do you think you can do?

"Even when you summon spiritual creatures, you can only choose the weakest ones. All the inspiration is related to the physical body."

Like, danger intuition? Lumian probably understood what the mysterious lady said:

The "Hunter's" spirituality has actually been enhanced, but it is mainly focused on inspiration and cannot meet the needs of occult matters such as ritual magic.

"What should we do?" Lumian asked.

The lady sighed:

"Have you learned the dualistic ritual method?"

"Learned." Lumian nodded.

The lady said "Hey":

"Fortunately, you have a sister. Otherwise, I would have to teach you all this occult knowledge. It would be too tiring, too tiring."

It turns out that you don’t talk about ritual magic, meditation, spiritual vision, contracted creatures, and supernatural languages. Is it too troublesome? When Aurore finished speaking, you showed up? Lumian instantly felt as if his blood was rising and his throat was clogged.

He took two deep breaths and said:

"The dualistic ritual method requires items closely related to gods or hidden existences, but I don't have any..."

As he spoke, Lumian fell silent.

The lady smiled and said:

"You have it.

"How's it going? Do you remember?"

Lumian pointed to his chest:

"The thorn symbol and the blue-black symbol?"

The lady nodded first, then reminded:

"You don't need to consider the green and black symbols. The essence of obtaining a response using the dual ritual method is to extract the divine power contained in the target item. If its power becomes less, the balance your body has finally achieved will tip to the bad side. ,By the time……"

She didn't finish her words, but her expression made it easy for Lumian to understand what the subtext was.

To express it in Aurore's idioms:

"There is no hope, just wait to die!"

"Did the green and black symbols protect me from being completely contaminated?" Lumian already had some knowledge of mysticism and understood that the current situation was called pollution.

"It was the great being I mentioned who protected you." The lady corrected seriously, "When you unlock the secret of the Dream Ruins, I will tell you her honorable name, and you can pray to her directly."

Did that great being send down its power to seal the pollution represented by the thorn symbol in my heart, preventing it from completely contaminating me? Lumian didn't know whether that great being was good or bad, or whether he had any evil intentions, but at least it made him feel close to him.

He thought for a moment and guessed:

"Using binary rituals to steal the power represented by the thorn symbol?

"With less power, the pollution will weaken and the seal will be stronger?"

"How can it be called stealing?" the lady retorted, "This is asking for a gift from someone, but she happened to have some power nearby and responded based on the principle of proximity, and the seal of the great existence and a certain barrier The weakening made it impossible for a certain subject to notice it."

Or are you people who only half-talk...what's the difference between this and stealing? Lumian muttered something in his mind.

Combining the divine gifts and abnormal ways that the lady talked about, he asked thoughtfully:

"Through dualistic rituals, pray to the power corresponding to the thorn symbol, and ask it to give you a gift so that my flexibility can be greatly enhanced?"

"That's more or less it." The lady nodded, "To be precise, ask it to give you the power of a 'dancer'."

"'Dancer'?" Lumian thought of the performance of "Noodle Man".

The lady took a sip of absinthe and said:

“For extraordinary paths beyond the twenty-two paths, we still divide them into Sequence 9 to Sequence 0 to facilitate understanding, correspondence and reference.

"Well... in a sense, the division of sequences is in line with the underlying rules of this world."

"'Dancer' corresponds to Sequence 9 of the Thorns symbol, just like 'Man in the Ring' corresponds to Sequence 4?" Lumian asked several questions in one breath, "It can improve my flexibility and enhance my spirituality. , let me master that mysterious dance easily?"

The lady smiled happily and said:

"Sure enough, once you have a foundation in occultism, communication will be much easier and there is no need for me to explain anything else."

Lumian asked rather excitedly:

"Then what are the corresponding Sequence 8, Sequence 7, Sequence 6, and Sequence 5 called?"

"Sequence 8 is the 'mendicant monk', Sequence 7 is the 'contracted person', oh, what do you do if you know so much? Master the ritual first, and try to become a 'dancer' quickly." The lady was not too impatient.

"Mendicant monk"... "person who has been contracted"... Hearing these two names, Lumian instantly had many associations.

"Mendicant monks" are a real profession, mainly referring to certain members of major churches.

Like the "Eternal Sun" church, it is divided into multiple groups due to differences in certain concepts. Among them, there are two main ones, one is the "Preaching Brotherhood", and the other is the "Little Brotherhood", also called "The Trusteeship". The monks' association".

The former is dominated by many clergy in the church and the "purifiers" of the Inquisition, and emphasizes the brutal attack and cleanup of heretics, cultists, and wild extraordinary people in order to promote the orthodox teachings of the "Eternal Fierce Sun."

The latter's members are mainly concentrated in monasteries, and some church members also join. They advocate restraint of desires, begging for food, and preaching in various poor places, so that more people can believe in the "Eternal Fierce Sun."

Therefore, when it comes to "mendicant monks", Lumian feels that it is related to preaching, asceticism, and special ritual magic.

As for the "contracted person", the first thing that came to his mind was the black mark on the priest and the mouth monster.

Aurore said that it might be the traces left by a special contract.

"The monster I killed was originally the one who received the contract?" Lumian asked in shock.

I actually killed a monster equivalent to Sequence 7?

The lady nodded gently:

"Yes, the 'contracted person' obtains different powers from different creatures with the help of the special contract and divine witness provided by that existence. One contract corresponds to one ability.

"Whether they are powerful or not depends on what abilities they have acquired and how many abilities they have. It is not impossible for those who go astray to be killed by ordinary people.

"Actually, there are similar situations in the extraordinary realm. It is common for some extraordinary people who are not good at fighting to be killed by lower orders.

"Ability is very important, brain is also very important, and preparation in advance is equally important."

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