Chapter 319 "Invitation"
As in the previous two times, the silver-white and black candle flames condensed into a pillar of light and landed on Lumian's left chest, which was already in pain and confusion.
In the permeating gray mist and black strange wind, a silver-black illusory liquid flowed out from there.
At some point, Lumian forgot the pain, forgot the dizziness, as if he had become a different person.
He stood on the wilderness, pulled away the wooden bow in his hand, and shot a long arrow with a shimmering blue luster at the prey in the sky.
Vaguely, Lumian still remembered who he was, but he felt that all this was extremely real and that he was experiencing it.
The pointed blue arrow cut through the sky and penetrated into the belly of a gray-black vulture.
Severe pain 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 become a vulture...... In a vague way, Lumian flashed such a cognition, not completely assimilated by the current scene and physical situation.
Bang!
He fell heavily to the ground, only to feel that his bones were broken one by one, and the pain was so painful.
Lumian almost fainted directly when he saw a hyena pounce on him.
Warm, fishy flesh filled his mouth, and he found himself gnawing on the body of a gray-black vulture, and the arrow with a dark blue sheen had broken inside the bird of prey.
It's so bad...... I'm not that little monster like Ludwig...... Lumian couldn't help but scold a couple of words in his heart.
He did not completely regard himself as a hyena, but continued to bite and eat his prey uncontrollably, not letting go of the parts that had been infected with toxins.
Suddenly, he felt a tingling in his back and was pressed to the ground by his claws.
The attacker was a strange lion with multiple rotten parts of his body and blood-yellow pus oozing from it.
Lumian bit off the hyena's throat and hid in the nearby grass with it in his mouth.
He watched the scene from a bystander's perspective with a slight sense of detachment, and quickly dismantled the hyena into his belly.
In a feeling of satisfaction and nausea, Lumian's abdomen began to ache, and the extraordinary power that was almost out of control was completely stimulated by the toxin, bringing about mutations.
He quickly lost his mind and went insane, leaving only the desire to destroy everything in front of him and wreak havoc.
No, it can't be like that...... The most important thing is not done yet...... Lumian sniffed the elegant and sweet fragrance of gray amber, not allowing himself to devote himself to that madness.
In the cathartic rush, he saw a hunter and pounced on him.
Lumian with a wooden bow smelled a strong fishy smell and saw a lion with a rotten body and two skull-like sarcomas growing on its shoulders.
The mouth with a hint of bright red flesh and blood was opened to the limit.
Lumian was shocked and finally regained his complete self-awareness, discovering that the hunter's "body" had blurred together with vultures, hyenas, and lions, turning into complex words and strange symbols with silver and black colors.
These words and symbols are connected end to end, connected in a ring, and suddenly shrink into the human body.
Lumian opened his eyes and saw the silver-white and black candlelight that swayed quietly, and saw the half-meter-high stone that served as the altar.
The experience just now is so real...... It is the same as being a vulture, a hyena, a lion, and other humans once...... Lumian rubbed his swollen and aching head and stood up slowly, reminiscing about his previous experience while digesting the extra knowledge in his mind.
He had no memory of when he was in so much pain that he rolled on the ground.
Shout...... After a brief period of calming, Lumian confirmed that he had received a new gift and became a "Godfather".
He quickly tidied up the altar, lifted the "spiritual wall", put on the calcium carbide lamp, and was ready to leave the quarry hollow at any time.
At the same time, Lumian examines his own changes and the abilities of the "contractor":
His spirituality has increased considerably;
His flexibility from the "dancer" and the ability of the "dervishetic monk" to endure more extreme environments have improved to a certain extent, but not much;
His intuition to sense fortune has also been slightly enhanced, but after discovering that Termipolos can influence his fate and judgment, he rarely uses this ability and is wary of the other party;
The "Dance of Recruitment" can have a greater range of influence, and the strange creature persona that can be forcibly possessed through it is also higher.
The "Incontractor" only adds a new ability, which is to sign a contract with the recruited creature and directly borrow the ability of a certain trait.
Unlike Lumian's expectations, this special contract was integrated into his body and soul when he was promoted, and could not be transferred to others.
In other words, it is itself a component of the contract, and it is still the main part, and it must be relied upon to write the remaining part of the contract and give it to the target creature to "sign".
After a period of pondering, Lumian roughly grasped the specific situation of the ability of "contracting":
The consent of the target organism must be obtained before the contract can be signed;
After signing the contract, you can choose the characteristics you want according to your own will;
Each time a contract is signed, it not only gains an ability, but also a certain influence from the contract creatures, and the higher their status, the greater the negative impact it causes;
The number of contracts signed depends on one's own endurance, the higher or very powerful traits may only be able to withstand one, the more ordinary ones that are equivalent to their own level are three, and the particularly weak ones with low enough status 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 who signs the contract, the price can be life, limbs, blood relatives, lovers, sacrifices, spiritual ceilings, part of reason, etc., the specific depends on what the contract creature wants.
Therefore, most of the knowledge Lumian gained through this gift was information about the corresponding creature, including specific abilities and the "rewards" that the opponent wanted to receive.
But most of these strange creatures were evil and weird, and so did the price they had to pay, and Lumian didn't really want to pick from them.
Of course, the main reason is not this, but that these creatures contained in the occult knowledge of the power of fate may have some relationship with the being named Fate, and Lumian fears that signing a contract with them will be affected by hidden effects, causing his fate to slide into the abyss.
For this reason, Lumian also did not intend to use that being as the object of the prayer and the witness of the contract when signing the contract.
He has better options:
"Fool" teacher!
According to the scriptures that Lumian heard in the Church of the Fools, this great being is the master of the spiritual world, and the angels of the Holy Spirit next to His throne are in charge of the spiritual world in his place.
Even if this is exaggerated, 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 witness of the contract, tries to target the creatures of the spirit world as contract targets, there are likely to be significant bonuses and hidden benefits, just like other "contractors" sign contracts with strange creatures that are gifted with their own knowledge.
Lumian quickly sorted out the knowledge he had just gained and found that some of it was described very vaguely, as if there were many possibilities.
For example, "the consent of the target creature is required before the contract can be signed" does not limit how consent can be obtained, relying on sacrifice bribes to make the other party agree, agree, beating to complete surrender, and also agreeing.
In addition, the combination of the two knowledge that "contract creatures will bring certain negative effects" and "limited ability to withstand them" excludes the possibility that Lumian can cheat on the seal of Mr. "The Fool", the lord of the spirit world, and sign a contract with high-ranking creatures at a sufficient cost to obtain divine power.
But no matter what, the ability to arbitrarily choose ability combinations within a certain range makes the upper limit of the "contracted person" very high, of course, the lower limit is also low.
Lumian restrained his spirits and whispered happily:
"Thermibolos, do you have anything to add?"
Frankly speaking, when going underground, Lumian's biggest concern was actually whether Thermiporos would take advantage of this ritual of praying for the gift to do something and try to destroy it, after all, the level of power of the gift he had obtained was getting higher and higher, and it really began to endanger this doomed angel, even if he was sealed to death, he would find a way to cause trouble, and it was unlikely that he would sit there waiting to be weakened.
And when the ritual of invoking the gift 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 prepared to ask for blessings before formally praying for gifts, but he did not expect Monit's strange appearance and the existence of the angel behind him to advance the matter of protection, and Thermibolos became more at ease, and did not make any obvious interference in the follow-up.
Thermiporos' voice was still magnificent:
"Mine entrance."
Mine entrance...... What does it mean? Lumian carried a calcium carbide lamp and walked suspiciously towards the empty entrance and exit of the current quarry.
As a yellowish light dyed a little blue illuminated the rubble-strewn area, he saw a neatly cut piece of cardboard.
I didn't have it when I came in...... Lumian tightened his spirits, slowly approached him, and saw a monocle that was almost rubbed on the surface of the black paper, with four lines of thick bright red Intes words written on it:
"'Different' cabaret
"Lover's night
"It's 7 p.m. on the last day of every month
"You are invited to participate."
"Different" cabaret ...... Monocular ...... Lover's Night...... Lumian's mind instantly appeared Monit wearing a monocle in his right eye socket.
He obviously prayed for the protection of Mr. "Fool's" angels, and did anti-tracking many times, but he didn't get rid of that strange fraudster?
"No, Mr. Fool's angelic blessing has a very high anti-divination and anti-prophetic effect, unless Monit has been hiding around me and has never been thrown away, he will not be able to catch up with me again!" Lumi was shocked and looked around almost instinctively.
In the darkness at the edge of the quarry's hollow, everything was dead and silent, but Lumian got goosebumps, as if there were countless pairs of eyes hidden in the air.
(End of this chapter)