Chapter 503

No "City of Exiles" Morora? When Lumian looked at the information Ludwig "stole", he always had the feeling that Morora was vivid and right in front of him, because the recorder described every folk custom and every characteristic of that city in detail, so even someone who hadn't been there personally could intuitively imagine what it would look like.

As a result, Lady "Magician" now tells him that there is no "City of Exiles" Morora within Lemberg!

"I read it so seriously, so nervously and fearfully, and in the end, you give me a line, 'Sorry, all of the above are made up by me?'" While Lumian experienced a huge sense of absurdity, he put his gaze back on the letter paper, wanting to see what guesses Lady "Magician" had.

This Major Arcana card holder used her usual teasing tone:

"Perhaps the person who wrote this sealed artifact information was already crazy at the time and imagined a 'City of Exiles' Morora;

"Perhaps it is a huge prison located in the mountains, guarded by jailers, providing those supplies that cannot be obtained on their own, and having no other contact with the outside world;

"Perhaps Morora is really an imagined 'City of Exiles', but in a sense, it already exists in reality...

"Don't think the first and third guesses are absurd, exaggerated, and impossible at all. I tell you, involving '0' level sealed artifacts, there will be a large number of anti-common sense and anti-intuitive things, especially since this is still '0-01'.

"I personally like the first guess best, it has a wonderful aesthetic: a crazy keeper wrote a piece of sealed artifact information full of ravings and filled with imagination, and treated it as real. Then what about the real one? Where did it go? Is it no longer in its original place?"

Seeing this, Lumian felt cold for no reason, his hair standing on end.

Lady "Magician" displayed some very terrifying possibilities, and also used seemingly casual brushstrokes, quite light descriptions, and continuously raised questions to create an atmosphere that was both calm and twisted, extremely pressing on the nerves, and would make one afraid of going crazy themselves if they thought about it carefully.

"Isn't this stronger than the ability of most best-selling novel writers to tell horror plots now?" Lumian slandered his Major Arcana card.

He shook his head and threw "0-01" and the "City of Exiles" Morora to the back of his mind, not thinking deeply.

He was afraid he would go crazy if he kept thinking about it.

This was not impossible. Since finishing that information until now, Lumian hadn't slept. Although he had eliminated fatigue by resetting his physical state at 6 AM every day, he would occasionally hear some indescribable, hair-raising sounds by his ears, as if they were calls from the depths of the mountains.

Hu... Lumian exhaled and continued reading the letter:

"Alright, I won't scare you anymore. In short, before actually coming into contact with '0-01', do not blindly deny any guess or any possibility.

"I have confirmed the auditory hallucinations you mentioned; they are mild pollution caused by reading the '0-01' information. For some existences, just by understanding, just by knowing its name rather than its code name, there is a possibility of suffering pollution. Fortunately, your fate is linked to that guy with a long name, which in a sense is equivalent to having an angel's level, and you also have higher-level things on you such as Mr. 'Fool's' seal and the aura of the 'Red Emperor', which is why you only had a few auditory hallucinations and felt that kind of call, instead of suddenly becoming paranoid, extreme, wanting to find the treasure in the mountains, and finally disappearing on some night."

Lady "Magician" really likes telling horror stories, she has to expand what could be explained in a few sentences into the possible encounters of "me"... Lumian had known this Major Arcana card of his for a while, and the number of letters exchanged was too many to count on two hands, so he was quite familiar with her word usage habits and writing style.

"A reminder, you are in a sense equivalent to having an angel's level, but you won't suffer the kind of pollution where the higher the sequence, the easier it is to be affected. This is your special point, and the reason you can go to many special places. Therefore, some existences want to use this point. You need to pay attention, be careful and cautious, and often examine yourself.

"By the way, let me thank you on behalf of Miss 'Justice' and 'Judgment'. The appearance of the '0-01' information and the clarity of the whereabouts of Forseti Solomon allowed them to complete a task Mr. 'Fool' entrusted before falling asleep, which is why this reward is so generous...

"Your worry is not a problem. After missing the first time for tracking, whether it's 'Bard', 'Crazy Witch', or traces left by other core members of 'April Fool's', they are more likely to be traps rather than clues. Of course, traps can also provide certain information. As long as you can withstand the corresponding danger, you can dig out the person who set the trap.

"If, I say if, you discover high-sequence people of the three pathways of 'Seer', 'Apprentice', and 'Marauder' while investigating the whereabouts of core members of 'April Fool's', you can chant my name and ask me for help.

"Remember, the following is my name, it comes with the effect of secrecy and cannot be passed on:

"The traveler who wanders the starry sky, the vassal of the King of Yellow and Black, the mage who records the world."

"King of Yellow and Black" is another name for Mr. 'Fool'... Wandering the starry sky, recording the world, sounds very powerful... Is it really the "Star Angel" in the scriptures? Lumian remembered it while seeing that honorific name gradually fading, as if it had been erased and swallowed by the void.

Lady "Magician" wrote at the end of the letter:

"The Minor Arcana card 'Knight of Swords' affiliated with Lady 'Hermit' went to Feynapotter a few months ago because of something. After you arrive there, if you need help or intelligence support, you can contact him.

"His messenger is:

"The peculiar creature that wanders in the Upper Realm, the one-half fairy that plucks the strings, the messenger belonging exclusively to the 'Knight of Swords'."

One-half fairy... Lumian had vaguely seen information about similar Spirit Realm creatures, but at that time he was mainly browsing quickly to choose a suitable contract object, so he didn't look carefully, which made it difficult to remember now.

At the same time, he noticed that the messenger incantation for the "Knight of Swords" didn't use the conventional format. This might be out of fear that the enemy would guess the correct three-stage description, summon his messenger, and thus target him.

Anyway, with a restrictive phrase like "messenger belonging exclusively to the Knight of Swords", the second sentence doesn't necessarily have to use descriptions like being friendly to humans, and since it can become the messenger of the "Knight of Swords", it can be assumed to be friendly to humans.

Lumian read Lady "Magician"'s letter from beginning to end again, worried about missing important information hidden in the teasing words.

Suddenly, the bedroom door was knocked on with a thud-thud-thud.

As Lumian looked up, the door creaked open, and Ludwig poked his slightly chubby and somewhat honest-looking head in, saying bluntly:

"I'm hungry, you should cook."

"Didn't you just eat so many cakes and cookies?" Lumian's mouth twitched.

"Those are desserts, not a proper meal." Ludwig said seriously.

Then, he licked his lips quietly:

"Besides, your cooking is quite good, and those dishes are relatively unique. With a cook around, I don't want to gnaw on raw beef, hard bread, and potatoes I just bought."

There was a bit more pleading in the little boy's expression.

Lumian "hehed" and said:

"Why don't you do it yourself?"

"I need to recover a bit more before I can do it myself." Ludwig answered subconsciously, then immediately changed his tone, "I'm still just a little kid, you actually want me to go to the kitchen to cook? Aren't you afraid I'll get hurt by the knife or burned by the fire?"

I'm only afraid you'll eat the knife... What does "need to recover a bit more before I can do it" mean? Is the sequence higher than the current power "Cook"? Can't you cook if you're not a Cook? Lumian saw Ludwig leaning against the door frame, looking at him with brown eyes full of anticipation, and suddenly felt that such a scene was somewhat familiar.

Once, he was also like this, begging his sister Aurora.

Lumian sighed, stood up, and said:

"I'm only responsible for three meals. At other times, you can solve it with desserts, bread, and cold dishes. Don't bother me."

As he spoke, he left the bedroom and walked into the kitchen.

While he was wearing an apron and busy cooking, Ludwig, wearing a caramel-colored coat, waited at the kitchen door, wiping his mouth from time to time.

After Lumian fried a steak, he picked it up and threw it outside casually.

Ludwig caught it with quick eyes and hands, and tore it into his stomach in a few bites.

Seeing this, Lumian laughed secretly, feeling that this guy was even more outrageous than he was back then.

…………

Underground Trier, inside a quarry cavity.

Lumian stood in front of the set-up altar, with the "Wall of Spirituality" that had just been removed beside him.

He had already completed the summoning ritual for the "Contractee", newly acquired two contract abilities, and was waiting for Franca and the others to arrive to see who could successfully possess a messenger.

One of the two abilities was "Shadow Transformation", which allowed Lumian to truly transform into a shadow and become a part of the shadow, thereby achieving the purpose of hiding and sneaking. This was what he currently lacked.

This type of ability was also in the arcane knowledge that came with the "Contractee", but Lumian still chose to look for it in the Spirit Realm creature information provided by Lady "Magician", which would make it impossible for the Fate's gifts to guess what negative effects he was bearing.

In the end, Lumian contracted a Spirit Realm creature named "Thin and Long Strange Shadow", sacrificed six servings of fresh beef and lamb flesh, and obtained this ability, and he also became more afraid of sunlight than ordinary humans.

This was not to the extent that vampires feared sunlight, and Lumian could fully withstand it by relying on the endurance ability of a "Monk".

The other ability he acquired was "Bottle of Fiction". He felt that this ability, which the priest had displayed, was very characteristic and also very practical. It could effectively screen enemies and create a secret space that the opponent could not easily escape from, where only the bottle mouth could leave, but traps could be attached.

This was an ability that none of the Spirit Realm creatures he currently knew about could provide, so he could only summon that creature named "Face of Fantasy" and use a bottle of fresh blood with strong spirituality to complete the contract.

That fresh blood had to come from a Beyonder of at least Sequence 7 or a corresponding supernatural creature. Lumian certainly wouldn't use his own, because sacrificing fresh blood to the "Face of Fantasy" could lead to him slowly becoming a monster. He used the blood Lady "Magician" extracted from Gardner Martin's corpse—this was one of the auxiliary materials for "Reaper", the amount was sufficient and very abundant.

The corresponding negative effect was a bit more greed.

Not long after, Franca, Jenna, and Anthony arrived at this quarry cavity one after another.

PS: Recommending a book, a new work by Ah Fei in Yellow Clothes, "The End of the Gentleman"

In an unknown compartment of the Deep Library, in a corner that couldn't be reached even when the candle wax burned out, a sick ancient book was hidden. Countless parasites were rooted between the pages, replacing the original story text. If you accidentally find this book, if you want to read the sick story body, please be sure to check your mental state regularly.

According to the author, this book is holding a welcome event recently, and a large number of gifts will be given away at that time.

(End of chapter)