Chapter 3553: Ring of Destiny

The scroll was not very long, and probably because the storage measures were not done well, the ink had faded severely, and there were many worm-eaten marks on the scroll. But the content written on it in characters from an unknown era could still be barely recognized. It is worth mentioning that the characters used here looked like earthworms.

【It's a snake.】

Like small black snakes.

"Is this... knowledge of the Ring?"

The scroll recorded a special item called the "Ring of Destiny," which was the product of a complete segment of destiny condensing. If the Ancient God "Mr. Ring" represented the destiny of the entire world, and the dice held by everyone represented the tiny destiny condensed from a certain experience, then the "Ring of Destiny" represented the truly existing destiny.

Of course, although the name is very similar to the "Ring of Destiny" of the Ringed Shushi, the two are completely different things.

"Hmm? Isn't this what Luvia mentioned last night? Ring of Destiny? So the first star that fell was actually that ring? Has anyone really come into contact with this kind of thing before? Luvia said that ancient diviners had the habit of branding rings on their chests..."

The statement on the scroll was very similar to the information Luvia obtained during divination. The place where the Ring of Destiny appeared meant that a certain destiny in this area was frozen, and the Ring of Destiny needed to be shattered before destiny could flow again.

And if you embed the Ring of Destiny into your own body, you can become a "Destined One." In this state, everything you encounter will lean towards the destiny revealed by the "Ring of Destiny," and anyone or anything that hinders you from walking on the path of destiny will suffer inexplicable bad luck; and any action you take to actively approach that destiny will definitely succeed.

The writer of the scroll even gave several examples that Xia De had never heard of to illustrate the terror of the "Ring of Destiny."

In the Third Era, someone embedded the "Ring of Death" into their body, so they turned themselves into an undead life and became an envoy spreading the death plague. Finally, they carried the "Undead Calamity" and fought a decisive battle with evil spirits and demons on the wasteland, and in the end, they actually made that evil spirit and demon, which originally did not have the concept of "death," never appear again for the entire Third Era.

In an unknown year of the Fourth Era, someone discovered the "Ring of Wealth" sealed in an ancient temple of destiny. After integrating it into themselves, they enjoyed glory and wealth for a lifetime, until they became the richest person in the world as an ordinary person.

But this was not without a price. The owner of the "Ring of Death" almost died immediately after obtaining destiny, and their soul was rejected by death ever since; the wealthy merchant himself did not pay a price, but after his death, his huge family almost immediately fell apart. In order to compete for the wealth left by the merchant, the "War of Successors," famous in the Fourth Era, almost destroyed half of the southern continent, and all his direct descendants also died in the later stages of the war, and finally the wealth was obtained by outsiders.

The writer of the scroll believed that in the era when the Ancient Gods were still present, Mr. Ring would give the "Ring of Destiny" to his chosen ones or those who were selected, but with the control of the Ancient Gods, the effects of these Rings of Destiny were not so powerful, and the price that needed to be paid was not unacceptable.

But in the era when the Ancient Gods left, destiny was no longer controlled by the "Ouroboros," so these "Rings of Destiny" were so powerful, and even the "Ring" itself could breed powerful "Ring Beasts."

The scroll even mentioned a strange black snake. That kind of snake could evolve infinitely by touching destiny. The writer of the scroll regarded it as a "Ring Beast" evolved from a "wrong Ring of Destiny," and believed that this kind of thing was a manifestation of the world moving towards collapse. But he also believed that this strange "Ring Beast" was not evolved from a complete "Ring," but was a fragment of wrong destiny, and its main body was very likely just a part of the ring, an arc.

The writer of the scroll finally wrote—in the Third Era, in order to fight against evil spirits and demons, mortals tried the power of the Ring of Destiny for the first time, and even found some ways to use it other than embedding it in the body. But the "Ring of Destiny" is by no means something that can be touched. The destiny of mortals should be mastered and controlled by themselves, rather than pointing to a single direction.

Xia De looked cautiously at the content written in these strange "snake letters," feeling as if he had learned some shocking big secret.

And the signature at the bottom of the scroll used the older Kassenrik common language letters:

"Chaneum Rod."

Xia De read the name, and then looked in the direction Luvia left:

"Wait a minute, is this name a bit familiar?"

"She" smiled gently. Of course, the outsider was familiar with this name, because the great President Chaneum Rod of the Diviner Association was the creator of the Rod cards. He was inspired by 【Founding · Destiny】 left by Mr. Riddle, the "luckiest mortal," and found the person of 【Founding · Knowledge】. He was the most critical figure in the Diviner Association's rise to prosperity in the Sixth Era.

Even Megan/Audrey's ancestor, that genius diviner, praised this president whom she had no chance to meet in her private notes.

When Xia De met Laplace Howard for the last time, he even learned that the design and issuance of the Rod cards were themselves an attempt by the Diviner Association to save the world—the power of civilization and enlightenment was woven into a huge ritual, attempting to use the elements of enlightenment to gather the civilization that was about to fall apart.

The many series of Rod cards included past stories, ancient legends, folk anecdotes, and modern civilization. These were all means for diviners to use the elements of enlightenment, attempting to weave all the information of past, present, and future civilization into a net to gather the light of civilization.

And the initial conception and construction of this ritual certainly had a lot to do with President Chaneum Rod.

No matter from any aspect, this president who became the source of the name "Rod cards" was a figure that could not be bypassed in the entire Sixth Era. And his influence on the era when the outsider arrived was even more countless.

"So speaking of it, the Diviner Association has long known about the 'Ring of Destiny'! Tiny destiny, broken destiny, complete destiny, dice, arcs, rings... they know even more than the information Luvia obtained from divination... they probably also long knew about the Ring Beast in the Starfall Bay?"

Almost everyone was telling Xia De that the Diviner Association must have hidden many things, and Xia De also believed this, but he didn't expect them to hide even such important things.

However, Xia De was not particularly angry. According to President Rod, the matter of the "Ring of Destiny" was indeed not suitable to be told.

"But if according to Luvia's statement, the fragments after the Ring of Destiny is smashed can turn into destiny dice, then how many dice would the Diviner Association have in its hands?"

Stella's candidate ranking was always only second, and Xia De now fully understood the reason.

This week's "gift task" was to read at least 20 pages of a book, which was not a difficult task for Xia De. And if 【God's Gift Box】 hadn't given such a gift, I'm afraid he would have to wait until Luvia arrived at the association, or even until the decisive battle with the "Starfall Beast," for the people in the association to be willing to reveal some things.

And after knowing the "arc" and "Ring of Destiny" that were more complete than the "destiny dice," both "Mr. Snake" and "Starfall Beast" could be classified as "rings." It's just that the former was more special, and at the same time, the former was also the reason for triggering the "infinite snake," which was the "wrong Ring of Destiny."

【But what truly triggered the error were the Ancient Gods who extended the world to this point.】

"She" reminded him like this, but Xia De didn't think so:

"There is nothing wrong with saving the world, and the error itself needs to be defined. The Ancient Gods allowed the world to continue for so long after the end of the Mythical Era, and even left behind methods suspected of saving the world again. They were absolutely not wrong."

He thought in his heart, calculated the time to pick up Ajelina again, and then took the scroll with him, told Little Mia that he would be back soon, and went out again.

Thus, half an hour later, Luvia in the special train compartment was holding a teacup, sitting in a soft chair, looking at the "itinerary schedule" prepared by the association for the diviners, when she suddenly seemed to sense something and looked out the window. By the railway were silver-white farmlands covered by snow in winter, and on the distant ridge, there seemed to be a silver light shadow running forward rapidly.

The color of that figure was really similar to the snow, and Luvia was not sure if she had seen it wrong. She stood up and came to the window to look carefully, and then confirmed that she hadn't seen it wrong, and that the silver figure had already left the ridge, following the train in the snow while rapidly approaching this side.

Only then did Luvia see clearly that it was a silver wolf that looked young.

The silver wolf did not come completely to the side of the train. When it was two hundred meters away from the train:

"Lagley's Jump!"

"Oh!"

Luvia immediately hugged the little wolf that appeared out of thin air in front of her, and then almost let it slip out of her hands because of the different inertia of both sides.

"Xia De, how did you..."

She thought again that the whole train was full of diviners, so she lowered her voice and asked with some surprise:

"Did you find me by relying on the fire seal? How did you catch up? I remember I didn't drop any luggage. Do you miss me so much?"

"I will always miss you."

Xia De, who had turned back into a human, said with a smile, but he also knew the risk of appearing on this train rashly, so he took out the scroll again:

"This is this week's gift. You should take a look at it first."

Luvia opened the scroll and read it once. When she saw the content and the signature, she was as surprised as Xia De was more than half an hour ago:

"Ring of Destiny, Ring Beast? The association actually hid so many things?"

"I think it's necessary for you to know about this matter. It would be too late to tell you on Thursday." ===== CHAPTER 3554 =====