Chapter 3618: Seeing Laplace Howard Again

After returning to the ship with Iluna, Iluna didn't rush to leave, but went to the Snow Mountain Hall to visit Ellie and Little Liana. It wasn't until after eating lunch with everyone that she said goodbye to Xia De and promised to come often:

"I will send a letter if I have clues~"

Luweiya also appeared on the ship after lunch, but she didn't meet Iluna and only stayed for half an hour. After hearing from Xia De that "Desire" did not cooperate with Mr. Snake, the purple-eyed girl also breathed a sigh of relief:

"In this way, there is one less final enemy on the snow mountain. Then what about the demon and Mr. Snake?"

"I think it's a cooperative relationship, but don't pay too much attention to it. There is already a way to deal with it. Having experienced the things of the pseudo-human and the Star-Falling Beast, I won't let it make me so embarrassed for the third time."

Luweiya came through the snow not only to visit everyone, but also to share new information:

"The association may go to the temple again in the near future."

"Did the association find a way to locate the temple?"

"It's not locating, the association just discovered that the temple is actually still on the top of the mountain, Mr. Snake just moved its entrance. And the temple is definitely not everything hidden on the top of the mountain. There should be a fairly large ruin there.

Recently, arranging the 'Grand Movement of Fate' ritual, the association used this to learn a lot about the snow mountain from the Fatum people, so it is currently organizing manpower to crack the secrets of the Peak of Fate on the top of the mountain. If things go well, the entrance might be opened again after the ritual."

"Doesn't that mean facing Mr. Snake again?"

Xi Wei asked, but Luweiya shook her head:

"The President estimates that the snake should only be able to move in the temple. This exploration focuses on the ruins around the temple. I don't know why, but the President seems to think that the ruins around are more important than that temple."

"Because the real upper spring is there?"

Xia De guessed, and Luweiya was also not clear:

"Another thing is about the information of the Ring of Fate. This information comes from the Church, and it is information obtained from someone you didn't expect—the Mad Omniscient."

Megan was also talking to everyone in the banquet hall on the ship, and was stunned after hearing this title:

"Leigins Prishia? The first candidate for knowledge and wisdom who was defeated by Xia De in the Heart of Pantanal?"

At that time, Megan didn't know Xia De, and she heard this from other witches later. Leigins Prishia actually held the ritual at that time, but the power was sealed in the "Aikenola - Chosen One's Arrow" afterward.

After losing the power of the Chosen One, he fell into madness. When Xia De saw him last time, he also said Xia De was some "demon from the outer realm" (Chapter 1164).

Leigins Prishia is currently jointly guarded by the Five Gods Church. The Church believes that although he fell in the battle with the "God-Caller," he also has part of the power of omniscience. And in the past year, the Church felt more and more that the "God-Caller" was not the Chosen One of "Knowledge and Wisdom" as they originally thought, so they paid more and more attention to Leigins Prishia.

It's just that he is still crazy, and most of the sentences he says are difficult to understand. If one listens and understands them forcibly, it will make others fall into madness instead.

But this time Mr. Snake occupied the temple, making the candidates of fate lack too many things that must be known. So, this time, the Church, which maintains a neutral attitude and does not publicly support any non-evil cult candidates, and just wants to deal with the danger on the snow mountain as soon as possible, tried to find some information from him.

I don't know if it was the arrangement of fate or just good luck, but some content about the "Ring of Fate" was actually interpreted from the crazy ravings of Leigins Prishia.

"I only heard the news for now. It is said that it is related to how to obtain the Ring of Fate. But it is not obtained from the outside, but condensing one's own fate. After the Church organizes the information, it will send the information to the association, us, and the 【Clown Troupe】. The time shouldn't be too long."

Luweiya said this, and this can coincide with the information provided by Stella. The white-haired girl said that one must have a Ring of Fate that matches oneself to participate in the final act of the story. Xia De was curious about where others would go to find the Ring of Fate.

If the candidates can also condense their own fate, then things will be simpler.

Luweiya came in a hurry and left in a hurry. Xia De was a bit worried about the heavy snow outside, so he specially sent her to the city.

After returning to the ship, Xia De took away the "Heart of the Living Dead" brought by Iluna this morning. Seeing that Xia De wanted to see his ancestor, Megan also said:

"I'll go with you, I won't enter death, just wait for you outside."

Xia De had no opinion on this, and Claire, who happened to be on the ship, originally wanted to go with them—she was very curious about what Xia De's home was like. But she didn't have the space spirit rune, so she couldn't return easily after going, so she could only watch Megan leave with Xia De.

Little Mia was alone at home today, but Dorothy prepared lunch for it, so the cat, who was taking a nap on the windowsill after eating, just "meowed" when it heard Xia De came, which counted as a greeting, and then jumped onto the back of the sofa to continue sleeping.

Xia De carried the suitcase and Megan to the third-floor corridor. The 【True Death】 spirit rune shone in the center of the corridor, and the black iron fence door with patterns of elderflower and mandrake flowers appeared:

"May the eternal end bless me before the end."

The hinges of the two fence doors wrapped around left and right fell off with a clatter. Xia De took Megan's hand and pushed open the fence door to walk into the white fog:

【Outlander, you have entered the "Soul Cemetery."】

White fog filled the surroundings, and various standing stone tablets could be seen everywhere in the fog. Megan had followed Xia De into here before, so she just looked around curiously at this time. Xia De took the frozen heart from the box and held it upward.

The white fog swallowed the heart, and the huge stone door slowly and silently emerged in the thick fog of the cemetery.

Although she had seen Xia De do this, Megan was still full of awe. And as Xia De bent down, lowered his center of gravity, and pressed both hands on the two doors to open the stone door, the light of the underworld moon seeping through the cracks of the stone door made Megan feel even more that she shouldn't advance:

"I am not a witch like Flora who can accompany you into this kind of place, I will wait for you here. Hurry up and come back. If the ancestor is unwilling to answer questions, you can threaten him with us. In fact, he attaches great importance to the continuation of bloodline."

Megan said to Xia De with her hands behind her back. Xia De nodded, then turned sideways through the crack of the door and returned to the beach illuminated by the underworld moon again.

Quiet, silent, but beautiful. Countless pure white souls on the water surface outside the beach were flashing and moving toward the half-sunk moon in the distance. The small wooden boat was stranded on the shore of the beach. Xia De squinted his eyes and looked at the moon for a while, then walked to the front of the wooden boat and called out on the shore:

"Laplace Klein Howard."

His voice actually didn't spread, but he believed that the person who should hear this call would definitely hear it.

After waiting patiently for a while, a figure walking against the surrounding souls appeared in front of the underworld moon. Soon that glowing translucent soul came to the shore. Laplace Howard no longer had the crazy appearance of surpassing the thirteenth ring by relying on the "Edwards Ascension Technique" during the decisive battle. His face was very calm, and the whole person looked at least ten years younger than before. His current appearance was an elegant middle-aged man.

"I guessed that you would come to death to see me. I lost to you, but you still need me. So, are you in trouble at this moment?"

He stood at a distance of three meters from the beach and asked Xia De, but the tone was more like a declarative sentence than a question. Xia De did not deny it:

"Yes, there is indeed some trouble. So I thought of you, you can definitely provide help."

The thirteenth-ring diviner neither agreed nor refused:

"Has the story of the Chosen One of Fate begun?"

"On Fatumunster Island, I am not surprised that you can guess it."

The diviner standing on the water continued to say calmly:

"Then let me guess again—do you want to know information about solidified fate from me, or do you want to know about the path of the pilgrim of fate?"

"Although these are important, I already know them."

Xia De described what happened in the month after the Year-End Festival. Laplace Howard listened patiently, and only sighed calmly after Xia De finished speaking:

"Very interesting. I have also learned about some things sealed under that snow mountain, but even before I left the association, I didn't know that it was the 'fate of the end of the First Era'. It sounds like this is more dangerous than me who completed the Edwards Ascension Technique, and it is indeed suitable as the ending of the story expected by Mr. Ring."

The "dialogue" between the two was more like a spiritual exchange, because in fact, neither of their mouths opened. Behind Laplace Howard, countless souls moved forward quietly. This place did not change because of the arrival of the Outlander.

"Then about the Ring of Fate, is there anything you know but I don't?"

Xia De asked again. The diviner didn't answer immediately, but looked at him calmly. Just when Xia De thought he would refuse, he said again:

"Although the arc is an incomplete fate, embedding it into a human body that matches its fate, with the resonance of fate, after the host finally realizes the fate guided by the arc, the arc may turn into a complete Ring of Fate. This is something the Prophet Association has known for a long time. Fate can be shattered by external forces, but it can also be repaired."

Although this information was temporarily useless to Xia De, it filled his information gap. He had never thought that the arc could turn into a ring before. ===== CHAPTER 3619 =====