Chapter 3683: Fate Ring Awakening and Human Awakening

The power exhibited by the fate ring of "The Fool" at her navel was stronger than any other fate ring present, and the black Ouroboros rotating on her forehead possessed destructive power that was no less than the power of that black snake statue she had seen when she first went to the temple.

"Am I beautiful?"

The beautiful woman with closed eyes and flowing black tears asked. The weak, hoarse voice made Iluna think of a certain "mermaid" she disliked very much, and the movement of the other party raising her arm to stroke her own face made Iluna feel an even stronger sense of déjà vu.

"The 'Lover's' body naturally radiated a soft light, but that light was blood-colored. In the 'Fate Posture,' her power had already surpassed Iluna, who was currently in a poor state."

Iluna replied:

"Your appearance is beautiful, but what exactly did you do just now?"

The weak, hoarse voice answered this question, while black tears continued to flow:

"I love him, but I could only use fate to maintain our love. Now I have devoured him, and we are fused together forever. My fate and his fate are now tightly connected. This is the ultimate fate I wanted to realize. So, I grasped the truth of fate, I... have become more 'complete'."

"You mean, you have completely completed the fate of 'The Fool'? By using an alternative method, you finally achieved your goal? If you really think this is the fate you were pursuing, yes, I admit this is indeed very clownish."

Besides this, Iluna had many things she wanted to say, but she took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the pile of words in her heart. The tiny "Star Dew" she wore as a bracelet on her wrist fell into her palm, and a blade of light appeared on her thumb, cutting her palm, after which the Star Dew entered the wound.

With the blood circulation, the power of the stars and Xia De's blood gradually dissolved. Iluna could clearly feel that with every breath she took, her state was becoming stronger.

Although she had exited the "Fate Posture," Iluna felt that she could handle another battle. The experience of fighting strong enemies many times in the past had already allowed her to adapt to the fact that enemies always had multiple forms. Thus, Iluna reached out to let Stella move further away, took a deep breath, and crimson thunder began to crackle on the tips of her hair.

"I have reached the end of fate, and you have not yet seen your own heart and future. You who are like this cannot defeat me. Even if you still possess power, but without reaching the end of fate, your every action remains under the shackles of fate.

Hereby I declare: I have reached the end of fate, I have realized my own fate, the beginning and the end are connected, the self-devouring soul... is complete."

The human-headed, snake-bodied monster's arms on its sides transformed into four arms, and the black Ouroboros rotating on its forehead spun faster and faster. Steam mist appeared behind it, and amidst the strange bell sounds and whistle sounds, a giant hammer struck, and a brass-colored fate ring appeared behind it.

Without going through an awakening ceremony, it had transformed into a ring-warlock at this moment, and the moment its fate ring appeared, it was already at the ninth ring.

Witnessing this scene, both Iluna and Stella felt that they had learned some information about the origin of the "ring-warlock" profession from this event, but facing a strong enemy, they had no time to ponder.

A total of three fate rings were lit up by them, and the clones of the red butterfly sisters sent the 【Nightwatcher】, which had been lying in the distance, back to Iluna.

The silver sword was raised, and the zither music was played again, while the woman with the weak and hoarse voice allowed her fate ring to fully emerge from the steam mist, and the core spirit rune "Snake" was lit up, followed by—

Crack!

A clear cracking sound came from within that huge body. Iluna thought it was the sound of some strange ability being cast, but soon she noticed that the nine-ring fate ring that had just emerged was also covered in cracks.

"Hmm? What kind of move is this?"

The girls soon learned that this was not a move, but that the other party really had a problem. Because the cracking sounds became more and more dense, cracks soon covered the monster's huge body and fate ring. These were not physical cracks, but conceptual cracks appearing on the entirety of the "Lover's" existence.

"Ah!"

A scream erupted, and the bone-chilling pain seemed to cause the soul to disintegrate.

The monster with the huge body covered its shattered, beautiful face, unable to support its body, and collapsed to the ground. Amidst the crackling sounds, its body disintegrated into various fragments of different shapes.

At this time, it no longer had that strange and sacred beauty. Even though its body and soul were disintegrating due to unknown reasons, the 【Su Sheng】 fate ring was still there. It did not die, but its body and soul were constantly cycling through disintegration-regeneration-disintegration-regeneration.

This cycle happened quite quickly. In the process of the other party's flesh and soul being forcibly torn apart and reorganized, Iluna even saw Baron Samir's face appearing and disappearing.

More and more things were becoming unclear, but Iluna's heterochromatic eyes felt that she saw a vague arc in that mass of flesh and blood...

"Did Xia De arrange another fate in advance?"

But Iluna was not the type of person who had to find out all the secrets like Xia De. She thought this was probably a preparation Xia De had made in advance:

"Good opportunity! Sun Spear!"

Her spirit had recovered, but the intense feeling of exhaustion in her body had not diminished at all. But Iluna still endured the discomfort of her body, entered the 【Fate Posture】 by resonating with fate again, and since she could no longer transform 【Nightwatcher】 into a thunder spear, this did not prevent her from simply using the sword as a ritual sword to cast 【Sun Spear】 again.

Crimson thunder struck the squirming mass of flesh on the ground, but the black ring 【The Fool】 held by a pale hand reaching out from the squirming flesh pulled the sun spear toward the center of the ring, after which the crimson thunder was directly absorbed by the ring.

Stella immediately cast a spell to help, and the wind and snow she summoned rushed toward the mass of flesh. She tried to lower the other party's activity by freezing, but it seemed the effect was still not very good.

With a crack, space was torn apart by the flying red butterflies, and the flesh located in space was torn into two halves along with the tearing of space.

Only, as the black ring formed by the Ouroboros rose again, the mass of flesh, which was still cycling through rapid division and regeneration, was all absorbed into the center of the floating ring.

The fate rings of 【The Fool】 and 【Su Sheng】 were floating in front of and behind the black Ouroboros ring, which was now a full meter in size. Iluna had already understood:

"It can't attack at all now, it can only be passively recovering. Although I don't know what happened to it, now is the best opportunity. Everyone, attack together!"

This time, it was not a projection of the sun spear. Iluna rarely used 【Nightwatcher】 directly, letting the thunder wrap around the sword before leaping up and stabbing the sword toward the black ring in the air.

Stella did not have such power, so she continued to cast spells by resonating with the 【Ice and Snow】 fate. The clones of the red butterfly sisters maintained their red butterfly form, and large swaths of butterflies flew toward the black Ouroboros ring, gradually wearing down the light on it.

"Neigh~"

The sound of a unicorn came, but it wasn't the unicorns that had been guarding the city and town with the elves, nor was it Amelia and Little Liana returning. It was Ellie, who had returned here with the 【Death】 arc in its mouth. It hadn't been gone long, but the changes in the situation upon its return made the little unicorn completely confused. But it still threw the black arc at Stella's feet. Stella immediately picked up the arc, mounted Ellie, and rushed toward the ring in the air.

She held the black arc like a black dagger just now. But this time, as the black Ouroboros ring vibrated with a hum, the black light erupting from the ring, although resisted by Iluna, caused Ellie and Stella to be shaken away. Fortunately, the red butterflies caught them, preventing them from falling and getting hurt.

"Hurry, act now, this monster seems to be recovering from the state of division and reorganization!"

Iluna reminded loudly. The tip of 【Nightwatcher】 had actually already pierced into the black ring. Coupled with the erosion of the red butterfly sisters' power, cracks had already appeared on this black ring, but before it completely shattered, they still couldn't harm the mass of flesh located in the center of the black ring.

At this moment, the faces of Valentine Halonin and Baron Samir were constantly appearing on the flesh, and Iluna felt sick just looking at it.

Thus, the white-haired girl, who had climbed up, picked up the 【Death】 arc again and mounted Ellie to charge toward the black Ouroboros ring for the second time. But even with the protection of the 【Ice and Snow】 fate, she was still shaken away by the power of the black ring.

"Neigh!"

But this time, Ellie managed to resist the power of the black ring. The little unicorn raised its horn in the air, and the silver moonlight bloomed from the horn, causing silver frost to be dyed onto its snow-white fur. It didn't catch Stella, who was falling, but instead bit the black 【Death】 arc that had slipped from Stella's hand, and then, after accelerating in the air, slammed into the center of the black ring.

The humming ring radiated circles of black light, trying to knock it away, but the little unicorn struggled forward in the air until it shook its head and slammed the black 【Death】 arc toward the 【Su Sheng】 ring floating in front of the black Ouroboros ring.

Hum~

Sensing a fatal threat, the black ring erupted with power again. This time, it even pushed Iluna away. Iluna saw Ellie being shaken away again before it could succeed, and it fell to the ground amidst sorrowful cries, caught by the red butterflies.

Stella hurriedly ran over to check on Ellie's condition, while the little unicorn quickly stood up from the ground again. It looked up at the black ring above and saw the powerful figure of Iluna in her human form.

Thus, Ellie finally understood what kind of power it should use now. The power brought by the fate connection it had established with the butterflies was triggered, and the faint red scar on Ellie's neck lit up again.

Ellie raised its horn, and in the pure white light, Ellie's own shadow appeared on the ground.

This time, Stella finally saw—

Ellie's shadow was not a unicorn; it had hands and feet, a slender figure—it was the shadow of a human girl.

Ellie's shadow was not a unicorn, but had hands and feet, a slender figure, that was the figure of a girl in human form.