Eat

As soon as the three-tiered silver-black Jewelry Box, inlaid with various gemstones, was taken out and placed on the Coffee Table table, Franca suddenly felt a chill run down her spine, sensing a strange Change in her surroundings.

After becoming the "Calamity Witch," her spiritual premonitions became even stronger.

Lumian's head turned on his left shoulder, revealing Alista Tudor's face facing forward, gazing at the "Box of the Old One".

The exquisite Jewelry Box suddenly creaked, as if the materials that made it up were about to break under unseen pressure.

All the abnormalities that Franca sensed then disappeared.

"' The Box of the Old One '?" she asked Lumian curiously.

Although she hadn't participated in the gatherings of the Major Arcana or the distribution of "0" level Sealed Artifact, she had been warned beforehand about what to stay away from in the event of a melee, and the "Box of the Old One" was one of them.

Lumian nodded, extended his right hand, pressed it to the top of the "Box of the Old One," and gently tapped it, saying, "I feel it has a connection with Ludwig, so I borrowed it for a while."

"Fate" was a word he learned in the Dream City. However, it was not uncommon in the Southern and Northern Continent before they became Ruins. On the one hand, members of the "Curly-Haired Baboon Research Society" would unconsciously spread some new words. On the other hand, Lumian believed that Harrison was not the only "guest" from Penglai. They were each responsible for different things, but in the end, they did not produce any results.

Was she destined to meet Ludwig? Franca instinctively turned her head to look at Ludwig, who was dressed in children's formal attire.

Ludwig stared blankly at the "Box of the Old One," the Steak still in his mouth, as if lost in a dream.

Lumian's Subordinate to the Third Layer of the silver-black Jewelry Box, and he smiled as he inquired of Ludwig:

"Can you sense what's hidden inside?"

Ludwig, as if in a trance, stretched out his palm and placed it on the other side of the Third Layer of the "Box of the Old One".

Almost simultaneously, Franca heard strange chewing, swallowing, and digesting sounds, as if something inside her Devouring at her flesh and bones.

It came from the Depths the Third Layer the "Box of the Old One," and echoed from the bottom of her heart.

"Yes, yes..." The Steak Ludwig was holding fell to the ground with a thud.

The little boy's face resembled a bed sheet draped over him, with his "hands and feet" creating numerous "tents."

He spoke with a mixture of longing, worship, fear, and trembling. "Yes, it is the power of ' Primordial Hunger '!"

"Primordial Hunger"... one of the "Rulers of the Old One"... Franca felt the surrounding environment suddenly become Gloom and layered, isolating her from a kind of malicious gaze.

She looked around and suddenly understood:

We have already moved to Lumian's Divine Kingdom to prevent the "Primordial Hunger" from using the Mysticism connections brought about by our previous discussions to affect the stability of the Protected Zone.

Lumian's middle head, still smiling, continued to question Ludwig:

"What will happen if I open this layer?"

Ludwig recoiled as if electrocuted, stammering, "It might... it might immediately devour everything around it, eat it all up! Or it might start by... by eating from the very bottom of our subconscious and the island of our minds, eating emotions, eating memories, eating spirit and consciousness, eating flesh and blood, eating night and day, eating good and bad, kindness and evil, eating order and Calamity, until it eats up parts of the rules of this world, making it unable to maintain stability, causing the Barrier to lose their foundation..."

"As expected, in the later stages, your Pathway will begin to consume rules, concepts, Authority, and even symbols." Lumian nodded in satisfaction at the middle head.

He looked at Ludwig with a half-smile, and the Witch whispered, "Can you devour the danger hidden in the box?"

Cheek turned his face to face, waiting with great interest for Ludwig's reply.

Ludwig was clearly startled and blurted out, "How could that be?"

He doesn't seem to mean that it's impossible to do, but rather that it's not permissible to do it:

That was rebellion, that was blasphemy!

Lumian did not answer, but looked at Ludwig with an unchanged smile.

Ludwig fell silent, sometimes showing timidity, sometimes obvious resistance, sometimes unable to hide his excitement, and sometimes hesitant and afraid.

His expression had never been so rich.

Franca entered spectator mode, waiting for Lumian to Instigation something, and for Ludwig to offer some suggestions.

After a few seconds, Lumian smiled and said at a moderate pace, "The core of your Pathway is 'eating' and 'digesting.' Eating the external world is not the end, nor is eating rules, concepts, Authority, and symbols. Eating yourself, eating your father, and eating the Deity you believe in is your ultimate Fate, the most extreme hunger."

"Perhaps this is the meaning of His giving birth to you."

"Isn't this a bit too extreme?" Ludwig asked, his face clear and educated.

"Good lad, you've got some Humanity now..." Franca nodded with satisfaction.

She felt that if she chose the "Spectator" Pathway, she could Acting very well.

Lumian glanced at Jenna's face on the head on his right shoulder and smiled at Ludwig, "It is indeed extreme. I don't want you to be controlled by your own Divinity and do such extreme things."

"So, I'm only asking if you can eat the Concealment danger in the box, not if you can eat the ' Primordial Hunger.' In the current situation, improving yourself is the best option."

Ludwig opened his mouth, then closed it again.

His expression Change for a moment, and then he suddenly made a swallowing sound.

"Lord, you smell so good?" Franca mentally prepared Ludwig's lines.

After a while, Ludwig finally spoke:

"Not now, not yet. I have to wait until I recover to my original level, and also until another Great Ones provides assistance."

Lumian nodded slightly and said, "Is it really necessary to have the help of the ' Rulers of the Old One ' just to eat, temporarily store it, and attach it to oneself without digesting and absorbing it?"

"Yes, it is necessary." Ludwig nodded emphatically.

Lumian for a few seconds, then smiled again:

"Then let's wait a little longer."

He then extended one of the arms holding the Uniqueness of the "Red Priest" and one of the newly grown beautiful hands on his right side to Ludwig —in the current state, although the Uniqueness of the "Red Priest" still retained the form of Burnt Banner, it would no longer drive the witnesses Loss of Control madness, because it was part of Lumian and was under control. Lumian could make it display Divinity influence if it wanted to, and it wouldn't if it didn't want to.

"Which one do you want to eat?" Lumian asked Ludwig with a smile.

Ludwig paused for a moment:

Is it really safe to eat?

Franca blinked, finally understanding what Lumian was trying to do:

By feeding Ludwig parts of his own body, he enabled Ludwig to acquire the Sequence 2 Beyonder Characteristic that he had separated, thereby restoring Ludwig to his original level and freeing him from the seal of the "God of Knowledge and Wisdom".

-- Lumian currently has three additional Sequence 2 Beyonder Characteristic: one "Weather Warlock" and two "Calamity Witch".

"Of course, I'm your Godfather." Lumian nodded with a smile.

Ludwig swallowed again, looked around, hesitated for a few seconds, and said, "I choose it."

He was referring to Lumian's left arm, which possessed a "Weather Warlock" Beyonder Characteristic from Tudor's "Conqueror" Beyonder Characteristic.

"Okay." Lumian raised the corresponding arm.

Ludwig leaned Past and crunched on the hand.

Amidst the flowing, Crimson blood Burning with Flames, the sickening, heart-pounding sounds of Devouring echoed continuously.

Franca gasped, thinking Lumian had gone too far. Wouldn't it have been better to separate the Beyonder Characteristic first and then feed them to Ludwig?

It's not like it's impossible.

She turned her gaze to the Tudor face on Lumian's left shoulder, noticing a hint of Pain in His expression—an instinctive Pain.

The corresponding "Weather Warlock" Beyonder Characteristic belongs to Alista Tudor. Is letting Ludwig directly devour it a form of revenge? However, you yourself will also Pain... Franca suddenly had a guess and sighed.

Soon, Ludwig devoured Lumian's hand, leaving only the bare, iron-colored wrist bone and the Burning blood that stained it red.

Ludwig pulled back, licked the blood from his mouth, and looked like he wanted to eat some more.

His face, his skin, was about to be torn open, and a huge thing was about to swell out from inside.

The seal on the "God of Knowledge and Wisdom" can no longer be stopped.

Just then, Ludwig consciously controlled himself, refraining from breaking the seal and maintaining his form as a little boy.

Lumian smiled, then turned to Franca and said, "I'll separate the two extra ' Calamity Witch ' Beyonder Characteristic later to make my body more balanced. Hehe, the Disease Church also needs '0' level Sealed Artifact. Hmm, the name ' Disease Church ' will also need to be gradually changed later."

"Okay, okay!" Franca replied very quickly, as if afraid that Lumian would "go back on his word."

Although she knew that Lumian was mostly planning for his own Future, it was a good thing that he was willing to think about the Future.

Lumian sized up Ludwig for a few seconds, then asked with a smile, "What are your plans after this?"

Ludwig paused for a moment before saying, "If I weren't eaten at the Apocalypse, I'd like to be a child first, grow up normally, grow old, experience a complete human life, and then make comparisons."

Lumian hummed in agreement and casually asked, "You've returned to the Angel level now, right? What's your Sequence name?"

Blood and Flames mingled at his severed wrist, coalescing back into a hand.

Ludwig thought for a few seconds and said, "In your language, it's called ' Angel of Devouring '."