Grave digging

The endless darkness, cramped environment, and hazy thoughts made Lumian extremely irritable even in his dreams. He wanted to tear open this prison and smash everything he saw.

He gradually understood that this was a dream, and tried hard to open his eyes, trying to wake up, but he couldn't succeed. Every time, he spent a lot of effort and felt that he finally woke up, but in the blink of an eye he fell into deeper darkness and a heavier Dream.

I don't know how long it took, but Lumian woke up naturally and saw a little light seeping through the window with the curtains drawn.

It's six o'clock in the morning.

Lumian raised his right hand and wiped his forehead, finding a layer of cold sweat on it that was about to dry up.

"Is this a spiritual warning? Or was it that when I was thinking about the death aura of Hunt Island yesterday, I recalled the afterimages of 'Samaritan Woman Spring' and 'Blood Emperor'. I had also considered the similarities between witnessing the mysterious death of Devil and Montsouris Ghosts, so with They came into contact again and suffered from shallow Corruption?" Lumian unable to accurately interpret the complete meaning of this Dream. He could only remind himself to be careful enough in the next step and keep in mind his own Primordial One purpose to Hunt Island:

It's just investigating the Devil legend, not solving that Devil.

Putting aside whether he has the strength to deal with that Devil or whether he needs to request assistance, the fact that "Earth Mother" and "Church" have been operating here for more than a hundred years and yet have not completely eradicated the target shows that even if all Major Arcana from "Tarot Club" come together, this matter may not be completely solved.

Lumian rolled over and got out of bed, took out Gold-Cased Pocket Watch from Breeze Ballroom, opened it and took a look:

A quarter past six.

Although it was still early, Lumian felt the urgency. "Berry" would leave Hunt Island the day after tomorrow. He only had two days to investigate the legend of Devil, roughly figure out the truth, and identify the corresponding suspect.

If it can be done to this extent, then his "Conspirer" Potion is likely to be digested.

The collection, screening and utilization of information are also an important part of the conspiracy!

And if Lumian is Sequence 7 "Detective" of "Reader" Pathway, successfully investigating a century-old unsolved case involving high-level power in just two days is enough for him to leap from preliminary digestion to complete digestion.

Nine o'clock in the morning, Hunt Port suburb, "Return Cemetery".

Lumian held a bouquet of small yellow flowers and walked through the shady cemetery Green Trees.

With Ludwig's notification and last night's Dream, he revised his previous plan. Instead of rushing to find the remains of the missing person in the forest, he came here and planned to dig a grave!

He wanted to investigate what kind of problems those victims who died mysteriously after witnessing Devil's figure in the forest Depths died from, and whether they might have hung themselves or mutilated themselves like those who were killed by Montsouris Ghosts.

According to the intelligence collected, the person who reported the presence of Devil to "Earth Mother" Church was quietly lying in the corner of "Return Cemetery".

His name is Anthony O Elias.

Not long after, Lumian, holding a bouquet of small yellow flowers, found the cemetery and saw that in addition to the name, date of birth and death engraved on the stone tombstone, there was also a short epitaph:

"This poor man lost his life to Devil."

Lumian bent down and placed the bouquet in front of the tombstone, then straightened up and quietly stared at Tomb covering Stone Slab.

In his mind, the information about Anthony O. Elias went through quickly:

The local, not Outsider, has parents, wife and children. When he went to Hunting in the forest nine months ago, he saw the wandering Devil. He was very afraid of Destiny who was about to die. In "Earth Mother" Church's Church stayed with Monastery for a full five months. After that, he planned to be a crew member for three years and stay away from Hunt Island to avoid hidden dangers. Who knew that when he went to sea with the ship for the second time, he was found dead on the bottom of Cabin...

Lumian glanced around, picked up a dozen or twenty dead branches from nearby trees, and inserted them in a circle around Anthony O. Elias's grave, forming a short, simple, and ineffective fence.

Finally, he placed a dead branch flat on two adjacent branches, allowing them to form a shaky door that could not be passed through at all.

After doing this, Lumian crossed the "wall" and came to the cemetery.

Then, he bent his back, stretched out his right hand, and touched the simple door made of dead branches.

At the same time, a Black Mark was activated in him.

In the blink of an eye, from the outside, Lumian's figure disappeared, and there was no movement in Anthony's cemetery, except for a circle of dry branches.

In fact, Lumian took out the Iron Spike, shovel and other items he just bought from "Traveler’s Bag", and was prying open Stone Slab and digging out the soil.

"Fictional Bottle"!

Lumian used the "walls" and "doors" he built to complete the "Fictional Bottle" Contract Ability.

In less than two minutes, relying on the observation of the cemetery structure and two blasts of Precision, Lumian cleared the soil on Coffin and pried open the Wooden Planks painted in black.

A strong rotten smell suddenly burst out, and Lumian set them on fire.

After waiting for a while, he squatted down, put on Gloves, and looked through the white bones with little flesh and blood left.

The first thing he picked up was Anthony O. Elias's Skull. After a brief glance, he found that there were cracks one after another on the inside of Skull, but the outside was intact.

"The cause of death was an explosion of the brain?" Lumian imagined the damage that might have caused this phenomenon, and felt that no matter which ability caused it, Anthony's brain, cerebellum and brainstem should have exploded into a ball of paste when he died - it makes no sense that the hard Skull had cracked on the inside, while the soft brain was fine.

Lumian checked Anthony O. Elias's other bones again, but no other injuries were found, and the stains left inside Coffin did not provide any other information.

At this point, Lumian initially determined that the cause of Anthony's death was an explosion in the brain from the inside out. The physical destructive power of this explosion was not strong. Even Skull did not completely explode, but it was enough to destroy the brain.

"I use 'Fire Infusion' and Precision to control the quantity and quality of Flames. It should be possible to achieve similar effects. How does Devil do it?" Lumian versus "Devil" The understanding of Pathway mainly comes from the notes of Older Sister, the information provided by Tarot Club, and the narration of Franca. There is only one real encounter with Devil who exceeds Sequence 6, and that is Naporidisli.

He suddenly thought of how he felt when Naporidisli aroused his desires and emotions, and of the ravings that came through Gray Fog when the other party was driven away and the resulting ups and downs of desire.

"For Ordinary Person, if the fluctuation of desire is first induced and then detonated directly, the brain may be blown up directly. As long as the intensity is increased... It should not be difficult for Half-God creatures like 'Devil'... Moreover, it can also use that kind of gibbering to communicate at a longer distance. "How can we complete this matter?" While Lumian completed the reasoning, it was basically confirmed that Hunt Island is indeed Concealment with an Devil, "Criminal", Pathway's Devil, and "Demon", "Apostle of Desire" and other Above the Sequence's Devil.

After confirming this matter, Lumian believed that it would be quite simple to find the Devil.

Of course, the premise is to find out rather than solve, and at the same time risk your life.

After taking off Gloves, he put his right hand into "Traveler’s Bag" and touched the hard-textured "Torture" glove.

After the incident of "Celestial Worthy of Heaven and Earth" and "Great Mother", Lumian is already guessing that "Mother Tree of Desire" is on the side of "Prisoner", "Criminal" and "Miser" is the Evil God at the top of the three Pathway. Therefore, the "Indulgence Faction" of "Rose School" and some Demon Family members will believe in Him and follow Him.

In this case, the "Torture" gloves made from the branches of "Shadow Tree" which are closely related to "Mother Tree of Desire" have a high probability of attracting the attention of Devil within a certain range, just as its negative impact is to be watched by some Hidden Being and affected and attacked by some dangerous creatures!

"Huh, there are no useless items, only Beyonder that can't be used." Lumian laughed at himself and withdrew his right hand that touched the "Torture" glove.

He gave up the plan of fishing out the Devil directly.

This is because Devil is still active on the island and is still killing people, but "and Library Earth Mother" Church actually did not completely eliminate it!

After experiencing so many things, Lumian versus Orthodox God Church has a considerable degree of awareness of its strength, and understands that if "Earth Mother" Church really makes up his mind, he can kill all the residents suspected of being Devil and destroy the island, just like "Church of the Lord of Storms" did to Bansy Harbor.

"Earth Mother"Church didn't do it because they didn't want to do it, but because there was some reason that prevented them from doing it.

This reminded Lumian of the forest Depths and the valley where Burning was holding Sulfur Flames. He felt that Devil could not be killed under normal circumstances and could only be sealed and restricted.

Since "Earth Mother" and "Church" can't do it, and Lumian doesn't think he can, then fishing out Devil is meaningless, and will instead put him in intense danger.

Lumian's current idea is to rely on his false personality and the attraction Gravity related to Evil God to wander around in the forest, and then take out the "Torture" gloves at the critical moment to see if he can Aggregation reach the piece of Burning Sulfur Near Mysterious Valley of Flames, investigate the origin of the legend Devil.

In the forest with many huge trees Depths, Lumian walked along the road that had not been visited by humans for many years, moving forward slowly and slowly.

He occasionally took out the "Torture" gloves, chose the direction based on intuition, and then put them away after ten or twenty seconds.

Past In the past hour, the huge forest suddenly became sparse.

A brown, terrifying giant bear turned out from behind a tree and walked towards Lumian with heavy steps.

"Stop, stranger!"

The giant bear made a booming human voice.