Lord of the Mysteries 2: Circle of Inevitability

It was a human who seemed to be embedded in an owl. His eyes were pure round, his pupils were brown and yellow, and he was filled with undisguised evil.

Anyone who looked into these eyes would inevitably experience confusion, tension and fear in their hearts.

The half-owl, half-human evil creature flapped its wings and pounced on Janna and Franka on the bed with a fishy smell.

Its mouth opened and spit out almost tangible sound waves.

The sound waves touched the two "witches", penetrated through them, hit the bed sheets, and dissipated to the surroundings.

There was no one on the bed. The screen of the air conditioner panel, the glass plate on the surface of the bedside table, the dark glass inlaid in the wardrobe sliding door and other items silently flashed dark light.

Behind the half-human, half-owl evil creature, Franka's figure jumped up, holding the almost invisible "cold blade", and stabbed the target at the speed of a gust of wind.

The transparent three-edged thorn accurately penetrated the body of the evil creature, causing it to become stiff instantly, as if it had been frozen.

At the door of the bedroom, Janna's figure emerged, holding a mirror in her hand, reflecting the enemy's jerking movements.

Her other hand ignited a quiet black flame, and she quickly stroked the surface of the mirror.

The half-human, half-owl evil creature ignited evil black flames from the inside out, but because of the influence of the "cold blade", it was difficult to even wail and scream.

Soon, the evil creature burned out and turned into ashes.

"A spiritual creature..." Franka knew that the witch's "black flame" mainly targeted spirituality and life, and it was difficult to ignite entities.

She fell lightly from mid-air, as weightless as a feather.

Jana whispered quickly:

"This is Morna, the monster in Roshan's painting, and the invader Roshan is fighting against."

"Roshan's radical attempt?" Franca said without hesitation, "Go to Roshan's room now and try to control her as soon as possible, otherwise we may be kicked out of the dream."

Janna obviously thought of this development, she nodded and said:

"You go to Roshan's room, I will go to the space similar to the spirit world, if necessary, I will replace Roshan and guard the barrier to prevent those invaders from coming in."

She felt that Roshan might not be in the room, and might still be at the translucent barrier. Secondly, she was worried that without Roshan's protection, those invaders would break through the defense line and bring a tragedy.

Franca didn't say anything, and nodded lightly, while drilling to the other side of the curtain, opened the window of the master bedroom, and jumped directly down to the 15th floor.

She did not use the "Ice Amulet" and went through the mirror world because she thought that Jana's last exploration was noticed by Roshan, but she did not lock on who the explorer was, and she might set some traps for this later.

Franka's body was as light as a feather, but she was not pushed away from the original trajectory by the wind. She landed accurately on the windowsill of Roshan's bedroom and pried open the window by penetrating frost and condensing into thin sheets.

Franka was not in a hurry to climb in. With the help of the light at dawn, she quickly examined the situation in the room.

There was no one on the bed, and there were paintings hanging everywhere, with different contents.

"Hidden?" Franka took out a mirror from the "traveler's bag".

She wanted to divine the degree of danger and use the mirrors inside and outside to create an illusion of herself to see if she could trick Roshan into taking the initiative.

In the spiritual world space shrouded by the solidified storm, Jana's astral body just emerged and immediately looked at the translucent barrier near the deep darkness.

Roshan was not there.

Weird creatures like Morna were attacking the barrier, making it thinner and causing the solidified storm to decompose.

Jana looked around and looked up and down, but still couldn't find Roshan.

She sighed secretly, floated to the area where the monsters were attacking fiercely, condensed dangerous evil black flames and crystal ice cones around her, let them fly out, and defeated many invaders.

After Jana held on for a quarter of an hour, the monsters retreated into the depths of darkness, and the attack was completely repelled.

After a while, the sun shone into the area, whether it was the solidified storm, the floating spirits, or the illusory buildings, all faded and disappeared.

Jana's astral body also returned to her body.

It was dawn.

Franca had already returned and said to Jana with a serious expression:

"I didn't find Roshan. She hid or left in advance."

"Could she hide in a painting?" Jana quickly provided a possibility.

Franca shook her head:

"I checked all the paintings and didn't find any extra figures in any of them. Instead, the self-portrait sketch you mentioned is missing.

"Well, there is a painting of a bridge. It extends from the edge of the cliff near the picture, across the dark abyss with no bottom, to another cliff far away from the picture, where there is a dark forest.

"I suspect that Roshan entered the painting and escaped to the dark forest through the bridge. I can't chase her. Moreover, I have a strong sense of danger. The painting should not be drawn by Roshan herself."

Janna was about to say something when she suddenly realized something:

"We haven't been kicked out of the dream yet!"

"We are not restricted either." Franca has been paying attention to this aspect.

She said thoughtfully:

"Roshan was contaminated by the evil god of the Fantasy Society, not controlled by Tianzun. The evil god of the Fantasy Society may help Tianzun do some things, but he definitely has his own ideas and calculations, and will not help Tianzun in everything.

"He hopes that we will continue to stay in the dream and hold Tianzun back when necessary, so he concealed this matter?"

"This is what Lumian said, the evil gods and Tianzun sometimes have the same position, and sometimes they don't." Janna nodded in agreement, and then she added, "It may also be that Roshan has not been completely contaminated and has not completely fallen, so she chose to deal with our problems herself without telling the evil god."

"Struggle and confrontation..." Franca sighed and said, "Let's wait and see. "

After waiting for more than an hour, the two "witches" saw Roshan, who had changed into the standard clothes of the administrative department employees of Intis Group, leave Building 5 and go to work normally. What happened last night seemed to be just a dream.

And Franka and Janna were still not kicked out of the dream, nor were they subject to any restrictions.

"She should have hidden in the painting with the bridge." Franka retracted her gaze and nodded slightly, "Well, I'll send a message to Lumian to let him know what happened last night and that we are at risk of being kicked out of the dream recently."

"Will he be kicked out too?" Janna was worried that contacting Lumian now would leave hidden dangers.

Franka laughed softly:

"Don't we have the small program that Stiano gave us? 'Information Crushing Box'.

"I thought that WeChat messages are also information, so they should be able to be shredded without leaving any traces. Well, I shred the sent messages here, and Lumian shred the received messages.

"Although I am not sure that the 'information shredding box' can definitely hide from Tianzun's unconscious pursuit, I think it is necessary to give it a try. If it can really achieve the effect we want, there will be more room for maneuver in certain things later."

Janna pondered for a moment and said:

"Okay. "

Franka immediately edited the WeChat message, detailing Roshan's probing, her and Janna's responses, and subsequent developments. Finally, she reminded Lumian to use the "Message Destroyer" to delete the chat history.

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At the entrance of the Science and Technology Building.

Lumian, who came to report, stood in the lobby and read the message sent by Franka as if nothing had happened.

Then, he turned to the public toilet on the first floor, entered the men's side, found a cubicle, and used the "Fiction Bottle".

Then, he put the phone to his mouth and whispered:

"You can do more probing, and Franka should try to go to work early and contact Zhou Mingrui.

"We can't put all our hopes on Roshan's struggle or the selfishness of the person in the 'Fantasy Club'. Maybe after half a day or a day, they will change their minds. You have to do more tests before that to accumulate information for the second and third time to enter the dream."

After sending the message, Lumian waited for more than ten seconds before calling up the "Information Smash Box" applet, selected the chat records between himself, Franka and Janna, and clicked delete.

After doing this, he terminated the "Fictional Bottle" and took the elevator to the security department of Intis Group on the thirteenth floor.

After completing the formalities, he was led into the office of the head of the security department.

This office is very large, equivalent to a private gym, with a place to practice boxing.

The head of the security department is a foreigner with black hair and blue eyes, medium height, and seemingly undeveloped muscles, but very powerful.

His name is Green. According to the major arcana cards, he was one of the four most trusted horsemen of the apocalypse who once followed Emperor Roselle. He died very early and did not see Emperor Roselle achieve great things. Now this is his dream image.

"Have you ever practiced Kung Fu?" Green asked in a poor local accent.

"Yes." Lumian nodded sincerely.

"Then let's have a fight." Green pointed to the boxing ring on the other side of the office.

Lumian, who had not yet changed into a security uniform, did not refuse and took the initiative to walk into the ring, waiting for Green to come.

Green took off his light formal suit, rolled up his sleeves, and came in front of Lumian.

Suddenly, he punched out, and the wind whistled.

Lumian seemed careless, but he took a step back as if he had expected it and dodged the punch.

He bounced his waist and back, and quickly approached Green, using elbows, fists, knees, toes and other methods in a series of attacks, launching a storm-like attack.

Green held the boxing frame and defended very steadily, and was not broken by Lumian's fast but insufficient attack and hit him.

Bang bang bang! After Lumian attacked for dozens of seconds, he suddenly retreated, panting, and raised his hands to admit defeat:

"I have no strength left."

Of course he couldn't beat the boss of his department on his first day at work. This was not a question of workplace etiquette. He was worried that this would expose his fighting ability as a Beyonder.

"Not bad." Green nodded.

He walked straight to his desk.

When passing by Lumian, he suddenly lowered his voice, as if he didn't want to be heard by others waiting in the office:

"Give my regards to my mother."

Mother... Lumian's pupils suddenly dilated.

Green then added in a low voice:

"I have recognized you, respected son of God."