RNP Chapter 3605 Frozen Fate
Chapter 3605 Frozen Fate
Chapter 3605 Frozen Fate
Having decided what he needed to do, Shad drank the pleasant-tasting potion and then felt a familiar sense of disorientation. However, his soul was now far stronger than when he was an ordinary person, and his soul did not feel alienated from his body.
Behind him, however, a thin layer of steam had already appeared due to the effects of the "Bell-Ringing Potion." Shad then summoned his Life Ring towards the snow-capped mountains under the setting sun. The girls watched as the enormous Life Ring spun behind him, the thick steam overlapping with the steam that had appeared from drinking the potion. Shad thought to himself:
"Help me resonate with this."
She simply smiled gently, gentler than the winter sunset.
So the girls on the shore saw a silver light appear behind Shad, but before they could see the shadow clearly, the thick steam around the life ring spread across the entire surface of the frozen lake almost instantly.
This was also the technique that Luvia taught Shad during her last divination before leaving, thus encompassing the entire frozen lake under the influence of Shad's soul power.
Within that cloud of steam, flames flowed along Shad's raised right hand toward his life ring. The swirling brass, ignited by the flames, appeared to the girls on the shore as a bright fireball emerging from the mist.
"After ignition comes propulsion."
The consumption of the "Bell-Ringing Potion" allowed him to manipulate the Life Ring to the fullest extent, performing some precise operations. Thus, his raised right hand was now shimmering with a layer of silver light and shadow, and "she" and he seemed to be holding up the burning Life Ring together in the mist. As Shad's hand slammed down, the Life Ring, enveloped in primordial fire, crashed into the icy lake like a meteor.
The "Infinite Serpent" corresponds to the power of the apocalypse, and Shad possesses the [End] rune, which, according to the cultists, meets the requirements. As the Life Ring fell like a hammer, his whispered words were heard by everyone by the lake—
The snake represents fate, and an impossible fate represents error; this is the "loop of error in fate."
Bang!
Crimson light collided with the ice in the mist, like a giant hammer striking down. At that moment, all the girls by the lake felt their souls vibrate from the impact. This was Shad truly using his soul power to influence reality; the perceptive Claire even sensed that the snow-capped mountain seemed to tremble.
At this moment, Shad felt it most acutely. Fate had truly touched his soul, and even though what lay beneath his feet was the calamity of fate, it was still fate. The life ring, imbued with primordial fire, made him understand why it was considered "part of the fate of a ring sorcerer." And at the moment the life ring collided with the ice, as he waved his hand downwards, he vaguely felt the sensation of absorbing divinity once again.
"She" is truly with me.
The stories of the past have become legends, and the heroes who forged their own destinies have vanished. Fate cannot be defied, yet no one truly knows it. Brass and fire have forged the ring of your destiny, but stranger, know that no one can control fate.
[Outsider, you have some insights into "fate."]
"Hmm, no spirit runes, and no new magical techniques?"
[Outsider, your magical artifact, "The Handbook of Fate," has gained a new feature: you can perceive and identify any solidified destiny.]
The thick fog that shrouded the lake quickly gathered and disappeared towards the center, and the girls were all curious about what was happening. As the setting sun shone again, they saw Shad still holding his right hand high in the center of the ice.
The Ring of Fate had vanished. His raised right hand seemed to overlap with the dim, yellowish sun on the side of the mountain, and in front of the falling sun, he clearly held a black, curved object. Its color was astonishingly black, and its deep, eerie light seemed capable of swallowing the sun's light.
Although it looked like only a small section, to the great witches, Shad was clearly holding up an incredibly heavy weight.
"Success."
Claire said softly, then raised her hand and threw a fireball at the ice not far away. The fireball successfully shattered the ice, and "Infinite Serpent" was indeed transformed into another form by Shad.
The arc in Xia De's hand looked like it had been cut from a complete circle. After he grasped the middle part, the ends that curved upwards to both sides were not smooth.
He slowly withdrew his right arm in the setting sun, stared at what he held for a while, and then walked towards the people waiting for him on the shore.
"This is not a complete destiny, which is why it has not formed a complete loop. But the Fallen Star Beast and even the original form of 'Mr. Snake' should be a complete loop. Or perhaps, this snake has not yet evolved enough to form a complete loop. If the Infinite Snake is left unattended, it will gain more destiny, and the arc will be more complete."
He held out his hand so everyone could see the curved object radiating black light. At first glance, the material of the black curved object resembled crystal, with even faintly visible shimmering points of light within it. But when Shad brought it closer, both the witch and the elf felt as if they were staring at some indescribable evil being when they looked at it.
"Is this fate? I have an instinctive fear; my body and soul are resisting me from touching this thing."
Claire said that the little unicorns, who had always liked Shad, even instinctively avoided him. Ellie, however, mustered her courage and took two steps toward Shad, overcoming her fear, but was quickly dragged back by little Leanna.
This is definitely not something that other people should be exposed to:
"This is a calamity of fate, its essence being the same as the filth of the earth, the abnormal light, the disordered space, and the strange tree hollow—things that should never exist. I can come into contact with it only because..."
His right hand, curved in a fist, faintly emitted a purple light—the "Noble Fate"—but Claire and the others couldn't see that color. Moreover, now that the "Handbook of Fate" had acquired a new property, as he looked at the "Fate" shared with Luvia, he clearly felt that the purple on the back of his hand was half a ring.
But this was definitely not an ordinary ring of fate. Upon careful recollection, even the feeling he had with that Mr. Snake was not as peculiar as this half-ring:
"If a noble destiny is also a special kind of ring, then is the final exchange at the Ancient God Temple, the Miracle Ring obtained by consuming all points, also a kind of ring of destiny?"
"If you turn multiple infinite snakes into curved arcs and then assemble them, can they form a complete ring?"
Emilia, with her whimsical ideas, was unaware of Shad's thoughts at that moment. Instead, she asked curiously and looked at the object in Shad's hand with great awe. The chosen ones of time understood better than anyone else how terrifying this thing was.
Shad looked away from the back of his hand:
"It should be possible. I even suspect that once the two Infinite Serpents meet, they can immediately merge. And if the 'Wrong Ring of Fate' really is born... well, I don't know what will happen, but it's best if that doesn't happen."
"So what can this curve do?"
Megan asked curiously; if she hadn't instinctively sensed danger, she might have even wanted to touch it.
"The simplest use is to embed it in the body. Even an incomplete ring still has the power to guide destiny. But this is the wrong kind of ring. Doing so may cause one to become an infinite snake, or even something more bizarre."
As for whether it will be a human or a snake controlling the power, that's hard to say. But if someone really does such a thing, their soul will probably never have a chance to continue.
Shad would certainly not do that:
"You may have noticed that although this thing looks terrifying, its properties are relatively stable compared to the inactive 'Infinite Serpent'. Therefore, turning it into a curved shape should be considered a reasonable containment method."
Whether we use sealing or other methods, we can deal with it relatively reliably from now on.
"Then why not just crush it?"
Megan asked again, and Shad looked at the black arc in his hand:
"Whether it's an inactive Infinite Serpent or an activated Infinite Serpent, their essence is a phenomenon produced by a flawed destiny, which can be completely destroyed under certain circumstances, just like the Fallen Star Beast. But what I hold in my hand is a destiny that has been forged. How can destiny be destroyed?"
Claire was very puzzled:
"So, by turning Infinity Serpent into this state, it has become indestructible?"
"No, there must be some way to destroy it. But the fact that the Infinite Serpent has become like this is not necessarily a bad thing. It is impossible for two regions to have the same fate. Fate is an abstract concept, and concepts cannot be repeated."
Therefore, the area where this arc exists will not generate infinite snakes. The fate of the Fallen Star Beast can affect the entire Fallen Star Bay, while the area affected by this arc is probably only a few hundred meters wide.
Emilia's eyes lit up:
"If enough Infinite Serpents were captured and spread throughout the world... well, if there really were that many Infinite Serpents, this world would have been doomed long ago. It would have been destroyed by something else, if not by the serpents."
Shad remained serious, still looking at what he was holding.
"The erroneous Ring of Fate is relatively stable, and a second Infinite Serpent will not naturally spawn in the area it is located in. These are two characteristics. In addition, once it is broken, you will get more dice than normal."
Emilia then realized:
"Yes, I didn't get anything out of dealing with this snake."
"Because it has not yet been destroyed. After understanding the concepts of rings and ring beasts, we know that the dice generated by the Infinite Serpent are essentially fragments left after a ring or arc breaks, tiny pieces of fate. But now that it has been forged, the traces left after it is broken must be much greater."
"Since it can't be easily damaged, can it be made into a weapon?"
Claire asked again, and Shad cautiously shook his head:
"It's best not to do that, after all, it's only relatively stable. It does have extraordinary power, and I can feel my magic [Black Moon Mark] being greatly enhanced just by holding it, without even needing to embed it in my body. The effects of the cards I hold that can use magic have also been strengthened."
But the power of calamity should not be used. Remember that 13th-circle warlock from the Lightseekers' Club, 'The Lightseeker'? At the end of the Battle of Moon Bay, he used the extraordinary light that melted away most of the city to ascend to the status of 'Light-Prayer,' only to be pierced through the heart by Miss Felianana's arrow, leaving not even a trace of his soul.
"The Light Chaser" and Laplace Howard are the only two 13th-ring warlocks to have died definitively in the material world since the summer of 1853. Shad hopes that "The Bloodweaver" will become the third.