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Chapter 372 Mr. Hermit and the Nine Lords of the Rings

"That's it?" After hearing Griffith's explanation, Miss Lover, who understood the situation, shook her head in disbelief, "Just because you don't know who to invite as a dance partner, you opened your consciousness to a ring that might be a creation of the evil god?
"You're really promising..."

"Hey——" Griffith nodded guiltily, "Wait, the Hermit is really an evil god?"

"Let's say one thing at a time," said Miss Lover, tapping Griffith on the forehead, "don't think about it, little rascal, real love is hard to share. You have to choose.

"However, that doesn't mean you have to make a decision now. You don't have to jump on the fire when it comes to a partner. It's actually quite simple."

"It's simple?"

"Of course, you are too inexperienced~" Miss Lover said, "You shouldn't invite either of them. They are all good students from famous families, right? Even without you, they are still invited. Just use this as your reason, Tell them honestly that you're going to ask other girls."

"Then won't I be strangled to death?!" Griffith yelled in horror.

Miss Lover shook her head with a look of resentment: "Invite a girl that everyone knows but there will be no misunderstanding. The reason is that she has never had the opportunity to participate in the ball. This time I will take her to experience it! Something like that~"

"It can still be like this! This is not good, and I have... invited them."

"It's okay! Go talk about it. Be careful, as long as you can say it on the table, you don't really want to use this rhetoric to solve the problem. They will understand, don't underestimate the girl's mind.

"Let them worry, Mister Death Knight. Never mind, this is not your story alone.

"Recognize what you are about to face and make awareness, this is the responsibility that everyone must bear in love.

"Love and war will never end if there is no winner!"

Miss Lover finished expressing her opinion, looked at Griffith who was still hesitating, and added: "Besides, you have already done such a stupid thing as inviting two girls as dance partners at the same time, the situation will not change Deterioration."

It makes sense...the situation really couldn't be worse...

Griffith nodded solemnly.At this time, his eyes fell on Miss Lover's fair and slender fingers.She was wearing a diamond ring with a silver setting, shining like stars.His intuition told him that this must be some kind of powerful sealed item or holy artifact, but it looked like an engagement ring from the outside.

"Okay, let's get down to business. In fact, I want to find you as soon as you come back." Miss you, my lover, noticed his gaze and raised her hand generously. "What have you been through recently? There is a strange feeling about you." It's the smell that attracted me..."

"Really? I didn't feel it, but my experience this time is extraordinary. I was originally planning to ask everyone at Mr. Hermit's party."

"It's better to be cautious, especially you have just experienced the mystery and danger of Lord Minos." Miss Lover raised her hand and showed Griffith the ring on her hand, "Every guest who attended Mr. Hermit's party All have a magic ring. This one, the ring of secrets and discoveries—

"Your Excellency Eddie.

"Its power surpasses the Sequence 5 'Starry Sky Knight' of the prophecy pathway, and is even infinitely close to the demigod 'Starry Sky Imprisonment'."

This ring, close to a demigod? !Griffith couldn't help but exclaimed.

Miss Lover hid her hands behind her back to prevent Griffith from staring at the ring:

"However, this ring does not have the extraordinary characteristics of the prophecy path. The Lord Minos in your hand must be the same, right?

"Mr. Hermit casts these rings with extraordinary runes, which can simulate the power of certain characteristics, but the essence is completely different."

Griffith realized something.He has always been suspicious that the rune power of undead, blood, and frost possessed by Minos is something that real death knights and undead creatures do not have, and it is also an undisclosed spiritual energy structure in the mysterious world.Such a remarkable creation, the forger, yet did not demand a price for its use...

"Our ring imitates nine different extraordinary pathways?"

"I think, yes," Miss Lover replied, "and it is different from the extraordinary characteristics we have already mastered, and can even grow continuously. For this reason, Mr. Hermit's ring is of great significance to us. Mr. Death Knight, the more we The more you use the power of the ring, the more you open your consciousness to Mr. Hermit.

"This is the price."

Griffith is completely at a loss for words.The meaning of Minos to him has gone beyond the concept of equipment and weapons.In many battles, the consequences without Minos' assistance are unimaginable. At least, he and Galadia could not have successfully escaped in Canaan.

Miss Lover noticed his hesitation:

"Now you should be able to realize how dangerous the Lord of the Rings that Mister Hermit gave us is, right?

"The others in the party, charming Sidious, Roland the big turnip, have you guessed their identities? They must all recognize the danger of the ring too - the hermit may well be waiting for any of us Can become the host of His coming to the world."

"Thank you for your reminder, I will be careful," Griffith thanked sincerely, but still felt worried and afraid.A nearly god-like existence has locked his breath, what will happen in the future?
"Please give me knowledge and help," Griffith said sincerely, "How should I face the existence of Mr. Hermit?"

At the same time, he suddenly felt that Miss Lover's psychic energy began to become unstable, and even her amazingly beautiful appearance appeared indescribably disordered.

Miss Lover also noticed her abnormality:

"That's not something I can answer. The time is running out, and I can't leave the library tower for too long.

"Mr. Death Knight, I left the Turan Swamp and came to the human world. However, I don't belong here after all. What I want is to push the cherished people into the abyss of distortion. Mortals are as close as I am, which is different from the definition of human beings. Just stay away."

"What are you talking about?"

Miss Lover was silent for a while: "It's nothing, just the nonsense of a girl who was imprisoned in a high tower and felt sorry for herself. But, for you, the road to the truth and the future has been presented...

"Griffith, have you met my kind in the underground of Turan Swamp?"

Griffith was silent for a moment.During that adventure, Sonia nearly died when she witnessed unspeakable monsters emerging from the darkness.That dangerous, deep terrifying aura that seemed to come from the depths of the earth made him shudder even if he hadn't witnessed it with his own eyes.

"No, I didn't face it directly, but I was close, and I can imagine it."

"You can't imagine, really," Miss Lover said like a gentle and caring big sister, with a bit of resentment and melancholy, "in an unfortunate accident, my body was exposed to the eyes of human beings At that time, I could already understand the fear of human beings, but the terrible sight of their pain and disintegration even frightened me in return.

"After I finally controlled my body, there was only one survivor. He let out a heart-piercing scream, and his trembling fingers almost tore his face and gouged out his eyes. From the situation of other people See, his breakdown was inevitable too.

"I don't know if I should call it luck or misfortune, but he survived and wasn't even a bit intimidated by my body. I lived with him in Baltimore during the time I was unstable and had nowhere to go. The hut in the town, that was really, a day like a dream..."

Griffith felt a shudder run down his spine.He was terrified of what he might hear, but extremely curious: "Why can he bear the impact of that scene?"

"Human beings are very different. Under such circumstances, there is a very small probability that they can adapt," Miss Lover said. "He has become unable to distinguish the difference between my human form and my body. Perhaps it is the sensory sensation caused by the collapse of my mind. Reversal and confusion, in the words of you humans, he must have gone crazy.

"Have I noticed his abnormality? No, I don't know if I have. From the outside, he is still the same as ordinary people, gentle and funny. His company is better than everything I have, until... ..."

Miss Lover lowered her head and hesitated for a while:
"Until he began to become withdrawn, he was obviously no longer interested in all human interactions, and even hated them. His attitude towards friends and teachers became more and more indifferent, even rough. His strange research even scared me.

"All of this may be caused by me...

"Before things became irreparable, I chose to leave him, hide in this tower, and seal my breath. Occasionally, I would watch his figure pass by, and watch what he did more and more The crazier the move."

"What kind of madness?" Griffith asked.

At this time, Miss Lover's figure has dissipated into the air, leaving only ethereal words:
"Go and see for yourself, don't worry, you are qualified to talk to him now.

"Go, Thalorian Plagueis awaits 'you' in his mage tower."

(End of this chapter)