Chapter 1361

Upon hearing the word "mirror," the bad premonition in Xia De's heart had already reached its peak. He had a mind to keep up with Mr. Granger, but the sharp pain in his heart even made him unable to stand steady.

A rumbling sound rose from all directions. Around the top of this low hill, dense, tall stone mirrors—obsidian floor mirrors identical in shape to the "Stone Mirror Demon" itself—slowly rose from the mud, standing like tombstones in the black sludge. This was a ritual prepared in advance, but because of the influence of the 【Puppeteer's Notes】, no one had been able to discover the clues beforehand.

The demon's power was unleashed wantonly, and the already pitch-black sky became even darker. Even though the impact at the bottom of the hill was smaller, some mid-ring sorcerers with insufficient soul resistance still experienced intense nausea and headaches in an instant.

Although the demon's power had also manifested during the Battle of Lake Eldron, it had never been displayed so clearly before their eyes as it was this time. At this moment, in the church camp halfway up the hill, the professor from the Academy of Astronomy at Saint Byrons Comprehensive Academy, together with the diviner accompanying the Association of Prophets, flipped over the divination cards:

"Demon!"

The power of the Stone Mirror Demon, after the fall of the ancient Kingdom of Stoneveil, had lurked in the lands of the Lunder Valley for nearly a thousand years, finally being exposed to the Orthodox Churches for the first time.

Miss Bernice and Luvia knew the power of the local demon better than the church did. The two looked up at the top of the hill, watching those tall mirror surfaces as if they had forcibly raised the hilltop, making the summit an eerie and ancient ritual site.

As the black mud stained the stone mirrors, the two powers, both bearing great malice toward the world, merged perfectly together. Those mirror surfaces reflected the glowing souls and glowing stone statues at this time. But then, only stone statues emitting silver, blasphemous spiritual light remained in the mirrors, and one by one, the stone statues walked out of the demon mirrors, surrounding the group of people at the summit.

Mr. Granger quickly retreated to Xia De's side; this was not because he was forced back by the stone statues, but simply because he wanted to protect Xia De.

Those stone statues that walked out of the mirrors all possessed power nearly equal to the stone statue boy. Although Xia De could see that the time they could exist was definitely not long, the battle at this moment had already fallen into despair.

The power of an Evil God, the power of a thirteen-ring sorcerer, and the power of a demon all appeared on this small hill tonight. In order to force the Guardians to bring out their full power, the enemy had brought out almost all their trump cards. And by now, that transparent soul still did not have any panicked expression; he silently watched everything before him, watching the stone statues stand in place, and then reached out and pressed on Xia De's shoulder:

"Don't move around vigorously anymore; your heart can't take it."

"The current situation... if it really doesn't work, I still have other ways."

He gripped the small pink bottle in his hand tightly. He had never drunk this concentration of essence in one go before. Although he didn't know how serious the consequences would be, the power unleashed in an instant might just work.

"No need for you, I'll do it."

Mr. Granger shook his head slightly and let go of Xia De's shoulder. The group of stone statues walked toward the two of them step by step at a speed that was not fast. Mr. Granger asked the initial stone statue, which was also the only one that did not walk out of a mirror:

"Your trump card has been revealed, just to see my true face?"

"If possible, I would prefer to keep you here. Your soul is very useful to us all."

The stone statue boy said. Mr. Granger shook his head slightly, then slowly flew toward the sky until he stood under the night sky churning with black clouds. Thus, the stone statues also abandoned Xia De on the ground and instead flew into the air in a dense mass, leaving only Xia De standing on the ground clutching his heart, watching this scene.

Hundreds of stone statues surrounded Mr. Granger tightly. Each stone statue raised its right index finger, and silver blasphemous spiritual light flickered, illuminating more than half of the night sky. At this moment, even the people under the hill couldn't help but look up at the summit, looking at that lonely soul being surrounded.

He was still not panicked at all, and the expression on his face remained indifferent:

"Is it you who wants to keep me here? Does the cult want to keep me here? Or does the demon want to keep me here?"

Mr. Granger was still

speaking to the initial boy stone statue, and the initial stone statue was also at the furthest position.

It pressed against its own chest that had devoured the voluntarily sacrificed heart:

"My thoughts were only born when I obtained this soul. And the order I received was just to make you show your power as much as possible. I cannot understand human thinking, nor can I understand the thoughts of that ancient evil spirit. It's just that, in this situation, I can't think of how else you can escape."

The stone statue's stiff voice, however, expressed a color belonging to humanity. It had its own thoughts, so it was confused and bewildered, and even more so, it was contemplating itself:

"I cannot understand what I am, but if I keep you here and merge your soul, perhaps I will be able to understand all of this."

"A long time ago, I was also confused about what I actually was."

Mr. Granger said. Xia De on the ground endured the pain and pulled out the bottle stopper, wanting to drink those essential oils in one gulp, but "She" stopped him:

【Not necessary for now, something is emerging from the Guardian's soul.】

"Her" voice was very gentle:

【I know you are in pain, please rest assured, I am also feeling this pain with you. What you need to do will only appear in a while.】

"I was also bewildered, about what kind of existence I actually was."

Mr. Granger's voice became louder and louder under the entire night sky, but correspondingly, his soul became increasingly dim, causing the entire spiritual body to be illuminated silver by the light from the fingertips of the dense stone statues in the air:

"Until one day, I saw that thing, I watched the memories of the earth."

Facing the surrounding strong enemies, he actually closed his eyes in the air, but Xia De noticed that his heart position was faintly glowing. It was not the gold of the Miracle Element, nor the silver of the Blasphemy Element, but the earthy yellow unique to the earth.

"Only then did I understand that my own existence has no meaning; only the meaning of my own existence has meaning."

When the soul that had walked through long years opened its eyes again, the appearance of the spiritual body actually changed in the light from Thomas Granger to Johnson Fleming, one of the founders of the Stonemason Association. He indeed had not perished in the Battle of Lake Eldron.

The change in image also caused a change in tone:

"In order to protect the earth, we were willing to give up our own existence, to give up the meaning of being human, just for the long-term peace of the earth."

Not only did light appear at the heart position, but even those eyes also showed light. The spiritual body flickered and became blurry again, and after becoming clear again, it turned into a female image that Xia De did not recognize.

In the night sky above the hill, the silver light at the fingertips of the stone statue group was accumulating, the final blow was about to come, and the woman's voice was exceptionally clear:

"Regarding our secrets, from the beginning of the Sixth Era to the present, no one has ever known. We have never asked for anyone's gratitude, because everything was a voluntary sacrifice."

The woman's soul fluctuated again, and the image of an old man he didn't recognize replaced her:

"Power comes from the earth, power comes from determination. The inheritance of the Guardians has never been broken, not because this voluntary sacrifice is how great it is."

The old man's soul fluctuated, and the image of a young man he didn't recognize appeared:

"The land of Lunder Valley has always been peaceful, not because the individual soul is how powerful;"

The young-looking spiritual body fluctuated in the surrounding blasphemous silver light, and the image of a middle-aged woman appeared in the twisted soul:

"Never having contact with any sorcerer forces, not because we are not afraid of loneliness;"

The image of the middle-aged woman twisted, and the spiritual body transformed into a middle-aged half-elf with pointed ears:

"And at this moment, I dare to stand in front of you, also not because I am arrogant about my own power."

Finally, the changing spiritual body settled on the soul of the last person known to have become a "Guardian" so far.

The image of Mr. Lathers appeared:

"All of this is simply because..."

He looked expressionlessly at the surrounding incoming attacks, and the accumulating silver light made the night sky also turn

into silver.

The magic ritual originating from the Evil God, the demon's curse power, and the twisted power of the mad earth made every statue in the night sky have the combat power of a high-ring sorcerer.

And although Mr. Lathers' soul did not change its appearance again, circles of dense ripples appeared on the surface of the spiritual body. The ripples intertwined with each other until the surface of the spiritual body was covered with different faces. That appearance made Xia De below feel his scalp tingle.

Under the hill, the witch looked in shock at the hill full of stone mirrors that had been illuminated, and the spiritual light erupting in the night sky above the hill. And Luvia suddenly covered her forehead; after a moment of headache, she actually felt she understood something:

"Xia De's guess was actually completely correct."

At this time, even those fallen elemental giants stopped attacking for some reason. The spread of the mad earth stopped, and everyone looked up at the night sky, looking at the soul covered with various faces.

Those faces looking at the outside world expressionlessly disappeared from the spiritual body at the same time, and hundreds of accumulating silver rays of light finally shot toward the soul with closed eyes.

Mr. Lathers put his hands together in front of him. While the brass wheel ring behind him slowly rotated, hundreds of arms belonging to different souls grew out of his soul. But only Xia De could see that at this moment, inside his soul, hundreds of very small souls with closed eyes were sitting upright, and they together constituted Mr. Lathers himself.

The life ring shone on the soul with closed eyes and hands together, shone on the arms using hundreds of different wonders simultaneously, and shone on the soul aggregate that had reached its peak state, even showing faint signs of being a demigod:

"Because, I am not one person."