Chapter 1891: Blood, Roots, and Fire

Those rays of light melted the skin and bones of the townspeople wearing rain capes, but beneath the melted bodies, the distorted souls turned into large patches of black shadows and pounced toward the Edwards brothers:

"Stop!"

Their intact eyes flashed with light, and the power of spatial fixation forcibly froze those black shadows. But this talent of forcibly fixing space could only last for a quite short time on this island where space was extremely unstable.

Soon the black shadows broke free from the restraint and pounced toward the brothers. The blind Edwards brothers still wanted to continue casting spells, but the effect of all their attacks when facing these black shadows wasn't very good.

In the end, even Xia De didn't have time to come to the rescue, and the two were swallowed by the black shadows transformed from the townspeople's souls.

Just for a moment, the ground seemed to shake, the firelight flickered, and everything before his eyes changed along with the change in the light of that giant bonfire. The townspeople who had turned into black shadows turned back into living people, wearing rain capes and facing the bonfire, while the brothers, who had clearly just died, stood in front of the bonfire again with ugly expressions.

This wasn't time reversal; Xia De didn't feel the power of time. Everything that just happened was real, it was just that after the short battle ended, some power saved the Edwards brothers who were on the verge of death, and then let those townspeople return to "normal."

What Xia De cared about most after witnessing all this wasn't the repeating scene. He looked at the ground. The blood of the townspeople and the blood of the Edwards brothers didn't disappear after everyone returned to normal.

That blood soaked deeply into this land. With Xia De's super-strong perception ability, he could even feel that as the blood soaked in, the island itself was also undergoing changes.

【There is something under the soil.】

"She" reminded softly, and answered before Xia De asked:

【Giant roots. The roots of the giant tree are in the soil, absorbing that blood.】

"Tree roots? How big is the main body of that tree?"

【If the tree roots penetrate and cover the underground of the entire island, the main body of the tree will be bigger than you can imagine.】

While Xia De was communicating with "She," the scene he had just witnessed played out again in the rain and firelight. The blind Edwards brothers looked like they hadn't realized that everything was starting over. Xia De observed carefully this time and could see that although they could control their limbs, they seemed unable to control their mouths.

After a nearly identical conversation ended, this time the brothers didn't try to melt those townspeople with light again. Still casting spells together, after their hands held each other, the blasphemy-【Shark】 on the eight-ring life ring wrapped with tree roots behind them lit up with silver spiritual light.

"That is indeed a rare spirit rune..."

Two brass life rings, in front of the bonfire in the rain, overlapped one after another. Rainwater was controlled by an invisible force, and from behind their life rings, after passing through the center of the life rings, formed the front half of a giant shark made of rainwater in front of the two.

Their spellcasting speed was quite fast, and the body shape of the water shark was also quite huge. The shark with its mouth open fell from the sky before those dangerous townspeople could get close to the brothers, then opened its mouth and bit all the townspeople into pieces.

Blood splashed everywhere, and falling into the ground also dyed the already reddish land into a more pitch-black red. Subsequently, the shark disappeared into a black hole that suddenly appeared on the ground, carrying most of the limbs, flesh, and souls.

"Summoning-type miracle, requires a large amount of water to cast. After the attack is successful, it takes away limbs and souls."

Xia De thought about the characteristics of this miracle in his heart and realized that this was the brothers trying to prevent the souls of the townspeople from turning into black shadows after they died and became distorted.

He also thought their attempt was successful at first, but the fact was that when the water shark disappeared completely, the souls that were taken away suddenly appeared in that pool of blood, and then turned into black shadows again and pounced toward the helpless brothers.

After the screams, everything returned to its original state, and then the conversation about death and whether to believe in the "Unifier" began again.

More and more blood gradually seeped toward the underground, while the bonfire behind the brothers that barely illuminated the mist became more and more prosperous.

Vaguely, the two, whose own bloodline had a thousand-thread connection with this island, actually heard a huge buzzing sound from the underground, as if something was celebrating, greedy, and thirsting for more.

"Damn it!"

The two, who were of one mind, said at the same time in their hearts. After the mayor led the townspeople to approach again, the two made up their minds and raised their hands to take off the eye patches covering their blind eyes.

It was just that before they could cast spells, the sound of breaking through the air, *whoosh~*, came from the rain in the dark night.

Two pitch-black but slender chains whipped toward the gathered townspeople in the rain from left and right. But unlike the brothers' imagination, the chains didn't cut open the bodies of the townspeople like sharp blades, but flew away quickly after touching them.

Relying on the high-level application of "Living Rope Trick," the two 【Great Sin Chains】 controlled by Xia De accurately touched the bodies of every townsperson. Because these things had the ability of mandatory recovery, Xia De, who hadn't figured out the principle, didn't even attach the soul crystal effect of "Eros's Thorn" to the chains.

He used a more direct method:

"Black Moon Rune!"

Black moon symbols lit up on the bodies of the townspeople touched by the chains. The black moon symbols seemed even deeper than the night.

While the chains were spinning in the air and being retracted by Xia De, the sound of snapping fingers that no one could hear in the rain rang out. The surprised townspeople kept the action of turning to look at him, turned into gray sand sculptures one by one, and were quickly washed away by the rain. Gray dust mixed with rainwater formed a mud puddle on the ground, but also covered the layer of pitch-black blood.

The miracle "Black Moon Rune" is to annihilate a certain object from the concept, which is the best method to counter the "Resurrection Technique" of unknown principles.

The brothers didn't expect someone to suddenly appear to help them at this time, but they didn't cover their blind eyes again, instead looking around nervously, knowing that the danger hadn't ended yet.

Not long after, they saw Xia De, who was panting and holding that iconic 【Night Watchman】, walking out of the rain and fog. The effect of "Black Moon Rune" was astonishing, but casting it was also extremely exhausting to the spirit. Even for an ordinary six-ring spellcaster, it was a huge consumption. This miracle was classified as a high-ring miracle, and besides the extreme difficulty in learning, this was also one of the reasons.

Even though Xia De's total amount of spirit far exceeded that of ordinary Extraordinarys, he almost fainted from darkness just now after releasing thirteen "Black Moon Runes" in one breath. Fortunately, these townspeople weren't Extraordinarys, and their souls were unexpectedly weak, their bodies were as weak as phantoms, even weaker than real ordinary people. Otherwise, even if Xia De released the runes, it would be impossible to detonate them all at once in the end.

"Summoner of Gods?"

The Edwards brothers recognized Xia De, who was gasping for air and recovering his spirit, and then doubted:

"Aren't you also a member of the Edwards family, how come now..."

This time, they didn't distinguish the connection of the Edwards bloodline on Xia De.

"That was to deceive you."

"What?"

"That's not important anymore. What's the situation now? Why are you here?"

Xia De asked, his pale face naturally wasn't faked. But in fact, he could completely drink perfume to recover himself. Not doing so was purely to see if there would be new attackers next.

"Lord Mirror-Hider was originally protecting us, but once it hit 7:30, we still arrived on the island."

Wood Edwards, as the older brother, said simply in Karsinik language. He also looked around vigilantly, knowing that the danger hadn't ended yet:

"We didn't appear in the mansion, but came directly here, and then were forced to confront these townspeople again and again."

He looked at the corpse at their feet:

"This is indeed Father's corpse, and Glass and I won't recognize it wrong. This seems to be some kind of strange ritual, where we slaughter townspeople in the cemetery of Green Lake Town, and then the townspeople make us bleed. We can all clearly feel that repeating this again and again, our connection with this strange island is becoming stronger, and our spatial talent is also increasing."

Xia De frowned slightly, looking at the brothers who were soaked through:

"Appeared directly here? It seems that the Edwards Ascension Ritual isn't just pulling you directly to open the door and then participate in the banquet. This ritual still needs your flesh and blood. This is clearly some kind of strange offer..."

Xia De suddenly stopped his words and looked at the ground covered by those murky mud puddles. The blood was squirming, and at the same time, his eyes actually saw that the souls he had just eliminated were actually walking out of the fire one by one, appearing here again.

It was just that although the souls returned, compared to the flesh recovery of a moment ago, the recovery time of the townspeople this time was longer.

The Edwards brothers also discovered them, and the three made a judgment almost at the same time:

"There's a problem with this fire!"

The silver-white thunder spear and the water shark summoned again hit the bonfire that was becoming more and more prosperous almost at the same time. But the bonfire that couldn't be extinguished even by rain actually seemed to swallow the full-force attack of the three Extraordinarys.

It was just that it wasn't that nothing happened. After the three people's attacks disappeared, along with the shaking of the ground, after "She" told Xia De that the giant tree roots underground were squirming, the bonfire flames exploded instantly, and the flames shot into the higher night sky. The flames swayed and changed shape until they became the appearance of the upper body of Laplace Klein Howard.

The giant-like flame Diviner gazed at the alert three people, and a wave of flames was sprinkled with a wave of his hand. The sea of fire covered the ground of the cemetery, but immediately after, the sword light slashed open the sea of fire, and the three jumped out of it together, and the battle started again. ===== CHAPTER 1892 =====