Chapter 1892: The Meaning of Blindness

Xia De, who was in the fire, had already quietly drunk a large mouthful of essence. While splitting the sea of fire, he used the spirit he had just recovered to slash out another moonlight slash. The brilliant moonlight was blocked by the giant flame hand, having absolutely no impact on the Diviner.

"Be careful!"

He said to the brothers behind him whose life rings were floating. The firelight illuminated the faces of the three, and no one had any intention of retreating. The giant Diviner used his giant hand to wave toward them. The three jumped backward together. The Edwards brothers' hands held each other again. Under the joint spellcasting, a giant mirror floated directly in the air.

That mirror reflected the figure of the flame giant. Xia De, who received the brothers' hint, threw a thunder spear to hit the mirror surface and destroy the mirror. The flames seemed to dim for a moment, but immediately after, the ground shook again, and the Diviner in the fire recovered.

Another large piece of flame was sprinkled by him. The landed flames quickly turned into flame humanoids with different images. These humanoids all possessed souls; some were clearly undead, while a few were souls of living people.

It didn't take much thought to know that these were all the original residents of Green Lake Town and their descendants. Xia De didn't want to take action against them; doing so would accelerate the progress of the ritual. But when those flame humanoids frantically pounced toward the three, trying to self-destruct, they had to fight back.

Even if the flames exploded, they would still flow out pitch-black blood to stain the ground. Although he didn't know much about this ritual, Xia De also knew that this would only make things worse.

"This won't work!"

Because he had just drunk essence and felt his whole body was hot, Xia De said to the brothers:

"Do you have any other way? If there's no other way, I'll take a risk and try."

"If we had a way, we wouldn't have to wait for you to come!"

The brothers responded loudly. Mirrors unfolded one after another beside them. Monsters summoned from the mirror surface met the flame humanoids to facilitate their continued confrontation with the giant ancestor in the bonfire.

"Alright, buy me some time, don't worry about those fire people, help me block the projection of your ancestor."

The brothers held hands, turned their backs to those fire people surrounding them from all directions, and let them destroy those mirror-summoned creatures. They looked up at the giant flame humanoid above the bonfire. While it waved its hand to slap Xia De, who was rushing toward it, the Edwards brothers gritted their teeth and used the remaining spirit, letting the core spirit rune 【Space】 of the life ring bloom with light again:

"Stop!"

The giant flame humanoid only paused for less than a second before moving again, but this momentary pause finally gave the brothers a chance to use their last and most dangerous move.

Xia De took advantage of the gap fought for by the brothers and rushed to the bottom of the bonfire quickly. It wasn't that he didn't think of using 【Lagley's Leap】, but the spatial miracles around this bonfire would be subject to huge influence.

He couldn't look back, so he could only listen to "She" describe what happened behind him.

In the blind eye sockets of the brothers, gray light spots appeared in the pitch-black eye sockets. The gray light spots in the two eye sockets rotated rapidly, and along with the brothers raising one of their hands, those dim gray rays of light drifted out from the eye sockets. During the rotation in the air, they annihilated all matter around them, until they touched the flames, and even the flames turned into distorted vortices and disappeared when the gray light spots in the blind eyes passed by.

The effective obstruction gave Xia De the best opportunity. He finally jumped and threw himself into the flames.

The brothers couldn't see what Xia De did after entering the flames, only seeing Xia De's blurred figure standing in the fire and opening his arms.

The flames couldn't hurt Xia De, but instead made him feel warm. Xia De took a deep breath. Along with his communication with the power of the primordial fire flowing in his body, the bonfire flames swayed and constantly contracted toward the bottom of the bonfire, until that strange flame was absorbed into Xia De's body and converted into spirit by the primordial fire.

This was the first time Xia De used the power of absorbing flames after he newly acquired this ability from Sister Daifulin. The nun was right. Although he had the ability to convert flames into spirit, the conversion efficiency was really extremely low, not even as good as him dipping his lips in a drop of that pink essence.

As the flame giant constantly shrank, the sea of fire sprinkled didn't have any follow-up, and was soon completely eliminated by the brothers. The swaying bonfire was constantly absorbed by Xia De during this period. When they turned around and planned to use their blind eyes to continue helping Xia De, the flame-constituted humanoid had already disappeared because of the reduction of flames.

Soon, the flames jumping above the bonfire only remained as the layer attached to Xia De's body. And along with Xia De's last inhalation, all the flames were completely absorbed by his body. The black firewood with residual temperature under his feet also cooled down completely in the rain.

Rainwater soaked Xia De's clothes that had just dried, but he didn't have time to care about these. After jumping out of the bonfire ruins, the three stood back-to-back, looking at the cemetery that had returned to chill, looking at the black shadows in the depths of the mist that couldn't be distinguished.

The earth was still shaking, but this time there were no other attacks. Under the ruins of the bonfire, blood-red trees quickly took root and sprouted. After Xia De slashed them off with his sword, another tree grew out again. After careful observation, he found that the tree was connected to the giant tree roots lurking underground. Unless Xia De could pull up the giant tree whose main body was unknown, he couldn't destroy this red tree.

After waiting for a long time and nothing else happened, after confirming safety, the Edwards brothers sat directly on the cemetery ground covered with blood water regardless of their image. Xia De looked around, watching the mist spread over the area that had just been illuminated by the bonfire. Finally, besides the ground becoming more blood-red and the addition of a blood-red giant tree, in the drizzling rain, the thick fog in the cemetery was completely the same as the eerie forest outside.

The brothers had consumed too much, but having tried to eliminate the townspeople's souls many times before Xia De appeared, they still stated their findings:

"The townspeople's souls appearing here are just projections composed of their soul fragments and other soul energy. The miracle you just used to annihilate the souls is the most thorough method to eliminate them so far. Their soul bodies seem to have been injured because of the move you just made."

"Their soul bodies seem to be in an Angel-level relic mastered by your ancestors."

Xia De also stated his judgment, and then praised without stinginess:

"The power you used last was spatial annihilation, right? It's really amazing."

Wood Edwards looked at Xia De with empty eye sockets:

"Many years ago, my brother and I once encountered a quite terrifying enemy. He blinded our eyes, but also let us experience the extreme power of madness and destruction."

He raised his hand to cover that blind eye, his expression very complicated:

"Lord Mirror-Hider had the ability to restore our eyes, or at least install a magic eye. But we refused. Only in this blind state can we experience and possess the power to destroy space. Maintaining this power is best kept in a state of eye damage. This is the price of power..."

They supported each other to stand up, and Glass Edwards also said:

"We have seen that guy near the Green Lake Inn. He has also arrived in Green Lake City, just don't know what the other party is doing... Compared to the ancestor, my brother and I think that guy is the truly terrifying one."

Xia De knew they were talking about Doctor Schneider, so it wasn't convenient to continue this topic:

"What are the tree roots wrapped around your life rings? Miracles or rituals that can directly affect life rings are rare."

But the brothers didn't know either. They could only feel that when they cast spells, those strange tree roots would intercept a portion of the power, making the spell effect weaken:

"Probably also one of the ancestor's rituals."

"Then can you walk now? Time is urgent, I must continue to go deep into the island. Are you staying here to rest, or going with me?"

He thought he had gained two "teammates," but the brothers shook their heads:

"The pre-prepared plan has already anticipated this situation. It's not bad yet. While we can still act, we want to try whether we can communicate with the outside of the island. We want to try to contact Lord 'Mirror-Hider'."

"How are you going to do that?"

Xia De asked, and the brothers held hands again, then leaned their heads together. Xia De didn't know what miracle they used, only seeing the heads of the two actually gradually "merged" together.

But this wasn't a fusion of flesh and blood, just some kind of spatial overlap. And they didn't let their heads completely merge, only half of the faces with blind eyes overlapped.

When the two blind eyes overlapped, Wood Edwards took out a red drawstring velvet bag from his pocket. After taking out the bronze-colored eyeball inside, he used his trembling hand to put the magic eye, which was at least Keeper-level, into the overlapped eye socket.

The metal eyeball entered the eye socket. Clearly, the eyeball wasn't controlled by their brains, like a living parasite, moving around in the eye socket.

But soon, the eyeball calmed down. Along with the bronze-colored patterns spreading from the eye sockets to the two faces, the pupils of that bronze eyeball shot out a divergent light.

In that light, the thirteenth-ring spellcaster, "Mirror-Hider" Al Haken, who had a strange mirror-like ornament on his ear, actually appeared.

It wasn't a physical body, similar to the flame Diviner just now, it was also a projection-like form. Xia De could even see that he seemed to be by Green Lake, and behind Mirror-Hider, there was vaguely the night scenery of Pukhov Village in the fog. ===== CHAPTER 1893 =====