Chapter 1912: The Banquet Begins

"Do you know that the church and other ring sorcerers have already begun to land on the island?"

Yi Lu Na asked again, and walked toward the long table with Xia De, but just stood before the table and still didn't take a seat. Xia De stared at the Diviner before him, and "she" by his ear said softly:

【Very similar, but still not the main body.】

"Of course I know, all outsiders who step onto this 'Green Island', I know."

The Diviner wearing a monocle said, picking up the wine glass before him and spilling wine, and the water curtain displayed the scene in the air.

Around the island covered with reefs, in the heavy rain, dozens of small boats with different shapes carrying high-ring sorcerers had already appeared among the pitch-black reefs covered with holes in the wind and rain.

In the surging green lake water, countless monsters blocked them from approaching the shore like a sea tide from the bottom of the water. The bombardment of strange arts by both sides formed a clear band of light on the water's surface.

Divine arts were trying to illuminate this dark night, the brilliance of the 13th-ring life ring was so dazzling in the fog, the green lake water surged, splashing on everyone, and even at the pier at the edge of the island, one could see Miss Sylvia and Miss Jia Lin Na, who had already reached the shore, trying to block the monsters that were approaching the Green Lake Hotel.

Miss Aurora stepped on the bow of a shell-shaped small boat, her brown hair swaying in the wind. She blew the azure conch in her hand toward the sky, and when that melodious sound rang out, behind the dozen or so small boats, as dense bubbles emerged in the waves, heads of mermaids slowly rose from under the water.

"Mermaids, it turns out to be the ladies of the Aurora family."

The Diviner in the "Banquet Hall" said softly, and Xia De realized that the conch held by the Witch was very likely an item similar to the "Butterfly-Calling Flute".

"Mirror-Hiding Man" was also in this team composed of dozens of small boats. The angel-level relic 【Mirror of Fasha's Curse】 mentioned by the Doctor was held in his hand, and the pitch-black mirror images of sealed monsters were jumping into the water one after another, helping the fleet open up the path.

Hundreds of golden vortexes appeared above the fleet, and energy-composed golden cannon barrels extended from the vortexes one after another. Just one round of salvo made countless strange-shaped corpses float on the lake surface; this was the divine art of the Church of Peace; the red moon plummeted, Miss Dan Ni Si Te and the professors of the three major colleges were on the same boat; the green lake water seemed to be helping them too, and the believers of the God of Nature, who manipulated the power of nature, were driving the lake water and manipulating the reefs, trying to turn this place into their home field.

And in this chaotic and intense island landing battle, Sister Devlin sat at the bow of the small wooden boat summoned by Xia De, holding a slender flame in her hand and doing nothing. Beside her stood Miss Benice, who was manipulating three giant stone statues.

Suddenly, the nun's face lifted, and the eye behind the eye patch seemed to look directly at the people who were watching the battlefield in the "Banquet Hall".

The Diviner at the table laughed, kept the water curtain away from Sister Devlin, and continued to show the battle by the lake. He even spilled a second glass of wine, letting the second water curtain show the battle around the Green Lake Hotel in the woods:

"I think you don't have time to talk to me about extra things. Before we officially take action, I only ask one question: The end of the world, in the foreseeable future, will surely come. Many people have done many things, but I have glimpsed the time that was once destroyed, and I have seen that all the efforts made by everyone cannot reverse the fate that must come."

He asked softly:

"So, since destruction cannot be avoided, what choice do you guess I have made?"

Xia De and Yi Lu Na, of course, didn't answer him, and the Diviner nodded:

"Yes, since destruction cannot be avoided, then try to stay away from this world that is bound to be destroyed. I will take this only spark and, as the gravekeeper of the world, continue our civilization."

The 13th-ring life ring slowly appeared behind him, but that life ring was not metal, but completely composed of tree roots. Before this, Xia De had never seen anyone's life ring change material.

Combined with what the Doctor initially said, the steam age of the 6th Era determined that the life ring was brass. Then, the Laplace Klein Howard before his eyes had indeed made a decision.

"Even if the world is about to perish, there must be countless people who will follow in each other's footsteps to find ways to reverse all of this. Howard, do you think you are the most talented supernatural being in history? Do you view yourself as a savior?"

Yi Lu Na finally couldn't help but ask:

"Just to realize your crazy idea, do you know how many people you have killed? Do you know how many people are dying because of you at this moment?"

The Diviner answered her question very seriously:

"I don't view myself as a genius, let alone a savior. I glimpsed a period of time that did not exist, and precisely because I saw that more people had more ways, and I considered myself inferior to them, I chose another way."

Yi Lu Na opened her mouth slightly, unable to believe that the other party seemed to know that the 6th Era had cycled at least once. And Xia De, who had long known that the Diviner had noticed the "past" era, asked the most critical question:

"Have you really seen everything in the so-called non-existent time? You are a diviner; you should know better than anyone that people who attempt to use time and fate will only perish under the trickery of time and fate."

The Diviner nodded lightly:

"Yes, but someone always has to do something, right?"

He sighed softly, put his hands together before his mouth, and then closed his eyes facing Xia De and Yi Lu Na:

"Banquet, begin."

Boom!

The loudest rumbling sound from underground so far also brought the most intense earthquake on the island so far.

At this moment, the ground was undulating violently like surging water. Xia De and Yi Lu Na, who almost couldn't stand firm, reached out to support each other at the same time, but then they both felt that this was not just an earthquake:

"The ground is rising!"

Crack~

The cracks in the walls and ceiling became penetrating cracks in just two seconds. The flat ground of the basement, surrounding the banquet long table where everyone was, also appeared with a full circle of irregular cracks amidst constant shaking.

The rock wall above their heads cracked completely, but the falling dust and stones happened to avoid the banquet long table and everyone around it. When the first drop of rain fell at Xia De's feet from the shattered rock wall, the power erupting from underground finally lifted the banquet hall wreckage where everyone was located, leaving the underground and rising toward the rainy night sky amidst the rumbling sound.

The whistling and sharp night wind blew Xia De and Yi Lu Na's clothes. Looking around, the view from top to bottom could already see the full picture of the island shrouded in thick fog, and the "Black Tide" at the edge of the island where the fog was relatively thin, and the dozen or so small boats that had already approached the shore.

And outside the basement, the people by the lake and at the Green Lake Hotel all saw an even more unbelievable scene.

The entire island was shaking as if it were about to fall apart in the earthquake, and the trees in the woods were shaking crazily. Blood-red imprints on the island's ground and even on the lake surface around the island appeared at this moment, converging toward the center of the island.

But only the people in the "Banquet Hall" at this moment understood that those blood-red imprints were clearly the veins of thick tree roots underground glowing, and strong and demonic blood light seeped from the mud and the bottom of the water to the ground.

The activation of the Edwards Ascension Technique even made those monsters fighting with the ring sorcerers prostrate themselves on the ground and the bottom of the water, worshiping toward the center of the island by the instinct of blood and body.

The thick fog gradually dissipated, and even the heavy rain that had lasted for several days had a tendency to weaken. Clearly, a second ago, the people who entered this strange space were all looking in different directions, but in the next moment, the people who could catch their breath all felt, without exception, that something huge and terrifying, something sufficient to control this world, was being born.

Subconsciously looking up toward the direction of the Edwards Old House, that old house located above the hills gradually became clear in this night rain. The shaking of the ground made the hills tremble, and then, amidst a loud noise, the rocks exploded, the hills shattered, and the blood-colored giant object rose from beneath the hills, turning into the sky in the blink of an eye.

That thick and heavy blood-colored giant object grew upward rapidly. Amidst the earth-shaking, wild winds, earthquakes, and the prayers of countless townspeople all over the island, the giant tree with roots covering the entire island finally showed its full appearance.

"This is... a tree? A blood-red tree?"

It was not that the giant tree was hidden underground and only broke through the ground to appear in the rain at this moment; it was more like a huge seed buried deep underground, only absorbing nutrients at this moment and growing into a towering blood-colored tree.

Everyone who looked up and saw this scene around the island witnessed the growth of the sapling, the spreading of the blood-colored branches, and the blood-red canopy covering the night sky in just a few minutes.

The church ring sorcerers on the boats discussed in low voices with the diviners sent by the Diviner Association, the Witches narrowed their eyes and looked at the shape of the giant tree, Sister Devlin just glanced at the tree and continued to look at the flame in her hand, and Grace and Helen behind Mother Cassandra said goodbye to the old Witch softly:

"Qina, goodbye."

The elderly Witch held back her sadness:

"Will we meet again?"

The twins comforted their student with a smile; this was also the great Witch they had witnessed growing from a young girl to her current appearance:

"As long as you believe in him, we will meet again. You are our student; you should understand better than anyone that meeting means parting. Qina, goodbye."

The red butterflies transformed by the sisters, against the background of the blood-colored giant tree growing and the wild wind howling on the island, crossed all the people who were fighting like a stream of light and flew toward the hotel in the woods. ===== CHAPTER 1913 =====