Chapter 1916: Edwards

And although Priest Augustus opened the crack to absorb souls, facing such a huge tide of evil spirits, he could only barely stand at the edge of the island with the Doctor.

"Doctor, you stay here to help Xia De, I will lead these souls away."

The old man's face was determined, and he made the decision without hesitation. The Schneider Doctor gritted his teeth and held on against the attacks of those blood-red tree branches around them:

"Can you do it?"

"Don't underestimate me, you also pay attention to safety."

Saying this, he pieced together two-sixths of the skull completely, and then held it high above his head. The black wings of burnt black only flashed under the moon and then disappeared, but then, everyone on the tree canopy heard a clear bell sound.

That was definitely not a bell sound indicating time. The sound vibrated the soul directly, making the soul feel a bone-chilling cold. This feeling was like jumping into an ice pool in the coldest winter. The living people who had bodies to protect their souls were stiffened for a second because of this bell sound, and those souls controlled by 【Soul Storybook】 were directly fixed in place.

The old priest held the skull in his hand and jumped from the edge of the banquet hall wreckage toward under the tree in the bell sound. So those fixed souls seemed to be attracted by him, broke away from the control of the relic, and turned into a tide, rushing toward the ground under the tree along with him. Even 【Soul Storybook】 itself was dragged by the powerful attraction and flew toward under the tree along with the thousands of souls.

The evil spirits moved away, and the people on the wreckage finally withdrew their respective barriers and counter-attack strange arts in a sorry state. Xia De, of course, saw the Doctor and the Priest who appeared just now. Although he was also worried about how the Priest would deal with so many souls, he still threw Soren Green and Helena Green, who were clutching their hearts and almost unable to move, toward the Doctor:

"Take them away!"

The Doctor wanted to stay to help, but since Xia De made the request, he wouldn't refuse. It was just that the Green siblings had just touched the layer of red light that had become blurred, and they immediately returned to the wreckage from the red light on the other side of the wreckage; they couldn't leave here at all.

The Doctor was surprised, waved his fist wrapped in demon flames toward that layer of red light, and the black flames that could burn most substances couldn't melt the red light before him.

The blood-colored fruit at the top of the tree canopy was still growing, and the spirit and elements flowing in the island and the trees were becoming thinner and thinner, and it was not far from the fruit being completely mature.

The voice of Laplace Klein Howard with an echo came from high above:

"God-Awakener, why don't we make a simple deal. I promise to let go of this pair of twin siblings tonight, and you promise not to call upon the power of the gods tonight."

"Do you think I am very stupid? And, lacking them, can your Edwards Ascension Technique really be complete?"

Even if he didn't intend to burn divinity, Xia De still responded for the first time.

"But, is it really necessary to be complete?"

His one sentence indicated that he also knew that the final unity did not need to absorb all descendants:

"I will increase the chips—I promise that the Edwards Ascension Technique will not absorb Soren Green, Helena Green, Megan Edwards, and Audrey Edwards tonight; you promise not to call upon the power of the gods tonight. We don't need to sign any contract, just guarantee with ourselves, will you agree?"

"Xia..."

Megan almost shouted Xia De's name. She widened her eyes and wanted to stop Xia De from agreeing, but Xia De had already nodded decisively:

"No problem."

In the battle of the Chosen, any promise and duel had quite important symbolic significance. Xia De knew the Diviner wouldn't lie, and the Diviner also knew Xia De wouldn't easily violate his oath. Lu Wei Ya divined that the Edwards Ascension Technique could lack at most four descendants. Now it seemed that Laplace Howard also knew this point.

Two simple sentences from both sides had already reached an agreement. Xia De didn't even give Megan a chance to object, and said directly to the Green siblings:

"You leave first."

So the siblings supporting each other nodded to Xia De, and Helena Green held her brother's hand and quickly passed through the red light at the edge of the banquet hall wreckage, joining the Doctor standing on the tree canopy branches. The Doctor didn't say anything more, grabbed the hands of the two, and jumped toward the bottom.

"Gilles, Gilles, you go too!"

The little girl was urging the man who was hugging her anxiously, but the man, who was covered in wounds and clearly had experienced a cruel battle, refused to leave no matter what.

Megan stared at Xia De with wide eyes, but saw Xia De also give her the gesture to leave. The Witch shook her head quickly, her eyes still unable to believe that Xia De actually agreed to such a request for her. She knew that although Xia De's strength shown usually was strong, it was far from the level of her ancestor at this time.

She couldn't imagine how Xia De would end tonight if he didn't use the power of calling upon the gods. She didn't understand even more whether Xia De really had the need to do this for her.

But Xia De had no time to explain to her.

The sound of chanting and prayers from all over the island became louder and louder, and the blood-red giant tree shook more and more violently. The heartbeat sound in the fruit made the Edwards cover their chests again, and the increasingly large fruit finally had signs of the fruit flesh about to burst the transparent fruit skin.

The power of the Edwards Ascension Technique reached its peak at this moment, and the surging blood mist and the pulsing feeling of the powerful heartbeat even made people doubt whether the Laplace Howard who was about to "descend" was an ancient giant beast that had been sleeping here for many years.

But it was not that the blood-colored fruit exploded in an instant, and the Diviner flew out of it. Blood drops, countless blood drops seeped from the swelling fruit skin, and large drops of blood fell toward the banquet hall wreckage that was almost fused with the tree canopy.

The Edwards could feel that they would "dissolve" once they touched this blood. While dodging, they didn't forget to pull the defeated family members to dodge.

But these blood drops were not intended to attack them. The blood fell to the ground, and then turned into Laplace Klein Howards wearing blood-colored robes one after another.

Whistles and bell sounds rang out, and 13th-ring life rings appeared behind them one after another. However, in just a few seconds, twenty-one 13th-ring sorcerers appeared on the wreckage with expressionless faces.

But almost at the same time, a thick earthy yellow spiritual energy floated above the island. The power of the earth surged, appearing above the banquet hall wreckage along the thick tree trunk. Those mud, dust, and stones intertwined with each other, and the incarnations of twenty-one earth guardians entangled with them in the second after the Diviners wearing blood-colored robes appeared.

Forty-two people flew away from the narrow wreckage and unfolded a fierce battle around the giant tree. And those earthy yellow spiritual energies finally formed the main body of the Chosen of the Earth in the image of Mr. Lathers beside Xia De.

He nodded to Xia De lightly, and then his body dissipated again, turning into a stream of light and flying toward the huge fruit that was still dripping blood and swelling high above.

The fruit finally exploded at this moment. Following the fruit skin landing, the blood-colored "fruit flesh" that seemed endless converged into the image of Laplace Howard.

No matter what he was at this moment, he could no longer be called a human.

The two didn't talk much nonsense, and the blood-colored and earthy yellow light streams entangled and fell toward the ground. They didn't think about fighting in the air. But Xia De frowned slightly, and Yi Lu Na said what Xia De wanted to say in advance:

"Not the main body of the Guardian, something happened to the earth? So he came so late?"

"Not important, it's important that he came to entangle Laplace Klein Howard. I just don't understand, 99% of the power is entangled with the Chosen of the Earth, did you give up your plan?"

The last half of the sentence was asked toward the layer of "fruit skin" that fell on the banquet hall wreckage. The wreckage of the fruit squirmed and converged together, and the red flesh piled up again to become the image of the Diviner.

Weak, even weaker than Xia De's normal state now. But this Diviner who walked out of the red fog inexplicably made Xia De feel that this was the real living person. Although weak, he was exceptionally real; although he had no power, he was more like something truly born in this tree.

"Abandon the past self."

The Diviner said softly, looking around, looking at the complex expressions revealed by his descendants:

"Power took away the part representing Laplace Klein Howard, abandoned them, and I could truly become Edwards, become the incarnation of this island."

He said like a poem:

"My people are the soil of the earth,

My descendants are the roots of the trees.

Oh, roots deeply buried in the mud,

Please draw the nutrition of flesh and blood for me.

The Chosen of Balance trims the branches for me,

The Chosen of the Earth clears the surplus of fruit flesh for me.

The Death-Announcing Angel leads the soul to death,

And I offered the souls of my descendants to that demon.

Insert thirteen keys,

The two-hundred-year wish has come to this moment.

One is all,

All is one.

Descendants, please raise your glasses with me,

Descendants, please become a part of me."

Clearly having no power, but when he suddenly reached out to Megan, the Witch still felt a fatal threat for a moment. Xia De, holding hands with Yi Lu Na, almost immediately appeared beside her with a flash. The three made defensive counter-attack actions together, and then were knocked flying together by a huge force.

"Edwards" didn't want to fight the three of them at all. A sudden strike made them move away, and then the thin blood thorns protruding from behind him pierced the bodies of everyone left on the wreckage in an instant.

That was really just an instant, and no one could resist.

Huge power had already knocked Xia De, Yi Lu Na, and Megan out of the banquet hall wreckage on the tree canopy. Even though they had long anticipated that this scene would happen, when "Edwards", who was transformed by the island itself, truly made a move, whether it was Xia De or Yi Lu Na, they could no longer stop it. ===== CHAPTER 1917 =====