Chapter 2771

The trunk of that giant tree could be considered as thick as a building. The canopy not only covered the top of the clearing, leaving mottled traces of sparse starlight and moonlight on the clearing, but the canopy even extended into the forest area.

If it weren't for the fact that you couldn't see this place from the air, Xia De felt that even dozens of miles away, one could easily detect this place.

Directly in front of the trunk stood an extremely huge wooden chair. The base of that chair looked like a tree stump, and the backrest looked like a thin layer of curved tree bark. The side of the chair back facing the seat itself was inscribed with two vertical lines of ancient characters.

This was also the first time Xia De had seen vertically written characters in this world, but when he tried to identify the content on it, he felt that those characters were blurry and couldn't be seen at all:

"Strange."

That huge wooden chair was probably best suited for a fifty-meter-tall giant to sit down. And with this huge chair as the center, there were four other wooden chairs distributed in a fan shape along the edge of the clearing under the tree, located on both sides of the central giant chair respectively.

The style of those four wooden chairs was similar to the largest one, just much smaller in volume. But even if they were smaller, they were not chairs for ordinary-sized humans to sit on. A person would have to grow to ten meters to be best suited for such chairs.

"Look here, the runes here are the only ones that can be seen clearly. Can you translate them?"

The doctor asked. At this time, the two were facing the largest chair under the giant tree, and he was pointing to the chair on the outermost side of the left hand. The backrests of all five chairs had vertically written ancient runes, but currently, only the text on the backrest of this chair was clearly visible.

Those characters emitted a fiery red faint light. Even standing very far away, Xia De could see them very clearly. He translated them from top to bottom and from right to left according to habit:

"Wait a moment, let me see—Flowing light is like fire, time does not return."

"What does this mean?"

The doctor asked. Xia De didn't know either, and after he finished reciting the sentence that appeared, nothing happened here:

"I remembered one thing. When I attended a charity auction some time ago, I met a Professor Yuke Wood, and through his introduction, I bought a folklore book, 'Creekwood Town and the World Tree,' which believes that the giant tree in the forest is guarded by symbols of many natural forces: earth, water veins, fierce fire, and wild wind."

The doctor nodded:

"You mean, the so-called giant tree in the forest is the one that just hurt me and banished you? And the so-called four guards are the things sitting on these four chairs. We solved the demon symbolizing fire, so 'fire' appeared?"

Xia De couldn't be entirely sure:

"There is just such a possibility."

"Then is there a possibility that there are three other demons corresponding to earth, water veins, and wild wind here?"

The doctor smiled and said again. Xia De shook his head:

"Although we often encounter demons, there shouldn't be four appearing at once. Doctor, do you remember what hit you just now?"

"It seemed to be a dragon beast, but it was different from those we saw by the sea in the summer."

"Is it possible that one corresponds to wind?"

Xia De asked again, and the doctor nodded thoughtfully:

"It is indeed possible... Oh, I was just happy and almost forgot about this."

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and a black cube immediately floated in front of him. Then the cube disintegrated into countless small black squares, revealing what was contained within. This move was also learned after devouring the demon in the labyrinth at Green Lake:

"After I eliminated that demon, this time it didn't leave behind a demon body. Its main body only left behind the essence I needed. However, after it disappeared, it did leave this behind. This is not the power of a demon."

What the doctor took out was a small branch with sparks still burning on it. Those sparks seemed to have become a part of the branch; even if frozen, blown by the wind, or pressed, they would not be extinguished. This resulted in the fact that shaking the branch would leave afterimages of the sparks in the air.

"The sparks on this are not demon flames; they seem to be just ordinary fire."

As he spoke, he handed the branch, which was not very long, to Xia De. The branch was bare without leaves and looked very thin. And after Xia De touched the branch, he immediately felt the specialty of its material:

"A branch of the World Tree."

He said very affirmatively. The Key of Yggdrasil, the elf's antique arrow, plus the Leaf of Eternal Youth, this was enough for him to distinguish similar materials:

"Is this the power it was bestowed with?"

"I don't know about that; this is not within my professional scope."

The doctor shook his head again. Seeing Xia De's solemn face, he didn't say anything more. If he took that tree just now as an opponent, he knew how much pressure Xia De was facing.

And looking at this strange venue that was not hidden at all, the doctor knew that the powerful existence didn't seem to worry about being defeated by anyone at all.

Although this place looked very strange, in reality, except for the glowing fiery red letters, there were not even traces of abnormal elements.

The night was deep. Seeing that there were no other clues here, Xia De and the doctor left.

However, the doctor didn't intend to return to the city with Xia De. Just as the two had already agreed, he wanted to make some preparations in the forest that were inconvenient to be discovered by others, and would contact Xia De when he was ready to obtain the third core spirit rune.

The two parted ways in the forest. Xia De watched the doctor's limping back disappear before preparing to return. He was actually still a bit worried about the doctor, not worried that he would encounter danger in the forest, but worried that he would lose control.

If the doctor's act of devouring demons was originally like cracking walnuts with a steam bomb, then what he was about to do now was like swimming in magma with a steam bomb.

But since the doctor had made up his mind, Xia De could only help him as much as he could.

The location to reunite with Iluna and the others was the entrance of the abandoned village, Gregory Village. When Xia De arrived, the original abandoned village was actually in a state of having just been burning. The smoldering flames caused the village ruins to constantly emit smoke, and even the temperature at the village entrance had risen quite a bit because of this.

Iluna, Sister Devlin, Flora, and several high-level girls who were waiting for him were sitting around the bonfire lit by the nun. Hearing footsteps, they turned their heads and saw a silver wolf emerging from the woods, and then it stood upright under the moonlight and transformed into Xia De.

"Xia De, you're really slow~ If you didn't come, we were going to look for you."

Iluna waved her hand and said this first; she had great confidence in Xia De.

Xia De saw that everyone was safe and sound, so he breathed a sigh of relief:

"Encountered some trouble, but it has been resolved. Are you all okay? Miss Aisha Asberg? I haven't thanked her yet."

"She went back first; she still has some things to deal with in the Far North. However, she saw 【Nightwatcher】 and must have guessed that you are the God-Awakener. I am very curious about how Dannister will explain it to her."

Flora said, stood up, and patted her skirt:

"Anyway, this night is finally over... I have already thought of the idea for the fifth oil painting! 'Silver Wolf in the Woods', Xia De, I feel that your silver wolf form looks even better than your moonlight dragon form."

Xia De smiled, and then asked Sister Devlin again:

"Has the initial fire taken away by the demon been recovered?"

The nun nodded silently, but in reality, tonight's events were not over. Sister Devlin did not follow everyone into the city; she needed to return to the sacrificial site first and would come together after the witches arrived on the weekend.

Improving her power in death delayed other things. She, the leader, was not a symbol for the 【Spirit Cultivation Sect】, and absorbing the demon's flames and this initial fire also required time for her to stabilize her power.

However, before Sister Devlin left, she did give Xia De a package:

"This is something left behind by a demon hunter from a hundred years ago. The demons entrenched here did not destroy them."

And when Xia De returned to the Accordion Hotel with the girls, it was already three o'clock on Thursday morning.

Miss Dannister was of course still waiting for everyone, but when everyone entered the door, they all saw that the red-haired girl was clearly in a very unhappy mood.

"Dannister, what's wrong with you? Look, we all returned safely."

Flora asked in a very good mood; hunting demons made her very excited.

The girl on the sofa looked at Xia De, and then pointed to the box on the coffee table:

"Xia De, this is for you."

Xia De recognized what this was almost immediately. On a summer evening in 1821, the box he and that black-haired sorceress saw in the apartment rented by the actress was this one. He didn't expect that after 33 years, this box was still around.

So Xia De probably guessed what was in the box, and then immediately guessed the reason for the red-haired girl's unhappiness:

"Where did you get this from?"

He asked very carefully, and then rose-red eyes looked at him:

"About forty minutes ago, the principal asked me to go to the academy, and then said that the teacher left something for me... Xia De, you went to see the teacher again, right?"

Flora then understood as well. She pulled Iluna, who was the only one who didn't understand, back a few steps, and then explained it to Iluna using telepathy, so Iluna understood too.

"I did see Miss Carter.

There was an accident just now, and I was thrown out of the current time point. Our guess about the wreckage of the World Tree is completely correct, but I don't quite understand why it just drove me away... It was Miss Carter who helped me return, and we spent about a day together."

The box was manipulated to fly toward Xia De and opened automatically. The note and the ring inside were both there. Xia De guessed that Little Mia should be happy for several days.

The note was no longer left by Mr. Euclid the astrologer for Miss Carter, but left by Miss Carter for Miss Dannister. Xia De opened the note, and then understood even more why Miss Dannister was unhappy.