Chapter 2931

It is still very fast for Ringed Shushi to want to make a fire and cook. Ten minutes later, the campfire had already been set up, and the aroma of roasted wild boar meat filled the entire woodland. However, Little Mia usually didn't have high requirements for meat, it preferred fruits and sweet snacks, so the cat didn't make a sound because of the smell.

The leader among the three hunters called himself Marcus Stultz. After roasting his prey, he stood up and offered the right leg of the wild boar to the ruins, and then used a knife to distribute the other parts of the wild boar to everyone, including himself.

Because the hunters carried seasonings with them, the taste of this food should be quite good. Everyone started to eat, and then after Miss Olanode counted down three numbers, except for the three hunters, everyone fell down beside the campfire.

The hunters did not move, but only stood up after eating the food in their hands. And just as they stood up, the Eleven-Ringer Professor Herman Hope also sat up. He covered his waist and said:

"You really waited until you finished eating before taking action? Although I am only fifty-six years old this year, lying on the snow is not a very good experience."

In fact, he only looked to be around forty years old.

The surprised hunters immediately picked up their longbows and nocked arrows to point at him. Stultz, the leader, did not forget to explain:

"Enjoying the prey is a respect for them, and also a respect for the hunting action."

"So you are really believers of this Old God? When you poisoned us just now, I thought you were pretending."

The professor stood up, but it seemed that the other members of the Zalas Academy small team were really unconscious:

"In the temple of the Old God you believe in, you used prey to design a strange conspiracy. Is this really something a believer should do?"

"Designing traps is also a part of hunting. My Lord does not require the good or evil of believers, and hunting itself is only for survival."

"Then you three hunting us should have some reasons, right? Are you cannibals? You don't look like it. Seeing wealth and getting greedy? But I remember your tradition is to maintain a simple life."

Professor Hope said suspiciously, and the Eleven-Ring life ring behind him also fully appeared at this time:

"The young people who accompanied me have sat in the office for too long and only know how to deal with the children in the Academy. Now they should be taught a lesson, so I didn't remind them. But you three can guess whether it is really just me who is awake now."

As soon as the three golden arrows were released by the bowstring, they turned into a grand stream of light and bombarded Professor Hope. The huge wind pressure blew away the campfire, but the attack, which looked incomparably powerful, was directly blocked by the shield in the shape of an open book formed in front of Professor Hope.

Xia De recognized this; this is 【Protection of Books】 that Luweiya can also do.

The effects of the three divine weapons were indeed powerful, but still not enough to let them defeat Professor Hope, who was an Eleven-Ringer, at once. After blocking the attack of the three, the spirit rune behind the professor flashed with light, and then the snowflakes on the ground flew up and condensed into a long whip.

The wind pressure formed when the snow-white long whip was whipped out even swept away the snow in front of the ruins. The three wanted to block, but the shield they built together was broken in the next second.

Two of the Five-Ring Ringed Shushi among the hunters fell to the ground with serious injuries. When the professor waved the ice and snow long whip again, the only remaining Six-Ringer had already fled into the range of the temple ruins. The professor frowned and thought for a while, not letting the huge long whip continue to attack, so as not to destroy the only remaining corridors. He shouted at the person hiding behind the pillar:

"For the sake of your poison only making us unconscious, come out and surrender now, and then explain clearly the reason why you are hostile to us. You still have a chance not to be wanted by the Church of the True God and the three major Academies."

Xia De and Miss Olanode's perspective could not see clearly what the hunter hiding behind the pillar was doing, but suddenly the ground trembled, and then in the forest surrounding the ruins, several giant trees suddenly became active.

The appearance of the treemen also made Professor Hope startled. After all, the divine arts mastered by the believers of the God of Hunting should not include "calling treemen". Their power regarding the forest is more about terrain perception, tracking and anti-tracking, protection against mosquitoes, and animal communication.

So the professor cast a spell to try to drive away the treemen to prevent other Ringed Shushi of the Academy from being hurt. But the moment he turned around, a gray ray shot at him from behind the pillar.

"Protection of Books!"

But Professor Hope seemed to have expected it long ago. The golden book-shaped shield that opened up blocked his side again. Only this time, things did not go so smoothly. After the gray ray hit the shield, the golden stream of light inside the shield stopped flowing as if it had solidified.

Then the gray ray passed through the shield and directly hit Professor Hope, so he also solidified in place.

The tree vines buried under the snow suddenly drilled out from both sides of the professor, wanting to tie up Professor Herman Hope, but at this moment, two playing cards flashed in the wind, the vines were silently cut off by the cards, and the man hiding behind the pillar also heard the strange sound appearing behind him.

Xia De, who appeared behind him using "Lagley's Jump", pressed his shoulder. The hunter still wanted to fight back, but he also solidified in place just like the professor outside.

"The power of time suspension?"

Professor Hope's voice came from the open space outside the ruins. The professor who had just been time-frozen had recovered. It seems that even if Xia De did not take action, the hunter's sneak attack this time was not very successful. It's just that I don't know if Professor Hope's resistance was high enough, or if that kind of power itself could not be maintained for too long.

It's just that the professor ultimately did not see Xia De, because Miss Olanode, who was hiding in the forest, sneaked up on him again. When Xia De walked out of the ruins with the Six-Ring hunter, the witch was manipulating everyone who was unconscious to float to the campfire, and then lit the fire again, probably because she was afraid they would catch a cold.

"I guess, the things you want to know are probably not suitable for the people of Zalas Academy to hear."

Miss Olanode explained, having no psychological burden for knocking out Professor Herman Hope.

The next things were much simpler. All three hunters were controlled, and after the unconscious Academy Ringed Shushi were checked, it was confirmed that they were only poisoned and would not be in danger of life for the time being.

Miss Olanode did not try to interrogate the hunters. She let Xia De lift the time control on the Six-Ring hunter, and then waved her hand to summon a translucent bone claw. That bone claw pressed directly on the top of the hunter's head, like a hand grabbing his head.

Gray light symbolizing the power of the soul appeared on the bone claw. The hunter struggled violently, and then his eyes also turned gray.

"You come and ask."

The yellow-haired witch said in a brisk tone:

"I'll go check these ruins. This is a secret technique specifically used to interrogate students, very reliable."

Xia De nodded hesitantly:

"Okay, I just didn't expect that you allowed the use of this kind of... on students at that time."

"Compared to the apprenticeship period, the punishments that Academy students might suffer are already very light."

Miss Olanode said with a smile, and then really walked towards the ruins.

Xia De then looked at the hunter kneeling in the snow:

"Why did you attack these Ringed Shushi?"

"No, can't let anyone investigate here, no, can't let anyone discover my mistake."

The hunter spoke intermittently, but at least the content was coherent.

"Discover what?"

The hunter under the bone claw struggled, but as the gray light on the bone claw grabbing his head became more and more intense, the hunter still said the answer while struggling:

"More than thirty years ago, when I was hunting in the nearby forest, I accidentally killed... a boy. At that time, I was far from being as strong as I am now, and my mastery of dark vision was not proficient. I swear I thought it was just a deer... I, I repented to the temple, I, I repented to the god, but I didn't get any response."

He continued to struggle violently, but was already in tears. His voice became more and more hoarse, and tears fell along his cheeks onto the snow, leaving small pits:

"The god did not respond to me, but other existences responded to me."

"Who responded to you?"

Xia De asked with a frown, having a bad premonition in his heart.

"The forest responded to me. Under the guidance of the forest, I saw, saw the tree. It promised that it could resurrect the child, and could also give me power. I don't need to abandon my faith, don't need to abandon the oath to protect this forest... I, I agreed, but these years... I have done many strange things for that tree, sending letters, guiding the lost...

Too much evidence, too many records of things I have done, were all buried by me under the land in the southeast corner of this temple. I can't, can't let anyone... I can't. Before, I had been doubting what that tree was. Recently, we learned the news spread by the Church of the True God from the 【Hermit Group in the Forest】, so I understood."

Xia De understood his words. The disappearance of Flora's uncle's childhood playmate was thus explained. So it seems that Luweiya's special divination is indeed omnipotent. The question that troubled Anthony Winslet for a lifetime is actually just that simple:

"That tree promised you to resurrect the child, did it do it?"

Xia De continued to ask. Next is probably the answer he is looking for.

"It did it."

The hunter was trembling all over, but no one could tell if he was excited or afraid:

"When I saw that tree in the pitch-black night, although the child had been dead for three hours, his soul had not completely left. He still had obsessions, he wanted to help his lost companion, so the tree could repair his body and let the soul return.

The tree really resurrected him, but the child made a wish to the tree again, hoping that the tree could help his companion. This wish was also realized. The hounds of the hunters in Creekwood Town found another missing child under guidance."