Soul Trigger

Chapter 675 Holy Land
The old campus was deserted. Apart from Old Green's car, which was still warm, the old caretaker had also disappeared.

The Red Ant Knight landed beside Prid:
"What about people?"

Ji Li looked up at the top of the building, into the window of old Green's office:

"Go up."

"What on earth is going on...?"

"You'll find out when you get up there."

Ji Li, already in Kisame form, immediately exerted force with his feet and leaped high into the air, his deep-sea spiritual essence creating a towering water column.

The elytra cape on Aiquier's back suddenly vibrated, rising into the air like a winged termite, catching Ji Li's leaping body in mid-air and crashing into it together.

At the same time, a huge blood-red bat rushed into the house like a meteor; it was Angelica.

Outside the window, Andrew, clad in Soul Armor, was leaping between buildings with Jason on his back, while the Drunken Knight was panting as he climbed the stairs, the Torture Armor carrying him directly up the stairs.

"Pulitzer, we can't act so impulsively anymore!"

"Pulitzer, what's going on? Where's my grandfather?!"

Where is old Green?

"Quiet down!" Angelica snapped, turning to Pulitzer.
"Where did Old Green go?"

“I saw him come in.”

Angelica narrowed her eyes:

"The secret is in this room."

She saw the red maple trees outside the window and the cobblestone path:

"Thinking about it, it makes sense. There's no way he would put an office here without a reason, right next to the puppeteer's laboratory..."

"Wait a minute... Where's Bordeaux?!" Sica looked around anxiously.

Upon hearing this, a glint of light flashed in Angelica's eyes, as if she already had an idea:

"Pulitzer, how did you discover the problem?"

"The second line of the nursery rhyme." Ji Li spoke very quickly:
"The Tree Root Forbidden Zone is not a forbidden zone in the physical sense; it refers to the Grimm family, who worship Odin. Therefore, the secret is hidden within the Grimm family."

But I still had no idea what method of hiding he used. However, just as I was about to ask Old Green, he had already used an excuse to escape and arrived here.

Jason's pupils dilated in disbelief:
"Grandpa still has something he hasn't told us...!?"

“It’s obvious.” A surge of spiritual energy emanated from Angelica.
"Sika, prepare the spell. Andrew, you've recovered almost completely; you should be able to use that move now..."

As Angelica scattered the crimson bats that flew into the room, Sika dismounted from the Torture Armor and took out a wine flask to begin setting up a spell.

Andrew let out a wolf howl, the echo reverberating as if a pack of beasts was charging towards them.

It turned out to be a pack of wolves.

It was called a wolf pack, but there were only six or seven wild wolves; the majority were town dogs.

But now their eyes are glowing green, and their bodies are expanding as they run wildly, transforming into wolf-like beasts the size of a human, surrounding the entire old campus layer by layer.

"Bloodline Call," the inherent rule ability of the restless creature within Andrew, can summon wolf packs or any creature with wolf blood, and strengthen and command them for a short period of time.

The blood-red bats ransacked the room, sending books flying everywhere. Angelica quickly said:

Pulitzer, what other ideas do you have?

"World Tree Imprint, Nursery Rhyme".

A brief answer was enough for Angelica to understand, and she gestured for Jason to retrieve his World Tree Imprint:

"But we haven't found the third mark yet. If this is how to open the entrance, I'm afraid..."

"Just read it first, and you'll know after you finish reading it."

That's true, but we might as well try anything, even if it seems hopeless.

But Jensen next to him didn't seem prepared:
"Captain... if, I mean, if Grandpa is the mastermind behind all of this, what would he do?"

Angelica glanced at Jensen; silence was the best answer, which made him clench the World Tree mark in his hand tightly.

"Don't worry." Ji Li looked at Jameson:
“Your grandfather does not truly possess spiritual power, nor could he be a substitute; he is indeed a genuine human spirit.”

"But if you want to know the truth, then try reading it first."

Jason was silent for a moment, then suddenly took off the World Tree Mark necklace and threw it at Ji Li: "Come on."

"why?"

Jason gritted his teeth, as if resigning himself to his fate, and said:

"I don't have the courage..."

He didn't have the courage to confront the fact that his beloved grandfather was the mastermind, even though Ji Li thought the possibility was very small.

He felt a sense of withdrawal.

"That's for the best, Pulitzer?"

Angelica and Ji Li looked at each other, then clenched the World Tree mark in their hands and began to recite the nursery rhyme—

"A pebble base covered with red leaves..."

Before the first sentence was finished, the World Tree imprints in their hands suddenly burst into blue flames, and the entire space was suddenly filled with surging spiritual energy fluctuations.

Sika's eyes suddenly lit up:
"it works!"

But before Ji Li and Angelica could even finish reciting the first sentence, the burning World Tree mark in their hands burst forth with blue light.

One on the left and one on the right, like two stars, enveloped the entire space, rippling outwards without end.

No, not two separate paths!

Aquil's pupils contracted, and he abruptly turned his head to look out the window:

"There's one more?!"

A third blue light appeared in everyone's field of vision, but the light made it impossible for them to see the other party's figure or spatial location.

Because the blue light had distorted the entire space, as if some kind of dimensional key was tearing everyone apart inch by inch!

Everyone gasped, and when they came to their senses, they were already standing in the warm sunlight.

The dusky sky, the setting sun, the endless wheat fields, and the "strange circle" patterns formed by the flattened wheat stalks—a truly astonishing spectacle.

"Odin...the sacred land."

Looking at the magnificent wheat fields and huge windmills before them, everyone was overwhelmed with awe at the spectacle.

Above that strange circle, there was a patch of azure and hazy matter, resembling some kind of suspended giant building soaring into the sky, or a colossal object left behind by extraterrestrial visitors.

It was shrouded in an illusion, making it difficult to see clearly, but its illusory edges and terrifying scale still left everyone stunned in place.

"That's... the temple?"

Sika stammered for a long time before finally speaking.

Angelica frowned: "I don't know, it might be some kind of giant summoning artifact..."

"Valhalla".

A chorus of male voices came from beside them.

Looking in the direction of the sound, there was a shocked and fanatical Jansen, and the other person was Ji Li.

The former suddenly turned his head to look at the latter:
"how do you know?"

Ji Li hid the nostalgia in his eyes and grinned:
"Look who's here!"

Everyone's gaze immediately turned to the wheat field, locking onto a figure—

Bordeaux, the Knight of Dead Water.

He turned to look at the crowd. Mercury rose from beneath his feet, slowly enveloping him and quickly plunging him into darkness, his soul fully armed.

"Thank you everyone, I've finally... found this place."

He raised his hand, and the blue light emanating from it was gradually fading.
That was the third World Tree Imprint.

Angelica's expression darkened:
"...You are not a Dead Apostle."

"None of that matters anymore, everyone, time is of the essence."

Bordeaux spread his palms out and slowly stretched them forward, while his other hand lifted one of the chains around his neck, revealing a bright silver family crest:
"In the name of the Ludwig family, the following order is issued to Angelica Laurent, captain of the 13th Parade of Knights in Saint-Germain-de-Indonesia:"

Give me all the remaining World Tree Imprints.
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P.S.: Sorry, I fell asleep while writing tonight. I'll just post one chapter for now.

(End of this chapter)