Full-Time Magister: What kind of demonic tree is this? It's clearly a sacred tree!

Chapter 114 Returning to the Giant Painting

With Zhang Chen's prompting, it wasn't long before all the demons outside the fortress were pushed down the mountain. Although they still attacked upwards like undead, they posed little threat to the guards who had mastered the techniques. However, seeing the increasing number of ape demons, Li Wen knew that this was only temporary.

Li Wen summoned everyone from the Nationalist government to a conference room to discuss solutions. Li Wen looked at Zhang Chen and asked, "How did you discover this phenomenon? Is there any way to completely eliminate these demons?"

"It was just a coincidence!" Zhang Chen said, shrugging. At this moment, Mu Nujiao spoke up: "Don't you guys think these demons look somewhat similar to the apes in the Nazca Lines?"

"It really does look like it!" Mu Ningxue said, guessing Jiang Yu. "Could someone in the mine have angered the Nazca Death God? I've heard people here say that—"

At that moment, a guard entered the meeting hall with intelligence and reported to Li Wen. Li Wen gestured for him to speak to everyone: "Several cities in southwestern Peru have been attacked by unidentified demons. We are on high alert!"

"There are strange birds and spiders—"

"Isn't that the monster from the Nazca Lines?!" Jiang Shaoxu exclaimed. "Then it seems the problem lies with the Nazca Lines!" Ai Jiangtu nodded. Li Wen, hearing that they seemed to have a clue, immediately suggested, "Why don't you go check out the Nazca Lines? We can still handle the monsters now!"

"Alright! How many days can you hold out at most!" Ai Jiangtu said. "If we take the reinforcements that are coming tomorrow into account, at the rate at which the ape demons are growing, we can conservatively estimate that we can hold out for five days without any problem."

Afterwards, Ai Jiangtu led everyone back to the Nazca Lines, where they made the same emergency landing, and everyone emerged from the helicopter covered in dust and dirt.

The Nazca Lines remain silently imprinted on this magical land, receiving the alternating light of the sun and moon, and enduring the erosion of gales, lightning, and torrential rain—yet their images have never faded.

Similar monster disasters have appeared in past historical records, but due to constant local changes, many historical documents have been lost, and the Nazca Lines incident has never been properly explained.

Zhang Chen and his group have been living in the open for two days, but they still haven't made any progress.

During this time, they saw eerie white light surging within the ape-shaped geoglyphs, and in the dead of night, they saw the spider geoglyphs glowing crimson. In the misty night, they could vaguely see swarms of spiders crawling in a fixed direction.

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These incredible scenes made Zhang Chen and the others realize that this was a forbidden area that magic could not explain.

On a chilly morning, Zhang Chen and Mu Nujiao climbed to the top of Nazca Mountain hand in hand, hoping to watch the sunrise. The first rays of sunlight shone from a great distance, dispelling the darkness.

When the morning light shines on the Nazca Lines, all the body parts of the geoglyphs are illuminated, adding a touch of sacredness to them, as if their existence is to protect something, through the vicissitudes of time, their protection never ceasing.

Zhang Chen noticed that the eyes of the strange bird in the ground painting were dull and lifeless in the morning light, as if something was missing from the eyes.

Zhang Chen pointed to the painting and asked Mu Nujiao, "Jiaojiao, isn't something missing from the eyes of that painting?"

Mu Nujiao looked over, then nodded emphatically. She hadn't expected that coming to see the sunrise with Zhang Chen would lead her to the problem.

"Everyone, hurry up the mountain, to the summit of Nazca! I think I know why!" Zhang Chen shouted. Everyone immediately headed to Nazca Mountain and looked at the place Zhang Chen was pointing to.

Mo Fan chuckled and teased Zhang Chen, "You two really have a leisurely life!"

Jiang Yu said, "It's very likely that someone took the strange bird's eyes! That's why Nazca is retaliating! Do you remember the inscription at the foot of the mountain? It says the same thing, roughly meaning: Everything must be returned, or endless misfortune will follow!"

"So you mean we have to find the thief? How are we supposed to find someone in such a big country like Peru?" Zujimin blurted out without thinking, and everyone immediately looked at him with concern. How come this child's brain is not fully developed? His cerebellum is completely underdeveloped!

Nan Jue withdrew her gaze and said, "The Nazca Bird probably targets everyone who has recently entered the forbidden area."

"Many cities in southwestern Peru have been attacked, and many mines have been surrounded. Strange apes and spiders seem to be attacking other places—to be precise, the places where the thieves are. We can tell the guards in those places and let them find them." Ai Jiangtu then picked up his phone and told Li Wen the situation, asking him to notify the guards in the cities that had been attacked.

They waited there for news from Li Wen. Around noon, Li Wen called and said, "We found the thief! He was at the Yalie mine! I'll be there with the stuff in a bit!"

"Good!" Ai Jiangtu breathed a sigh of relief. Li Wen personally delivered the Nazca Lines Eye back there. The moment the gem was put down, everyone looked up and saw a massive army of strange birds, like typhoon clouds, surging dramatically in the blue sky.

While everyone was still in shock at the scene, the entire sky suddenly returned to its original azure blue, completely empty, without even a single white cloud.

All of this has stopped. Just as Jiang Yu said, once the items were returned, even the cities that had been attacked immediately returned to peace.

Upon returning to the Peruvian capital, Osto bowed apologetically to everyone, saying, "Our intelligence was inaccurate earlier. Thank you for your generosity! Thank you for helping us solve a major problem!"

He then said with a broad smile, "We've specially set aside the royal training grounds for half a month; you can train there!"

Zhang Chen thought their royal training grounds were like the Three-Step Tower, but who knew that the highest increase in cultivation speed here was only a thousand times, not even as good as the second floor of the Pearl Academy! No wonder the duration was only half a month!

He also rewarded everyone at the academy with some resources, and Zhang Chen could only sigh that even a small mosquito is still meat.

For the past two weeks, Zhang Chen has kept the Sacred Tree by his side and has only cultivated the Chaos, Sound, and Healing systems. He has barely managed to cultivate the Chaos and Sound systems to the second level of the advanced stage, but he is still a little short of cultivating the Healing system.

The next stop was Mexico. Unsurprisingly, their instructors required them to hike along this long sea route between the Caribbean and the Pacific, passing through Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, and many other countries.

"This sea route is too long and narrow. It would take at least a long walk from Jinqiu Island to Lian County in southeastern Fengtian!" Zhao Manyan was very dissatisfied with this.

"The Caribbean Sea is right next to us, won't there be pirates or something?" Jiang Yu asked in a rather childish way.

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"I don't know if there are Caribbean pirates, but there is indeed a notorious gang roaming around these Straits Federations. Their damage to the Federations surrounding this area is second only to the Black Vatican," Nan Jue said.