Chapter 1355
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Chapter 1355 “Eternal Secret Garden”
“Eden!?”
Upon seeing this ball of light, Bragi’s face lit up with ecstatic joy.
He quickly put down the [Holy Grail] in his hand, his form soaring skyward, flying directly toward that light!
As the light gradually dispersed, Lin Qiye and the others could clearly see the figure within. Sun Wukong’s eyes flashed with a golden light as he nodded and said:
“Yes, it is indeed Eden… but in soul form.”
When Bragi made his wish earlier, he said “return to my side,” not complete resurrection, so the appearance of just a soul was understandable… If he had wanted to resurrect her complete with physical body, perhaps even the [Holy Grail] couldn’t have accomplished that.
“Being able to summon back the soul is not bad either,” Gilgamesh narrowed his eyes, looking at the pale eyeball that trembled continuously in the cloud vortex, and said in a deep voice,
“But… what exactly is that thing?”
Thunder roared and sand flew wildly.
Bragi, like a blood-colored lightning bolt, shot up from the ruined earth to the sky. Not far above him was Eden’s soul, and above that was the pale eye that had opened from within the vortex…
That eye looked at Eden’s soul falling from within itself, and began to tremble violently. The black lightning entangled in the dark clouds danced wildly, like a furious beast hanging down from the clouds, rolling toward Eden’s soul below, as if wanting to swallow her back into its belly!
Dense, hideous cracks spread across the surface of the eyeball, instantly transforming into a strange pale giant mouth, biting toward the ground!
In the gray world, the tiny Bragi and that huge mysterious eye both approached Eden in the center at the same time!
“Get away!!”
Seeing that giant mouth about to devour Eden’s soul, Bragi’s eyes exploded with boundless rage. Covered in wounds, he was like a frenzied beast, with surging divine power rolling forth!
He had come so far with such difficulty, had finally obtained enough sacrifices, had finally brought Eden back before his eyes…
How could he possibly let this monster swallow her back?!
Bragi’s speed increased dramatically, his form breaking through the void, instantly flashing above Eden’s soul!
His blood-colored robe fluttered loudly in the wind. He held his hands empty before his chest, as if gripping a harp that didn’t exist, and plucked it forcefully!
Clang clang—!!
Two bursts of blood light erupted from between Bragi’s palms. At the same time, two crimson bloody gashes were cut into the surface of the pale giant mouth that was just within reach!
Yi—!!!
The giant mouth in the vortex cried out in pain, and a sharp sound echoed throughout heaven and earth.
Lin Qiye felt his ears tighten, and two streams of fresh blood flowed from his ear canals. Everything around seemed muffled, and sounds quickly weakened…
He wiped away the blood from his ears, his pupils slightly contracting.
This single shriek had instantly deafened his ears?
Beside him, Sun Wukong also frowned and covered his ears, his eyes fixed on that hideous giant mouth, teeth clenched tightly. Even Gilgamesh in his soul state was affected, his form suddenly blurring before transforming into a beam of white light and returning to the Divine Mental Hospital.
But the most severely injured was Bragi, who was closest to the giant mouth.
This shriek instantly tore apart Bragi’s body. A mist of blood bloomed in the air, and the faintly flickering green divine power began to rapidly repair his body.
But in the next moment, that hideous giant mouth bit down, swallowing both the tiny Bragi and Eden’s soul behind him.
The world instantly fell into dead silence.
Lin Qiye’s pupils contracted slightly. In his field of vision, Sun Wukong beside him roared something in sudden rage, then raised his golden cudgel and transformed into a beam of light rushing forward!
Under the sky, the vortex rotated, and the black lightning gradually dissipated.
After swallowing Bragi and Eden’s soul, that giant mouth in the vortex slowly retracted upward. The leaden dark clouds covering Asgard began to visibly fade.
Whatever this monster was… it was about to leave.
Even though Sun Wukong rode his somersault cloud at full speed toward the sky, he still couldn’t catch up with its fading speed.
Clang—!!!
Just as the giant mouth was about to retreat into the clouds, another deep harp sound came from within!
A cold light slashed through the pale giant mouth from the inside, and from the gaping bloody mouth, a mangled figure holding a ball of light shot out like a sword!
The blood-colored robe dyed the sky red. Bragi, with only half a head and half an upper body remaining, his eyes like burning gold, roared as he broke free from the giant mouth’s grip, falling from the clouds to earth!
The entity in the vortex, seemingly surprised that Bragi could escape, emitted another sharp screech, but its form had already begun to fade, slowly disappearing into the dark clouds…
Crack!
The dark golden [Holy Grail] placed on the ground suddenly shattered, as if an invisible hand had forcibly torn it to pieces.
The fragments splashing from the broken [Holy Grail] cut Lin Qiye’s cheek, leaving a deep bloody gash, but he seemed completely unaware of the pain as he rushed at full speed toward the falling Bragi and Eden!
Lin Qiye called out Bragi’s name, but couldn’t hear his own voice. He rode the somersault cloud across the sky, steadily catching Bragi’s fragmented remains.
He had never seen Bragi like this… bloody, dying, but that mutilated handsome face was smiling.
In the howling wind, Lin Qiye called Bragi’s name again and again, but the latter’s eyes remained fixed on Eden’s soul, which he had reclaimed from the monster’s mouth. His eyes revealed unprecedented tenderness and joy, as if she was his entire world.
Lin Qiye landed in the ruins, gently placing the fragmented Bragi on the ground. The surging power of youth was trying to repair his body, but his injuries were too severe. The speed of physical repair was simply not enough to compensate for his life force ebbing away.
With the injuries Bragi had sustained, even Odin himself, had he not been contaminated by Cthulhu, would have been long dead.
That he had survived until now, persisting to break out from inside that vortex’s giant mouth, was already the result of infinitely catalyzing the law of youth.
Sun Wukong landed immediately after on his somersault cloud. Looking at the mangled Bragi, his fists clenched uncontrollably…
“Bragi, hang on… I’ll take you back to Great Xia for treatment right away!” Sun Wukong tried to suppress the anger in his heart as he spoke solemnly.
“…No need.” Bragi, lying in the pool of blood, smiled gently.
Looking at Eden’s soul in his arms, he spoke softly,
“I… must go now.”
“Go? Where are you going?” Sun Wukong asked coldly.
“Eden’s soul is too weak. If this continues, she will soon dissipate… I need to take her to a place where perhaps we can reunite.”
Bragi looked at Lin Qiye standing nearby, his lips slightly parted, his voice echoing directly in Lin’s mind:
“I’m leaving, Director… we’ll meet again in the future.”
As Bragi finished speaking, a hazy green light surged from his body, enveloping Asgard’s essence, like a gentle hand, lifting Eden’s soul.
Under the watchful eyes of Lin Qiye and Sun Wukong, this green light grew increasingly brilliant. When its radiance forced Lin Qiye to shield his eyes, it suddenly dispersed, transforming into countless light green particles drifting slowly toward the sky…
Sun Wukong stood motionless, watching these green particles gradually disappear.
After a long while, he murmured:
“Where… are they going?”
Seeming to understand Sun Wukong’s lip movements, Lin Qiye remained silent for a moment, then wrote several large characters in blood on the ruins:
—[The Eternal Secret Garden]
