That was what he said, but the immediate priority was still to recover his mobility and consult with Lin Yu, who was more knowledgeable about cult information, about the situation.
And it had to be fast.
Because the behavioral patterns of those two blood giants had already begun to change.
They were no longer randomly attacking the two masses of Fiendfyre tangled around them in the air and the origami figures carefully floating around their periphery looking for opportunities to harass them. Instead, they began approaching each other and started defending.
What were they trying to do?
This abnormal behavior made Glenn feel uneasy, and his currently immobile body further intensified this unease.
Thunder rumbled, and Lin Yu's figure flashed like lightning to Glenn and Hermione's side. In his hands, he was currently carrying a person who was tied up.
The bound person struggling continuously was Feng Lian.
"If nothing unexpected happens, then something unexpected has definitely happened now."
Lin Yu's face no longer held its usual relaxed expression. He looked very seriously at Hermione and Glenn, who was lying on Hermione's lap.
"But why are you lying down, Glenn?"
"He was attacked by something unknown."
Hermione lowered her head to wipe away her tears, speaking on behalf of Glenn, who was currently struggling even to speak.
"The head."
Glenn slightly opened his mouth, providing more detailed supplementation to Hermione's explanation.
Lin Yu's expression became even more grim. He rubbed his brow somewhat regretfully, then looked toward the continuously approaching blood giants and said seriously:
"This is my dereliction of duty. I misjudged the situation and nearly caused a great disaster. Now that you've survived this ordeal, the matter of apologizing for this incident can be postponed for now. The immediate priority is to evacuate this area immediately."
Lin Yu raised his head, his eyes emitting black-purple lightning as he squinted:
"No, we might need to evacuate directly from this secret realm."
After a short period of self-recovery and Hermione's treatment, Glenn's physical condition had improved considerably. He opened his eyes and looked at Lin Yu.
Whether there was an apology or not didn't really matter to Glenn. He was responsible for his own body, and if he was injured, it had nothing to do with others. There was no such thing as being injured due to someone else's mistake.
If anything, it could only be said that Glenn had been careless, so he had no intention of blaming anyone.
What he wanted to do more now was understand the situation from Lin Yu.
"Give me a simple explanation."
Glenn could now speak normally. Since his body still couldn't move normally and he couldn't carry out the "evacuation" action Lin Yu mentioned, he ignored unnecessary words and began asking directly.
"The evil sorcerer's original consciousness was parasitized by the thing he summoned through the sacrifice ritual. Now a strand of that thing's consciousness has returned to the present world through their connection, appearing on the blood giant."
"But that massive body composed of blood and spiritual power is too weak for that thing, so it's preparing to directly detonate this blood giant's body to cause slaughter and sacrifice it to itself."
Lin Yu spoke very quickly, but Glenn and Hermione still understood his meaning.
Since Lin Yu had said they needed to evacuate directly from the secret realm, the destructive power of this self-destruction would presumably be immense. No wonder Glenn felt that persistent, intense sense of crisis.
"Let's go."
Without asking too many questions, Glenn directly decided to follow Lin Yu's command. He struggled to support his body from the ground, and Hermione hurriedly helped him up.
Lin Yu nodded, then raised his hand to fire a red orb formed by magical arts into the sky.
The countless origami figures still harassing the blood giants in the distance immediately surged toward a certain location like birds returning to their nest, and then a figure carrying a coffin appeared beside everyone.
"Are we... not dealing with... those two things... anymore?"
As soon as Wanqi Zhuo arrived, the surrounding air was immediately filled with the smell of alcohol. It seemed this scruffy uncle hadn't stopped drinking even during battle.
This was Glenn's first time meeting this mysterious team leader, but his pupils somehow contracted slightly, though he didn't say much.
"Plans have changed. We need to evacuate immediately. Teacher Wan, you're responsible for taking Glenn, Hermione, Feng Lian, and Yaolin directly out of the secret realm by the shortest route. I'm going to the temporary camp now to organize the evacuation."
Lin Yu threw Feng Lian, whom he was carrying, toward Wanqi Zhuo, then used magical arts to lift the sleeping Yaolin from the ground and also tossed him toward Wanqi Zhuo. The latter said "Oh my" and caught the two dead-weight people, his body leaning forward slightly, nearly dropping his wine gourd.
Swaying as he steadied himself, Wanqi Zhuo shouldered both people, then boldly tilted his head back for a series of gulps, wiped his mouth, and spoke somewhat unclearly:
"Ah... I have no problem with that. Getting off work early... is a good thing. But which bastard just now... hic... burned my origami?"
When asking this question, dangerous light flickered in the drunk uncle's cloudy eyes.
"It was—"
Taking responsibility for his actions, Glenn immediately prepared to admit what he had done.
But before Glenn could finish speaking, the next moment, everyone present became grave and amazed.
"This... Glenn, our magical power?!"
Hermione closed her eyes to carefully sense her internal condition. She felt a state she had experienced not long ago.
The magical power within the girl's body was continuously and uncontrollably flowing outward!
"Not just within our bodies—the magical power in the external environment is also draining away. That thing has started absorbing the surrounding magical power."
Before his magical power completely drained away and magic became unusable, Glenn promptly activated his Mystic Eyes to observe the flow direction of the surrounding magical power. He discovered that all the magical power in this heaven and earth was continuously flowing toward the location of the two blood giants that were almost together.
Just like the underground cave where the evil sorcerers had held their blood sacrifice ritual that they had previously passed through.
The difference was that the underground cave had limited space and equally limited magical power, but their current location was an open space. Even though magical power was continuously absorbed by the blood giants, they could still use some magical power at the moment.
But given enough time, whether there would still be magical power in this heaven and earth, and whether they could still use magic, remained an unknown question.
"This is bad... At this rate, even if we immediately begin organizing an evacuation, the magical power left to us probably won't be enough to support our exit from the secret realm."
Lin Yu calculated the speed of magical power drain with some frustration and quickly reached a conclusion.
If they implemented the current plan, they would be annihilated by the blood giant's explosion—which would have absorbed all the magical power of this heaven and earth—before they could leave the secret realm.
"In that case, let me stay behind."
Glenn said calmly.
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