"Let me go! Put me down right now!"
"Inanna, I'm your dad! You can't—can't do this—oh—this!"
Behind Marshal Puji, Inanna grinned as she held a brand-new Puji that was struggling nonstop.
This former Duke-class powerhouse, after becoming a Puji, could not break free from Inanna's embrace on his own. He could only keep twisting his mushroom body in protest.
Especially with Elwin in the party right now.
Following Marshal Puji's unhurried steps, everyone arrived before a grave.
The Yellow Book, cradled between tentacles, opened. Its thick pages flipped continuously before finally stopping on a particular section by itself.
[Boss, these are the two pages.]
Linden rolled up the two pages. With the Yellow Book's cooperation, he barely needed to exert any force before easily tearing them out. Once separated, the pages rapidly transformed back into the souls of Norris and Kallen.
Remarkably, their freed souls did not, like ordinary souls, quickly get devoured by the world itself and sent to the Computing Furnace.
After a brief stalemate, a stronger force of attraction originating from the souls themselves firmly pulled the two clusters of souls into Linden's Soul Sea.
Self-study—or rather, soul linking.
Ever since Linden had glimpsed certain fragments through Temperance and learned of the Demon King and Lin Jing's ambush plan, he had linked the souls of the members he considered relatively important in advance.
Once linked, whether those souls were devoured by the Yellow Book or directly shattered and destroyed, it was only temporary. So long as Linden did not let go, they would always return to his Soul Sea.
The summoning materials were ready, and the ritual site was correct.
Marshal Puji suddenly swung a tentacle. "Return, souls!"
Pfft—
Under Little Black's expectant gaze, two Mushroom Caps poked out from the mound—
"Little Nuo!"
"Norris!"