Chapter 462: Annihilation
Chapter 462: Chapter 462: Annihilation
Nina Jacobs didn’t know how many times Holly Morgan had stabbed Thane Trevor. She was both crying and laughing.
Thane Trevor’s death seemed to mean something to her.
Holly Morgan didn’t stop until Nina walked over and whispered something in her ear.
As she watched Nina Jacobs’s retreating figure, Holly Morgan froze in a daze.
Nina had told her that someone was waiting for her outside of Whittaker Town.
"Evander..."
Holly Morgan sobbed.
「In the compound’s workshop.」
Lincoln White had already packed everything. He clutched the wooden box and said to his eldest daughter-in-law, Chuck Willow, who was waiting there, "Let’s go. Hurry."
"I want to wait for Flynn here," Chuck Willow said. "Why don’t you go on ahead?"
"Flynn can protect himself, but you can’t.
While they’re still at each other’s throats, we should leave."
Lincoln White disagreed.
They already knew Thane Trevor was planning a rebellion.
It wasn’t just Thane Trevor; there was also Nina Jacobs and her partner, whose true strength was a mystery.
Now that they were fighting amongst themselves, it was the perfect opportunity to slip away and hide.
"But..."
Chuck Willow was about to say more when a loud CRASH echoed through the room. The sealed, multi-layered wooden wall was torn open as if it were a simple door.
"Who’s there!"
Lincoln White exclaimed, whirling in surprise.
"Master White, it looks like your Puppetry Technique has failed."
Nina Jacobs’s voice drifted from behind the broken wooden wall.
Immediately after, she and Wayne Warner stepped inside.
Lincoln White sneered. "Those were just Low Level Puppets. They’re not worthy of the White Family’s true Puppetry Technique.
The true Puppetry Technique cannot fail. The Divine Wood is our foundation. It’s impossible for anything to be wrong with the Divine Wood!"
’He had been planning to reinforce the Puppetry Magic this month. Besides, the puppets’ rampage over the past two days was completely unprecedented.’
’Before he could even investigate the cause, zombies had appeared in Whittaker Town.’
"Oh? Is that so?
When you say Divine Wood... are you talking about this?"
Nina Jacobs produced several small glass vials. Inside each one was a small block of wood.
"How do you have those?!"
Chuck Willow recognized the wooden blocks. They had sent a batch of puppets to Lornwood Base, and those puppets had been used in the underground warehouse.
’Could it be that Nina Jacobs was also involved in the disappearance of the supplies from that warehouse?’
"To think we let a wolf in the door! We let a wolf in the door!"
Lincoln White finally understood everything.
"Nina Jacobs! You’d better think this through. Without the Whites, you’ll never get out of Whittaker Town.
If you don’t let us go, don’t even think about getting anything out of this!"
Chuck Willow said, trying to sound composed.
’The only way in or out of Whittaker Town was the Wooden Wheel Car. Anyone else would get lost on the paths.’
’And only the Whites had the mechanism and the key to start it.’
’Nina Jacobs could kill them easily, but she hadn’t. That meant they must have something she wanted.’
But Nina Jacobs was unmoved. Her gaze fell instead on the wooden box in Lincoln White’s hands.
Her eyes showed a keen interest.
Lincoln White watched in astonishment as the box flew from his grasp and landed in Nina Jacobs’s hands, all on its own.
"You have a Wood Element Superpower, too? You’re a Three-Element Superpower User?"
Lincoln White said, leaning against the wall for support with Chuck Willow’s help.
Nina Jacobs ignored his question, opening the box to examine its contents.
Inside the box was indeed an oddly shaped piece of wood, but it was steeping in a pool of blood.
The blood was held in a glass container, and it seemed to be nourishing the wood.
The wood itself had a scarlet tint. Nina Jacobs focused her Wood Element Superpower on it for a moment and was surprised to feel a faint pulse of life.
’The Divine Wood is alive?’
"So this is the Puppetry Technique?"
There was also an ancient book in the box. Though its cover was tattered and torn, she could still make out traditional Drakonian characters on it.
"You will never get your hands on the White Family’s Puppetry Technique!
Die!"
As she spoke, Chuck Willow pressed a hidden switch on the wall.
Instantly, holes opened up all around the room, and a volley of countless arrows shot toward Nina and Wayne!
Nina was prepared. A Diamond Sand Cover instantly formed around her.
The arrows, clearly tipped with poison, were all deflected by the sand shield.
The barrage of arrows from the trap continued.
Lincoln White and Chuck Willow exchanged a glance. Chuck Willow quickly opened a secret door in the wooden wall behind them, and the two of them ducked inside.
They had hoped the trap would buy them a few moments, but Chuck Willow suddenly felt a sharp pain in her back.
She looked down in disbelief to see an arrow protruding from her chest.
Nina had already destroyed all the holes from which the arrows were being fired.
Chuck Willow coughed up a mouthful of black blood—a sign the fast-acting poison was taking effect.
Lincoln White collapsed to the ground in a heap.
Nina Jacobs stepped through the secret door and found herself inside the Wooden Wheel Car.
The secret door was actually the entrance to the vehicle.
’She couldn’t help but marvel at the exquisite woodworking skill.’
However...
"This wasn’t your handiwork, was it, Lincoln White?"
’Nina remembered Irwing telling her that Lincoln White’s hands had been crippled in his youth, leaving him able to lift only light objects.’
’Hands like that couldn’t possibly have crafted all the things in Whittaker Town.’
’How does she even know that?’
"Let’s... Let’s make a deal, shall we?"
Lincoln White said. "You cooperate with us. When Flynn gets back..."
"No need to wait. Flynn White is already dead.
Tell me how to use the Puppetry Technique, and I might make your death a quick one."
"What?! That’s impossible!"
Lincoln White refused to believe her.
’He was the pride of the White Family.’
"Holly Morgan killed Flynn White with her own hands. So much for your great Puppetry Technique."
"Impossible... That’s impossible...
How could the Divine Wood fail? How is that possible?"
Lincoln White glared at Nina. "It must be you. Everything started going wrong after you arrived. It has to be you!
I’ll never tell you. I..."
Before Lincoln White could finish, a blade pierced through his body.
Nina Jacobs’s expression was ice-cold as she looked at the two dead bodies in the Wooden Wheel Car.
She found two wooden keys on Chuck Willow. Perhaps in a final act of defiance, Chuck Willow had snapped both keys in half before she died.
Nina pulled out the key ring she had taken from Ambrose White.
Reinhard Caldwell had given them to her. One of the keys on the ring was a perfect match for the broken ones.
When she entered the driver’s cabin, she found a wooden puppet sitting there.
There was a keyhole in the puppet’s back. She inserted the key and turned it. Sure enough, the puppet began to move.
The puppet began to operate the Wooden Wheel Car on its own.
The Wooden Wheel Car slowly pulled away, making a CLICK-CLACK sound.
’So the noise Han Lewis heard in the middle of the night was probably this Wooden Wheel Car.’
Nina waved her hand, using her Fire Element Superpower to reduce the two corpses in the car to ash.
The Wooden Wheel Car descended slowly in the darkness, eventually entering a tunnel.
’The White Family really was playing a grand game of chess.’
The tunnel was extremely narrow, making it difficult for anyone to discover.
After little more than ten minutes, the Wooden Wheel Car came to a halt.
When the two of them stepped out of the vehicle, they found themselves facing a dark, low-lying mountain.
It was one of the two low mountains easily visible from anywhere in Whittaker Town—a place so obvious that most people would overlook it.
"I never would have guessed it was here," Nina said.