Chapter 1550: Chapter 735: The Fall of the Second Principal, The Principal’s Return
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Unknown time period.
Somewhere in the "Returning Ruins", amidst dense, heavy black fog resembling yellow sand, intermittent calling voices drift:
[Lin Yi, oh Lin Yi...]
[Take us back...]
[You said... you would take us back...]
As the voice approaches, a blurred figure slowly emerges, drifting like a Wraith in the land of "Returning Ruins".
This figure is none other than the Principal, who was transformed by the "Fog Language Master" into the "Primordial Ash Apostle".
Around the "Primordial Ash Apostle", illusory spaces interweave to form a dreamlike network, and within the grid formed by this network, various scenes appear...
The "Primordial Ash Apostle" continuously drifts, gradually, gradually, no living creature knows where it truly resides—whether it is "Returning Ruins", the Gray Mist Sea, or another layer...
Within the images in the grid, it experiences various things, as if entering a school district of an unknown time period, fighting with the Convenience Store Owner at that time, and as if entering the Teaching Building, seeing the former Lin Yi...
It shuttles back and forth, wanders, loses itself time and time again...
During this process, the fragmented sculptures’ calling voices constantly echo around it, those [Lin Yi, oh Lin Yi...] sounds.
No one knows how much time has passed before suddenly, from those calls, it catches a certain strange pattern, and following that pattern, it slowly finds its way to a specific sea.
With this shuttling, its will gradually becomes clear.
"This... Where is this...?"
And amidst those countless glass shard-like humanoid appearances, there are faint outlines of the Principal’s lion-like visage.
It overlooks the sea below, seeing numerous streetlamps numbered with red paint floating like scallions in a pot.
This is precisely where Tian Bufan originally built the Anchor platform.
It finally found the way back.
"This is... the way home..."
Just awakened, it suddenly becomes somewhat excited, but soon an expression of struggle emerges in its eyes.
"No... I can’t go back... If I return, the coordinate of reality will be exposed..."
It struggles, hesitates, and then the form of the "Primordial Ash Apostle" surprisingly splits due to this, like black and white separating, slowly dividing into two forms, one resembling an aged lion-like Principal, and the other a shattered glass-like "Primordial Ash Apostle".
"The coordinate of reality... must not be exposed to them..."
"I must go back... I must... return to the other side of the ’Returning Ruins’!"
As it continues to struggle, a raspy and cold voice suddenly emerges from the other half of the "Primordial Ash Apostle".
"Too late! Too late!!"
"You’ve already brought me here!"
"You...?!" The Principal is greatly shocked, suddenly realizing this is the voice of the "Fog Language Master"!
"Reality! That’s the passage to reality?! Wonderful! Wonderful!!" The "Fog Language Master" expresses extreme joy as laughter rings out, "Let me head back first, heh heh heh... heh heh heh..."
"Take me back!!" The "Fog Language Master"’s will is only a small portion of the original entity, but as an esteemed "Original Apostle", even this small will is sufficient to seize control from the Principal through continuous enhancement.
The Principal feels hopeless, only able to be led like a fish in a net by the "Fog Language Master". But just as he reaches the disbanded Anchor platform, preparing to locate the coordinates leading to the "Principal’s Office" (Star Prison), an unremarkable black bone segment, like a piece of driftwood drawn by a vortex, floats to his feet.
This black sea is filled with numerous fragments of Nocturnal species. Naturally, neither the will of the "Fog Language Master" nor the Principal paid attention to these things.
It is precisely because of this that when the segment touched them, both the Principal and the "Fog Language Master’s" will fiercely trembled simultaneously!
"This too is...?!" Both uttered this shocked cry in unison.
The only difference was that the Principal’s voice was filled with delight, while the "Fog Language Master’s" voice sounded like it had seen a ghost.
"Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo..."
Blood light bursts from the bone segment, like a curtain drenched in blood. From within the curtain comes a ferocious and wild, bloodthirsty laugh.
"Long time no see, mongrels..."
This bone segment is undoubtedly a piece of the Butcher that Tian Bufan left here, and now, the Butcher’s will descends through this segment of spine!
Within the blood-red curtain, the Butcher’s Meat Mountain Demon King-like form slowly appears, grabbing the "Primordial Ash Apostle". As the word "Kill" surges, it instantly obliterates the "Fog Language Master"’s will!
"Lord Butcher...!!"
Gazing at the Butcher’s apparition, the Principal’s voice grows increasingly excited.
The Butcher merely casts him a faint glance, nods lightly, and then slowly fades away, cool and distant like an Ultraman senior suddenly appearing to aid the newly born generation.
After the "Fog Language Master"’s will is eliminated from the "Primordial Ash Apostle", the Principal absorbs it back into his shell, and as he stands here sensing the "Principal’s Office" location, perhaps due to the Butcher’s apparition, he inadvertently connects with a vitality deep within certain layers, allowing the Principal to accidentally perceive the Butcher’s entity location...
