Chapter 127: Exit
Thousands of corpses slowly rose from the blood-soaked earth and their blood-red eyes settled upon the divine entity.
Jiang Moqin quietly observed the scene.
"Even the supporting laws of this world are slightly different, but the essence is similar." He muttered thoughtfully.
The divine entity growled before releasing another piercing screech.
Jiang Moqin merely smiled.
"You are doing something unnecessary, the dead possess neither independent thoughts nor minds of their own."
As his voice fell, the countless corpses advanced, though he also felt slight curiosity because this mental attack somehow shook the dead he was controlling.
But as he was a master at his field, like an endless tide of death, they charged toward the divine entity.
’This nasty bastard is buying time!’ The divine entity immediately understood his intentions.
Still, she had no choice but to fight.
Against one powerful existence, thousands of dead descended.
***
Caelum felt weakness spread throughout his body as he breathed heavily.
A bloody glow had enveloped the divine entity, leaving her frozen in place.
"Damn... what was that?" Jojo muttered.
To him, it looked like the weapon of some terrifying demon.
The fact that it could restrain a fragment of divinity so easily was simply unbelievable.
"You all, forget everything else, let’s find the exit first!" Jojo quickly made a decision.
Sénior supported Caelum while Skyler continuously injected divine power into him, allowing Caelum to recover a little strength.
"Let’s move, we don’t have much time."
With Jojo leading the way, the group hurried into the unknown.
Caelum instinctively glanced behind him.
He felt somewhat reluctant to leave the Soul Banner behind, still, escaping this place came first.
After some time, they arrived at the very place where they had first encountered the ghostly entity.
A strange silence hung over the surroundings and everything had become eerily quiet.
"It should appear here, since she has lost her original form, this should count as completing the Drifting Dimension."
Jojo looked around carefully even then, something continued bothering him.
’Why does this place feel so depthless?’
Every Drifting Dimension usually preserved traces of another civilization.
Whether knowledge or horror.
Yet this place now felt completely hollow.
"Something is happening over there."
Caelum pointed ahead.
Everyone’s attention immediately shifted in that direction as the surrounding space distorted and a portal slowly appeared.
"The exit! Let’s go!" Jojo shouted.
Without hesitation, everyone entered it.
WOOM!
They found themselves back at the bottom of the familiar lake before reaching the surface.
Then one after another, they swam toward the shore reaching the land, and everyone finally let out a sigh of relief.
"We’re back..." Caelum looked at the group before speaking.
"Listen, I’m really sorry, we all had to go through this because of me."
He lowered his head slightly before quietly purchased several [Memory Suppressing Talismans] from the System and another secret talisman before using it on himself, as a talisman appeared in his Sea of Consciousness or rather the Mind Space.
"And I’m also sorry for what I’m about to do."
Before anyone could ask questions, several talismans floated into the air.
Blue light erupted and the talismans flew toward everyone except Jojo and Voomie.
The gentle blue light surrounded them.
Then their memories of everything that had happened inside the Drifting Dimension became sealed.
"Sigh... What are you doing now?" Jojo rubbed his forehead already knowing what happened.
"I’m sealing their memories." Caelum answered calmly.
"I don’t think they should remember this, especially after learning that an unknown divinity was involved and more importantly each of their secrets would be exposed, especially Skyler."
Jojo remained silent for a moment.
"Then why didn’t you erase mine?"
"Me too, woof!" Voomie immediately barked showing a sweet smile (?).
Then she puffed out her chest proudly.
"Is it because I dealt the critical blow to that ghost? Wooooof!"
Caelum looked at her.
"More like a critical shi..." He stopped himself.
"Forget it, I don’t think the talisman would work properly on you."
He then turned toward Jojo.
"As for you... I think someone other than me should also remember everything, and you understand this incident better than anyone. So, what do you think about my decision Jojo?"
Jojo remained silent for a while before answering.
"If you hadn’t done it, I would have, because leaving the barbarians the others are not yet strong enough."
His expression became serious.
"You should erase your own memories as well, you clearly don’t know how dangerous this is, because beings like them could manifest just because of a single thought."
Caelum considered it for a moment before he slowly shook his head.
If he erased his memory of this, then he will eventually wonder how he spent so many System Points, even buying several things that he did not need in the first place.
That would only create more problems.
Still, he silently decided to be more careful in the future.
His quest completion notification had already appeared.
At the same time, an unnoticed fluctuation quietly spread from the lake.
By the time they returned, it was still the same night.
Fortunately, they hadn’t been gone for days which would alarm the school.
Perhaps only their dorm supervisors would notice their absence.
Meanwhile, the others gradually regained awareness as the effects of the talismans faded.
"...Why am I so exhausted?" Skyler looked at his own body before dropping to one knee.
Bonjour examined the injuries covering his body.
"I’m injured too, did we fight something? Why can’t I remember?" He frowned.
Sénior too closed his eyes and tried recalling the missing memories but no matter how hard he tried, those memories remained sealed.
"I..."
Paul wanted to say something.
He felt as though something incredibly important had been taken away from him.
He desperately tried to remember it, but every attempt failed.
Unable to endure that strange emptiness, Paul slowly collapsed onto the ground like a fallen leaf.
Ryan had already fallen asleep from sheer exhaustion.
"We should dry our clothes and take everyone to the school’s hospital first."
Caelum himself wasn’t in much better condition.
Just as they prepared to leave.
Rustle.
The nearby bushes suddenly moved and someone stepped out from the darkness.
The newcomer looked at the soaked and injured group with confusion.
"What are you all doing here?"
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