When the Principal relayed those words, the black mist writhing around him suddenly seed to co alive, transforming into countless tiny mouths that gnawed at the edges of his body...
And his body, amidst waves of undulation, turned into a human figure comprised of countless bubbles, a form that appeared jagged and assembled, like the Principal, upon close inspection, yet distinctly fragnted...
Lin Yi was sure the figure before him was indeed the Principal, but he couldn’t understand why the Principal had transford into such a form.
As the Principal spoke, his golden eyes suddenly revolved, the pupils splitting into two, then four, continuously dividing until countless pupils occupied the whites, resembling frog spawn.
"I can no longer return..."
"But... I have found the answer..."
"You were right... You all were right..."
"They are no longer them... I must remain here... to forever leave the mark upon this place..."
"There are coordinates on my body..."
"Only by staying... can this coordinate be obliterated..."
"Perhaps it’ll take a very long ti, perhaps... never be erased..."
"So... I cannot return any longer..."
"Go back and tell them... no, tell yourselves too..."
"You need not trust anything I say now... but... I will always stand on the side of humans..."
"Always stand on... the side of the Original Apostles... once radiant..."
"Go... go..."
"If you don’t leave now... you’ll... you’ll..."
"You’ll——stay here!!!"
The Principal’s body suddenly convulsed, countless broken fragnts began losing their edges, like ink stains spreading over his body, and simultaneously, a presence entirely belonging to soone else within his fra abruptly awakened!
"Not good!" Tian Bufan suddenly realized, and urgently warned, "An ’Original Apostle’ has awakened from its slumber! Run! Old Lin, run!!"
Tian Bufan’s words echoed in Lin Yi’s mind, but when his voice appeared, it seed to co from a very distant place, delayed for a long ti before fully recalling.
Nonetheless, Lin Yi’s hair stood on end the mont he caught the sound, instantly retracting his gaze and fleeing along the path they ca!
Yet at that mont, endless black mist poured out from the "Returning Ruins" like a breached flood, crashing fiercely towards Lin Yi’s will body!
「Boom——boom——boom——」
The terrifying shockwave, like the explosion of a small boy, swept across All Directions in an instant, giving Lin Yi no chance to escape before drowning his will body entirely.
But at that mont of the black mist engulfing Lin Yi’s will body, he unexpectedly realized, this black mist lacked the expected impact; on the contrary, it wrapped around him, pulling him relentlessly towards the "Returning Ruins"!
"Not good! It’s pulling in!!" Lin Yi was startled, but now he was like a beam of light captured at the edge of a black hole, all the power he possessed far from enough to allow him escape velocity and capability!
"Don’t panic, I’ll help you!" Tian Bufan shouted, like a machine’s co-pilot entering the cockpit, Lin Yi felt a power arriving!
He involuntarily raised his hand—a sign Tian Bufan was controlling his will body, and the next instant, the golden secret mark from the little girl’s imprint transford into a steel saw, which Tian Bufan grabbed and hacked fiercely downward!
「Rip——!」
The black mist was cut like a cake, but quickly began to heal.
"No good! This thing isn’t like a ’High-level Alien Angel’, mist has no form, it can’t be cut open!" Lin Yi anxiously said.
"Stop shouting!" Tian Bufan interrupted Lin Yi’s rant, lowly saying, "Co—!!"
Co? Co what? Lin Yi was puzzled, just as he was about to speak, the endless "splashing" sound of waves abruptly rose from within the black mist, but before he could react, from the cut Tian Bufan made in the mist, countless sheets of paper unexpectedly flew out with a rustle!
"Is this...?" An inexplicable familiar feeling instantly surged in him, Lin Yi’s eyes widened, "Is this my notebook?"
"Training soldiers a thousand days for one day’s battle! It’s ti to bring them out!" Tian Bufan guided the notebook pages into a ball, wrapping around Lin Yi’s will body in the black mist, persistently fleeing the "Returning Ruins" black mist’s pull.
Page after page of paper shattered at this mont, inked words twisted by the rain continually absorbing the black mist’s strength, akin to caterpillars gnawing on the calabash’s inner wall, devouring the mist, paving an escape route for Lin Yi.
As the gnawing continued, the words squird, forming into the shape of a human sculpture...
"Continue! Continue!!" Tian Bufan continuously urged, like an evil plantation owner in a farm, coercing the human sculpture to forge a path for Lin Yi.
The human sculptures persistently gnawed at the black mist, chewing until their fras ballooned like balloons, never halting until they shattered into countless fragnts...
Yet even as all the paper was consud, the black mist showed no sign of tearing open, the escape path nowhere to be seen.
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