Chapter 220 "You kid...have grown taller."

Historia smiled slightly, and the huge golden pendulum slowly rose to the sky from behind her, swinging violently from side to side, like Big Ben at noon, spreading out the ringing sound that resounded throughout the world.

As the pendulum swayed, circles of ripple-like mercury light spread across the entire volcanic valley, covering all stationary things, including the Anson deer.

His face was cold, his body could not move, but his mind was thinking non-stop.

……pendulum.

...Historia is the name of the principal's time traveling chess piece.

Her abilities are related to the pendulum.

I must write it down, maybe I will draw related chess pieces in the future.

Ansenlu had previously judged through super intuition that the time traveling chess piece was the principal's "infinite advanced chess type".

Now that he has selected the Queen's Stone Statue as the "Infinite Advanced Chess Type", he is naturally not sure whether he will be able to obtain the ability to travel through time like the principal.

No matter what, Anson Deer did not intend to leave a way out for himself.

For him, this timeline is the only chance left for him.

If you lose, the world will be destroyed.

Winning brings new hope.

While Ansonlu was thinking, his body was gradually engulfed by the mercury light scattered by the pendulum, as if he was immersed in a deep silver ocean, and his mouth and nose were blocked by the solidified liquid.

[The chess type "Anson Deer" has released the skill - Time Backtracking. 】

So annoying...

So what is this chess piece used for...

Anson Deer quickly lost his breath, his eyes went dark, and his consciousness fell into drowsiness.

After an unknown amount of time, he raised his heavy eyelids.

What came into view was a rooftop. Ansonlu held his swollen forehead, and a pain that seemed to be about to tear filled his mind, forcing him to cheer up.

He stared blankly ahead, unable to take his eyes away.

There is no doubt that he is very familiar with this rooftop. This is the high school teaching building of Shangshi High School. When the union stronghold was still in Shangshi, he often chatted with Crow and the others here.

It was dusk, the sky was a mixture of light yellow and ultramarine, and a thick gray fog floated in the town, blocking most of the things in Ansonlu's field of vision, allowing him to only see clearly the interior of Shangshi High School.

The school seemed to have been abandoned for a long time, with lizard-like moss crawling everywhere. The steel school sign at the entrance was covered with a thick layer of black rust, and the rust spread ferociously, even on the walls around the school sign.

Infected by it, it was an exaggeration as if it was submerged in the soil. At this time, the four large characters "Shangshi High School" on the plaque, which were framed with special materials, were completely blurred. They were either blurry and almost transparent, or covered with rust.

.

"...What is going on?" Ansonlu murmured in a low voice.

This scene didn't feel like an illusion or a scene woven by the system. Every detail impacted his senses, constantly reminding him that this was real and definitely not false.

Every time Ansenlu comes back from the dungeon, he will confirm the situation in Shangshi City immediately. He is very sure that the school cannot become like this overnight.

Intuition and thinking complement each other, allowing him to quickly come to the conclusion that this place...may be the distant future.

"haven't seen you for a long time."

Suddenly, a familiar voice came from behind, interrupting Ansonlu's thoughts.

He turned back sharply and stared intently at the principal and the girl next to the principal - Historia. Both of them looked very calm, and the girl moved her mouth with a playful smile on her face.

The corner of Ansonlu's mouth twitched slightly, and he remained silent for a long time before asking:

"Old principal, what are you doing here?"

"Dead." The principal said calmly. He touched the pocket of his suit jacket as if he wanted to get a cigarette, but the pocket was empty, with no cigarette or lighter.

Sistoria took out a cigarette from somewhere and handed it to the principal with a smile: "The last cigarette in your life, enjoy it..." After a pause, she said quietly: "Oh no, strictly speaking

, we are no longer human.”

Dead?

No longer a human?

"Hey, hey, hey, what's going on?" Ansonlu said incoherently, "You are standing in front of me, you are standing in front of me, you told me that you are dead, the smelly old man is used to pretending to be mysterious, right?"

Now that the principal is dead, who is standing in front of him? Why does he have the ability to drag him into the future? This is too bizarre, and the development of things is far beyond his imagination.

"The me you see now is just an individual constructed by the system based on my previous 'thought and behavior patterns'."

The principal took the girl's cigarette, put it in his mouth, and then explained: "She is the same, just treat us as machines."

"...Then what are you going to do?" Ansonlu lowered his head.

"We have two minutes left. In these two minutes, you can ask us anything you want to know." The principal said slowly.

At this moment, the dragon's roar that could shatter the eardrums resounded through the sky, and the earth trembled violently. The king standing at the top of the biological chain slowly lifted the thick fog, revealing its majestic body like the Tower of Babel.

Its wings were like a vast curtain, covering almost half of the town's sky. The entire Shangshi High School was covered in deep shadows, and not a single ray of light could penetrate the dragon's wings.

It blocked all the light, and just a slight vibration of its wings was enough to set off a burst of crackling sound in the air, shaking out all the clouds and mist that were hanging inside the town. Even the sky trembled, and the space was shattered. Shangshi City seemed to have become

In the air battle between the two great powers, countless missiles exploded in the air, and strong winds roared across the ground.

It is getting closer and closer to Shangshi City. The face with its back to the sun is shrouded in gloomy shadows, and the huge erect pupils are shining in the darkness. Its expression is as ferocious as the devil king on the eighteenth floor of hell, and as arrogant as

The king who rules the world is like Pangu who created the world in Chinese mythology, Zeus, the supreme god who rules all things in the world in Greek mythology, and Odin who created the earth and mankind in Nordic mythology.

The entire city was collapsing. With the snow dragon's body as the center, tens of millions of violent steam poured out one after another. The airflow from the wings pushed the steam to sweep in all directions.

In front of such behemoths, all things lose their proper color, and all living creatures must meet the King of the World with the most humble and sincere attitude.

Only the Anson deer was too lazy to look back.

He knew what was behind him... it was the snow dragon that would come to Tokyo, Japan in June 2026. It was a monster that would destroy the principal's world into a mess.

For decades, it trampled on human civilization day after day, leaving no grass growing wherever it went. Now Shangshi City in China will become its playground.

"Chess player, I haven't seen it for a long time." Sistoria smiled, "Our old friend."

"Yes... it has become bigger, even bigger than before." The principal raised his head, his deep eyes reflected the snow dragon that was higher than the sky, and used a lighter to light the cigarette in his mouth.

As the snow dragon landed on the ground, a loud noise like a nuclear explosion was heard, the air suddenly cooled down, and the loud noises of buildings collapsing continued one after another, followed by the thunderous roar of the dragon.

An Senlu's ears were shaken to the point of almost losing consciousness, but he still did not look back. He just raised his brown eyes and stared angrily at the principal's face, unable to say a word.

He clearly knew in his heart that the person in front of him was not the principal, but just a data body generated by the system based on the principal's information, but his mood was still very complicated.

"Don't worry, we know no less than our own bodies. The similarity between me and the 'principal' is at least 99%. Both our memories and personalities are highly overlapping." The principal said unhurriedly.

Said, "The remaining one percent is beyond the reach of the system."

"Isn't your skill about going back in time? Why did you drag me into the future?" Ansenlu asked in a low voice.

"Some permissions and loopholes were exploited. There is no need to ask about these. It would take too long to explain and time is limited."

"I still have many things to ask you."

"I know."

"Why did you do what you did to Yuri?"

"I was doing an experiment at the time, trying to see if I could artificially create a 'sequential player'."

"...You are such a bastard."

"At least I succeeded. Yuri and Asuka Uesugi are both serial players created by me, and they should have died early in the first round of dungeons as ordinary people."

"Tell me, how can you save Yuri?"

"I don't know, maybe I'll have a chance after defeating that snow dragon."

"...don't you feel disgusted?"

"From a spectator's point of view, the chess player did nothing wrong. It's just that with your subjective emotions, it's difficult to objectively and rationally judge what he has done." Sistoria explained with a smile on his face as the acting principal.

The principal took a deep breath of his cigarette and said nothing, his suit jacket slowly swaying in the wind.

"Then tell me, what about the other two Icelandic girls who died? They were just guinea pigs you used for your experiments?"

"To be precise, there are three. The other one has no father or mother. She is in the orphanage and no one knows that she is dead."

"So, you should explain it." Ansonlu's voice was hoarse and weak.

"I originally came to London in 1888 to experiment with my ability to travel back and forth. As you know, I did some wrong things. I shouldn't have killed Jack the Ripper in advance." The principal said, "No matter what, since I committed it

Wrong, then I need to make up for it. The deaths of those three girls were the sacrifices I made to prevent the 'Law of Space and Time' from getting out of control."

"Ha... I know that in a sense, you are really a bastard. Do you think you haven't killed enough people? Cousin, Crow, those sequence players, they all..."

The principal interrupted him: "That's enough. Is there anything else you want to ask? There's no point in just venting your emotions. There's not much time left." At this point, the principal glanced at his watch. There were more than thirty seconds left. They had to

Get out of here.

"In the past three months, you were acting with me?" Ansonlu's eyes were obscured by strands of dark hair.

"That's right..." the principal said angrily, "You still have to wear contact lenses, grow a beard, and do some facial adjustments in the hospital. Otherwise, with your powers of observation, I might be exposed right away."
To be continued...