A man among dragons, building a mysterious ancient church.

Chapter 364 Stealing Destiny, Returning to Familiar Places

"We won? Dragon Lord... Dragon Lord Corpse Guardian, the King of Corpse Guardians, just like that, he's dead? We won?! Oh ho! We've won!"

"We held the last line of defense; we survived on the deserted island!"

"Hahaha, come drink tonight, we won't leave until we're drunk! We're all heroes, dragon-slaying heroes who saved Tokyo and will be remembered in history."

Witnessing the Dragon Lord's corpse crumble into pieces of bone, the mixed-bloods from all sides cheered and celebrated their escape from death, not being devoured by the Dragon Lord. Even the Snake Clan was no exception, sharing the same joy.

They succeeded! They successfully protected Tokyo!
Although a few members of the Snake Clan had some doubts about why the patriarch didn't kill Long Jue with one blow in the end, but instead gave the head to Chu Zihang, it didn't matter. The atmosphere around them wasn't suitable for asking.

Of all the factions, only the people of Kassel College remained silent. They had won, but their respected Principal Angers was gone forever...

"Why is everyone so quiet?" Seeing that he couldn't slack off, Angers simply rolled around in the corner a couple of times, making himself look a little disheveled, and then used Time Zero to teleport back to the students, giving them a big surprise.

"Angers... Principal? Principal, you're not dead?"

"I knew it, I knew a legend like the principal wouldn't die so easily."

"Headmaster Angers, you weren't hiding here all this time, secretly watching us make a fool of ourselves, were you?"

Angers glanced at the student who had inadvertently revealed the truth. Hmm, he remembered this guy; he was a junior this year, and at the end of the semester, he was assigned the most dangerous internship.

"It was actually very dangerous. Just as the Dragon Lord Corpse Guard was about to hit me, I activated Time Zero in time to avoid it, but I still fainted when I landed."

“I’m getting old. The future belongs to you young people. Does anyone have a wet wipe? Could you please give me one so I can wipe off the dust?” Angers explained the reason very modestly, which won the students’ understanding.

Lu Mingfei was among them; he was so relaxed that he almost lost his balance and fell on the spot. It was great that Principal Angers was alright.

Lu Mingfei's deep-seated guilt quickly dissipated: "That's great, really great."

Caesar, still fighting his way through the enemy lines, was extremely annoyed: "Hey! Send some reinforcements! The regular Corpse Guardians and the Ghost-Toothed Dragon Vipers are still here!"

"If you want to celebrate, at least clean this up first!"

At Caesar's loud roar, everyone in Kassel, as well as the mixed-race individuals from various factions who were celebrating their victory, were all stunned into silence.

The pressure from the Dragon Lord Corpse Guardian was so great that as soon as the Dragon Lord Corpse Guardian was killed, everyone cheered, believing that this disaster from the deep sea was over.

Completely forgetting that there was still a final wave of ancestral corpses guarding the shore from the Snake Clan, as well as the Demon Tooth Dragon Viper, which urgently needed to be dealt with.

The many hybrids, awakened by Caesar's shout, rushed forward to help. This time, the hybrids were replenishing their ammunition on the artificial island of fireflies, and the dense firepower network reappeared, capable of taking down the corpse guards from a great distance.

No need for risky close-quarters combat.

Chu Zihang and his group, who had just killed Long Jue, were in waters where the seawater was knee-deep when they killed the corpse guards behind them.

As for the Ghost-toothed Dragon Viper, they left it all to Chen Motong to handle.

The manipulator is helpless against the dead, mindless corpses, but against a low-intelligence creature like the Ghosttooth Dragon Viper, it's a pure dimensional reduction attack.

With the assistance of more than a dozen virtual personalities, the area-of-effect 'deterrence' forced the Ghost-Toothed Dragon Viper to a halt, and the designated mental storm swept over, leaving only a pile of dead fish.

Angers, who remained on the shore and did not go forward, lit a new cigar and watched quietly. No one forced him to go up and clean up the mess.

Everyone knows that Principal Angers is injured, and no one can blame him for taking a break.

No one knew that Angers was using the Time Worm clones along the way as intermediaries to communicate directly with Xu Lie's main body on a soul level: "Main body, I'm done here."

"Chu Zihang has successfully integrated the Reapers. With his current status in the Kassel Executive Department, he has already gained the recognition of many Executive Department specialists. Forming a team and undergoing the Iron-Blooded Knight promotion ceremony will be no problem."

"What are your plans next?"

On the other side, Xu Lie looked at Erii's clone in front of him, who was eating barbecue and drinking a bottle of wine, and was speechless. Wasn't the behavior of this Erii clone too different from that of the real Erii?

What he took from the Tokyo parish was certainly not the real Erii.

His previous solo entry into the old temple was just a ruse; the real Erii had already gone on a trip with Nuwa through the Traveler's Gate and hadn't stayed inside the temple to be imprisoned at all.

Xu Lie simply removed Ince's disguise, revealing his original appearance. Then, through the connection between the Source Castle and its members, he teleported there, stating that he needed to borrow Erii's fate for a period of time. At the same time, he explained in detail what strange things Erii would encounter after Xu Lie borrowed her fate.

Erii trusted Xu Lie implicitly. She was worried and afraid that when her fate was borrowed, everyone would forget her.

But since it was Xu Lie who lent it to her, Erii suppressed all her worries and readily agreed.

Nuwa patted her heart and promised that even if she forgot Erii due to Mr. Error's power, she would get to know her again and continue to travel with her.

Therefore, Xu Lie stole Erii's fate for a period of time and grafted it onto one of his own clones.

In this way, the real Erii will be forgotten, and everyone will mistake Xu Lie's clone for Erii.

Therefore, when Xu Lie carried his clone out of the old temple, neither Pompeii nor Herzog noticed any flaws and both believed that Erii would eventually fall into Ince's hands.

"Original body?"

Angers Time Insect urged in bewilderment, "No signal? Then I'll log off." At the same time, he was secretly pleased, thinking that if his main body didn't make any arrangements, every day from now on would be a holiday.

Xu Lie raised his hand to cover his forehead, surprised at how unique his clones were: "How could there be no signal when communicating on a soul level?"

"I'm going to get promoted later, so I don't have any plans for now. I'll just focus on finding the White King's Red Well with the Snake Clan or Herzog."

"If they happen to find the White King's Red Well when I'm promoted, you should contact Parasitic Blake's clone and stall for a bit."

Angers, holding a cigar shrouded in smoke, completely forgot to smoke it: "You and Chu Zihang finished digesting the potion at the same time?"

“That’s right.” Xu Lie said, finally feeling less tired and his mood brightened again: “I originally thought I would have to continue playing Ince for a while longer.”

"But back in Takamagahara, through Susie, I summarized a new rule for playing the Trojan Horse of Fate, and my digestion progress has greatly increased."

"This operation just happened to finish digesting the last bit of the potion."

“Congratulations.” Angers’ eyes were on the coast, but his soul was taunting: “Then the thieves from now on will really be guaranteed a place in Sequence One.”

Not only the Time Worms parasitizing Angers, but all the Time Worms know that Xu Lie's main body's advancement this time is a foregone conclusion and there is no problem.

The most crucial Sequence One characteristic is right here in the Source Castle, there are three of them, so there's no need to bother searching for them.

Secondly, there is the promotion ceremony. The ritual requirement for the promotion sequence of the Destiny Trojan Horse is to plunge a city into seven days of temporal chaos.

For Xu Lie, who fully controls the Source Castle and can pre-draw a portion of the authority over time, it's incredibly simple. Even without pre-drawing it, slightly disrupting some of the historical fog surrounding the Source Castle would easily throw time into chaos.

With the special features in place, the ritual simple, and so many clones and global followers as anchors, the successful ascension was a natural progression, without any apparent difficulty.

After arranging what Angers needed to do, Xu Lie instructed the grafted Erii destiny clone opposite him: "Eat and drink well here these days, and don't wander off."

"I understand, I don't want to get caught by Herzog." The clone pointed outside: "Where are the Oni Clan and Genji?"

Xu Lie also glanced outside. The members of the Fierce Ghost Clan were still praying frantically and devoutly as always. Yuan Zhinu couldn't stand the crazy atmosphere of the Fierce Ghost Clan and temporarily left the basement on the first floor.

"It's alright, the Ghost Clan won't cause any problems."

"As for Genjiro? Heh, the one who helped me capture 'Eri' should be too embarrassed to see Genjiro these days."

After saying this, Xu Lie took a step forward, and he was instantly transported to the familiar San Francisco in North America.

Xu Lie last time completed the ceremony of deceiving his mentor to advance his career in the simple and honest America. This time, he returned to the same place to advance his career as a temporary worm in the sequence.

Based on Xu Lie's current research on mysticism, extraordinary individuals who follow the same path will receive some degree of benefit if they hold another ceremony and advancement in the same place where they previously performed the ceremony and successfully advanced.

“So, sorry, San Francisco, it’s you again.” Xu Lie, located on the rooftop of a randomly selected skyscraper, routinely released hundreds of clones to protect him.

Finally, a phantom image of an ancient, mottled, giant stone wall clock was summoned.

The wall clock's interior is a mix of gray and black, with three hands seemingly formed by time worms at its core. As the hands tick and the clock chimes, an indescribable, invisible torrent of time surges forth and sweeps through San Francisco.

(End of this chapter)