Though the Mask had come to present the Mysterious Star and humiliate him, leaving Lu Mian furious... after hypnotizing himself and calming down completely, Lu Mian recognized the Mask's true strength. At the same time, he immediately realized his own shortcomings and made an important decision related to the Book of the Dead.
Lu Mian arrived at Tongshan with thousands of undead troops and officially began climbing the mountain.
Inside the cinema's monitoring headquarters.
"Oh, you're finally back."
The Mask twisted his neck and slowly walked toward Yu Teng and the General Administrator.
Kim Tae-hyun and Lovecraft had already returned to the cinema lobby. They could exchange their outstanding performances on the continent for rewards... Though they had been unable to experience the journey of climbing the mountain, for the two of them, merely reaching the five-continent competition and carrying out a series of activities on the Gaia Continent was already an enormous gain at their age.
Both still had tremendous room for growth. Kim Tae-hyun had his own devouring ghost and had only learned the essence of devouring from Shoggoth. Lovecraft possessed inhuman qualities and would surely reach, or even surpass, Cthulhu in the future.
Sitting in his wheelchair, Yu Teng said calmly, "I thought you would fight with everything you had to seize the cinema core... After all, you were only one step away from surpassing it."
"One step? I'm afraid I'll never be able to take that step. I am a loser in the truest sense of the word—the loser who claimed to have fallen into chaos, compromised with madness because of hatred, and lost his mind."
At that moment, He Damin removed his human-skin disguise. As if taking off his clothes, he pulled open the zipper in the center of the skin and stripped off the