Half the square had been swallowed by a sea of sand. The fountain statue of a girl holding up a water jar stood crookedly in the sand. In the distance were the remaining buildings of "Doomsday City: Tobesk." When Shade had first come here, he had seen several cloaked figures, but he still could not be certain what they had been.
Adele stopped in front of the buildings, leaving Shade to brave the windblown sand and enter the square alone. As he walked forward, Shade clearly saw a figure approaching from the distant sea of sand on the other side of the square.
It was a man who appeared completely unmutated. Yet in Shade's perception, he was not walking continuously toward the square. Instead, his figure kept flickering, each flicker bringing him closer.
Only after the other party entered the Saint Derain Square area did Shade see clearly that the man was Professor Reinhart, Claire's father. He simply was not wearing his glasses.
Every Calamity Beast that appeared was someone Shade knew from the Present World, so he was not surprised by the identity of this enemy.
He merely recalled that when he and Adele had gone to the doomed Kael-Todd Town last time, a letter left by an elder had mentioned that Professor Reinhart had turned into some horrific evil thing and vanished long ago. The letter had been in Claire's Mother's hand in Snow Mountain Hall (Chapter 3748).
"Claire died Before the Doomsday, Mrs. Reinhart died in the entrance hall of Snow Mountain Hall, Elder Harald fought to the very end in the Ancestor's Sacred Ground and became The Last Fatu Person. Now Professor Reinhart has come as well."
In Shade's perception, the professor truly looked like nothing more than an ordinary man. He continued approaching Shade by