Half-step Moon.
It hadn't been long since his last visit, but there was a saying: "Come home often and look in on your family."
Although nothing seemed to have changed.
The crimson radiance still enveloped everything, growing more intense with his arrival, while the Red Moon remained silent.
Even the armchair nearby hadn't moved an inch.
Though he was covered in wounds, Fu Qian didn't sit in the chair. Instead, he casually found a larger chunk of rubble and, as he sat down, activated the Return Edict again.
The crimson moonlight gently soothed him. This place, illusory in essence yet all too capable of making one feel as though they were in space, gazing down on all living things, sank once more into silence.
Unbothered by the desolation, Fu Qian maintained the pose of a thinker, as if he could stay there forever.
111. He'd known there'd be more damage.
Fu Qian really was thinking, taking stock of the gains and losses from this trip.
The first item on the list was undoubtedly his Sanity Value.
And just as he'd expected, in addition to the 29 points Third Xun Brother had cost him, he'd lost another 5.
It wasn't hard to understand where they'd come from. The law's disappearance had only been an illusion created by Pachi, so what about Third Xun Brother, who was practically one with the law?
Fu Qian suspected he'd merely entered an invisible state as well.
In other words, if Third Xun Brother kept attacking him, the attacks would probably still land; they'd just be delayed, much like his bodily injuries.
And Third Xun Brother had almost certainly done just that.
After all, that final scene had looked very much like he, the chief culprit, was causing trouble with the Great Summoning Technique.
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