I'm Really Not a Liar

The next day.

Destiny Academy.

A new day dawned, and this dilapidated academy looked much the same as before. Cobwebs covered the corners of several buildings, weeds ran rampant through the courtyard, and an air of age and decay hung everywhere. At a glance, it was clearly a place that had been abandoned for a long time—not somewhere people lived at all.

More absurdly, some of the taller buildings had even begun to lean slightly, looking as though they might collapse at any moment. Sunlight spilled down, making the dust throughout the academy painfully conspicuous, while a faint smell of mildew drifted through the air.

Early this morning, when Wu Yong brought his sister to this academy, his heart turned utterly cold.

And for some reason, he felt as if everything that had happened yesterday had been a dream. In that dream, he had barely questioned anything around him and had simply found it all perfectly normal. Now that he thought about it carefully, he had probably indeed been influenced by some kind of power back then.

For Wu Yong, that was at least a small comfort.

"We're here. Yesterday, I met that person beside that big rock..." Wu Yong led his sister to the stone stele of Destiny Academy, his gaze filled with wistfulness, sighs, and bitter frustration.

What terrible luck. When the roof leaked, it had to rain all night—how had he run into a swindling illusionist?

"Eh, Brother, look! Is there something on that rock?"

At that moment, his sister suddenly pointed in surprise at a stone not far away. A pendant lay quietly atop it. Wu Yong could scarcely believe his eyes. "Th-this... what's going on? Why is the pendant still here?"

After his initial shock, Wu Nuannuan could not help sneering. "What else could it