Chapter 105: Return
The system was usually very arrogant, but when it faced Cerberus, it did not say anything either. Cerberus was different from Ziz, who had been bound by the system’s rules, so naturally the system had no way to act superior.
Moreover, Cerberus had never hindered Mark’s lessons from the very beginning. On the contrary, it had even helped Mark improve, so there was no reason to pick a fight.
The cave was collapsing right now, but before the huge rocks could fall, Nexus had already made them temporarily stop. Everything within several miles around was frozen in place as if time had stopped.
Now both Nexus and the system were looking toward where Mark was lying, considering what to do.
Mark was now blind, deaf, and his throat was injured, so other than screaming, he could not say anything. In addition, his muscles were so severely damaged that he could not move or recover naturally like a normal human.
Aside from his body, his spiritual root had also been almost destroyed by Mark after forcibly controlling the berserk energy for too long.
If not for Mark having a master and the system’s overly powerful support, with this condition, they could directly bury him or cremate him.
[How should we deal with Mark’s body now? If you take back the power that is keeping him alive, he will die immediately.]
Although it kept criticizing Mark whenever it opened its mouth, the system still cared very much about the disciple of the Cultivation Academy. It planned to completely restore everything, including his spiritual root, but it still needed to wait for Nexus’s decision.
"His spiritual root can recover. Keep his condition of being crippled, blind, deaf, and mute unchanged. As for his muscles, let him cultivate and recover on his own."
[Stupid master, are you Mark’s master or his enemy after all? I suspect that because Mark stood in front of you during the awakening ceremony, you are taking this opportunity to get revenge on him.]
The system thought along its own line of reasoning and imposed that thought on Nexus’s position, feeling that everything made perfect sense. If Mark dared to steal the spot in front of the system, it would also look for an opportunity to take revenge like this.
"Get to work. If Mark doesn’t experience the price he has to pay for a while, he will definitely underestimate the consequences of risking his life like he did today."
The system’s nonsense was naturally all false. Nexus was not as petty as the system, and he had even less time to think about that kind of nonsense.
Everything that happened to Mark happened relatively quickly. Emotions played a huge role in Mark’s actions earlier.
Now Mark was unconscious, and if he woke up with a body as perfect as new, then of course Mark would take it for granted that no matter how great the price was, someone would pay it for him.
[Hmph, how dare you, stupid master, look down on this great system? Do you think I don’t know anything? My plan is a hundred years ahead of yours. If you weren’t my master, I would have acted long ago.]
The system started talking nonsense again because it felt embarrassed. Clearly, it did not have any deep plan at all. Just moments ago, it had still wanted to restore Mark to his original healthy state.
After all, the system’s power was too great, making it feel like everything was easy to do. Compared to a crippled Mark, a healthy Mark naturally made the system feel less annoyed when looking at him.
Who would want to look at someone who was already a useless person and now was also a cripple? Even though Mark had successfully developed his own secret technique, that achievement was still not enough to make the system treat Mark with respect.
Nexus walked toward the dungeon core, intending to crush it under his foot and leave this place. Of course, Nexus could still get out without destroying it, but since Cerberus had asked, he would help.
But Nexus did not step on it. Instead, he stopped and looked at the mangled corpses scattered all over the place.
These people had nothing to do with Nexus. Moreover, thanks to his appearance here, they had lived a few dozen minutes longer, but Nexus had still seen how they tried to protect Mark.
He had to go outside anyway, so bringing them outside with him was not too complicated.
[Stupid master, why are you taking so long? Huh, you want to take these mortals outside? Let this great system do it. These people did help Mark complete this lesson smoothly, after all.]
The system was only doing this for convenience. To an existence born from supreme power like it, the body was nothing at all. Only the soul was truly valuable.
Nexus simply nodded. Anyone could do this, and the result would not be any different. Right now, he was thinking about another matter.
"I think we should leave Mark together with the people at the dungeon entrance. Just leave him alone for a while. After all, we’re not his babysitters."
[That’s fine too. Compared to this useless mortal, I’m still more interested in White. Even though her attitude is extremely terrible, at least her abilities aren’t too bad.]
The system immediately agreed. It also did not like having to stick around a crippled, useless mortal all the time, even if Mark was a disciple of the Cultivation Academy.
"Okay."
Nexus nodded and lightly stepped on the dungeon core. The link between this special space and Earth was immediately severed, while Mark and the corpses of his teammates were all teleported away at the same time.
Normally, only living people could be teleported back to Earth, but with Nexus interfering, even the corpses could be brought back.
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The dungeon entrance suddenly disappeared, replaced by pieces of human corpses and a person barely clinging to life.
The observers who saw this immediately felt their hearts race. They were usually not hunters, or low-rank hunters who had only been assigned to stay outside and handle communication work like this.
Those newcomers who had never seen bloodshed before immediately vomited violently upon seeing this horrifying scene.