Wu Yu finally regained his sight, but all he could see now, apart from that handsome head, was a black rag.

It's gone. Wu Yu clutched his chest, feeling his newly awakened faith in science shatter.

Philliss felt Maper's normal breathing with her hand before she finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Sister, can you save the others? My mom, and everyone else, they might be buried underground too. Please, please save them!" Jerry, who had been silent all along, suddenly ran over and pleaded.

“I’m sorry, child.” Phillis forced a smile. “The Demon King is too strong. Sister Maper hid in the city’s protective array and was still severely injured despite having many protective magical artifacts bestowed upon her by her family. If it were an ordinary person, there would be no way they could have survived that attack.”

"Is that so? I'm sorry to bother you," Jerry murmured, his eyes growing even dimmer.

Philliss glanced wearily at Wu Yu and asked, "Hero, I need to use a teleportation scroll to return to the capital now. Would you like to come and visit?"

"No need, my home is a bit far from the capital," Jack said, directly on behalf of Wu Yu.

"Alright then, I look forward to seeing you again." Phillis didn't insist. She took out the teleportation scroll and prepared to leave.

"Wait a minute," Wu Yu interrupted.

Philliss's eyes lit up, and he looked at Wu Yu with surprise.

"Could you please take this kid with you? If it's convenient, could you teach him some magic or martial arts?" However, that wasn't what Wu Yu wanted to say. He pushed Jerry in front of Philliss and gave him these instructions.

“Yes, I will naturally fulfill the hero’s request,” Phillis readily agreed.

Like a piece of duckweed adrift, Jerry knew he had no choice; he could only silently accept the fate arranged for him by others.

"Thanks." Wu Yu felt that he had done right by Jerry. With the princess's help, he might have a chance to avenge himself.

Philliss finally opened the teleportation scroll in her hand, and a white teleportation array rose up beneath her feet, enveloping both Mapel and Jerry.

"By the way, stop calling me 'hero' all the time. My name is Wu Yu, and I'm just an ordinary handsome guy." Wu Yu suddenly shouted at Phillis, who was already enveloped in white light, as if he had just remembered something.

“Of course I know you, the only variable, Wu Yu.” Phillis murmured softly with a strange smile, but unfortunately Wu Yu could neither see nor hear her at this moment.

"It's finally over."

As the white light disappeared, Wu Yu casually found a spot to sit down, closed his eyes, and felt the pressure in his heart, like his own weight, evenly distributed across every grain of sand below.

"It's clear you have a good impression of that little princess," the system's voice rang out again.

"Who wouldn't like a girl with such a good personality and beautiful looks?" Wu Yu replied casually.

"Then why didn't you follow her? She already said she would marry you in the future."

"Then why didn't you come to persuade me back then? Now that it's already happened, what's the point of saying anything more?" Wu Yu seemed a little irritated.

"This system will not interfere with any decisions you make. Be grateful, because this system is bound to the ultimate evil, the ultimate good, and the darkest light. Therefore, this system has no ability to restrain you. Compared to the puppets in the hands of other systems, you are able to have a free life. How fortunate you are."

"Really? Thank you then." Wu Yu's response was neither happy nor sad.

Wu Yu looked at the desert before him, reached out as if to grab something, but then put it down before he could.

"Just because the process was too short, the deaths of tens of thousands of people didn't even cause a ripple in my heart. This isn't the me of the past. Is it really because this world hasn't left any ties in my heart?" Wu Yu asked himself.

"People always change." The system states an eternal truth.

“Even my watch is destroyed. I have lost everything from my past world. I don’t want to lose myself too. And when I swung that sword just now, I had a vague feeling that maybe I will become a monster that I hate.”

"Host, you're overthinking things again," the system advised in its cold, mechanical voice.

“No.” Wu Yu’s tone was exceptionally firm. “You gave me the power to destroy everything, but you deprived me of even the right to actively protect anything. This terrifies me.”

The system did not respond to Wu Yu again. Instead, Jack walked to his side and casually said, "We should set off too."

Wu Yu stood up, shook the sand off his clothes, calmed himself down, and replied calmly, "Let's go then."