Chapter 156 The price of power

When they saw President Dong appearing in the conference room, the three of them breathed almost stagnant.

Not to mention You Chu and Cen Xue, even Luo Qing didn't notice it at all.

It was clearly a completely closed room, with the doors and windows completely locked. Principal Dong appeared in the room without even knowing it, but didn't even make any sound, like a ghost.

They were unable to determine when the principal started sitting here and how much they heard.

Maybe he has been in this room since the beginning, but no one noticed it.

Luo Qing stood up immediately and looked carefully at Principal Dong behind the table, as if he was ready to summon the magic spirit to start a war at any time when he found out that he was wrong.

The moonlight beside You Chu also seemed to notice the subtle atmosphere, and suddenly stood up from the seat, and the energy transformed into a substantial armor covering the whole body. The energy poured out of the palm condensed into a long sword, and holding the sword in his hand, he was ready to set off the sword at any time.

But facing their nervous posture, President Dong seemed to have no news, just leaned calmly in the chair, still smiling, neither getting up nor having the intention to start a war.

"Don't be nervous, classmate Luo." said Principal Dong, "I just happened to hear the topic you were talking about, and I was quite interested. I just wanted to talk to you."

I happened to hear it? You Chu raised his eyebrows.

It happened to be in this conference room where the only three of them should be? That was really an interesting coincidence.

But his tone was so ordinary that it was like the principal accidentally heard the student he was concerned about discussing academic topics that he was interested in, so he joined in kindly and enthusiastically to give guidance.

It's so normal that it's even a bit abnormal.

".Is that right?" Luo Qing did not relax her vigilance, "Then I guess you should have heard what we were saying just now, so I won't go into details.

So, can you explain the doubts we found? For example, starting with that photo?"

Cen Xue received her signal and took out her phone and recalled the photo she found.

A black and white photo, but has been processed through some technical means to improve the clarity. The figure in the corner that resembles President Dong is specially marked.

Principal Dong narrowed his eyes and stared at the photo for a moment.

Luo Qing originally thought he might use some ambiguous statements to fool him. For example, the photos are forged, or the people in the picture just happen to look very similar.

But President Dong's answer was far beyond her expectations.

"Yes, that's me." President Dong nodded.

She suspected that she had heard it wrong.

"What did you say?"

"I said, that's me." President Dong smiled, "I am very happy that a genius like you appeared in our school. It seems that you not only have amazing attainments in your talent as a summoner, but also have good insight and judgment.

You must have a huge question in your mind now, so let me answer this question.

Yes, your guess is right.”

Luo Qing and Cen Xue were stunned for a moment.

They do have speculation, a ridiculous, even creepy theory.

But the guess is the same. When the other party admits it personally, the guess is truly confirmed, and the huge sense of fear still comes like a tide, which makes people shudder.

"What guess did you say right?" Cen Xue asked stammered.

"About me."

Principal Dong sat upright.

"Okay, if you think this is not specific enough, then I'll just say it-

——I, your principal, is actually, as you guessed, a ‘master’. The survivor of the long-lost civilization you have discovered, the last summoning magician.”

Cen Xue opened her mouth wide and couldn't make a sound for a while.

You Chu didn't know what to say for a moment.

Good guy, Jiangdu Artist University, the top leader of the summoning artist college that represents the top level in China is a master!?

"By the way." President Dong looked at You Chu and smiled gently, "When you were in a tough battle in the 'White Dragon Holy Land', I was also the one who finally appeared to help you fight back that master."

You Chu: "!"

The master who is fusion with the magicians and spirits?

The second master who has caused shock in the entire summoning world recently and has caused panic?

It's actually President Dong?

President Dong looked at the black and white photo that was picked up on Cen Xue’s phone and sighed quietly: “It is said that time is like an arrow, the sun and the moon are like a passing moon, that’s what he said.

It turned out to be two hundred years ago, and it still feels like yesterday."

He shook his head and smiled, "Yes, I am a master. My name is Tupac. The master who was found in the coffin of the dimension you call the "urban ruins" is Bieler.

Like him, I am the master of the lost civilization. But the difference is that he was not awakened until recently. And I had awakened hundreds of years ago."

No one spoke, waiting quietly for him to continue talking.

"I know, you are worried that our civilization may be enemies of you. Maybe we will have a battle between two civilizations." President Dong said, "But after today, you can convey it to the people above, that won't happen.

Although not all masters have the same force field, and perhaps a few masters will be enemies of you, what I can guarantee is that it is absolutely impossible to rise to the level of total war."

But he then changed his subject.

"But there are also many rivals that are powerful to you among those hostile masters. If you take it lightly, it may pose a threat to your world."

"How many of you have?" Luo Qing asked.

"Who knows." President Dong shrugged.

"Didn't you evolve a force that can stop the erosion of the dimension?" Cen Xue couldn't help asking, "Why was it destroyed in the end?"

This question seemed to have touched some of his memories. The principal sighed softly, leaned back into the chair, looking at the window covered by the curtains with his eyes blank.

"Maybe. It's because of stupidity," he murmured, "We once naively felt that as long as we gain strength, we had enough power to stop destruction and allow our civilization to continue.

But it was not until I truly gained the power to dominate everything and save our future power that I realized that this path was fundamentally wrong.

Although the power was originally fought for the sake of saving, after gaining power, the power itself will cause new disputes.

Stupid people fight each other, for territory, power, and stronger power, and eventually go on that path, perhaps from the beginning, it will be inevitable.”

Cen Xue was stunned for a moment before coming back to her senses: "You mean, the reason why your world is destroyed is not because of the erosion of the different dimensions."

"Yes." President Dong said, "What you must say is not because of the physical erosion you are doing, but at the psychological level.

At first we were all too focused on the erosion of the different dimensions on the physical level of our world, so we racked our brains to find ways to prevent the erosion of the physical level, and ignored its erosion of our thinking and psychology - just like you are now.

The result is that when we gain enough power to save, we have lost too much on the road to gaining power.

In the end, the power we gain leads to our own destruction.”
Chapter completed!