Chapter 28: The Dragon Slayer Becomes the Dragon

“What? Principal Wang is a truant?”

“No way, right? He hates it most when we do anything other than studying.”

“Then what’s going on with this broadcast?”

“……”

The discussions within the dormitory building gradually intensified.

Something seemed to be gradually awakening within the campus.

Principal Wang's expression grew increasingly unsightly; his teeth-gritting appearance suggested he wished he could swallow the person in the broadcasting room alive.

He no longer paid attention to the Hundred-Mile Blade beneath his feet.

He twirled the white ring in his hand.

No matter who the opponent was, once he went over and crushed them, there wouldn't be any major waves stirred up in the school.

*Whoosh—*

A light breeze brushed past.

Principal Wang's ferocious expression froze on his face.

He was still in the teaching building!

“How can this be! The ring has failed?” Principal Wang twirled the white ring again, somewhat in disbelief.

But no matter how he turned it, nothing happened except for a slight sense of pressure on his finger and the pain of the tight ring chafing his skin.

One had to realize that the aura of that supreme existence was stored within this ring!

Could it be that the fellow in the broadcasting room had achieved in a single night what he had dreamed of accomplishing for decades?

Had the opponent absorbed that aura!?

Principal Wang refused to believe such an absurd thing; he felt that the fellow must have used some method to shield the connection between the ring and the aura.

Thinking of this, he strode forward.

Immediately after, his mountain-sized body began to run clumsily from outside the teaching building toward the Arts Building.

Perhaps because he had never engaged in such intense exercise since possessing the ring, Principal Wang's running posture was somewhat comical, even resembling a child who had just learned to run.

The opponent's cheeky voice continued to echo across the campus—

“Thirty years ago, during the 50th-anniversary celebration banquet of Gaoshan High School, you took advantage of the rare occasion where all teachers and students were allowed a day of relaxation to hide in the broadcasting room of the Arts Building.”

“You attempted to escape by climbing over the back fence in the dead of night after the celebration ended. You had even pre-investigated the security guards' patrol routes, finding a ten-minute gap to avoid being caught.”

“To this end, you even found a way to bribe the school doctor to get a medical leave note that excused you from class, making your homeroom teacher believe you were resting in the infirmary that night.”

“Not a single classmate knew of your escape plan, because you trusted no one.”

“But who would have thought that just when everything was ready and you were one step away from freedom...”

“The broadcast went off.”

Hearing his past experiences being exposed bit by bit, a layer of hatred appeared on Principal Wang's sweat-drenched face.

How did this guy know more about what happened back then than he did!

Psychological warfare, is it?

He admitted that these things had happened.

But so what?

If he hadn't happened to hear that broadcast and listen to the whispers of that existence, how could he have obtained everything he possessed today!

In the broadcasting room, Wu Wang recounted the events leisurely, but his eyes were fixed on the two little chubby boys.

The two had been trying to fight each other since they met.

It was then that he understood why Principal Wang was worried about the corpse in the small dark room returning to the Arts Building.

Because a restored Li Yang could pin down the two chubby boys without breaking a sweat.

Especially the one in the vengeful ghost form.

No matter what god-like methods he possessed, he wouldn't be able to cause even a shred of harm to Li Yang.

“Let me guess. The human-form chubby boy is your humanity, and the ghost-form chubby boy is your obsession with truancy. But I don't understand why he holds such great hostility toward students entering the Arts Building?” Wu Wang spoke to Principal Wang across the distance.

Logically speaking, a truant should be on the same side as the students, right?

So why was the opponent constantly attacking them?

Principal Wang did not reply.

He merely gritted his teeth and rushed toward the Arts Building.

Unexpectedly, the human-form chubby boy, whom Li Yang was holding down, spoke tremulously.

“I... I remember now.”

Wu Wang crossed his legs. “Spit it out.”

The chubby boy said with a grim face, “Because he... no, I should say *I*, extremely detested my classmates. They mocked my body for being obese due to the side effects of long-term psychiatric medication, ridiculed my mediocre grades, and even physically assaulted me.”

“In class, I was at the very bottom.”

Hearing this, Wu Wang had an epiphany.

Right, how could he have forgotten the most common type of accident that occurs on a campus?

Bullying...

Looking at the human-form chubby boy, it was clear that when Principal Wang was a student, he must have been a similarly timid, chubby kid who was bullied and dared not resist.

Coupled with the high-pressure academic atmosphere of Gaoshan High School, and the fact that management wasn't as strict back then, students could still find ways to vent their inner frustrations.

By bullying those even weaker than themselves.

Therefore, the ghost-form chubby boy was not just an obsession with truancy, but also represented Principal Wang's hatred for the entire system and existence of Gaoshan High School.

No wonder Principal Wang wouldn't let him leave the Arts Building.

If this guy went out, he would treat everyone equally—by killing them all.

Thinking of this, Wu Wang turned toward the microphone and broadcasted to the whole school: “Principal Wang, since you know what kind of repression this high pressure brings, and even you chose to run away back then, why have you come back to become the perpetrator now?”

So, because you once got caught in the rain, you want to tear everyone else's umbrellas away?

This mental state was even more unstable than his own.

This time, Principal Wang replied.

He cursed fiercely, “So what if I ran away? Gaoshan High School is a damn cage, but isn't the outside world one as well? Ordinary people can never break free from the shackles imposed by society!”

“That is why I came back.”

“Since the outside is also a larger cage, it's better to make the students of Gaoshan High School stronger before they even encounter the world! Let their starting point be higher! Let it be easier for them to stand at the top of society in the future!”

“That way, they won't be bullied...”

By the time he finished speaking, he was almost at the Arts Building.

This radical argument made Wu Wang look at him with new eyes.

He hadn't expected this guy to be quite "righteous."

Even if it was only a self-righteousness.

But he truly was taking action based on his ideas; it was just that his methods were too twisted.

For example, Gaoshan High School indeed had no bullying now, because everyone had absolutely no energy to consider anything outside of studying;

The students who graduated indeed all entered top-tier universities and became elites in the eyes of others, they were just abnormally cold and indifferent to anything other than success; family, friendship, and love were considered worthless in their eyes;

The reputation of Gaoshan High School had also become household knowledge; through the dungeon descriptions, one could see how much parents wanted their children to enter this place.

But, what about the students' own feelings?

In Principal Wang's view, that was not an important matter at all.

He didn't need students to possess freedom, thought, emotion, or any of the "human flaws" that he deemed inferior.

All he needed was for these students to succeed.

Noticing that Wu Wang was no longer questioning him, a proud smile couldn't help but surface on Principal Wang's face. He knew his ideas were correct.

The opponent had no way to refute him!

Unexpectedly, a moment later, Wu Wang's voice came through the broadcast again—

“Your methods are indeed quite effective.”

“Because you bribed the school doctor and studied the security guards' patrol routes, after becoming principal, the doctor became a machine that only acts according to standards and will never betray you; the security guards became tireless ghosts that can patrol forever; and Gaoshan High School became an airtight fortress.”

“But now, that has become your downfall.”

Wu Wang's voice suddenly rose in a shout: “Gaoshan High School security and medical staff, heed my command! There is a dead fat man near the Arts Building trying to skip school! Capture him and bring him back to the teaching building!”

He had figured it out.

Since both of them had become mindless monsters, they wouldn't care about whether someone was a principal or not.

They only followed orders.

The broadcasting room was usually Principal Wang's personal domain.

Therefore, the orders issued from here were the highest commands!

“How dare you!” Principal Wang roared in fury.

But a deafening sound gradually rose around him, drowning out his roar.

All the doctors and security guards in the school were rushing in this direction. The powerful vengeful ghost forms made their collective running sound as terrifying as a mountain collapsing or a tsunami.

Even from the third-floor broadcasting room of the Arts Building, Wu Wang could hear the earth-shattering commotion outside.

Every part of the school fell into an unprecedented silence; no security guards were on patrol or at their posts.

His face once again revealed that familiar look of madness. He leaned his mouth close to the microphone and slowly uttered words that sent a chill down Principal Wang's spine.

“Your perspective is too narrow.”

“Running away is too cowardly. With the problem sitting right here, what is the point of you escaping alone?”

“I want to do something you never even thought of, something the students wouldn't even dare to hope for.”

At this point, Wu Wang paused.

Then, with his loudest voice, he shouted word by word to the entire school: “All students of Gaoshan High School!”

“Listen up, you bastards! From this moment on—”

“School is out!”

(End of Chapter)