Why Did You Summon Me?

Chapter 425: Homecoming

The Grandruler of Forgiveness silently watched Baiyi ponder over his problems. Only when Baiyi raised his head did the Grandruler continue speaking, saying, “Am I correct to surmise, from your reaction, that you understand what the Laws are? If that is the case, then I believe you will give the best answer to my last question. Will you submit completely to me?”

Baiyi had expected this question. There was just no way the Grandruler would have agreed to the back and forth questions because it was curious. Baiyi was silent for a few moments, and then he decided to do one more thing before he answered the Grandruler.

At Da Xue, the Archmage, who was teaching a class, suddenly froze, and his suit of armor crashed down to the ground and scattered, inciting screams of horror from the students he had been teaching.

His consciousness had been forcefully pulled back to the Void. When the Archmage saw himself back in the Void, he bellowed in fury, “You wretched and ungrateful bastard! So, you want to bring an end to our cordial relationship?! Is that it?!”

Baiyi simply replied, “Someone wants me to kneel and submit to him.” [1]

The object of the Archmage’s ire instantly changed. “What?! Who?! Where?!”

“This person,” Baiyi said, sharing a recording of what he had seen thus far to the Archmage.

After sizing the Grandruler up for a while, the Archmage said, “Poor guy. He’s green from head to toe! Did his wife forsake him because he is bad at it?”

*’You consider this the perfect time to run your mouth because…?’ *

“Whatever this green being is, he seems incapable of much. Unless, of course, he has something in his possession that prompted you to pull me back in here so unceremoniously…” The Archmage added, indirectly asking Baiyi to get to the crux of the matter.

“Yes. He has a Law Fragment, making him extraordinarily powerful,” Baiyi replied. “I may need your help to fight him.”

Baiyi considered the Grandruler a being of immense threat, so he had no plans to give the green being a breather during battle. The Fifth Voidwalker’s plan was simple: he would use the Pseudo-Descent Spell to bring his teacher, who would assume the form of a white bun-like monster, to the grey hall of the black castle. Baiyi would then go into his black meatball mode, joining hands with his teacher to deal the green being a terrifying strike.

This was the best plan he could come up with given the time constraint. The dilemma he faced was the Grandruler’s control over a Natural Law, so he could utilize this window of opportunity and strike as soon as possible, before the Grandruler was able to use the Law power again. He had no plans to dilly-dally.

“Understood. Here we go!” The Archmage exclaimed. “The Voidwalkers will never bow to anyone; Rohlserl will never submit!”

The Grandruler chose to speak at this time. “I see that you have made up your mind. What have you decided?”

Baiyi deftly grabbed the cape behind him and sneered, “The Voidwalker would nev—”

Poof. He vanished before he could finish.

“Wrong answer; a pity,” the Grandruler coldly said. “However, this is within my predictions, so the plan remains intact.”

The Grandruler looked towards an opened window, and in a low voice, he said, “Dreagard, to me.”

A bat flew in from the window and transformed into a kneeling silhouette below the throne. “Your most loyal Dreagard is at your service.”

“Inform the others to finish off the invaders now. We need to regroup as soon as possible. The plan is to be carried out immediately,” The Grandruler commanded.

“As you wish, Your Majesty,” Dreagard, the king of Vampires, replied. “However, there was one concern that I, with all due respect, feel compelled to address. In my absence, the castle will be left defenseless. Our enemies have shown themselves to be incredibly cunning…”

“Your concern is unwarranted, Dreagard. I’ve sent the most powerful invader elsewhere,” the Grandruler replied haughtily. The speed and ease at which he took care of Baiyi, who many considered invincible, was something worth gloating about.

The vampire, however, who did not know the extent of the Grandruler’s powers, persisted in his request, albeit in a low voice. “But, Your Majesty! Would you not consider the possibility of him breaking free from his restraints and returning here?”

“Not to worry. I sent him far away from our troops. I am well aware of the powers he possesses, Dreagard. He is strong enough to subvert the advantage that numbers provide; the troops won’t stand a chance against him,” the Grandruler replied. “I sent him far, far away — to where he originated from.”

To achieve this, the Grandruler had used up all the energy within the Law Fragrant; he would not be able to repeat the feat anytime soon.

Baiyi was surrounded by boundless darkness and emptiness.

He could not help but sigh in exasperation. “We failed.” His voice echoed throughout the dark space. “He was smarter than we gave him credit for.”

“Do you know where you are?” The Archmage asked.

“I don’t know, yet. This darkness and emptiness… They feel so familiar. I must have been sent back to where I originally came from,” Baiyi answered, his heart sinking. The Voidwalkers had worked so hard on their plan to return to the world, but everything had been ruined because of a small misstep.

Saying that he currently felt enraged was an understatement; after all, his plans had yet to come to fruition. Da Xue had not reached the stage he had envisioned for it; Mia had yet to start calling him “Daddy”; he had yet to properly explain himself to Aya, and he had yet to undergo a nuptial ceremony with the three Huffing Piggies [3]… There were even more things he had yet to do.

Waves of frustration and regret caused Baiyi to swing his fist.

In a quiet, dark patch of woods, an iron gauntlet suddenly burst out from the ground.

“Oh, I was buried all along. Cool, cool; that scared me a little,” Baiyi mumbled, crawling out of the mud. When he had stood up, he used mana to disperse the filth on his body. After that, he looked around and murmured, “Where am I? A realm faraway?”

He expected the Grandruler to teleport him as far away from the black castle as possible; the longer it took Baiyi to return, the better. The best to send Baiyi was the Void, but the Fifth Walker knew that the Grandruler, who only possessed a Law Fragment, would be unable to achieve such a feat. The fact that he was still a Soul Armature, in the real world, proved that the Grandruler had sent him somewhere else in the world, albeit far away from the black castle.

“Hmph! As if this means anything,” Baiyi sneered and pulled out the War God’s Sword. Did he not have the ear of the God of Space himself?! That was akin to owning his teleportation machine.

However, the War God’s Sword was uncharacteristically unresponsive. When Baiyi activated the sword, not only did the blade not turn tricolored, but it also did not emit any magical pulse. It was as though he was holding an ordinary stick.

“Okay… Did my previous use exhaust your battery or something?” Baiyi asked, puzzled. Out of ideas, Baiyi put back the sword; it could not be used until he had found a way or a place to recharge it.

After taking just two steps forward, Baiyi froze. There was a huge tree close to where he had been buried, and underneath it was a naked man and woman, who were both doing the nasty.

This made him relieved. As there were people here, he could just ask for directions. There was a large possibility that he was teleported to Isythre, Marle, or some other inhabited realm.

However, he would not be Baiyi if he did not make a snarky comment about what he was witnessing. ‘Holy s***. These people are animals. Coitus in the woods. What a kinky fetish to have.

When someone was knocking his other half up, the polite direction to take was to knock first before coming in; however, Baiyi was quite desperate at the moment, and saving the world was currently more important to him than proper etiquette. Thus, without reservations, Baiyi walked towards the pair romping and called out, “Sorry to bother you two, but I’m lost. Can you please tell me where I am?”

The couple jumped, and when they turned around and noticed that it was a suit of armor that had spoken to them, their screams rang out throughout the woods. They had lost the zeal they had only moments ago, and all they could think of was running away, as fast as their legs could carry them.

Baiyi immediately used Hypnosis on them, bringing about a forced calm. “Tell me, where am I?”

However, they both stared at him blankly before shaking their head in confusion. It was as though they had understood what he said.

*’What’s going on? How are there still people who do not understand the widely spoken language?’ *Baiyi wondered. As the woods was very dark, Baiyi had yet to see the two clearly, so he cast the Lumos spell. The first thing he noticed was a pile of clothes scattered all over the ground.

A strong feeling of dread began to bubble up in his heart. Doing his best to push this feeling aside, Baiyi spoke in a language he had not used for thousands of years. “Is this… Earth?” He asked in Chinese.

The pair looked at each other. The man’s eyeball twitched a little before he spoke in another language with a strange accent. “English? U can English?” [4]

‘Are you crazy? You’re a black-haired, black-eyed Chinese man, yet you wanna “English”?’ Baiyi lampooned in his mind [5]. He looked back down at the clothes on the ground and made them fly towards him using mana. This caused the couple to scream again, and Bayi had to reapply Hypnosis, forcing them to calm down. After that, he rummaged through their belongings and found items that suggested that the man and woman were Japanese, not Chinese.

“Did we not invent a spell for translation sometime before?” Baiyi asked in the Void. An excessive amount of boredom had caused the Voidwalkers to take to invent new spells from time to time, and it seemed one of those spells would finally get its chance to shine.

After Baiyi cast the spell on himself, the pair were able to understand the words he spoke. Under the effect of Hypnosis, the pair told him that he was on Earth, in a place called Area 11.

Although Baiyi had prepared for the worst, hearing this still caused his head to spin and his heart to lurch. ‘This far away?! That Grandruler of Forgiveness actually sent me this far away?!’

This was way worse than being sent back into the Void; he had actually been sent back to where he came from!

“Well, s***,” Baiyi lamented.

“Hahahahah! I am sure you meant to say ‘splendid! A* spectacular turn of events!* I’m finally in that one place I have been dreaming of going!’” The Archmage exclaimed, dismissing Baiyi’s audible concern. “Boy, make me a body right this instant, and get me that smartphone you have always spoken of! Oh, Baby, I’m going to summon waifus from real mobile games this time!”

‘Can we, for once, be serious?’ Baiyi glowered as he put away the man’s mobile phone. Afterward, he used an advanced spell to wipe the pair’s memories of him, and then he ordered him to return to their homes and sleep.

After the man and woman had gone, Baiyi took out the mobile phone.

The first thing that caught his eye was the current year: 2018. Only two years had already passed since his ‘tragic death’! Did time on Earth move differently than on the other world?

Baiyi hurried surfed the web, trying to locate any of the news articles he had written back when he was working. However, nothing came up!

What was going on? Even if he had died, there was no reason for his articles to be deleted from the internet! Could this Earth be different from the one Baiyi had left behind?

A ton of questions flooded Baiyi’s mind, but all he could do was trudge forward. Soon, he walked out of the woods and found himself at the side of a highway in the mountains. On the far end of the road, he saw a signboard.

Welcome to Fuyuki City [6]