[TIMER: 09.9 SECONDS...]
In the center of the classroom domain on Floor Eight, seven of the eight heads atop the Omni-Protagonist Amalgamation Monster were hanging limp over the edge of the ten-thousand-foot iron school desk. Foaming ginger soap suds, sneezing black-licorice snot, staring cross-eyed at trigonometry worksheets, clutching bitten-off candy sword hilts, or dripping blue toilet-bowl disinfectant from their ears.
Only the central head—Lin Fan, the Original Chosen One of Book One—was still screaming!
Up on the high gallery of Floor Nine’s staircase, the Chief Author of Fate was leaning halfway over the railing. His fingers digging bloody grooves into the marble balustrade as he poured every last drop of Book One’s foundational source code into Lin Fan’s neck!
“HOLD ON FOR NINE MORE SECONDS, LIN FAN!!” the Chief Author shrieked at the top of his lungs.
“YOU ARE MY FIRST PROTAGONIST! THE SON OF DESTINY WHO STARTED THIS ENTIRE NINE-BOOK EMPIRE! As long as your ten thousand [Original Chosen One & Ring-Grandpa Halos] survive past the sixty-second mark, you can trigger a [Last-Second Cliffhanger Reversal] and swallow their entire family’s cultivation!!
GU NIAN IS YOUR BORN STEPPING STONE! CRUSH HIM!!”
BOOOOOOOM—CRACKLE!!
