Human race, but was chased by girls from all races

"This is... the second part of the core of the world." Looking at the crystal fragment emitting blue light on the stone platform, Aniya murmured to herself.

Lin Tianlang stretched out his hand and was about to pull the core fragment of the world over, but the puppet butler next to him took the core fragment first and looked at it carefully.

"The last time I saw the fragments of the world's core was a long, long time ago." The puppet butler took the crystal in his hand and played with it, observing it carefully, and expressed his emotion in a tone.

"The founder sealed the core fragments here, and ordered me to guard it here forever. I don't know how long the founder has been gone. The concept of time is vague to me," the puppet butler said slowly.

"I only know that I have guarded here for years and years, and have not encountered any other life. The founder only told me that one day an adventurer will come here, solve the three puzzles, complete the test of wisdom, and take away the core fragment of the world to accomplish a greater cause."

"Now it seems that you are the destined adventurers that the founder mentioned."

After saying that, the puppet butler looked down at Lin Tianlang in front of him. The world core in his hand suddenly showed some reaction, and the blue fluorescence suddenly became dazzling. Then, a small ball of light suddenly floated out from the crystal fragments, flew to the puppet butler's eyebrows, and then entered the puppet butler's body.

Then, something magical happened. After the light ball entered the puppet butler's body, his body changed immediately. The butler wore a black suit, a tie, and gloves. The only skin exposed was his face. The face, which was originally as stiff as a puppet, suddenly glowed with the luster of life after the light ball was injected, and became soft and smooth.

"Ah... the curse that has lasted for so many years is finally lifted." A smile appeared on the puppet butler's face. Now strictly speaking, he is no longer a puppet butler. Because he is no longer a puppet, he has changed from a puppet to a living person. He no longer has to keep that stiff, expressionless puppet face, and can laugh and cry like a human.

"Mr. Butler...you..."

"Thank you, thank you all." The butler smiled, looked at Lin Tianlang, and then looked at the girls behind Lin Tianlang.

"Mr. Butler...you have turned into a human?" Long Xinyu opened his eyes wide and said in disbelief.

"I am a human being." The butler said softly.

"I don't know how many years ago, I was just an ordinary person like you, an ordinary magician. I had my own life and my own social circle. But later, a serious illness almost took my life. It was the founder who gave me a second chance. He brought me into this world he created and asked me to help him and become the guardian of this Octagon Island."

"Mr. Butler, this means that you are not a creature from the founder, Principal Mace, but from the real world?" After hearing the butler's explanation, Xu Weiwei also became surprised.

"That's right." The butler smiled and nodded: "The founder said that he could keep me alive, but the price was that I would become a puppet without emotions. The founder gave me the opportunity to choose, and he even reminded me that this was a long and painful job. But I didn't refuse."

"After becoming a puppet, I gained eternal life, but I also lost the ability to feel and express emotions. This is actually a curse, but the pain of this curse comes from the endless time."

As the butler told his story, everyone looked at each other, no one spoke or interrupted.

"The founder told me that the only thing that can remove the curse on me is the energy from the world's core. It doesn't require much, just a little bit." The butler shook his head slightly and said with a wry smile: "I thought I wouldn't have to wait long, but who knew I would have to wait for who knows how many years."

"Sir, if you entered this world when the founder, Principal Mace, created it, it would have been almost five hundred years ago." Shirley said softly.

"Ah... five hundred years? Haha, that's actually shorter than I thought. I thought thousands of years had passed, but only five hundred years had passed." The butler laughed, but he started coughing violently after only two laughs. After turning from a puppet back into a human, the butler's face turned visibly pale.

"Well, adventurers, I don't have much time left. Turning into a puppet only froze my life, but it didn't get rid of my illness." The butler said calmly: "I know that since you can come here, you must have a more important mission on your shoulders. Take this fragment."

The butler handed the crystal fragment in his hand to Lin Tianlang.

"Well, go and do what you should do. I have lived long enough, and now I can finally quietly embrace death." The butler said palely, and each word he said was more laborious than the last. He seemed to have no strength left, and fell down, sitting next to the stone platform.

"Mr. Butler..."

"Go, children... My mission has been completed. But yours is still... Goodbye..."

After the puppet's curse was lifted, the butler's life rapidly faded away at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"Let's go, everyone. It's time to go to the last island." Lin Tianlang gritted his teeth. He was just a puppet butler without emotions, but he didn't expect that he had such a story. Lin Tianlang knew it was time to go, so he urged.

"Goodbye, Mr. Butler."

Everyone knows that the butler has made his own choice and completed his mission. For him, he may have been very successful.

They left the Octagon Pavilion and walked back along the way they came, and finally returned to the shore of Octagon Island. After solving the three puzzles, they didn't know how long they had spent on the island, but it always felt like a long time had passed.

As usual, Long Xinyu transformed into a giant dragon, carrying Xu Weiwei and four other girls. Lin Tianlang used the dragon crystal to fly by himself. Without stopping, they flew back to the center of the world - the psychedelic space-time town. Finally, I'm back here. It always feels like it was a long time ago that I came back last time.

The housekeeper said something very right. In the world of the psychedelic mirror, the concept of time is very vague. In this world, because of the time freezing curse, everything is still. You can't feel the flow of time here at all. In the sky, the sun is always at noon. Generally speaking, the alternation of the sun and the moon is the best way to reflect the passage of time, but here, in this eternal day environment, even the alternation of the sun and the moon has become a luxury.

Everyone came to the central square of the town, returned to the fountain, and then walked into the secret room under the fountain. Lin Tianlang took out one-third of the fragment of the world core and stuffed it into the slot. The first fragment inserted when he came back from Giant Island last time was still good. Now with the second fragment and the injection of new world core energy, the World Heart Diamond has become brighter.

At first, the World Heart Diamond was completely dim. After the energy of the first fragment was injected, the World Heart Diamond began to glow with a little mottled blue light. Now, with the energy of the second fragment, these mottled blue lights became one. The World Heart Diamond was completely lit up. Although the brightness was still very low, it was a good sign.

"Yoshi, now we only have the last third of the fragments left." Lin Tianlang exhaled slowly, looked at the remaining one third of the slot, and said.

"Yeah, we need to keep up the good work!" Xu Weiwei said with a smile.

"Let's all work hard together!" Shirley also laughed and echoed.

"Okay, okay, in that case, let's set off quickly! I can't wait!" Long Xinyu said excitedly. The red-haired girl didn't play any role in the puzzle level of Octagon Island. Judging from her appearance, it seems that she really wants to get back at the last island.

"Don't be in a hurry. We just came back from a long journey from Bajiao Island. Let's rest for a while before setting off again." Lin Tianlang said.

"Oh, what's there to rest for? You fly yours, I fly mine, but I have to carry four people! I didn't say I was tired, and you, who are flying by yourself, do you still feel tired?" Long Xinyu said unhappily.

"Yes, come to think of it, Xiaoyu has worked really hard." Aniya said softly.

"Oh, it's nothing, no big deal~~~" Long Xinyu raised his head proudly and snorted.

"This is not a question of being tired or not, this is called state adjustment." Lin Tianlang said: "Take it step by step, understand?"

"Okay, okay, why are you starting to imitate the principal and talk about moral principles?" Long Xinyu said perfunctorily.

"Hahaha~~" The others couldn't help but laugh.

Finally, after about two hours of rest - roughly two hours, which was about the length of a nap - everyone gathered their strength and finally set off towards the End Island, the westernmost island in the world, which was also the last stop of this adventure...