"Master... I... I am your apprentice Lynn... I can't hold on anymore, I'm dying... My body is bleeding, my brains are leaking out, I... I'm about to split open completely..."
His attention immediately focused, his gaze turning grave as he quickly read further down.
The more he read, the more obvious the anger in his eyes became.
When he reached the final line that read "Your dying apprentice who still worries about you, Lynn, respectfully." even the hand holding the letter visibly trembled.
This wasn't any ordinary letter!
This was clearly his disciple's suicide note to him!
"Damn you to hell, Demonkin Association!!"
Boom—
He roared and punched the floor, sparks crackling all over his body as the ground instantly split apart.
He breathed heavily, his eyes completely bloodshot.His sudden emotional outburst even startled the Doll Mistress who was nearby.
"Bloodsaw, what are you doing?"
Without another word.
Bloodsaw gritted his teeth, quickly got up, and pushed open the door to leave.
"Madam, thank you for sheltering me these past two days, but I must leave today. If there's an opportunity in the future, I will repay your kindness!"
He was filled with rage.
But just as he was about to step through the main door.
Countless threads swished through the air, binding his body in place.
"Have you gone mad? Your injuries haven't healed yet. If you go out now, you're just asking to be killed!"
The Doll Mistress narrowed her eyes, pulling on the threads as she said:
"Right now, Hunters are tracking you everywhere outside. I guarantee you'll be killed by the flesh puppets the moment you step out of my courtyard."
Bloodsaw furiously tore at the threads restraining him, his face twisted with rage as he said:
"Rather than sitting here waiting for death, I'd rather fight it out with them!"
"Demonkin Association! I will make them pay in blood!"
He roared.
Thread after thread restraining him snapped under his force.
One could imagine just how furious he was right now.
The Doll Mistress frowned.
Bloodsaw, who was always calm, had suddenly become so out of control—clearly the letter's contents had struck a nerve.
She suddenly reached out, using a thread to pick up the letter from the ground, frowning deeply as she read it.
A dozen seconds later.
After finishing the letter, she looked up with a frown and said: "Your apprentice was..."
Bloodsaw trembled all over, gritting his teeth, veins bulging one after another across his body, turbid liquid flowing from his blood-red eyes.
"It's my fault as a master. If I had known earlier this was a trap, I should have sent him to a safe place beforehand!"
His eyes were nearly bursting with rage, his emotions almost out of control.
His mind instantly conjured images of his apprentice writing this letter.
Covered in wounds, missing limbs, bleeding continuously, with his head split open—using tremendous willpower to painfully hold a pen, trembling as he wrote this final letter to his incompetent master.
He saw the two dried tear stains on the letter.
Clearly.
When he wrote this letter, he must have been weeping weakly, writing while bleeding and crying simultaneously.
How pitiful!
How helpless!
His mind instantly recalled their days together over the past two years. Although he himself was unsmiling and did nothing but boss him around, the saying goes "once a teacher, always a father"—that master-disciple bond couldn't be erased.
"Ah!!!"
Bloodsaw screamed hysterically at the sky.
"Demonkin Association!! Today you kill my apprentice!! Tomorrow I will destroy you! I, Bloodsaw, swear eternal enmity with you!!"
Snap snap snap—
One after another, the threads binding him snapped.
Just as he was about to lose control and charge out in rage, the Doll Mistress gritted her teeth and instantly summoned more threads, pinning him firmly in place.
"Calm down first! Going out now won't solve any problems!"
"Besides, I think there's something wrong with this letter!"
Bloodsaw gritted his teeth, large teardrops pattering to the ground as he roared:
"That's my apprentice's handwriting! It can't be fake. Do you think I wouldn't recognize my own foolish son's writing?!"
The Doll Mistress also grew anxious, exasperated as she said:
"Don't let the letter's contents cloud your judgment!"
"Have you ever seen a dying person who could still emotionally punctuate every line with so many dots?!"
"..."
A brief silence fell.
The Doll Mistress held her forehead, took a deep breath, and waved the letter saying: "Someone who's about to split open could still write you a tear-jerking little essay? Use your brain!"
She walked over exasperatedly and punched his head a dozen times.
Pointing at the letter, she said angrily: "Look at these characters—perfectly formed, every dot round and plump. Does this look like someone on their deathbed? This was clearly written when they were very comfortable!"
"Let's not even mention that. Have you ever seen a dying person who..."
She flipped the letter over with a snap, pointing at the drawn expression "°(°ˊДˋ°) °".
She said exasperatedly: "Would still have the strength to draw you a pitiful expression!"
Bloodsaw stared blankly, his mouth agape, unable to say a word.
The Doll Mistress took a deep breath, rubbed her forehead, released the threads controlling him, and leaned back in her chair, saying:
"Fool, just as blockheaded as back in the day. The cells in your brain must have all died, probably leaving only muscles now."
Bloodsaw heavily got up, holding the letter doubtfully:
"Are you saying my apprentice is playing a joke on me? He's actually perfectly fine?"
The Doll Mistress held her forehead, saying: "Perfectly fine might be an overstatement. He probably did encounter some crisis, but definitely not as bad as he wrote in the letter."
"If you don't believe me, go check the Sight. If Wandering Souls Alley really got destroyed, someone would definitely be discussing it in the Sight!"
She casually tossed Bloodsaw a Sight Stone.
...
A few minutes later.
【Sight】
Accompanied by two beams of teleportation light, two ethereal figures slowly materialized in the 900th Sight Plaza.
Bloodsaw still looked doubtful, while the Doll Mistress beside him crossed her arms, maintaining her composure.
"This should be the Sight Plaza corresponding to Wandering Souls Alley. You can check the Regional Channel yourself. If something major really happened in Wandering Souls Alley, someone would definitely post about it here."
Bloodsaw said heavily: "Even though you say that, I still feel something happened to my apprentice."
Thump—
The Doll Mistress punched the back of his head.
She took a deep breath, held her forehead and said: "Hopeless fool, open it and look for yourself!"
Bloodsaw remained skeptical but still opened the Regional Channel of the 900th Plaza.
The moment he saw the discussion content, his expression instantly changed dramatically.
【Regional Channel】
【Blood Doll】: "It's terrible (screaming)! It's terrible!! Something major happened! Uncles and aunts of Wandering Souls Alley! Don't go outside! Extremely terrifying creatures have come!"
【Necromancer】: "What's been going on these past few days! How come existence of this level keep coming here every day! No! I can't stay here anymore! I need to move immediately!"
【Bell Ringer】: "All residents of Wandering Souls Alley, lock your doors and windows, those with conditions should immediately go to the basement, hide your presence. Whether our Wandering Souls Alley gets destroyed today depends entirely on fate!"
And almost simultaneously.
An emergency regional message appeared before the eyes of all creatures in the entire 900th Plaza.
【Intelligence Agent: Warning! Root-level creature detected near Wandering Souls Alley in Sin City. Those who can evacuate, please evacuate immediately. Repeat warning, information confirmed. Please evacuate immediately if nearby! Click to view, cost: 100 Skeleton Coins】