Phainon placed a hand over his chest, his expression sincere as he looked at Fu Zhu.
"Fu Zhu, you were the one who broke the tens of millions of agonizing cycles of Amphoreus. No matter what you do next, we will all support you."
The others standing by nodded in agreement.
Fu Zhu straightened up, breaking free from Cyrene's embrace. He frowned and addressed the crowd, "But, my plan might cause Amphoreus to disappear completely…"
Cerydra, who was standing to the side with her arms crossed, couldn't help but scold him in a cold voice when she saw his hesitation.
"Lord Nameless, since when did you become so indecisive? If the Ender Dragon isn't eliminated, Amphoreus will vanish, and the star systems outside will suffer the same fate. What's the difference? Besides… I believe in you. I believe you can save Amphoreus, even after everything is destroyed!"
After hearing Cerydra's words, a smile appeared on Fu Zhu's face.
"Your Majesty, what are you saying? I'm a technical Minecraft player; I don't hesitate. I'm just here to inform you of the possible consequences."
Cerydra couldn't help but smile along with him, giving a slight nod.
"Hmph, then what are you waiting for? Do you need me to give you the order? Get on with it, Lord Nameless!"
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Fu Zhu opened his backend, selected the Amphoreus MOD, and decisively chose to uninstall it.
[Amphoreus Mod has been uninstalled.]
The very instant the MOD was uninstalled, the bodies of the surrounding Chrysos Heirs began to slowly dissipate. Yet, the smiles on their faces remained. All of them gave Fu Zhu a light nod.
Aglaea placed her hands flat before her and gave Fu Zhu a slight bow.
"May [Romance] accompany your journey ahead."
Hyacine also revealed a charming smile and waved goodbye to Fu Zhu.
"May the [Sky] shower you with dawn."
With that, their figures gradually turned into specks of light and vanished before Fu Zhu.
The others also came forward to bid their final farewells.
"May [Reason] grant you enlightenment."
"May…"
Finally, Cyrene walked up and gently hugged Fu Zhu.
"Lastly, I will fulfill the duties of [Time], and wait for you at the beginning of everything."
Mem also flew up and hugged Fu Zhu. Fu Zhu, in turn, pulled them both into an embrace until they, too, dissolved into specks of light in his arms.
Vanishing along with the Chrysos Heirs was the command block Fu Zhu had set up earlier using his permissions. At the same time, the End Stone continent, originally the size of a planet, began to shrink rapidly. In just a few moments, it was reduced to the size of a main End island in vanilla Minecraft.
Simultaneously, the exit portal that had been absent before now appeared at the center of the main island. The Ender Dragon also reverted to its vanilla form.
Fu Zhu remained in his embracing posture. Lygus, who had been watching from the sidelines, walked over and stood beside him, his hands behind his back.
"Sir Fu Zhu, although I do not know what you have just done, you have deleted the entirety of Amphoreus. Does this not contradict your original intentions?"
"Of course, I know the consequences of doing this."
Fu Zhu lowered his arms, a smile still playing on his lips.
He wasn't a fool. He naturally knew what would happen. From the very beginning when he came up with this plan, he was already thinking about how to undo it all.
"Lygus, there's one thing you probably don't know."
"Oh?"
Lygus tilted his head curiously towards Fu Zhu, waiting for his next words.
Fu Zhu casually stuck his hands in his pockets and began to chat with Lygus as if they were two old friends.
"When the Astral Express was first preparing to come to Amphoreus, I went to find Elio, the so-called [Slave of Destiny] among the Stellaron Hunters, to ask for a script."
"[Slave of Destiny]… hmm, I have indeed heard of that title. What? What kind of script did it give you?"
"The script it gave me mentioned the general experiences of our group. The part about my experience was described like this: 'One person travels to the past, seeking the center of the world.' Before this, I had tried to find the center of the world many times, but I always failed and eventually stopped trying. Of course, it wasn't because I couldn't find it, but because I knew where it was, and I knew I would eventually come into contact with it."
"And now, I finally know what the correct time to head to the center of the world is!"
Lygus was perplexed. The center of the world Elio spoke of must have been referring to the center of Amphoreus. But now that Amphoreus had been completely deleted, what was the use of looking for it?
Wait a minute?!
Lygus understood!
The center of the world of Amphoreus—wasn't that the very Scepter that created this data-world in the first place?!
Fu Zhu had previously used some unknown method to delete the world of Amphoreus. But in the end, Amphoreus was just a world created with the Scepter as its core. This had only deleted the internal data of the Scepter, not the Scepter itself!
"Could it be that you…"
Lygus looked at Fu Zhu in astonishment. Fu Zhu smiled and nodded at him.
"You guessed right, and there's even better news."
Fu Zhu took out the book [As I Have Written] from his inventory. It hadn't disappeared with the uninstallation of the mod, which meant that strictly speaking, it didn't belong to the data-world of Amphoreus, but was a creation of the Scepter itself!
"So that's how it is. What a bold and insane plan."
At this point, Lygus finally understood Fu Zhu's intentions completely.
To rise from the ashes.
Fu Zhu raised his hand and patted Lygus's shoulder. "Alright, you can continue to be a spectator and watch your final show as Lygus. There's still a lady over there waiting for me to keep our appointment."
Fu Zhu opened his inventory, put on the full set of diamond armor he had stored away earlier, and then took out his diamond sword and shield.
Because the decorative armor MOD had also been uninstalled, Lygus watched as a full set of rather crude-looking armor suddenly appeared on Fu Zhu in a second.
Fu Zhu walked to the edge of the exit portal, holding his diamond sword. The Ender Dragon was currently circling in the sky above the portal. It didn't attack, but simply looked down at him.
Fu Zhu raised his head and shouted up at the Ender Dragon in the sky.
"Oi, Ender Dragon, let's begin. Just like countless times before, let's end this."
He didn't know if it was his imagination, but Fu Zhu felt like the Ender Dragon smiled when it heard him.
Then, the Ender Dragon spat several Ender Acid fireballs down at him, but he dodged them nimbly, slapping a bed down on top of the portal in the process.
"Steve, you still like playing these old tricks. But that's just how I like it."