Volume 5, Chapter 23 – Reality Or Illusion

The descent of the System Light Orb was actually because of a game world update?

Wait…

A game world update?

Tianyin suddenly had a bad feeling.

“System… you said the game world’s update? Wait, why does the game world update have to pause the entire world’s time?”

“This question is hard for me to explain… Xiaoyin, but there is one thing I can tell you, this time’s update… according to the plan, originally it wasn’t supposed to come this quickly… and this update, in the end, has actually been brought forward…”

“Plan? The update was moved ahead?”

The System Light Orb’s every sentence not only failed to make Tianyin understand the reason for the update, it even plunged her into extreme confusion.

Yes.

Tianyin was lost.

At the very beginning, when she first came to this world, Tianyin had actually treated this game world as nothing more than a game world.

NPCs were just lumps of data made of zeros and ones, and she herself… to put it bluntly, was nothing more than a player wrapped in the identity of an NPC…

However…

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As time went by, in Tianyin’s eyes, this game became more and more real.

Whether it was that Xiaobingxue who almost never had any expression, or that Lucifa who would bite her tongue if she was not careful and loved to cry.

Whether it was the Undead Grand Duke Sargus who fought one against five for the undead she had picked up, or Heavenly Father who would rather sacrifice his own life for his daughter…

And there was also Yeluo, who had almost fallen into an eternal sleep for her sake…

Those so-called NPCs, to Tianyin, absolutely were not existences that only acted according to preset programs…

They were… truly… beings of flesh and blood, with their own personalities, existing as independent individuals.

Even up until now, Tianyin had always thought that this game world… might actually be a real world.

But…

In this moment, the System Light Orb that had always felt almost omnipotent to her cruelly told Tianyin that this world she had believed to be real… was actually just a game…

She could not understand it, and she could not accept it.

If those existences full of their own personalities really were just lumps of data… then was she really someone who had crossed over from the outside real world?

For a time, the silent Tianyin thought of many, many things that frightened her…

And because she was afraid, Tianyin did not dare keep thinking about it…

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“Hey, System… tell me… our world, is it really a virtual world that was never supposed to exist in the first place?”

“Why would you say that?”

In response to Tianyin’s sudden question, the System Light Orb’s originally very serious tone also became gentle.

“Whether it is virtual or not, whether it should exist or not. Xiaoyin, what you need to know is that what you are seeing, hearing and feeling right now is real.”

“You don’t need to worry about this kind of question any more. When time slowly passes… no, it should be when this game update is finished… you will understand whether this world is reality or illusion…”

“Game update, huh?”

Tianyin murmured to herself. Still, since the System had said so, even though Tianyin did not understand why the System would say that, she still chose to believe its words.

“Then… this update, was it moved up, System?”

“That’s right. The fundamental reason it was brought forward was because of that player I have been telling you about all this time, the one called Yunchou who has an ability similar to predicting the future…”

“Yunchou? Why him?”

Tianyin did not understand how Yunchou, just a single player, could have the power, by himself, to force the planned update the System spoke of to arrive ahead of time.

“Actually… Yunchou, borrowing the Abyssal Lord’s power, killed the King of Knights you just went to such pains to cover so he could leave.”

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“Wuu… he really killed the King of Knights…”

Hearing the System’s explanation, Tianyin did not feel very surprised.

After all, she and Samael had just now already guessed a little of this, so after the System informed her of it, Tianyin’s reaction was no longer that shocked.

“Xiaoyin… after Yunchou killed the King of Knights, he successfully inherited the King of Knights’ Throne-tier power… and it was precisely because Yunchou became Throne-tier that it triggered the originally set prerequisite for this game update…”

“So this time, the fundamental reason I stopped time for the entire game world is this game update… Of course, the reason I descended here was actually also to come find you, Xiaoyin.”

“Me… me?”

Tianyin’s heart was full of confusion.

Still, since the System Light Orb had specially come to find her during the gap while the game was updating, there had to be something very important it needed to explain to her…

“Xiaoyin, after the game update, I will lift the stopped-time state over the entire world at the first possible moment.”

“And what you need to do… is go to the Storm Kingdom’s royal palace and take Fisiel away. On the way, you don’t need to bother with the dead King of Knights, you just need to bring Fisiel out… The reason I am telling you this is that the remaining time on your Original Sin power is already not much, and facing Yunchou, who has already become Throne-tier, you will not be able to keep fighting him for long.”

“Wuu… I get it.”

The System’s words not only reminded Tianyin of how long the Seven Deadly Sins would continue to last, they also very thoughtfully told her where Fisiel and the dead King of Knights were.

“After you take Fisiel away, on the road she will give you a keepsake similar to a medal, and you need to keep that keepsake safe, it might be very useful in the future.”

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“Mm, got it, a keepsake similar to a medal.”

Tianyin nodded to show she understood.

“Alright… Xiaoyin… then I will say one last thing.”

As it said this, the System Light Orb’s voice became especially solemn.

“After you take Fisiel away, Xiaoyin, don’t worry about anything else, just go straight to the Fortress… At the place in the Hyjal Holy Mountain where the Seven Great Factions and the Graveyard once fought their decisive battle, there is an entrance that leads directly to the Fortress, just go through there… And once you are in the Fortress, you must also take the Fortress’ power of Sloth.”

“Take the power of Sloth, huh? Mm, I understand…”

Seeing the look of comprehension on Tianyin’s face, the System Light Orb let out a rather helpless sigh, then disappeared directly in front of her.

However, even as the System Light Orb vanished, time in the entire game world still did not start to flow.

Of course, without even thinking about it, Tianyin knew this was because the System Light Orb was finishing the game update.

“Since the System wants me to go and bring Fisiel back in a bit… then why do I have to wait until the System finishes updating? Wouldn’t it be fine if I just go to the royal palace now and find Fisiel first?”

After the System disappeared and she complained a little about what it had said, Tianyin directly entered the semi-fusion state of the Seven Original Sins, then rushed toward Storm City’s royal palace.