Volume 5, Chapter 62 – Epilogue

Very soon, because Yushan Lunjin, the commander-in-chief of Yunchou’s western expedition under his command, was believed to have been killed in action.

Without Yushan Lunjin directing them, the main forces of the player army completely collapsed once Tianyin rushed in to support.

The Legendary-tier player responsible for besieging the NPC army’s main force was one-shotted by Tianyin.

With Tianyin joining the fight, batches of players died on the battlefield. Of course, the vast majority of players only turned into pale white light and revived at the respawn points, and only a very small number of players who had fused a True Template truly died on the battlefield.

Because Tianyin had joined the battle, the player army crumbled without even putting up a proper fight. After ruthlessly raking in a great amount of EXP and leveling up more than ten levels in a row, Tianyin finally stopped, satisfied this time.

In the real world, due to Tianyin’s series of strikes, hundreds and thousands of “fortunate” players had already truly died inside the game world.

As word spread that these players who had died in the game world were actually dead, the players who were playing Subworld recognized for the first time how cruel this game really was.

This game… in fact, it really can get you killed…

Astonishment…

Shock…

Fear…

Terror…

After learning this news, countless players all felt different emotions rise in their hearts.

The death of hundreds and thousands of players in the game also served to wake up those fanatic players who had wanted to hunt NPCs in order to obtain powerful strength.

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Yes.

This game is not just some plain VRMMORPG.

Inside it, you can possess powerful strength.

Inside it, you can obtain items that turn the rotten into the wondrous.

Inside it, you can also do whatever you want, because you are a player, you do not belong to that world, you can act without regard for consequences and do those things that you do not dare to do in the real world.

But… this game can also get you killed.

Gaining powerful strength is not free of charge, and the price is your own life.

The players who died proved this point, and at the same time, they also confirmed that after the game update, the statement that once you obtained a True Template, dying in the game meant dying for real was absolutely not a joke.

“…”

“NPCs are very dangerous, what we should be doing right now is standing against those NPCs. Why are we not dealing with the NPCs first? Why is God Yunchou fighting the Arcane Empire?”

On the game’s official forum, a player started calling on everyone to focus on the problem of NPCs.

Indeed, quite a few players also felt that there was no need for Yunchou and Andrew of the Arcane Empire to keep tearing into each other like this, but their opinions could not change what Yunchou and Andrew had decided.

After this player put forward that viewpoint, another player on the forum raised a different one.

“Most of the dead players were killed by NPC Throne-tiers, on the role of Throne-tiers among NPCs”

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That was the title of the post, and in the post, the player openly admitted that he was one of the soldiers in Yunchou’s western expedition army.

During the course of the western expedition, in the early stages, by relying on the advantage in number of players and the advantage in the number of Legendary-tier, the western expedition army achieving final victory was practically a foregone conclusion.

Unexpectedly, Dawn’s Throne-tier loli NPC intervened.

Once that loli Throne made her move, the western expedition army completely collapsed along the entire front in just a single day.

The fundamental reason why hundreds and thousands of players died in the real world this time was that this loli Throne killed over ten thousand players in the game world.

That player wrote out all of the above in great detail in the post, and when he finished his explanation, he also offered his own view.

Could it be that the Throne-tiers among NPCs are the final method Subworld uses to protect those NPCs?

After all, Dawn’s Throne has nothing to do with the neutral NPCs, so could the reason that loli Throne from Dawn was mobilized be because of some mechanism in the game’s System?

While raising this doubt, the player also suggested that Subworld might not be a truly virtual game at all… that it was very likely that Subworld was actually a real world that had been turned into data.

Many players chose to believe this speculation.

However, there were also some players who questioned it.

After all, Subworld has a pay-to-win portable cash shop. Even though most of the items in the shop are just things, this weird ability to create objects out of nothing is also not something a real world could possess.

And as for why Subworld can grant such powerful strength, maybe it is simply that this game is just that special, or that the scientists who developed this game invented such a function themselves.

Debates raged on the internet, and after so much discussion, the players on the forum slowly reached a consensus.

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That was, in the game, they needed to rein in their behavior of killing NPCs a bit.

Of course, for those other factions in the game that had Throne-tiers, they should also avoid provoking them for the time being.

To put it precisely, they just could not afford to act too arrogant right now. It would not be good if they drew down the System’s reckoning, so lying low was the true path.

……

Of course, while players were thinking this way…

In the game world, after dealing with Yunchou’s western expedition player army, Tianyin once again met up with Yivrea and Julius.

After a simple rest for everyone, Tianyin formally received the allegiance of the neutral NPCs.

With that, Tianyin successfully pulled the neutral NPCs on this side into Dawn’s faction. The number of Legendary-tier under her command also rose from one to four.

These four Legendary-tier were Fisiel, Yivrea, Julius, and the Legendary NPC who led the main forces of the neutral NPC army, the middle aged archer named Atelant, whom Tianyin had saved from the players’ hands at the last moment.

Of course, the NPC army that joined under Tianyin’s command also numbered more than one hundred thousand.

It could be said that thanks to Tianyin’s latest wave of operations, Dawn’s combat strength had increased by a great deal.

It was precisely because of this that Dawn would not be as hard pressed as it had been back when dealing with the Beastmen stronghold.

By the way, the Beastmen from that stronghold had now joined Dawn. In reality though, because Tianyin had once killed the Beastmen Great Prophet, although the Beastmen had joined Dawn, it was only in name.

Tianyin could of course mobilize the Beastmen army and their troops would obey her orders. However, within Beastmen territory, Tianyin actually could not interfere with their internal affairs.

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Strictly speaking, the Beastmen had not truly joined Dawn, but were in a state of clinging to Dawn’s protection.

Of course, Tianyin had no objections to this. After all, she was the one who killed their Beastmen Throne-tier…

In the blink of an eye, another month passed.

A month later, Tianyin finally brought the NPC grand army, which could only march on foot, back to Eden.

Translator Note

Andddd that’s it, the end of Volume 5~

I didn’t put the author note this time because there’s no important matter other than a hint from the author that the next volume would be about Envy~

And by the way, the total chapters of the next volume would be shorter than this, I checked it’s only have about 44 chapters~

There are 4 volumes remaining! Which means, we have reached halfway through the novel~!

Though, it seems I have to take a break for 1 to 3 days. Because it seems I had forced myself in translating even though I’m still sick, so now my body feel so weak, tehee~

So, yup, I’m gonna take a rest until I feel better first before continuing translate this novel~