Battleworld. The atmosphere in the conference room was grave.
This was where Players went after logging out. Once a Player exited the game, they would arrive in this hall first and could choose to observe the rest of the game from here or leave directly.
The vast majority chose to stay. Though they could no longer interfere with the game, they could review it here.
As the ending animation finished playing, the entire game was declared over, and the final two survivors also entered the conference room.
Normally, only Players should have been able to enter this conference room. But today's game had been rather special and involved too many people. When Bruce and Pride exited the game, they found a group seated around the round table in the center.
And every one of them was eyeing them with ill intent.
Bruce and Pride walked to their seats and sat down. Besides the Players—Main Universe Batman, Pale Rider, Joker, Owlman, and Greed—there were also Agent, Beyonder, N'Jah of Brand's Skin, Constantine, Lucifer, and God of Stories.
Everyone stared silently at one another for a full minute.
"How exactly did things turn out like this?" Beyonder finally said. "But even if things have already come to this, I still have to say that the script I prepared was vastly different from the plot you all played out."
"I admit that I bear part of the responsibility," God of Stories said. "I thought it would be more challenging and more exciting if everyone came up with a story, and I connected them all together. Beyonder adopted my suggestion, and that may have partly led to the later chaos."
"Time for the big reveal, friends!" Greed was the first to stand up. He slammed both hands down on the table and said, "I