Several days later.
In the outside world, in that place known as the Real World, on a certain Game Forum belonging to Metaphysics Hong Huang.
Players and passing busybodies, aside from still heatedly discussing Metaphysics Hong Huang's internal game mechanics and all manner of bizarre settings with no apparent meaning that left people utterly baffled.
The Holy Grail War had also gradually become a focal point of discussion.
The various posts spawned by it had already numbered in the millions.
Shocking! The wishes made in the Holy Grail War really work!
After going through several brushes with death in the game recently, this OP finally achieved ultimate victory, taking down that enemy whose simulation fidelity was so close to one hundred percent that I could barely tell which of us was the fake.
Honestly... in that moment, while there was a strange sense of déjà vu and weirdness in personally killing myself.
That sense of achievement and excitement was truly incomparable... battling wits and courage against someone whose strength was nearly equal to mine, then exhausting everything I had until the oil ran dry and the lamp went out before scraping out a difficult victory... no other game could give me that feeling. It felt better than snorting powder, enough to send me soaring to the peak and leave me unable to control myself...
Believe me, that must be the feeling every player looked forward to most!
As players, what we needed was neither being slaughtered nor slaughtering others. It was competing on the same stage with truly equal opponents—competition where either side could win, where we had to give our all and unleash our potential... only then could we feel sufficient anticipation and excitement, desperately yearning for the final fruit...
Alright... I should stop spouting so much nonsense and