Yu Xunge remembered B80 once saying that the Godly Game was a playground for gods.
She had once thought so too. She had been angry and resentful, and had even argued with Yudun about it.
Now, though, she was no longer so certain, but she did not ask B80 again.
What B80 knew might not be real. Or perhaps that truly was the truth it saw, the reality the gods deliberately displayed before all living beings and existences, a misunderstanding the gods had never corrected.
Wait a little longer... Yu Xunge closed her eyes and took a deep breath, telling herself to wait a little more patiently.
The Temple Q&A in the previous game had proved that the gods did not intend to keep them in the dark forever. The time simply had not come yet; knowing too much now would serve no purpose.
She looked at the "jar" of Soul Fire.
Previously, Soul Fire had helped her suppress those surging emotions. Then it had suddenly stopped suppressing them for her, but after that, those brilliant star fragments had also begun accumulating faster and faster.
Remembering B80 saying long ago that intense emotions were the source of power, she wondered whether the initial "suppression" had not been suppression at all, but a kind of "absorption." Had its purpose been to help her open that mysterious space?
Day 45 of the game.
A brilliant, glowing object covered in sharp edges fell into the jar, filling its last remaining gap.
She appeared in that mysterious space for the third time.
The Deaf-and-Dumb Idealist stood among the stars once more.
She turned to look back the way she had come. Unlike before, every node she had passed and abandoned lit up again, as though waiting for her to turn back.
Three paths appeared