Previously, the Domain of Delirium had been sealed off, with most of the pressure concentrated in the Core Zone.
Even when [Apocalypse] descended later, it had descended within the Core Zone. While this minimized casualties to the greatest extent possible, it also left those remaining in the Core Zone fighting alone.
But now, for some unknown reason, the passage had been opened.
Compared to the Invaders within Puzzle Card World, the [Apocalypse] that had descended upon the Core Zone was far more dangerous. It was something that could truly threaten the survival of the world.
After leaving only a small number of Players behind to guard Puzzle Card World, the remaining Players charged collectively into the Core Zone, carrying the resolve to die.
Even if the Apocalypse would corrode the Real World through that passage, even if countless people in the Real World would die because of it, if they did not fight to the death now, were they supposed to wait until their world collapsed completely and was occupied and destroyed by the Apocalypse?
Rather than be transformed into those inhuman things afterward, they would rather die gloriously now, fighting to protect their own world!!
With their backs to the river and their cauldrons smashed, they had no way out and no possibility of retreat.
Because behind them were the lights of countless homes.
"..."
In High Altitude, the purple-haired girl stood amid an ocean of countless Mechanical Constructs. Looking at the opened passage before her and the Players pouring out from it, she fell silent for quite some time.
Previously, even though that Puzzle Card had completed its advancement, even though she had fully taken control of it, even though her current strength far surpassed what it had once been... faced with this situation, she still felt a