Within the illusion, Shi Ge Mu tried every possible way to wake herself up.
But none of them worked. Everything felt as though it were not an illusion at all, but reality.
"I can't keep wasting Manifestation Power... Even if I clearly recognize that all of this is false, I still can't break free. This is just a waste of effort."
Shi Ge Mu looked sorrowful and helpless.
She knew full well that, thanks to the devotion of countless people from the Rebel Civilization, she could use vast amounts of Manifestation Power at no cost. But it was limited.
Use a little, and there was a little less.
When she defeated A Sarira, her final world-opening strike had gone so smoothly that she still had quite a bit of unused Manifestation Power left.
But that did not mean that so many people had died for nothing.
After all, the key to the overall situation had never been how much power was needed, but an opportunity.
They had lived in a virtual world and could not find the enemy's true weakness. Even after locking onto A Sarira's Super-Dimensional Brain, A Sarira could kill them with a single thought. Even the best possible outcome might have been mutual destruction.
If everyone had not died and lowered A Sarira's guard, Shi Ge Mu would never have survived until the moment A Sarira initiated the transcendence process.
Even so, A Sarira had not completely let down his guard. He had shut down the servers in advance, plunging the Virtual Universe into darkness and leaving everyone's souls suspended in emptiness.
Other than π-level Souls, no one else could even think.
Yet this could not stop Shi Ge Mu from using Manifestation Power. Instead, she had been overjoyed, because as long as A Sarira had not