"This world has already been invaded by eerie beings and is barely clinging to life. Like a world with war raging in every corner, finding a peaceful place to survive is almost impossible."
"If there is a new sanctuary, then it's a new dungeon!"
"A Tier 10 dungeon, the legendary 'Elysian Paradise'! That is the place every player longs for..."
Wang Sihan leaned against his seat, watching the television screen with nothing but numbness in his eyes.
A Tier 10 dungeon had now lost all its appeal to him.
Just as Ji Yan had once said,
The real world was the only thing that kept every player pushing through dungeons.
Just as someone who had lost their way could cling to life and keep walking because of one obsession—"going home"—
But if they returned to the real world only to discover that eerie dungeons had already invaded it, that their "home" had long since collapsed and vanished, then that person, that player, would lose every reason to survive.
It was like having their spine ripped out, leaving them unable to stand again.
That was exactly how Wang Sihan felt now.
Fuck that goddamn Tier 10 dungeon!
I'm never letting that damned Order manipulate me again!!
Paradise, bliss—it's all a scam, a fucking trick to lure players into staying puppets on strings!
Wang Sihan closed his eyes, unwilling to watch any longer.
But as he closed them, the television changed again. As if it knew what Wang Sihan was thinking, several sentences appeared on the screen one after another.
Those few simple sentences made Wang Sihan's gaze freeze.
He slowly rose to his feet.
The Speaker and the female guild leader in the front seats were also drawn in by those two sentences and slowly stood.
At that moment, all three