"Fool... born..."
"The entire world was born of fooling..."
Ji Yan frowned tightly and closed his eyes. After a moment, he slowly said, "In other words, to accommodate all Tier 9 dungeons and link them together on this final stage, Order created a virtual world replicated from Blue Star at a one-to-one scale?!"
The lack of any rebuttal already proved that everyone in the dungeon was fake!
Everything the Players cared about, longed for, and hoped for in the future... had been shattered.
What [Foolish Taboo] had fooled was the Players of every Tier 9 dungeon!
Bai Ling, Li Qingzhi, Li Xiao, Wang Sihan... including Ji Yan himself, had all become clowns in this deception.
For the dean and Mother Li—an NPC possibly fabricated from code—he had turned against Bai Yu, causing the latter to ultimately become neither human nor ghost. He had even been punished by the Order of the Real World and nearly died at Fang Yao's hands...
Thinking of what Bai Ling had said before they parted, Ji Yan shook his head. "That girl Bai Ling won't be able to settle down and live in peace."
Since this world was fake, all Players who had not participated in the Main Quest would surely have other dungeon arrangements waiting for them...
"So the words 'Foolish Taboo' meant... that it fooled all of us Players and gave birth to this fake Blue Star world!"
"Only those of us who obtained Tarot Cards were qualified to know this truth. The other Players were all being deceived, living alongside those virtual humans in that false, absurd world!"
"What bullshit about being able to shed our Player identities and return to the Real World with enough points—it was all just screwing with us!" Black Rose's expression darkened.
She had repeatedly fallen into