"It could only be the final reward."
There was no third person in the entire [Roaming God Forbidden Ruin], and Kong Yi laid everything out plainly.
He even said it right in front of the sleeping [Night Burial Maitreya].
Kong Yi had clearly figured out some of [Deceiving Ghoul]'s ability rules. "But there's something I don't understand. A little scam like faking its death shouldn't have granted [Deceiving Ghoul] such enormous Privilege, much less let it become [Night Burial Maitreya]'s 'stand-in.'"
"There's something I don't know, isn't there?"
[Deceiving Ghoul]: "Why is this kid's nose as sharp as a dog's?"
Ji Yan looked at the little slime ghoul on his body, pondered for a moment, and said, "[Deceiving Ghoul]'s fake death was only secondary."
"It needed a bigger deception to fool [Night Burial Maitreya]."
Upon hearing that last sentence, Kong Yi immediately had the answer. He smiled faintly. "So none of our Black Chess Players died, right?"
"You lingered in the Final Battlefield at the end because of this, didn't you?"
"Tell me—how exactly did you do it? Logically speaking, a chess player faking death shouldn't have been able to fool [Night Burial Maitreya]."
Every chess player on the Final Battlefield had been monitored right under [Night Burial Maitreya]'s nose. [Deceiving Ghoul] was different.
Although he knew it was probably thanks to that Term Talent, Kong Yi could not help asking.
Unexpectedly, Ji Yan did not keep him guessing and answered frankly, "District 1 [Nightmare]."
"When two [Nightmares] collide, a hidden Easter egg Privilege appears."
"Within District 5 [Nightmare], Luo Xixi and the others, who were controlled by the 'eerie side,' had already been considered dead and logged out. But the 'Nightmare Order' of District 1 [Nightmare] could pull them into the 'Nightmare World.'"
"That way, although their bodies were