"A city was controlled by a single [The Tower]. Each different Major Arcana possessed different 'authorities.' Not only could they manipulate the NPC Eerie in every Side Quest,"
"they could also influence humans in the real world within areas where Side Quests had been activated."
As the smoke dispersed, the subway station was left in ruins, littered with shattered glass.
Ji Yan turned to look at the train stopped on the tracks, his eyes flickering slightly as he asked Bai Ling, "What is the Player's Main Quest?"
Bai Ling said, "According to the Dungeon's setting, the main quest is to seize the Major Arcana [The Tower]."
But according to the rules of the [Foolish Taboo], more Players considered earning points to be their main quest.
After all, once they earned enough points, they could shed their status as "Players." What could be more important than that?
Yet a small number had already pessimistically concluded that it was meaningless, since the real world had already suffered Full Invasion by the Eerie Game.
Even if you cast off your identity as a "Player" and returned to being an ordinary person in the real world, weren't you still just a puppet for the Eerie Game to play with?
It was simply that, in the eyes of ordinary people, such "unexplained" deaths were classified as deaths caused by unnatural disasters.
That was beside the point.
Ji Yan said, "So, the [Demon Card] has intelligence."
"The best way for it to protect itself is to lay traps through every Side Quest, exploit the advantages of its authority, and wipe out every Player in the city!"
"Word games, muddling the rules, planting traps—those are all its methods."
"It can even use the 'order' of the real world to pass judgment on Players!"
Bai Ling asked, "Isn't