Angel glanced back at Kemei. Seeing that he was still organizing the combat supplies, Angel thought for a moment and decided not to say anything more. Instead, he voluntarily disconnected from the Box Garden perspective.
He turned his attention to the Dream Crystal Plain.
He planned to speak with Bulko and Rebecca, who had been eliminated.
He had always felt that falling victim to "Whispers of the Living Dead" might not have been an accident at all, but rather the standard process for challenging this instance—perhaps even an unavoidable rite of passage for every challenger.
Under normal circumstances, almost no challengers could avoid falling unconscious with Angel's assistance as Kemei had. Most likely, everyone would have to go through the process of being eroded by the whispers and falling into a coma.
Thus, Angel suspected that some clue to the truth might be hidden after the coma—perhaps even a crucial clue.
That was why he intended to ask the eliminated challengers about what they had experienced in the dream illusion.
Generally speaking, those eliminated from an instance would appear directly outside it.
Yet there were exceptions. For example, those who experienced death within an instance would suffer varying degrees of consciousness damage, and would need to log off to recuperate.
Only after they recovered would they be permitted to log back in.
But what about New Residents who no longer had bodies in reality? They could not log off to recover, so what would happen if they died inside an instance?
That depended on the circumstances.
If it was an extremely high-risk instance that inflicted irreparable damage directly upon consciousness, then it was essentially equivalent to... death.
This was why Laplace had Gray Porcelain assess the danger levels of instances. It was an important matter, one that concerned the lives