Do you know what the scariest thing in the workplace is?
It's getting caught red-handed by the boss while you're gossiping about the company's upper management.
Who could have imagined that Deception would actually descend in a memory!?
So was her descent a recreation of the past, or merely a twist that existed within the trial?
No one knew, and no one had time to think about it, because the three players present had something far more troublesome to deal with than figuring out why Deception had arrived. Namely...
Lord of Grace had appeared. Did they dare not greet her?
To gods, there was no distinction between the future and the past. Wherever she appeared became the present. Thus, what the players faced was no phantom of the past, but Deception herself.
Yet this raised another question: when you finally had the chance to pay your respects to Lord of Grace, after offering praise, would you give your true name, or the identity you were currently wearing?
Failing to greet her meant certain death; greeting her meant exposing themselves. Either they died physically or socially. Just like before in the Place of Piety, the moment to prove their true piety had arrived.
Ai Si and Zhang Jizu kept glancing at each other from the corners of their eyes, while Cheng Shi remained unmoved, staring thoughtfully at those eyes.
For a moment, the scene fell silent.
Of course, the vast majority of that silence came not from the three players, but from the Sandlais residents, who stood mute with terror both onstage and below. No matter how thick-skinned or furious someone was, upon sensing the terrifying pressure emanating from Nothingness, they should have realized who this suddenly appearing Starry Eyes belonged to.
But why did she really exist!?
The sky over