The corridor was empty, so the sound of footsteps kept echoing.
As they drew closer to the slightly concealed door at the end of the corridor, everyone grew more and more nervous.
What should they say after meeting "God"? How should they say it? Should they bow? Were they allowed to look directly at Him? Everyone's thoughts had become a tangled mess. Six of them were people from the real world who had been transformed into Digital Life, but even so—
Reality had already become an extremely distant past for them! They had lived in the Virtual World for at least a decade.
Moreover, the effects brought about by two completely opposite worlds had been devastating to some of their past memories. Aurora had also blocked part of their memories, so emotionally, they were not much different from the natives of the Virtual World.
They had been chosen solely to facilitate better data collection.
When the great door was slowly pulled open, a smartly dressed robot stood beside it and invited them through the light-filled entrance. Everyone took a deep breath, puffed out their chests, held their heads high, and walked into the dining hall.
It was a modern-looking dining hall, completely different from the dining areas in those dimly lit castles, which resembled cafeterias for large multiplayer gatherings.
The place looked simple, but every detail was filled with a sense of sophistication.
The long table in the center of the dining hall was as white and reflective as silver, so polished that it could even show their reflections. The tableware arranged upon it was simple yet distinctive.
The few decorations in the dining hall all possessed a bold, avant-garde beauty of line, yet none looked abrupt or out of place.
Everything in the dining hall had been designed by