The others merely looked surprised when they heard this, but Theus was genuinely shocked.
"You created players to counter the eradication of humanity's enemy?"
"Eradication" and "players" were both terms Angelita had never heard before, but they were not difficult to understand. After thinking for a moment, she nodded in realization.
"You are correct, Count Theus. We have indeed been using the resurrection mechanic to deal with... eradication."
Theus could not help drawing in a deep breath.
Letting the Fourth Calamity loose to charge the instance bosses of rule-based horror stories—wasn't this idea of yours a little too ahead of its time?
"And it has also done a good job resolving domestic conflicts. Many people were originally very resistant to the wetware system, but now most of them support it. And with the system in place, people have become highly motivated at work."
"Then you should not need our support. This system of yours... is indeed remarkably efficient."
"Originally, there was no problem." A trace of bitterness entered Angelita's voice. "But we never expected humanity's enemy to revive by... waking up. It is about to awaken."
"Awaken?" Theus was somewhat confused. Wasn't revival simply a slumbering god waking up? But then he blinked, and a startling guess surfaced in his mind. "You mean the dream is about to end?"
"Yes. Once humanity's enemy fully awakens, the dream will cease to exist, and those rules that originally existed only within the dream..."
"Will descend upon this world."
Hiss...
That was a little too horrifying.
"The dream ends, players and the system stop working, and the rules descend into the world..." Theus rubbed his forehead in frustration. "Humanity's enemy is pulling the rug out from under us!"
"That is right. I suspect that although it has not yet awakened from its slumber,