Natsume's consciousness awakened once more.
It was as though he had jolted awake from a nightmare.
His heart still pounded with lingering fear.
"What happened?"
"I'm not dead?"
"My consciousness wasn't erased by the system?"
Natsume wondered silently.
When the system had stabbed him in the back just now, he had truly thought he was finished!
There was no helping it.
As the host, he had very few means of countering the system.
More than half of his current strength and resources had been rapidly acquired through the system.
Even the [Divine Artifacts] he had obtained by chance were basically attached to the system.
Thinking about it now, that had probably been deliberately induced by the system too, hadn't it?
All he could say was—
It was simply far too easy for the system to screw over its host.
Then, as the memories from his clone returned to the main body, Natsume finally understood what had happened.
"The experiment on the clone's side succeeded?"
"The Time Paradox Experiment successfully caused this simulated world to collapse?"
"That was why the system's betrayal failed?"
"What a coincidence?"
Natsume shook his head with a laugh.
Who would have thought
that his greatest calamity would be resolved by such an inadvertent contingency plan?
Was this what it meant to truly have the goddess of luck watching over him?
Still, wasn't this a little too easy?
He had prepared several layers of collapse plans.
Yet the clone had only completed the first experiment, and it had already succeeded?
He had not even exerted himself yet.
And she had already gone soft?
Was the [Divine Intelligence AI] of this simulated world really that sensitive?
Or had he simply gotten lucky and struck exactly where she was most vulnerable?
Was that why she had crumbled at