With the fall of the Herrscher of Consciousness, the magnificent dream world woven from Herrscher authority immediately lost the foundation upon which it depended, beginning a slow and irreversible collapse.
As a result, the people trapped within the dream world gradually began to awaken.
However, not everyone managed to open their eyes successfully.
Those unfortunate victims who had contracted Sleeping Sickness early on had already been shrouded in the shadow of death before the dream began to collapse.
Those who had plunged into despair due to the collapse of the medical system likewise failed to escape the shackles of fate.
Their tragic deaths added a heavy shade to this disaster.
As for those souls who met with accidents while asleep, their fates were even more heartbreaking.
In the dream's gentle embrace, they were able to bid farewell to the world without suffering any pain.
Yet the most poignant of all were those who willingly embraced the dream and rejected reality.
To them, that perfect dream woven by Herrscher authority was not only a refuge for the soul, but also the only pure land where they could escape the suffering of reality.
Thus, when the sound of the dream world's collapse rang out like thunder, they did not choose to flee. Instead, they resolutely shared the dream's fate, choosing to depart peacefully within the embrace of illusion.
In this way, they made their final resistance against, and rejection of, the cold cruelty of the real world.
According to Moth to Fire's preliminary statistics, roughly two hundred million people worldwide had unfortunately contracted Sleeping Sickness.
And of that enormous number, more than half successfully broke free from the dream world.
In other words, nearly one hundred million people died in this disaster.
Viewed solely from the cold perspective of mathematics, the loss