Ch. 621Dragon God vs. GM
Chapter Summary: “Dragon God vs. GM”
Key Plot Points and Events
- Mo Fei reviews the ten authorities he has accumulated. He possesses powerful control over Storm, Time, Chaos, Order, and Holy Light, with varying strength in the remaining authorities.
- Determined to free the game world from the system controlling it, Mo Fei chooses the remote Tanaris Desert as a testing ground.
- Using the Six Great Forces—Chaos, Order, Life, Death, Holy Light, and Shadow—he begins separating the system’s underlying code from physical reality.
- His experiment initially succeeds: matter, energy, space, time, and physical laws are reduced to basic code, exposing the game system beneath the world.
- Mo Fei realizes too late that the material world and the game system are inseparably connected. Destroying the system may also destroy the entire universe.
- Wang Xuan, acting as the game’s GM, arrives and interrupts the experiment. He accuses Mo Fei of indirectly empowering Void Will by inspiring it to create new Void races, causing the Void faction’s player population and strength to grow beyond the game’s planned limits.
- Mo Fei openly admits that he wants to detach the system from reality and liberate the intelligent beings trapped inside the game.
- Wang Xuan declares himself both the GM and the embodiment of the game’s rules, prompting a direct battle between the two.
- Their clash devastates the Tanaris region. Gadgetzan is destroyed, and nearby areas—including the Crater, Shimmering Flats, and Thousand Needles—suffer massive damage.
- Wang Xuan attempts to defeat Mo Fei through an account ban. Although the system announces that Mo Fei has been banned, Mo Fei uses the Six Great Forces to isolate himself from the system and resist forced logout.
- Wang Xuan repeatedly fails to remove him, proving that Mo Fei’s control over the system’s underlying code has made him partly immune to GM authority.
- Unable to overpower or ban Mo Fei, Wang Xuan proposes a bet. He argues that Mo Fei cannot free the world without destroying it, forcing Mo Fei to reconsider whether his “salvation” would actually cause universal death.
Character Developments
- Mo Fei: Grows increasingly confident in his power and his ability to challenge both divine beings and the game system. He adopts the role of a righteous Savior, partly out of genuine concern for the trapped inhabitants and partly because the world’s heroic narrative may favor that identity. His initial experiment also reveals a major limitation: freeing the world may require destroying the reality he hopes to save.
- Wang Xuan: Is shown to be a powerful but increasingly frustrated GM. He can summon the strength of the twelve main gods and manipulate the system, but Mo Fei’s resistance exposes the limits of his authority. Wang Xuan shifts from direct confrontation to negotiation and psychological pressure.
- Void Will: Though absent from the battle, it has developed significantly after receiving Mo Fei’s indirect guidance. It creates attractive new Void races, greatly expanding its faction and upsetting the game’s intended balance.
- Ordinary players and inhabitants: Their perspective highlights the destructive consequences of the battle. Adventurers, Goblin lords, monsters, and players are forced to flee as the once-familiar game environment becomes a genuine catastrophe.
Significant Themes
- Freedom versus control: Mo Fei views the game system as a form of enslavement, while Wang Xuan defends his authority as the GM and owner of the world.
- The danger of liberation without understanding: Mo Fei wants to free reality from the system but discovers that the system and the physical world are fundamentally intertwined. A well-intentioned act of freedom could become mass destruction.
- Power and responsibility: Both characters possess overwhelming abilities, but their battle harms countless uninvolved beings. The chapter questions whether immense power can be used responsibly.
- Reality as code: The world’s physical laws are revealed to be expressions of the Six Great Forces and the game’s underlying programming, blurring the boundary between magic, matter, and software.
- Heroism and self-image: Mo Fei presents himself as a Dragon God and Savior, but his motives include pride, curiosity, and strategic manipulation of the world’s justice-centered narrative.
- Player exploitation: The existence of the game raises ethical questions about treating an entire universe of conscious life as entertainment and allowing players to repeatedly destroy its inhabitants.
Character Interactions
- Mo Fei and Wang Xuan: Their exchange is hostile, sarcastic, and ideological. Wang Xuan accuses Mo Fei of destabilizing the game, while Mo Fei condemns Wang Xuan for enslaving an entire universe. Their verbal conflict escalates into a spectacular battle.
- During the battle: Mo Fei uses the powers of the ten authorities, including dragon lightning, storms, execution attacks, Holy Light barriers, and elemental servants. Wang Xuan counters by invoking the gods’ powers, granting himself infinite vitality, enlarging his body, summoning destructive sunlight, and using divine combat techniques.
- After the battle: Neither can decisively defeat the other. Wang Xuan’s failed ban demonstrates Mo Fei’s growing independence from the system, but Wang Xuan regains leverage by pointing out the fatal consequences of Mo Fei’s plan.
- Final situation: The chapter ends with Wang Xuan challenging Mo Fei’s claim to be a Savior. Mo Fei must now determine whether separating the system from reality is possible—or whether his attempt to liberate the world will destroy everyone within it.