(Ceruno)
"Perhaps thanks to Miluno, we managed to take in the consciousnesses of all living things before the virtual world was erased."
When I saw Miss Achernar suddenly collapse, I was startled. Only afterward did I learn that the Hive Consciousness of the Earth Crystal was severing each consciousness's connection to the virtual world one by one.
That made it much harder for Mi Xue to erase everyone's memories. If every consciousness refused to enter, that world would become completely empty.
The consciousnesses that had been taken in could not sense themselves, yet they could still recognize their own existence. They had become another enormous cluster of consciousnesses. In theory, they should have been temporarily frozen until the New World arrived, then released...
But this time was different.
I needed to rely on faith to stop Mi Xue's plan. To do that, I had to explain things to everyone.
"I hope everyone will listen to me."
With the consciousnesses in turmoil, I tried to soothe their emotions. But it was impossible to connect everyone to my thoughts at once. I might really pass out.
So I could only convey my meaning by "broadcasting" to them.
"Please don't panic over the world disappearing. Just as I said before, the New World was originally virtual. The reason it is disappearing is that our Creator is preparing to restart this world..."
In gaming terms, it was like deleting a save file.
Mi Xue had even maliciously slowed the deletion process. That little bit of malice gave us room to act. Otherwise, if the restart had been completed in an instant, we would not have had time to recover everyone's consciousnesses.
"Originally, everyone's memories from this round of simulation would have been deleted. But the Earth Crystal protected your consciousnesses beforehand, which is why