(Miluno)
Ceruno's jaw had been hanging open ever since.
If she told her that even the vast will of Great Blood had merged in, Ceruno would probably be so scared she'd launch herself into the air on the spot for a second jump.
Not long ago, the consciousnesses of Miluno, Mono, and Great Blood completed a trinity fusion. Clearly, even Miluno and Mono combined should have been no match for Great Blood, yet she was the one who took the brunt of it.
The reason was that humanity's autonomy, independence, and resilience had surpassed her imagination. How could a civilization tempered over countless years in the law-of-the-jungle natural world compare to Natives who had grown beneath the protective umbrella of Great Will?
Those greenhouse flowers, after losing the radiance of Great Will, could not even manage basic survival...
Even so, after a brief silence, Great Blood's will recovered from the blow and once again took the dominant position in the fused consciousness... Her scale was simply far greater than Miluno's and Mono's.
Yet the doubts brought to her by those two still needed an outlet. Otherwise, she would bottle them up until she developed psychological issues of self-doubt.
At this point, she was no longer a cold, emotionless system.
She needed a voice of "affirmation" and "recognition."
For that reason, she extended an olive branch to Fomalhaut and pulled Ceruno, who had originally been her primary target, into the blueprint world she had constructed—a fully realistic virtual space built according to her laws.
She also played quite a few little tricks.
For example, she used my appearance to contact Ceruno, just as she had contacted me under the identity of Superbrain;
She had even set the scene in a beautified version of Skyreach City;
Every passerby NPC was a beautiful