Persona Cannot Be Destroyed

So it appeared at random... Hearing this, Yin Ge nodded.

"Does every Son of Heaven Game only have the Daylight and Night Factions?"

Qin Li nodded. "That's right."

"I see." Yin Ge had wanted to confirm the faction issue because she had suffered from not understanding the factions during the game.

If she had known that people from the Daylight Faction had a chance to come back to life after dying, there would have been far more room for manipulation, and the game could have ended faster.

After thinking it over, she asked, "Is the time allocation in every game fixed? Events at nine in the morning, free discussion at six in the evening, and identifying the Killer at eight at night?"

"That's right." Qin Li nodded. "But we generally call the free activity period Persona Time. Everything else is Godhead Time."

Persona Time and Godhead Time?

That was indeed the case.

Yin Ge and the others were human. Once they entered the game, it was naturally Persona Time.

The people from the Daylight and Night Factions had long since died, so their activity periods were Godhead Time.

"Mm." Yin Ge nodded, but speaking of time reminded her of another question related to time.

"After the game ended, I found that only ten minutes had passed in the real world. Was that also the result of quantum entanglement?"

"You could say that." Qin Li paused, then continued.

"Also, ten minutes isn't accurate. Based on our observations, only five seconds pass in the real world after every game ends."

"Perhaps you didn't wake up immediately after the game ended, so your judgment of time was off."

"Five seconds." Yin Ge fell into thought.

After the game ended, she had fallen into a nightmare, and the abnormality in her left eye had delayed her for some time, so her sense of time had not been accurate.

Yin Ge asked again, "What are the Godhead, Personhood, and Beasthood you just mentioned?"

Qin Li smiled and explained familiarly, "To put it simply, Godhead refers to the Son of Heaven, Feudal Lords, Court Ministers, Grand Physicians, Scholars, and Commoners."

"Beasthood refers to the people of the Night Faction."

"Are the numbers of Godheads and Beasthoods always fixed at six and one?" Yin Ge pressed.

"No, they aren't fixed." Qin Li answered, "A Son of Heaven Game might have a hundred Godheads and a hundred Beasthoods, or it might have a hundred Beasthoods and one Godhead."

A hundred Godheads and a hundred Beasthoods?!

A hundred Beasthoods and one Godhead?!

Yin Ge's pupils contracted as she sensed just how terrifying a complex, large-scale Son of Heaven Game could be.

"Of course, that's only a possibility. Such a situation has never actually occurred."

"Most of the time, there are no more than a dozen or twenty people with Godhead or Beasthood."

"As for Personhood..." Qin Li gave Yin Ge a meaningful look before continuing.

"Personhood can be obtained by people, and its Laws can be used in reality as well."

It could be used in reality too?

Hearing this, Yin Ge's heart stirred slightly. "Personhood can be used outside the game too?"

"Yes." Qin Li replied.

Yin Ge took a deep breath, then asked, "Then what is the price?"

Qin Li spoke calmly. "After obtaining Personhood from a Son of Heaven Game, that Personhood enters a state of increasing entropy."

"It will gradually expand and encroach upon your original Personhood. From an observational perspective, this increase in entropy is devouring."

"A Son of Heaven Game Persona will slowly devour its holder's will, spirit, and memories. In a sense, a person's will, spirit, and memories are their Personhood."

"In other words, a Son of Heaven Game Persona devours the person's own Personhood!"

At this point, Qin Li sighed. "Of course, the 'Persona' of a Son of Heaven Game transcends the category of 'Personhood' as we understand it scientifically."

"This kind of Personhood grants you all sorts of special abilities. Since Son of Heaven Games erupted across the world, we have encountered quite a few people who possess Son of Heaven Game Personhood."

"Their Personhoods possess all kinds of strange and bizarre abilities. For example, some people's Personhood can achieve long-distance displacement, while others can turn invisible."

"But as they used their Son of Heaven Game Personhood more frequently, the speed at which their original Personhood was devoured also accelerated."

"In the end..."

At this point, Qin Li fell silent.

Yin Ge was also silent for a moment before softly saying, "In the end, their Personhood was devoured, which meant... they died."

"Yes." After a moment of silence, Qin Li said, "Compared with others, those who use their abilities frequently accelerate the rate at which their own Personhood is devoured."

"But even without using their abilities, their own Personhood will be devoured sooner or later."

"This process is irreversible, so scientists proposed one of the Three Laws of the Son of Heaven Game..."

"[Persona Cannot Be Destroyed]."

[Persona Cannot Be Destroyed]?

No, it was Son of Heaven Game Persona that could not be destroyed.

As for human Personhood?

According to Qin Li, human Personhood was like Commoner Divinity, or perhaps even inferior to it.

A Commoner could use Shattering Jade, could perish together with their enemy.

But once human Godhead was gone, it was simply gone, without even a ripple.

What was more, when the original Personhood was devoured, or when someone carrying a Son of Heaven Game Persona died, the Son of Heaven Game would erupt anew.

So in the long run, Son of Heaven Game Personas would never be destroyed unless humanity went extinct.

After learning that her death had begun its countdown, Yin Ge sank into an icy, numb, heavy state.

Even the waves of stabbing pain in her mind could not outweigh the heaviness in her heart.

Death.

And death after her Personhood had been completely consumed.

This was something every living being instinctively feared.

"Is there no solution at all?" Yin Ge asked futilely once more.

Qin Li remained silent.

Yin Ge immediately fell silent as well.

But after a moment, Qin Li spoke again. "Perhaps there is a way to ease it or slow it down, but that is beyond the scope of what I am authorized to know."

Ease it?

Slow it down?

Yin Ge's eyes lit up. "How?"

Even ants struggled to survive.

Although Yin Ge often shouted online that she wanted to die and did not want to live anymore.

What she wanted to end was suffering, poverty, boredom, emptiness, or something else—not her life itself.

"As far as I know, quite a few Son of Heaven Games have erupted in various countries in recent years."

Qin Li said, "Many people who obtained Son of Heaven Game Personas also died after excessively using their Personhood abilities."

"Yet quite a few people survived, and their Personhoods grew stronger and stronger, even becoming similar to figures from myth and legend."

"But my authorization level is too low. Much of it is classified, so I have no way of knowing their methods."

"I have heard, however, that among the upper ranks of our Neutrino Persona Order Center, there is someone who successfully completed three Son of Heaven Game missions and was not devoured despite frequently using Personhood abilities."

"If you rise to the upper ranks, perhaps you will be able to find out... maybe?"

Even Qin Li's tone was uncertain.

"As long as there's a way!"

Hope reignited in Yin Ge's eyes. "Even slowing it down would be enough!"

"One more day alive is still one more day."

"So how do I become one of your upper ranks?"