Player Reload

"I can’t possibly tell you anything ahhhh!"

Through the silk blindfold, sensing the change in external light, the Card Emperor instinctively shouted until someone tore off the blindfold.

At this moment, eight players plus the Gray Rain were still in the ruins of the game hall where it all began.

The difference was that Wanli Sealed Blade was still in statue form, White Horse Tombstone and Sunset Melting Gold were covered in dust, Lulina’s face was pale, and both Carlos and Zak were wearing psychiatric restraint suits.

As for the Card Emperor, uh, his whole body was tied to a chair with hemp rope, wearing only floral shorts,

with a blindfold and headphones on his head, two bamboo clips on both sides of his chest, and dried red wax drippings on his abs.

Noticing the bizarre expressions of the others, the Card Emperor hurriedly shook off the headphones and declared righteously, "I was subjected to harsh interrogation by the Internet Surveillance Department before,

no matter how they tortured me, I didn’t reveal any information about you all, not even when they tried to seduce me with honey traps."

The Card Emperor’s expression was one of determination to sacrifice, but well... the fallen bamboo clips were not very convincing.

"Is the task... over?"

Zak, having an ordinary middle-aged man’s constitution, struggled to wriggle out of the restraint suit and pinched the high-density nylon composite fabric,

the solid and tough texture proved that everything experienced in the past 24 hours was real and not a computer-generated illusion.

"It’s over."

Li Cheng nodded, briefly summarizing the finale, how he awakened the God of Mankind, the father-daughter battle, and the final conclusion.

Of course, he omitted the secret negotiations between him and the God of Mankind.

"We almost got overturned in the gutter this time."

Lulina, upon hearing this, touched her neck, heart still in fear.

If it weren’t for Pifu using the Eight Diagrams Demon Cannon to blast the Time Machine and trigger time reversal, she and her Magic Pet, the Clay Giant, would have truly died.

"...Wait, I still don’t get it."

Zak raised his hand and asked, "What happened in the Home game was real. That I understand.

But I’ve been imprisoned together with the Card Emperor and Carlos in the virtual world’s prison all along, right?

Our bodies were digitized the whole time, so how did these restraint suits follow us back to the killing field and become real?"

This question happened to fall in the area of Sunset Melting Gold’s expertise, who rubbed his temples and said, "From a timeline perspective, the God of Mankind obtained his player qualification in 2050,

and left the original planet in 2054, diving into the killing field.

Four years is enough time to grow to Level 38 or 39, even reaching Level 40 at the top.

Entirely capable of establishing his Divine Domain, or tearing off a piece of it to merge into the Home game.

As the last layer of insurance to protect his daughter."

The Divine Domain has a dual meaning; in the original sense, it refers to the Divine Country of a God sealed by faith, established for the God and his devoted followers.

The most loyal followers can ascend to the Divine Country after death, sharing fate with the God. As long as the God does not perish, they can live forever,

enjoying a peaceful life and continuously providing the Power of Faith to the God.

The extended meaning of the Divine Domain, however, refers to the pocket space owned by a top Transcendent personally,

without the souls of followers, where all rules are set by the Transcendent themselves, in various forms.

From what Sunset Melting Gold knows, the Divine Domain of Side of Truth is a Star Realm Ocean;

Hornheim’s Divine Domain is a Floating City filled with Mage Towers;

The Thousand Throats Beast president Mistletoe’s Divine Domain is a karst mountain range, home to countless Demon Beasts he cultivated;

The Whale Song Guild leader Matrix’s Divine Domain is an asteroid the size of Madagascar Island, hollowed out inside, packed with supercomputers, nuclear reactors, and reality-warping devices;

The Transcendent’s personal Divine Domain has nothing to do with faith or sealing a God, it is called so out of respect for the powerful.

But if used well, it won’t fall short in effectiveness, capable of integrating functions like storage, transport, treatment, supply, protection, repair, on par with a mobile fountain.

"If I’m not mistaken, the God of Mankind transplanted part of his Divine Domain into the Home game, giving it some reality-blurring attributes.

After he left, if the killing field selects that planet as a Script World,

then according to the task generation rules, subsequent Players will be directly teleported into the Home game, encountering Wan Ling and being easily defeated by the latter."

Sunset Melting Gold clicked his tongue, his tone complex as he said, "So Wan Ling, not wanting to bear the responsibility of guarding human civilization and attempting to obliterate billions of people in one go,

this ’fatherly love’ backstab behavior objectively helped us, otherwise, the God of Mankind likely would not have intervened."

"What kind of situation is this,"

The Card Emperor, thick-skinned as ever, nonchalantly wiped off the candle wax, took out a suit and leather shoes from the Backpack, and muttered,

"Their father-daughter squabble spills over, and we get caught in the crossfire.

One wrong move by your grandpa, my grandpa ends up begging."

"Just consider yourself lucky, at the very least, the God of Mankind is reasonable, siding with reason rather than family. Otherwise, none of us would have survived."

Sunset Melting Gold tugged at his collar, suddenly realizing, "Huh? The Magic Ring?"

That Supreme Magic Ring was hanging on his neck by a chain.

The item description was not much different from the one seen in the game, with only some details altered, the Magic Power in the Consumption slot changed to Spiritual Power,

and a new line added at the bottom,

""

"This is the Task Reward."

Li Cheng, rotating two golden coins in his fingers, casually said, "The task log mentioned, the golden coins obtained in the finals can be directly exchanged for an item in the game and brought back to our real world.

Considering that the Home game was all manufactured by the God of Mankind, so I had a chat with him, asking him to help gather some of the items encountered during the task process in the last few minutes.

The Supreme Magic Ring went to Sunset Melting Gold, and for you all, there’s this."

Li Cheng pulled out a big iron box filled with an array of items—injectors to enhance physical constitution for Zak.

A portable prison to detain unruly Magic Pets, for Lulina.

A VIP card for the casino that can convert Game Coins into temporary buffs, for the Card Emperor.