"No need to struggle; the reason you were able to enter the ga is because I allowed it, and now the reason you can't leave is because I don't allow it."
Kael said softly.
Initially, the expressions on their faces showed so disbelief, but once they understood the situation, inevitably a look of dejection appeared.
"Don't be so sad; the one who should be most sad is probably ."
"Brother Kael, who exactly are you?" Kongshanyi You asked solemnly.
"Your fellow villager, a lonely soul left behind in the new world," Kael said with a smile.
"New world?"
"Yes, the new world. What do you think of the continent beneath your feet?"
The two exchanged a glance, a flicker of shock visible in their eyes: "You an?"
"The land beneath your feet, Shenhua Continent, is the sa as the planet beneath the Human Federation in your mories. Welco, both of you, to the future after endless ti, to a place where life and death intertwine... the new world." Kael slightly opened his hands, as if welcoming the two to join his ranks.
And now Kongshanyi You and Cai Ketongshen felt as if their minds were completely blank.
Instinctively, they had taken everything they saw as reality, everything they lived through as their true selves, but now soone was telling them:
"Hey, brothers, welco to waking from the sweet dream, to embrace this new world you are unwilling to touch."
Everything he thought he knew and experienced seed to lose all aning at this mont.
It was at this ti that Kongshanyi You appeared to understand the urgent and sowhat violent feelings deep inside Cai Ketongshen.
"What has happened to the Human Federation?" Cai Ketongshen tried to calm his shocked emotions as he spoke.
"In principle, I am the last living human remnant of the Human Federation, and you are a group of lonely souls whose existence traces I preserved through special ans."
"Lonely souls?"
"Let use a term that's easier for you to understand. You should understand the chanism of dungeon formation, right?"
"Yes."
"In this world today, the Human Federation is equivalent to a dungeon of historical echoes type, and you live within this historical echo type dungeon.
However, unlike ordinary historical echo type dungeons, I've tweaked this dungeon a bit; you can simply understand my operation as transforming the dungeon where the Human Federation resides into my divine realm."
"Divine realm?"
"Yes, the literal aning—the divine realm as you understand it. Now, for us, the Human Federation is no different from a divine realm; one is led by a deity, and the other is led by ." Kael looked at them both significantly, chuckled lightly, and said, "I ntioned earlier, I am the last surviving presence within the Human Federation, so I naturally wouldn't want the Human Federation to stay in the past forever."
The two nodded.
"Now, it's another question. For us, what exactly is the Human Federation?" Kael looked towards the glowing orb, saying softly, "Actually, many people in the Human Federation have already discovered the truth; it's just that they don't have much desire to delve deeper into the truth. But the issue is, whether you want to uncover it or not, humans will walk out of this closed black box."
"Brother Kael, are you saying..."
"Getting lost in the glory of the Human Federation's past carries no aning. In this world, the Human Federation remains a part of the dungeon; although through my interference it has separately detached from the dungeon, ultimately, you'll have to face the challenges from this world.
Fortunately, we are not without allies. The establishnt of the Yibel Federation is closely related to us. We are naturally collaborative entities in this world, and the premise for cooperation is how you, as players, can integrate more smoothly with various forces." Kael clasped his hands together, and the large celestial orb collapsed into a small light ring, rging into his body.
He looked warmly at the two, saying, "I will continue to keep the divine realm operational until more and more of you leave traces of your existence on this continent, allowing this world to fully accept your existence; at that ti, everyone can bravely walk out of the divine realm to face this new world.
Do you have any questions now?"
Kongshanyi You was silent for a mont, then continued, "What we've experienced isn't an illusion or manipulative control?"
"The divine realm holds uniqueness. When I'm cultivating the dungeon as a divine realm, all historical echoes are condensed into this divine realm at this ti—in ti, space, the true self... everything converges here.
So, you don't need to doubt the authenticity of your existence. The fact that you can stand in front of ans you are still you; what you've experienced has never been false."
"Yes, then I have a second question—it's lonely, isn't it, Brother Kael?" Kongshanyi You asked with a subtle expression, "Or perhaps living alone in this world, alienated from it, maybe it's just because of that, you are so eager for us to arrive in this world."
"A bit," Kael chuckled, with a nostalgic expression on his face, "Because of the loneliness, I wanted to place you back in this world. But after all, in this world, I've also found new attachnts.
They are the chains binding to this world, allowing , a lonely soul from the past, to naturally exist in such a soil, at least not without any dependency." Kongshanyi You nodded and said, "I'm done asking."
Then she looked at Cai Ketongshen.
Cai Ketongshen lifted his head and said:
"What was with the distortion of the world I saw at that ti?"
"When did you see the distortion?" Kael asked, laughing lightly.
"Around the ti of the ga's previous version updates."
"What was I doing during that period?"
"Brother Kael, you were... what?"
"It looks like you've figured it out. At that ti, I was hunting gods and striving to quickly beco one of the top figures in this new era, and it was during that ti the divine realm condensed and ford."
Kael said this and instinctively blinked, looking at Cai Ketongshen, saying, "Why don't you guess, who was it that imposed the ntal suggestion on you, wanted you to investigate certain people and things, and kept you from having a good dream for quite a while?"
Kael's direct revelation made Cai Ketongshen's face inevitably show a hint of helplessness.
"So it was you!"
"Exactly. For a wanderer in the new world, wanting to understand what the 'real' oneself has turned into, there's no conflict in that!"
"No conflict, of course not," Cai Ketongshen said through gritted teeth.
"As for this matter, if I wanted to keep it secret, you would at most have so suspicions, and wouldn't be so certain of all that is true and false. But I thought it was unnecessary.
This kind of thing ultimately needs you to bear it in the future; for you now, there's not much benefit—it's best to see it as early exposure to humanity's future."
"Okay, thank you for the explanation, I've no more questions." Cai Ketongshen's face showed a complex expression. He actually had many questions, but the most important one was answered, and that's enough.
As for other things...
Regarding vague talk like humanity's future, to him, it is too elusive.
This kind of thing is best left for the future him to directly confront.
Seeing this, Kael smiled and said:
"Then, dear players, welco to the new world."
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