T0 Gaming Guild Saves the World.

Chapter 191, Section 190: World Faction Battle
There are 4 hours left until the end of this round of the game.

"I feel like we can make another push."

"Charge?" Zhong Zemo suddenly realized. "You're planning to use the key?"

"Sigh, should I use it now?" Orange Tea was fiddling with the panel, admiring the selectable skills that popped up after she reached the maximum level. "I haven't even finished reading the skill descriptions yet."

“I haven’t looked at it either,” Jiang Heyi said. “There’s no rush. Since we’ve already drawn one ending, we might as well draw all the rewards in one go.”

“I agree. After returning to the royal court, we should prepare for the ninth level. Let’s go all out and finish it off,” said the jailer.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Jiang Heyi opened his backpack.

The key appears, and the game freezes.

Interestingly, the image freezes precisely on the moment when the shark teases the mint with its tail.

"Please confirm the node to return to."

The sound of garlic sprouts wafting from the key.

Orange Tea exclaimed in surprise, "So it's not about giving us options, but about letting us choose whatever we want?"

"So, if we wanted, we could even go back to the very beginning of the storyline and start over?" The Primarch scratched his head. "How would we choose?"

In the already completed ending, the Fallen Star Siren won both face and substance.

The Ana Empire appeared to have been thoroughly humiliated, losing both face and substance, but Emperor Kurien still managed to obtain what he wanted, making it a mutually beneficial outcome.

"Want to see the bad ending?" Fries' curiosity was piqued.

“There are many types of bad endings,” the jailer said, putting his hands behind his head. “Since we’re going to try it, let’s try the worst one.”

The woman in bed asked, "So here's the question: how do we trigger the worst-case scenario? And at which point should we intervene?"

“If I’m not mistaken…” Jiang Heyi said, “it should be here.”

As Jiang Heyi entered the key, it shone with a brilliant golden light, blinding everyone.

When I opened my eyes again, the boundary between reality and illusion had returned to the moment I broke into the Giza Manor.

"Start here?" the jailer asked, puzzled. "Isn't this a direct path to a win-win outcome?"

“It can be a win-win situation, or it can be a lose-lose situation,” Jiang Heyi said. “Killing those high-ranking nobles changes the nature of this matter, doesn’t it?”

Upon Jiang Heyi's confirmation, the key once again emitted a golden light, which then dissipated into specks of light.

The world, a world of only black and white, was illuminated by light.

Time begins to flow.

The cacophony of voices surged into everyone's ears like a tidal wave.

Due to a time conflict, the newly acquired [Raging Lion] cannot be equipped, but this does not affect the game experience of the boundary between reality and illusion.

Upon entering the front hall, the scattered nobles did not receive any leniency from the boundary between reality and illusion.

With Jiang Heyi's command, "Moyu, close the door," the heavy mansion gate slowly closed.

Jiang Heyi pulled out a short knife: "Remember, leave no one alive, kill them all."

……

……

Throughout the entire game, Chen Shaoyu observed and recorded the boundary between reality and illusion.

From God's perspective, Chen Shaoyu is unable to perceive the boundary between reality and illusion. He is like an audience member, immersing himself in the performance and program effects they bring.

The boundary between reality and illusion did not actually achieve the first win-win ending; the storyline ends with a return to the Siren's Court.

But this doesn't prevent them from using the key, because the node has already been recorded.

but……

The moment Chen Shaoyu received the reward at the boundary between the virtual and real worlds, a value on his panel changed from a question mark to a clear number.

Anchor value: 79
This statistic previously appeared for Xerox and Mint, but this time it doesn't apply to them.

The candlelight granted Chen Shaoyu a high level of game privileges. On the game panel he could observe, besides compatibility and anchor point values—special indices he couldn't understand—there was another icon of unknown meaning that caught his attention.

It was a bright green seedling.

Every player has it, but it can only be seen after the player grants the necessary permissions.

For the vast majority of players, their initial state is no different from when they first entered the game.

Frail and petite, it seemed as if it might wither and die at any moment from the wind and rain.

Only a small number of players' seedlings are thriving.

At the boundary between the real and the virtual, almost all the seedlings have transformed into a small tree with leaves.

Among them, the leaves of the orange tea tree are the most lush, and the trunk is the most robust.

Next are Jiang Heyi, French Fries, and Zhong Zemo.

He was very curious about the meaning of the icon.

"As expected, the second ending is going to be a massacre."

Chen Shaoyu laughed out loud.

If you tell players that killing a key NPC could disrupt the game and prevent them from obtaining important rewards, most players will be very cautious.

But if you give the player a save file and tell them they can reload it and start over.

The current state of the front hall of the Giza Manor is the answer.

Blood flows into a river.

No one escaped the manor alive.

After easily resolving the issue of the guards in the central garden, the boundary between the real and the virtual elements returned to the garden.

Goodbye, nobles; the conversation has changed.

"Madmen, madmen, Fallen Star Siren, how dare you attack and kill nobles!"

“Unforgivable. No diplomatic immunity clause can absolve you of your crimes.”

"Trial, hanging!"

Jiang Heyi looked at the group of people who had shouted at him in disbelief: "How many lives do you have to talk like that?"

"Hmph, you dare to hurt us? The Fallen Star Siren will become history."

With his magic, Kesha grabbed the arrogant nobleman from a distance and dragged him like a dead dog to Jiang Heyi.

Before Mint could stop him, Jiang Heyi slashed his throat with a short knife.

The nobleman's eyes were wide open as he died, his gaze filled with disbelief.

They seemed to find it hard to believe that Jiang Heyi would actually commit such a heinous act in public.

"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"

The noblewomen, who had never seen such a bloody scene before, began to scream.

The once arrogant nobles turned pale, their lips trembling uncontrollably.

Unlike the border nobles, those who lived a life of luxury in the capital had only ever seen such barbaric and bloody scenes in the arena.

They trembled at the scent of death.

With the unseeing corpse of the nobleman beneath his feet, Jiang Heyi said softly, "Let's begin."

She had originally intended to persuade and stop them, but seeing that Jiang Heyi had already taken action and the matter was already settled, Bohe gritted her teeth, took out a potion from her backpack, and threw it at the nobles.

"What a bunch of idiots who act without considering the consequences!"

The boundary between the real and virtual worlds, which had been prepared long ago, was completely breached.

The jailer's zombie squad swarmed in, grabbed one of the escapees, and immediately staged a classic scene from a zombie movie.

He only needs to follow behind the walkers and loot their bags in peace; the walkers have a lot more to do.

"Don't steal experience from max-level players, give them some."

He stabbed a nobleman in the kidney with a knife in his bed, and cleanly slit his throat.

"Everyone else has reached the maximum level, so I need to step up my game too."

Suddenly, she screamed.

"Holy crap, it's red."

The jailer complained, "Stop yelling! It's not like we're new to Stellaris. Uncensored blood is red... Holy crap, red!" From the pocket of the nobleman killed in bed, a material rolled out and turned into a ball of light that floated on the corpse.

In the past, when I was running dungeons, I would fight to the death, and the best materials I could get from roadside monsters were only purple.

As expected of the nobles of Anna, the boundary between the real and the virtual worlds acknowledges that your lives are more precious than others.

"We are willing to give up all our possessions!"

The jailer said righteously, "We've come to seek justice."

Upon hearing this, the nobles immediately cried out, "Giza is here! Giza is here! Your target is them! Spare us!"

"Too late, what were you doing before? They're all going to die now."

The giant hammer sculpted by Jiang Heyi slammed down with tremendous force, turning several guards who tried to resist into a pool of blood.

He had wanted to do this before when he was humiliated by a nobleman.

The renowned nobles of Anna, with their long and distinguished history, fell dead one by one on the ground.

The sound transmission crystal in French Fries' hand kept ringing, but she remained unmoved.

By the time Kurien's personal guards arrived and surrounded the manor, there was no movement inside.

From the front yard to the courtyard, and from the courtyard to the garden, mangled corpses can be seen everywhere.

The shocking scene made even the Imperial Guards, who were used to seeing grand spectacle, swallow hard.

"What have you done!"

The moment the fries touched the sound transmission crystal, Kurien's furious voice exploded.

Kesha actually snatched the communication crystal from French Fries' hand.

She replied coldly, "Your Majesty, I find it hard to believe that you knew nothing about these people being here."

“We have witnessed too many conspiracies and intrigues these days. Now, we have resolved this matter that should have been clear, but which has become complicated because of the Empire.”

"In our own way."

Calm, indifferent, his tone was full of disappointment.

"You are leading everything toward war."

“No, it is you who are leading this into war,” Ksha said. “We have given the Empire more than enough respect, but you have trampled on our goodwill time and time again, and now… I have lost patience with the Empire.”

"If this is what you and the country behind you want, then..."

"Fallen Star Siren, here comes the war for you."

After saying that, Kesha crushed the sound transmission crystal in his hand.

She casually waved her hand, creating a misty spray that filled the garden.

"Let's go back to the royal court."

"Everyone, let's go home together!"

As he spoke, Kesha flicked his tail, stirring up a cloud of white mist.

The moment she plunged into the depths of the foggy sea, the sounds of fighting could be heard in the distance, clearly indicating that she was engaged in battle with the imperial guards.

Leaving the others to quickly loot the supplies, Jiang Heyi and French Fries immediately followed Kesha, fighting alongside her against the Imperial Guards who came from all directions.

"Wow, this is so exciting! The worst outcome isn't that we'll all die, is it?" The jailer hurriedly finished looting and met up with Jiang Heyi, leading the zombies. "Are we doomed?"

Jiang Heyi shook his head: "I don't know, let's try to fight our way out first."

Unexpectedly, the Imperial Guards joined the battle much slower than expected. After the first guards to arrive were all killed by Ksha's Word of Power, they were given a brief period of vulnerability when the enemy did not respawn.

Kexia grabbed Jiang Heyi's hand: "Come with me, let's break out!"

Along the way out of the capital, apart from a few scattered magicians who came to die and deliver materials, no organized guards were seen at the boundary between the real and the virtual worlds.

It's unreasonable.

Kurien already knew what had happened in the manor immediately. With just one order, the mage towers and guards around the imperial capital, as well as the elite forces within the royal family, would all be mobilized. Even if the entire team at the boundary between the real and the virtual were turned into sea monsters capable of using words, they would still be doomed.

Are game designers slacking off?
After defeating the last group of mages who came to ambush them, and taking the purple materials looted from them, everything within the boundary between reality and illusion gradually returned to black and white.

Ceylon and peppermint were frozen in time once again.

……

……

"what happened?"

Chen Shaoyu stared in astonishment at the boundary between reality and illusion, where the demon had transformed into a god of death and escaped from the capital.

Anchor value: 99
It climbed from 79 to 99 in an instant.

Strange light converged from beyond the observable line of sight at the boundary between reality and illusion towards the endless sky.

"Um……"

Chen Shaoyu heard the sound of the candlelight.

"Incredible... Anchor point, infinitely close."

"Their choice is in line with history."

"Incredible...incredible."

The candlelight kept sighing.

Chen Shaoyu swallowed hard. He didn't know what had happened, but he could clearly feel the joy in Zhu Huo's words.

The candlelight is neither sad nor happy; this is its normal state.

Although it has a human appearance and the ability to understand human emotions, in daily life, the candle flame is no different from a moving doll and rarely experiences emotional fluctuations.

This scene is truly rare.

"Perhaps... I really have found it."

“The solution was retrieved from a distant corner.”

……

……

Jiang Heyi was unaware that two people were watching their plot development intently.

In reality, the story had already ended. With Ksha leading everyone to escape the capital, the lose-lose ending that corresponded to a win-win situation came to a close.

In this ending, no one benefits.

Even if the Fallen Star Siren regains justice, a foreseeable war awaits everyone in the not-too-distant future.

The rewards are indeed quite good—most of the nobles you defeat along the way drop purple materials, and you can get nine red materials from the Reality/Virtuality Boundary alone, making it a very enjoyable farming experience.

Having gained plenty of experience, the two guild members who hadn't yet reached max level, Bed and Jailer, also caught the last train of the storyline.

All members at the virtual-real boundary are at max level.

However, aside from the fall, this ending offers no additional rewards.

Compared to the Star Sands obtainable through normal story progression, the gold equipment blueprints that can be obtained through bargaining, a complete set of gold equipment, and the special set gifted by Emperor Kurion, these are all significantly different.

The benefits of slaughtering nobles are rather meager.

Without a key, no one would make the decision to sacrifice the greater for the lesser.

"what?"

Jiang Heyi narrowed his eyes in confusion.

A faint light rippled from the center of the key, and the sound of garlic sprouts drifted out.

"[The Rebellion of Anna], the world faction war begins."

"Repeat, 'The [Anna Rebellion] World Faction Campaign has begun.'"

"Trigger... Guild, the boundary between reality and illusion."

"Guild leader 'Cyber ​​Potato' can view the details and confirm them on the guild panel..."

"Whether to grant faction battle participation privileges to all players on this server."

"If you choose not to start, the story will return to the story bubble, awaiting the next player's decision."

(End of this chapter)