Miss Player, please don't cast spells on me.

When she asked the question, Shanor's scarlet pupils flashed with a chilling light. He gently rested his cheek on his hand, smiled, and looked at Snow Island before speaking.

"Of course it's my love for you, and for all the female players... a love deeper than despair, a love more ardent than hope."

Chapter 69 Your Game Account Has Become a Spirit

"Love...love?"

When Xuedao heard the word "Xianor" uttered, she was surprised not to feel any emotion. Instead, a bead of cold sweat involuntarily appeared on her forehead.

If the love that the players had for the ladies during the "Rose Kingdom" era was only enough to move them to tears and make them overjoyed, then...

Even during the "Rose Kingdom" era, when the players might do things like... kill the players, the players would excitedly say things like, "My little cutie likes me so much she wants to stab me!"

Because death in "Rose Kingdom" is too trivial for players; it's just a matter of moving on to the next playthrough and getting another life.

Players don't feel any burden or pain at all; they only experience joy, emotion, and madness.

From the very beginning of the storyline of "Dungeon Sanctuary 2", female players have deeply felt the 'pain'.

This 'pain' stems from the selfless sacrifices made by the players, and also from the suffocating sense of guilt that comes after the players casually trample, destroy, smash, and defile them.

Anyway, Xuedao had already suffered greatly once because she had experienced the 'love' of the Shanors.

The corrupted Shanor in front of us is now saying that he still has a 'love for the female players' that he wants to tell Snow Island?

Could there be some kind of terrifying weapon hidden inside?

Snow Island had had enough of seeing the Shanors suffer, so…

"Isn't it good to live like this?"

Xuedao gently pinched her fingers and pragmatically expressed her thoughts.

"Look, now all the Shanor people live in this village. Not only do they have a place to live, but their female players will also come to find them one after another as 'Maze Sanctuary 2' is launched."

"This is a perfectly happy ending, so could you... please not have any more developments that might torment the fans?"

The mysterious aura emanating from the red-eyed Shanor in front of him made Xuedao subconsciously regard him as the mastermind behind everything.

Then look at the red-eyed Shanor, whose smile, though seemingly genuine, concealed a dangerous undercurrent.

Xuedao could tell at a glance what dangerous plan this guy was plotting again!

So she mustered up her courage and directly advised the mastermind behind the scenes to stop writing!

"The lives of the Shanor people are already very good and perfect. Please don't do anything that would... ruin their happy lives now!"

Snow Island's attitude was really tough, even though the person in front of her was also a Shanor.

She also didn't want the Chanorians, who had already found happiness in the village, to fall into some kind of painful and cruel fate again.

If this corrupted Shanor still wants to use... those Shanors in the village who are already living happy lives to cause trouble!

She will definitely stand up for Xuedao and do everything in her power to stop it!

"Sister Xuedao, I was talking about my love for you players, how did it get involved with our Xia Nuoer?"

The red-eyed Shanor gave a slightly embarrassed smile.

"Isn't this the typical approach? They'll do anything to be good to us, even if it means sacrificing or torturing themselves. Isn't this the heavy 'love' of people like Xia Nuoer?"

After the events in Xia Nuoer Village, Xue Dao gained a deeper understanding of the character Xia Nuoer.

Before, when she was playing "Rose Kingdom", she thought that someone in the group said something like, "Xia Nuoer's yandere and obsessive female character setting is so appealing to me!" She didn't think much of it.

But after the events of Xia Nuoer Village unfolded, she truly felt the yandere nature of the Xia Nuoer girls and... the kind of characters who could inexplicably create pressure when interacting with them, the so-called 'female yandere'.

“Sister Xuedao, your understanding is quite insightful, but what I want to do this time… actually has nothing to do with us, but rather has a lot to do with you, Sister Xuedao, or rather, with ‘the Xuedaos’,” Xia Nuoer said.

"Snow Island...?"

Xuedao heard a very strange word. If it was related to her, why add a 'they' after it?

"Let's get back to the original question. Sister Xuedao, you came here to find out the true identity of Xia Nuoer, who impersonated 'Bai Yan', right?"

Before Xuedao could ask any further questions, the red-eyed Shanor pointed directly at Xuedao and said something.

"This answer might surprise you, Sister Xuedao. The true identity of that Xia Nuoer is actually... yourself, or rather, the 'self' that you have long forgotten."

"...?"

When Xuedao heard this answer, her game character and her real-life counterpart tilted their heads in sync, giving off an expression that seemed to say, "Do you want to hear what you're saying?"

"Difficult to understand? Then let me explain it with a simple example."

Red-eyed Shanor clapped her hands lightly, and Snow Island suddenly noticed a familiar figure appearing beside this red-eyed Shanor.

"You are... me from the first timeline during the Rose Kingdom era? In other words... the mysterious swordsman?"

Upon seeing the 'Snow Island' standing beside Shanor, clad in armor and looking extremely serious, Snow Island immediately recognized her as the mysterious swordsman, the guardian boss of the fourth level of the Maze Sanctuary.

She already knew the secret that the mysterious swordsman was a character from Snow Island during the first playthrough of "The Principality of Roses," so what kind of plot twist could there be?

The mysterious swordsman seemed unwilling to speak to his true self. After showing his face, he put his helmet back on and fell silent, leaving the red-eyed Shanor to explain.

"As you know, Sister Snow Island, the tragedy of Shanor Village stemmed from the Shanors' attempt to awaken the consciousness of the player characters' other half. But what if I told you... that some female players' self-awareness awakened on its own without the infusion of Shanor's soul?"

The strange light in Shanor's eyes returned, revealing a truth that struck deep into the heart of the snow island.

"It awakened on its own without needing Shanor's soul to infuse it? Wait... how did that happen? If it awakened on its own, then... who are you?"

Snow Island's mind went blank for a moment, and she pointed at the mysterious swordsman standing next to Shanor with some confusion.

"Who else could I be? My name is Yukishima Haruka. I was born the second daughter of a noble family in the Eastern Kingdom. I honed my swordsmanship and magic at the magic academy in Vannott, the Duchy of Roses. Then, under your coercion, I started dating this guy... I really don't understand what you were thinking back then. How could you do this to such a young child?"

The mysterious swordsman's rant made Xuedao's ears turn bright red instantly.

It felt like she was playing an adult game and doing a bunch of weird things, and it would be fine if only she knew, but then she suddenly found out that there was someone else watching the whole time…

Snow Island is so ashamed that she wants to quit the game on the spot, and even wants to delete her account!

But her intense curiosity overcame the shame that was now almost killing her... She pointed at the mysterious swordsman and asked.

"Wait, if you had self-awareness throughout, then why did I see you as a doll without self-awareness in the ending of the third playthrough? Why did you suddenly develop your own thoughts?"

Snow Island was absolutely certain that her half-body in the first four playthroughs must have been a doll without self-awareness at the beginning.

"It's a bit like planting a seed and it eventually blossoms and bears fruit."

Red-eyed Shanor explained to Snow Island in detail.

"Perhaps the second and third playthroughs of Yukishima will never be able to have self-awareness in their entire lives, and can only rely on tearing apart Shanor's soul to help them grow."

"But the character from the first playthrough is the one you invested the most emotion and time in, Sister Yukishima. The character from the first playthrough inherently carries the most of your soul and emotions..."

"So during the years that you, Shanor, took such good care of her, she was like a 'three- or four-year-old baby with self-awareness.' As a baby, she naturally grew up, and eventually she grew into the person you see today."

"Well... wait, if you really put it that way..."

Snow Island truly lives up to her reputation as a meticulous player; her ability to fill in the gaps in her imagination is top-notch, requiring no further reminders from that red-eyed Shanor.

She quickly connected the sudden awakening of self-awareness in the character she created during her first playthrough of "The Principality of Roses" to…

"Then... what about the game characters I created in other game worlds where I played for longer periods of time? What about the characters I named 'Yukishima Haruka'? Did they all awaken self-awareness like you?"

This association sent a chill down Xuedao's spine; the shock was perhaps no less than the revelation of the truth about 'Xianor Village'.

This is equivalent to a revolutionary reversal in her gaming career of more than ten years!

The characters she created in every game world in the past, named 'Yukishima Haruka', were likely all self-aware, rather than dolls that she could control!

"There probably aren't that many."

Red-eyed Shanor continued to smile and reassure Snow Island.

"Sister Xuedao, you may not feel anything, but this mysterious swordsman possesses a self, but it didn't appear suddenly, after nearly ten years have passed in our world..."

"So, most of the characters you created in the games you played in the past, as long as the playtime is less than 100 hours and the time they are left idle is not long, should not develop self-awareness. They are probably just like the puppets you controlled in your second and third playthroughs."

"Plus, many games shut down after about two to five months... Thinking about it carefully, there probably aren't many 'Yukishima Haruka's' who can awaken their own consciousness like this mysterious swordsman?"

"But not that much means yes, right?"

Snow Island knows her gaming history better than anyone else. Several of the games she played in the past seem to still be running, and she basically quit those games a long time ago.

In other words... even after she quit the game, the character she created in the game world, 'Yukishima Haruka', is still living her own life in the game?

"If that's the case, then what you mean by 'love', Shanor?"

She wondered if the matter of Xuedao was related to Xia Nuoer; her intuition was always very sharp.

Without needing anyone's reminder, she seemed to have guessed what Shanor and the others planned to do next.

"Sister Yukishima, you're always so perceptive. That's right, we're much more 'greedy' than you think, so from now on, Sister Yukishima, there's only one thing we need to do."

As the red-eyed Shanor finished speaking, he suddenly stood up and spread his hands toward the snow island.

Yukishima could also sense that the space behind Shanor suddenly shattered into pieces, projecting and refracting images of 'Yukishima Haruka' from different world lines and timelines.

"That is to save more 'you' at all costs, not just the Snow Island Sister who was born in the fourth playthrough of 'Rose Kingdom'! But also those from other game worlds!"

"As long as 'you' ask us for help, no matter which world you come from, Sister Yukishima, or what your identity is, we will definitely respond to 'your' strong desire, and no matter how much sacrifice we have to make, we will extend a helping hand to 'you'."

"Because this is the hopeless...love that the Chanorans have for you, Sister Snow Island."

Chapter 70 Bear the despair hidden within the truth! (Requesting...)

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At this moment, the character from Snow Island... had unknowingly been embraced by that red-eyed Shanor.

At this moment, Xuedao herself was also captured by the morbid gravity-based emotional stance of the red-eyed Shanor, and was briefly shocked and stunned by Shanor's extremely twisted love.

But she quickly snapped out of her daze.

"Wait wait wait wait!"

Yukishima quickly controlled her character to pry open the hands of the red-eyed Shanor holding her, then took several steps back and pointed at the 'Yukishima Haruka' character from various game timelines that had already disappeared behind Shanor.

"Calm down, Shanor-chan!" Yukishima turned around and pressed down on Shanor's shoulders with both hands.

Although this red-eyed Shanor can be considered 'everyone's Shanor' in a strict sense, it has already taken care of so many 'other people's Shanors'.

Snow Island had long regarded each of the Shanor as her own children.