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

This plunged the Starfire Alliance members into a state of anxious frustration once again, but then someone suddenly shouted something while holding a notebook.

"Hey! The 'Rebirth' version of the story update for 'Dream City' has been launched simultaneously! It seems that after completing certain prerequisite storylines, every player can experience the Rebirth-related storyline!"

This sentence once again jolted the dreamer awake!

That's right! All the Starfire Alliance players present are veteran players of "Dream City". Everyone has one or two game characters that have been playing "Dream City" for seven or eight years.

With this rebirth version update of "Dream City", doesn't it mean that all the game characters they used before have come to life?

"On the number?"

"I'm already playing! Luckily, I've been consistently playing female characters all these years, and my daughter has finally become quite the character!"

Players of Starfire Alliance have shown extraordinary enthusiasm for this Rebirth version of Dream City.

Right now, everyone's feeling is probably that since they can't wait for the next episode of "Puella Magi Madoka Magica," they might as well become a dark and melancholic magical girl!

But when the members of the Spark Alliance created a new account on their laptops and went back to playing "Dream City," they felt like they had been cheated.

"Why can't I find my daughter when I log into my home account using a secondary account?"

"Me too... Is the game version not updated yet?!"

"You guys are too impatient. Take a closer look at the official website's update announcements."

At this moment, Shimazu Sousuke, who was the chairman, suddenly stood up and spoke.

"The storyline of the 'Rebirth' version of Dream City seems to involve two other games. It can only be triggered after completing the Shanor route in Rose Kingdom and establishing Shanor Village in the Peace route of Labyrinth Sanctuary 2."

"Huh? Why do I have to buy two other new games just to play a new version of one game? Oh well, they don't seem that expensive. I'll just buy them and play them casually."

This kind of bundled sales between multiple games is not unprecedented. Anyway, games in this world are sold very cheaply, so people don't have much to complain about.

But when Bai Yan heard this prerequisite, she quickly took out her phone to check the official website for information about the version update.

For players like Shimazu Sousuke, who have neither played "Rose Kingdom" nor "Dungeon Sanctuary 2", the only information he can glean is that to unlock the "Rebirth" version of "Dream City", he must first complete these two games.

But Bai Yan, as a seasoned Xia Nuoer fan, is different!

She instantly understood the cause and effect of this plot, so she immediately called out to the guild members who were rushing to the physical store next door to buy the CDs.

"Wait a minute! I hope that after you buy the game, you will at least seriously play through the Shanor route of 'Rose Kingdom' before considering the new version of Dream City."

Bai Yan's suggestion left the players of the Starfire Alliance completely baffled.

"Vice President... We have limited rest time, we really don't have time to seriously play an otome game, and besides, dating a male character in an otome game is just..."

"The key question is, why do we have to go through Shanor's route properly? Isn't it enough to just pay for 'The Rose Kingdom'? Forcing someone to play it all the time is really a bit..."

As Bai Yan listened to the complaints from her guild members, countless words of defense stuck in her throat, wanting to be uttered.

You guys can totally treat Shanor like a girl and try to win her over! Or if you want to unlock this Rebirth version, the price you'll pay is the flesh and blood of Shanor and the like. At least give her some respect, right?

But Bai Yan knew it was useless. Even if she could persuade all the Starfire Alliance players to treat the character Shanor well, what about the other players who wanted to return to the game to play the new version of 'Rebirth' because of 'Puella Magi Madoka Magica'?

Who would care about the life or death of a mere game character like Shanor?

As Bai Yan watched more and more players online discussing the trigger conditions for the new version of Fantasy City, 'The Rebirth,' a strong sense of unease spread through her heart.

PS: I can only update twice today again _(:з」∠)_ I need to polish the later chapters a bit…

Chapter 87 I'm such an idiot

The secret of the reborn has been revealed.

Snow Island had long anticipated this day, it was just a matter of sooner or later.

She was already prepared when the official team of "Dream City" contacted her a few days ago to edit her recent travel experiences into a series.

This preparation took place on the very day the "Puella Magi Madoka Magica" series was released. Yukishima also uploaded a video to her YouTube channel explaining and discussing the setting of the "Rebirth" version.

Because Xuedao's main job is as a virtual YouTuber and a YouTuber, the content of her talk show videos is of extremely high quality, almost a culmination of her life's learning.

This discussion of the 'Rebirth New Version' includes detailed settings related to the Rebirth, as well as how we should treat these children born from our game accounts.

There's also what she's done for these reborn people over the past month, like the Little Camellia Inn... helping them get rich, and some of the reborn people's own stories, etc.

She explained everything about Snow Island in detail in this video. There's also a part of the video that emphasizes the damage to Shanor, a key NPC in the Rebirth version, when you acquire the Blade of Disorder. I hope everyone will take the game "Rose Kingdom" seriously before starting the Rebirth version.

Because Snow Island felt that only in this way could the red-eyed Shanor achieve a balance between income and expenditure, which meant that only by having new, high-quality Shanor emotional fusions could they continuously provide everyone with things like the Blade of Disruption.

After doing all this, Yukishima uploaded the video at the same time that Puella Magi Madoka Magica was released.

The three-episode run of Madoka Magica immediately ignited a media frenzy on Japanese social media, and the discussion seemed to be spreading beyond the Madoka Magica player community.

As the protagonist of this Rebirth update, Snow Island has naturally received a lot of attention from the outside world.

After Xuedao uploaded the video "Please Treat Reborn People and Shanor Kindly," its popularity began to grow rapidly at a visible speed.

That should solve the problem, right?

Snow Island certainly doesn't expect all players to treat Shanor kindly, but it would be enough if most players would pay a little more attention to raising their own Shanor after watching her videos.

So in the following days, Xuedao kept a close eye on the physical condition of the red-eyed Shanor.

Whenever I have free time, I go to the pure white flower field to have a heart-to-heart talk with him, to ask about his physical and mental health, and whether his own strength is growing.

Then... Miss Yukishima, who traveled around with a passionate heart, naturally received a cold and heartless answer.

That is, the power of this red-eyed Shanor is declining at a visible rate.

"Why? Shanor, didn't you say that the more players there are in 'Rose Kingdom,' the stronger you will become?"

"To be precise, I was born from your love, but if a newborn individual doesn't experience these things, it's just a useless puppet," Shanor said, looking at the snow island with some pity.

"You mean you haven't experienced being loved by players? That... doesn't make sense! I saw that the daily online player count for 'Rose Kingdom' has exceeded 10,000 today."

While Xuedao was puzzled, Shanor suddenly reached out and touched Xuedao's forehead.

"Sister Xuedao, would you like to see from my perspective what kind of situation those newborn children live in?"

Kiyono Gray was aware that the number of players in the Rose Kingdom had surged, but this surge was of no use at all; in fact, it brought Kiyono Gray a great burden.

These players weren't interested in Shanor at all; they were all there for the Blade of Disorder, which triggered the Rebirth storyline.

With the help of Kiyono Hai, Yukishima experienced the life of a certain freshman named Shanor from his first-person perspective.

This is an extremely short life. Snow Island hardly saw the other player stop on the screen at all. Presumably, the player who was trying to complete this Shanor route was pressing the skip button the whole time, using online speedrun guides to reach the final ending of Shanor's fourth playthrough as quickly as possible.

The part about "Dungeon Sacred 2" is even simpler; players don't even need to complete the Peace Route in "Dungeon Sacred 2".

All they need to do is join a player world that has already established the Peace Line and created Shanor Village. Then they can directly use their proof of completing "Rose Kingdom" to find the red-eyed Shanor and receive a "Broken Blade".

"You know perfectly well that they are a bunch of guys who have no feelings for you, so why do you still offer your flesh and blood to them?"

“Because… in the dream city, there is a group of children called the Reborn, who are hoping to reunite with their parents, right? This is also your wish, Sister Xuedao, to make those Reborn happy… I also want to help with this wish.” Shanor’s tone sounded slightly lonely.

You want to fulfill my and their wishes? What about your own wishes? What about your own happiness?

Snow Island didn't question her own Shanor in that way, because Snow Island understood that the source of all the problems was not Shanor, but that group of greedy... or rather, those players who clearly took the favors given by Shanor but didn't care about him at all.

In Qingye Hui's view, this is normal and the most realistic. Everyone is here for the new version of Rebirth. Since there are plenty of ready-made speedrun guides for Shanor online, they will definitely choose to get the Blade of Disorder as quickly as possible. Why waste time and emotions on this boring otome game?

But such a harsh reality was somewhat unacceptable to Xuedao, this idealist.

For almost a month, she stayed up all night, tirelessly helping those lonely newborns.

Now that the 'parents' of these reborn children finally know the truth, they want to go home to visit their children, and Snow Island carefully explains to everyone how to 'visit' them.

Snow Island has invested so much time and effort, and what she wants in return is for others to also invest a little time and effort. When playing "Rose Kingdom", don't skip the story and be a little nicer to Shanor, that's enough!

However, those players only read the strategy guide provided at the beginning of Snow Island, selectively ignoring the appeal to treat Shanor kindly at the end of Snow Island.

This made Xuedao very impatient, so much so that under the video guide "Please Treat the Reborn and Shanor Well," she first edited a pinned comment to tell everyone the importance of treating Shanor well.

But after editing the pinned comment, Xuedao saw several comments that could further break down her mental defenses.

"I never asked you to make this strategy video, or to take care of my family's reborn child. Is it really fair to force us to waste our time on that character named Shanor in *The Principality of Roses* just because of this?"

'Yes, I feel the streamer is a bit too self-centered, and their ideas are somewhat wishful thinking.'

When Yukishima saw these comments, she fell into a long silence for several minutes, while Kiyono Hai watched her silently.

Although she didn't know what Yukishima was thinking, Kiyono Hai actually thought the online comments were right...

Snow Island's actions and ideas were too idealistic and wishful thinking.

What she cherished dearly, Xia Nuoer, was nothing more than a consumable item that could be taken and used at will by others.

Perhaps out of anger, or perhaps out of resentment, a whole host of strange negative emotions took over Xuedao's heart.

This... led Yukishima to make an extremely wrong decision, at least in Kiyono Hai's view, a very bad decision.

That is, Snow Island spent another day uploading a new video titled "I earnestly request everyone to diligently nurture their own Shanor: The Principles of the Breaking Order Blade Item."

The content of this new video is certainly not about blaming players who are irresponsible towards Shanor, or venting emotions.

Snow Island spent the day giving a general overview of the storyline of Shanor in "The Principality of Roses" and explained in detail the origin of the key item "Blade of Disorder" to players who wanted to experience the Rebirth version.

This includes items like the 'Blade of Disorder', which is forged from the flesh and blood of the Shanor, and the Shanor become weaker as they use their own flesh and blood to create one Blade of Disorder after another.

To alleviate this weakness, a healthy Shanor from the "Rose Kingdom" must join the team. Snow Island also emphasized that if you skip the entire story, you will not be able to raise a 'healthy' Shanor.

Snow Island explained the principles behind the creation of the Disorder Blade in great detail.

She had hoped that this method would make players who wanted to experience the Dream City Reborn version face the problem that the item "Blade of Disorder" would become completely unobtainable as the Shanors grew weaker.

However… something terrible still happened.

Players who wanted to experience the Dream City Reborn version of Snow Island did indeed take this issue seriously after seeing this walkthrough video.

However, their solution wasn't... to properly experience the entire "Rose Kingdom" game and invest their energy and time in raising a healthy Shanor...

Faced with the possibility of the Blade of Disorder, or rather, the potential extinction of the Shanor, their solution was simply to 'steal'!

Or rather, it's about plunder! As long as we can snatch one before others do, before Shanor is wiped out and the resources of the Blade of Disorder are exhausted, wouldn't that be enough?

"Why did it become like this?"

Over the past two days, Xuedao has witnessed firsthand how the situation has inevitably and gradually deteriorated!

The purpose of her uploading that video was clearly to call on everyone to pay attention to and protect the Xia Nuoer people.

But the final result was exactly the opposite; instead, everyone became even more frenzied and unscrupulous, looting and plundering the flesh and blood of the Shanor people.