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

"So have you figured out how to use it?" Kiyono asked the most crucial question.

As a future god, the most effective use of Shiina Akane's faith power is to restore her strength and regain control of the entire Dream City system.

But this junior student had other ideas besides restoring her power as the main god.

"I intend to give those reborn beings a true soul, consciousness, and personality... so that they are no longer puppets controlled by me."

Looking down at the city center of the dreamlike metropolis, which was gradually being engulfed by the sea of ​​fire, Shiina Akane said, after making this decision, she glanced at Kiyono Hai and found that Kiyono Hai did not have any surprised expression on his face.

"Don't look at me like that. You don't think I don't support your decision, do you? Just how bad is your impression of me?" Kiyono asked.

"A guy who can manipulate and ravage players' hearts at will for the power of faith, and who can treat the phantoms of players' loved ones as objects to be destroyed at will to achieve his goals—that's probably what a vicious and terrifying guy feels like."

As always, Shiina Akane, with her expressionless yet incredibly cute face, delivered a aptly sharp critique to Kiyono Hai.

"Although I really can't refute it, Shiina-senpai, I... believe in a principle that what can be easily obtained can also be easily discarded. Only when people feel 'pain' deeply and painfully will they cherish certain things."

"Especially for the player community, with the gods doting on them in the game, it's too easy for players to obtain certain things, whether it's life, family, love, or power... all of these are things that can be obtained with ease."

Kiyono Ash said.

“I know, so I don’t hate you, and I will listen to you… because I can’t act out such a cruel story like you.”

Although Shiina Akane always wears a grumpy face despite her cute appearance, she is much more straightforward than that world-destroying witch when it comes to praising people.

The cruel plot probably refers to... Qingye Hui is currently tormenting all the players in the Dream City server all by himself!

It was torture in the truest sense.

Ever since the Starfire Alliance guild leader, Night Voyager Shimazu Sousuke… issued the order to all guild players to save those reborn strangers.

Other guilds in Dream City, and even some casual players, were also inspired by the Starfire Alliance and joined the rescue operation.

After all, being a hero in this game world where you can't die is a very cheap thing.

Then Qingye Hui began to torture himself and all the players on the server. In this disaster, Qingye Hui was very wicked and did not attack the players' own reborn beings. Instead, he seized the unclaimed reborn beings that the players wanted to save and tortured the players to death.

During the rescue process, Qingye Hui often puts players in difficult situations, such as a mother and daughter who can't save the daughter if they save the mother, or someone who thinks they have successfully saved the person, only to have the person die in the player's arms due to severe internal injuries... These are extremely torturous situations for players.

As a result, the entire Dream City is now filled with wailing, but this wailing does not originate from the unclaimed reborn beings, but from the players who failed to save them.

Watching one vibrant life after another slip away at your hands, feeling utterly powerless to save them... that feeling must be incredibly painful.

I wonder how many people will be indifferent to what happened during this disaster, and how many will suffer from PTSD as a result?

"So have you thought about what to do next?"

During the intense performance, Kiyono Hai once again managed to muster a bit of her consciousness to ask Shiina Akane, who was also cooperating with Kiyono Hai's performance, a question.

"What... what should we do?" Shiina Akane didn't understand what Kiyono Hai was asking for a moment.

“Those reborn beings who have been given their own personality and consciousness will become the people we are playing in the true sense, based on the residual soul emotions and memory factors in their own roles.”

Kiyono Hai could sense that... after Shiina Akane gave those reborn individuals true personalities, they would continue to live according to their original character settings and personalities, to the point that players couldn't even see any incongruity.

"Are you worried that those reborn individuals will escape your control once they develop their own personalities? That's the kind of worry only a mastermind would have," Shiina Akane said, still showing no mercy in her words.

“That’s not what I’m worried about… I’m worried about how you plan to feed those reborn beings?”

Kiyono asked a question that made Shiina Akane pause slightly.

After being given true personalities and souls by Akane Shiina, the Reborn Ones could almost be considered demigods... In the world's ranking of gods, they would probably be G-rank, which is one level lower than F-rank.

Then the terrible thing happened: when they were still Shiina Akane's puppets, they didn't need to consume any resources, strictly speaking.

But once they become demigods with independent personalities, they will begin to consume the power of faith!

Although it's not as exaggerated as Qingye Hui needing to consume over a hundred points of faith power a day just to survive.

However, these reborn beings seem to need to consume a little bit of faith power every seven to eight days, which may not seem like much on an individual level.

However, if the number of self-aware reborn individuals increases to hundreds of thousands, maintaining their lives will become a huge burden for Akane Shiina.

"I will use the power of my faith to support them..."

"I knew you would say that."

Kiyono interrupted Shiina Akane, making her already cold expression look even more displeased.

“You’d better not think like that. After this disaster, you will become the de facto ruler of Dream City. From now on, you will be responsible for the expenses and losses of the entire Dream City. Under such circumstances, it would be too much of a stretch to expect you to take on the additional reborn beings as well,” Kiyono Gray said.

"Senior Kiyono, are you daydreaming?"

Shiina Akane continued to mock Kiyono Hai without holding back, but she admitted that Kiyono Hai's performance methods were truly terrifying, which was why she respectfully addressed Kiyono Hai as a senior.

"Of course not... but I didn't expect that god to have come up with a solution so quickly? Witch Trial... this is really interesting."

"Are you ready, Shiina-senpai? After the witch trial presided over by that god, you will become the de facto controller of Dream City," Kiyono Hai said with certainty.

"Are you sure the ending won't be... that, under that old man's instigation, the crowd will send the witch to the execution rack and burn her alive, and then we'll suffer a complete defeat?"

Akane Shiina certainly knew what Kiyono Hai meant by the witch's trial, but she held an extremely pessimistic attitude towards the upcoming changes in the situation.

Kiyono Hai did not answer her, but instead shifted some of her attention to the scene of the witch trial.

The trial was held in the arena area of ​​the dreamlike city.

The arena area is located very far from the main city of Dream City, and the giant machine can always lock onto the location of the Owl Face.

However, for some reason, that giant machine moved very slowly.

Given its terrifying size... just walking around the city is practically a moving natural disaster. This guy doesn't know what turning is, plus the dream city has a bunch of skyscrapers.

As it forcibly tramples and pushes down one building after another, the collapse of these buildings, with its domino-like destructive effect, is enough to turn the dream city into a sea of ​​fire.

As for how to stop this Colossus from moving, defeating it head-on is something players in Dream City definitely wouldn't dare consider.

During this period, countless reckless players have tried to challenge the Colossus. Even when these players activated their strongest awakening state and performed a series of limited-time buffs, they couldn't inflict even the slightest damage on the Colossus.

This inability to cause damage is based on the game rules; this colossus has 'blocked' the player's damage at the level of world laws.

Worst of all, the Colossus will retaliate. Although it doesn't use the destructive ray on its chest that can split a city from east to west, the tiny disintegrating rays shooting out from the gaps in its body are enough to give the players present a hard time.

This colossus is a true mobile catastrophe, an invincible catastrophe.

Just when the players of Dream City were at their wits' end with the rampaging Titans.

One of the three main gods of Dream City, the current god Sanada Nobuo, has entered the fray. Of course, he wouldn't dare to enter as an official game player.

He used an even more despicable identity: the vice-president of Crystal Garden, the largest guild in Dream City.

His sole purpose in taking action was to direct the hatred of all players on the server towards Owlface.

His purpose in doing this was probably to reap the power of the world-destroying witch from Owlface.

This is something that doesn't require much guidance.

Now, all players of Fantasy City are blaming Owlface for the disaster caused by the Giant Soldier's rampage.

So while everyone was playing the hero, they also embarked on a witch hunt.

It's like the ancient practice of sacrificing young girls to appease floods, or even the practice of human sacrifice during earthquakes.

Players in the dream city must offer the witch, Owlface, as a sacrifice to an angry god in order to appease its wrath.

It seems that Owlface, being a witch, has no intention of avoiding this witch trial.

Therefore, in this arena, which is extremely far from the main city, all the players from Dream City who did not participate in the rescue, as well as the leaders of various guilds and organizations, gathered here.

Even the players who were on the front lines of the rescue were following the witch's trial through live streams or broadcasts.

The judge presided over this witch trial was Hato, the president of Crystal Garden. After taking a deep breath, she slammed her hand on the table in front of her and announced the unanimous decision of all players in Dream City to Owlface.

"Owlface! For the sake of all players in Dream City, please delete your account and quit the game immediately!"

"why?"

Owlface didn't care about her current situation at all. She even took the opportunity to kill several merchants who were foolish enough to hoard Broken Blades. Being able to identify the number of Broken Blades on others was also a power given to her by the world-destroying witch.

Her indiscriminate killing angered several elders of Crystal Garden, who wanted to take action on the spot, but were stopped by the guild leader, Hatoo.

"Because that Colossus's target is Lord Owlface, isn't it?"

At this moment, the God who was playing the role of the vice president of the Crystal Garden finally spoke.

"The reason that monstrous monster is rampaging through the Dream City is because it is carrying out the order to 'completely erase your game character from this world, Lord Owlface'."

"Therefore, Lord Owlface, if you are willing to delete your account, that Colossus will stop operating! Then all the disasters will return to peace."

"Right now, there are countless online players in the Dream City whose loved ones, the Reborn Ones, are in danger because of your willfulness, Lord Owlface."

"So at this time, we would like to ask Lord Owlface to make a sacrifice for everyone and delete your account. This is for the good of everyone."

"Of course, our Crystal Guild will compensate you for your losses, whether it's equipment or account development. If you plan to develop a new account, our guild will provide full support."

This god is really good at playing moral blackmail. He not only told all the players on the server that as long as Xiaomian deletes his account, this disaster can be completely quelled, but he also pretended to give Xiaomian a way out.

That means if Xiaomian deletes her account and creates a new one, Crystal Garden will make up for all her losses from deleting the account.

Under these circumstances, all players in the Fantasy City server are likely questioning and cursing at this moment...

Why hasn't Xiaomian deleted his account yet? The other party has already offered such good terms, does this witch really want to drag everyone on the server down with her?!

"Huh?! At a time like this, you finally have the nerve to come begging me to save your family and lovers?"

"Owl Face" spoke in an extremely sarcastic tone on the public chat, a voice that could be heard by all players on the Dream City server.

"Just a few days ago... when a group of people were desperately pleading with you to save their lovers and loved ones, why did you all pretend not to hear them?"

“The situation back then was completely different from now,” said Hato, the president of Crystal Garden.

"the same."

Xiao Mian retorted directly with cold and calm words.

"That character named Shanor is like a lover and a close relative to the players who like him, yet you ruthlessly ripped flesh from their loved ones just for fun! You could have saved their loved ones in just five or six hours, but you turned a blind eye because you thought it was too much trouble?"

After saying this, Xiao Mian let out another cold laugh and asked.

"So now, can I also use the excuse 'It's too much trouble! So I'm too lazy to delete the account' to watch all of you watch your loved ones and lovers die cruelly?"

"This guy! President! Let's make our move! This woman is completely insane, we can't reason with her!"

"Yeah! Killing her down to level zero is the same as deleting the account, there's no difference!"

Members of the major guilds in Dream City were all enraged by Owlface's provocation, and they all drew their weapons, swords or pistols, and pointed them at Owlface.

"..."