They won the Holy Grail War, but this turned out to be the Virtual Tree Universe.

Chapter 177 [Aha] The actors arranged by [Aha] have arrived.
Three years after Dan Lei defeated Morgan, he returned to Avalon and wandered around the city again.

Then Danlei discovered that no one in Avalon City expressed any surprise at his disappearance for three years, nor did anyone find it strange.

The reason became clear when Dan Lei encountered a dragon spirit and overheard it whispering to its companion.

The two dragons whispered to each other.
"The king only slept for three years before waking up? It seems the war prevented him from sleeping peacefully."

"Yes, there's a huge fighting outside, and it's only relatively safe here. Even so, I can't even take a short nap for ten years."

After listening to the two dragons, Dan Lei shook his head helplessly. They were both over two hundred years old, and he was still thinking about problems using the mindset of a short-lived species.

For a dragon species, sleeping for three years is nothing?

Generally speaking, the time it takes for a dragon to take a nap is equivalent to a human's lifetime.

No wonder city dwellers weren't surprised that Dan Lei had disappeared for three years.

After all, their king has always been on 007, so what's a little nap?

Seeing that Avalon City had not gone out of control due to his slumber and that Morgan had strictly enforced the rules he had set, Danley stopped wandering around the city and went straight to the council hall.

Morgan is full in every sense of the word now, and she needs to sleep for a while to absorb magic.

So during her two days off, Danlei had to take over her work.

To be honest, the daily work in Avalon City is not complicated. In this era of rampant martial spirit and relatively "simple" people, force can solve 99% of the problems.

Of course, the only violent agencies allowed to use force in the city were the city defense team and the inspection team.

Under the absolute military pressure from Dan Lei and Morgan, ordinary citizens have learned to communicate verbally rather than resort to violence when conflicts arise with those in the same camp.

Moreover, the introduction of the Fate Protection Path has completely turned the tables on humans and ordinary orcs who were originally at the bottom of the racial hierarchy.

Humans, in particular, will naturally try their best to obtain a power that they can "easily" acquire.

Not to mention the humans inside the city, even the humans outside the city who were just scraping by have started to protect the Fate Walkers.

It can only be said that humanity in this world has been oppressed for too long, and there is already a tendency to rebound from rock bottom.

After reading the report, Dan Lei realized that the area around Avalon City was now the most densely populated region of travelers on this continent.

Of course, according to reports from scouts, Destiny Walkers have also recently begun to appear among various ethnic groups in other parts of the mainland.

The local races refer to this power, which clearly does not belong to the Elven Corridor system, as Outland Power.

It's worth mentioning here that during the world broadcast of "Aha," no race actually felt that there was an invasion from outside the world.

This world is highly similar to the Star Iron Universe, and even gods can broadcast to the entire world. The original God of War did this before he died.

Therefore, the various races in the No Game No Life world simply consider it the birth of a new god-like species based on the concept of laughter.

The phrase "the gods who sit at the pinnacle of the universe" naturally refers to other divine beings.

As for the divine race itself, they did sense that the world had been infused with new power.

However, the Star Gods were far superior to them, and they were unfamiliar with the power of destiny, so they naturally could not connect the surging power with the Star Gods behind it.

Furthermore, they regarded Aha's world broadcast as the birth of their race.

Danlei learned this information from Alram, the god who created the fairy race.

The concept that Al-Ram represents is love.

She appeared once after Danlei and Morgan conquered the fairy race.

However, this woman was also a fool; she was completely unaware of Morgan's special nature and only knew how to talk about love all the time.

Considering that the fairy race had just been subdued, killing the god of love would not bring him any benefit.

So Danlei used the love stories he knew to extract a lot of information from her.

Unfortunately, this goddess of love is one who doesn't fight or compete, and she knows very little. So Dan Lei only managed to extract some basic information that all the gods already knew.

Normally, the power of destiny has been in this world for five years.

As the war of the gods continues, it is normal for other races to begin to produce destiny travelers under such high pressure.

Especially given the high degree of convergence between the rules governing this planet and the Star Iron Universe.

Like the Skywing species, their hunting nature easily activates their hunting destiny.

It's not impossible for forest elves and goblins, who love research, to naturally awaken their intelligence and destiny.

There are also doctors of various races created by the large number of wounded soldiers in the war, some of whom realize that a bountiful destiny is a normal phenomenon.

However, Danlei discovered a problem from the intelligence gathered by his spies.

The spies sent to various races all reported back the same intelligence.

That is, in the past year, various races have successively seen preachers who specialize in spreading the power of other realms.

Based on the available information, these preachers do not appear to be the same person, because spies from three different locations across the country discovered the preachers of the vampire, demon, and moon-singing races almost at the same time.

But when Danlei saw this information, he immediately realized that [Aha] was an extra actor added to make the drama more interesting.

When it comes to the ability to change things up, the first thing that comes to Dan Lei's mind is the Masked Fool Fireworks.

However, Danlei wasn't sure if Hanabi had the ability to create clones.

Because Danlei vaguely remembers that in Hanabi's personal story, one of her many masks was playing the role of a descendant of the doll clan.

All it takes is a mask, and this so-called doll becomes indistinguishable from a human; change the mask and it becomes a completely different person.

Dan Lei didn't know if the so-called descendants of the Puppet Race really existed. After all, there were too many messy races in the Star Iron Universe, and even with the Dragon Race, Dan Lei didn't know everything.

For example, there is a record in the Ten Kings Division of the Immortal Boat Alliance that is not recorded in the game.

The Immortal Ship Alliance once discovered a planet inhabited by people who were immortal and could not be killed no matter what, suspected to be suffering from a plague of longevity.

However, it was later discovered that once the people on the planet were taken off the planet, they would no longer be immortal.

Finally, after examining the planet's historical records, it was discovered that the history of this planet's civilization far predates the era in which the Abundant [Pharmacist] was born, and the culprit was merely a single calamity scale.

However, the Disaster Scale Immortal Ship Alliance never found it in the end.
This matter could be exploited by those with ulterior motives to exonerate Shouwen Huozu from punishment.

Ultimately, the record of this event was destroyed in public, and only the Ten Kings' Office had a record stored.

This story was secretly told to Dan Lei by Danbi before he set off on his training journey, because she suspected that the calamity scales encountered on this planet might be scales from a high-ranking immortal dragon. She wanted Dan Lei to keep an eye out for planets with similar stories during his training.

(This doesn't specifically refer to the planet mentioned in the new main storyline of Honkai Impact 3rd; it simply means that when a certain Summoning Star Dragon travels through the universe, it can lose one scale or two.)
Because the Vidyadharas could live indefinitely before losing their [immortality] power, the molting and rebirth were originally just a life-saving measure to prevent accidental death.

Therefore, it's not surprising that Dan Lei, a puppeteer, is one of the identities in Hua Huo Qian Mian. Combined with her ability to simulate people with puppets and masks in her personal story, as long as she can multitask and operate on multiple fronts, she can create the illusion of many people acting together.

As for whether Hanabi can multitask, you only need to answer one question: In Hanabi's character PV - "Monologue", how many Hanabi appeared?
In short, the more Danlei thought about it, the more he felt that [Aha] would let Hanabi come and play with him.

Since it was Hanabi who went to Earth to recruit Vita, it proves that this may not be the first time she has been assigned a business trip by [Aha].

As for the time it takes to travel back and forth, all I can say is that with the Star God's help, there's no need to worry about that, because the Star God never talks about science.

For [Aha], messing up time is nothing, just for fun.

You should know that Danlei was prepared for the people [Aha] had found to arrive the very next day.

Five years later, this person finally appeared, which was beyond Dan Lei's expectations.

You asked why Danlei felt this person had just arrived, rather than having been there for a while and having been lying in wait?

Of course, the person who came was the Masked Fool.

They spare no expense in their pursuit of fun, often turning everything upside down wherever they go.

Laugh at the arrogance of heroes, laugh at the power-hungry kings, laugh at the entangled love affairs, laugh at the cunning schemes of the wise...

All of this is to stir up the stagnant waters of life, to make them turbulent and change, and the fools interpret from these changes a mocking pleasure.

If someone can tease them, that would be an even greater pleasure.

Therefore, the Masked Fool might go undercover for a period of time to gather intelligence in order to create drama for the story.

But this period of time will definitely not be long.

Even if they want to have fun manipulating the situation from behind the scenes, they will definitely show themselves once or twice first.

In particular, the task given by [Aha] is to compete against Danlei.

Therefore, anyone who comes, especially if they are the Masked Fool, will try to tell Danlei that they have arrived and the game has begun.

Otherwise, even if they win the game later, these guys will feel that half the fun is gone.

Moreover, if it were fireworks, given his penchant for seeing others panic, he would do everything in his power to make Danlei nervous.

She deliberately let these spies know of her existence.

Therefore, Dan Lei directly gave the order.

"Gentlemen, these days keep an eye out for any children in the city who have a lot of toys. If so, confiscate them all and throw them a hundred miles away."

Remember, don't try to save time by throwing away a lot of them at once; throw them away one by one as you find them.

And don't damage the dolls in town.

No official objected to Danlei's order.

In this era, to have cultivation methods but not practice them, to have knowledge but not learn it, and to run off to play with dolls is simply a waste of time and energy.

It should be noted that when Danlei initially forced underage children to have two hours of playtime every day, it was met with strong opposition from his subordinates.

These people suffer greatly from a lack of power, forced to live in constant fear.

Now that we have the power to cultivate, we can push ourselves to the limit, and meditation instead of sleeping is just basic practice.

As for the next generation, the attitude is straightforward: "What's the point of playing around? Will playing help you escape the hunting of demons or find food in the wild? You all need to train your bodies and muscles properly so that you will have the opportunity to join the City Builders and receive the King's blessing in the future."

As for the requirement to find one and then discard it, and not to damage it in the city, although people didn't understand it, they wouldn't object.

Because this approach is only slightly more troublesome, who would go against Danlei for such a small inconvenience?

Seeing that no one objected to his first order, Dan Lei asked again.
"What's been happening with the human tribes I had you monitor before?"

The human tribe that Danlei is asking about is the tribe of Rick, the protagonist of the movie.

To facilitate Rick's growth, Danlei deliberately ordered the demon race and other opposing races who refused to submit to Avalon to be driven onto the only route their tribes could take to Avalon.

Therefore, without guidance or support, Rick's tribe was in an even worse situation than in the original story.

Because other races now know that humans can also cultivate extraterrestrial power.

In their eyes, it's like 21st-century Earthlings discovering that wild gorillas have actually learned to speak and manufacture firearms.

This is a crisis that directly threatens the survival and status of their own race.

In other words, the game world is filled with various races, each of which faces threats from other races, and one more human would not make a difference.

Otherwise, humanity would be facing an attack from the top races right now.

However, for those races that prey on humans, preventing more humans from gaining power is essential.

Therefore, Rick's tribe must be more careful than in the original story in order to survive under the noses of these predators.

Moreover, because other humans either went to Avalon or were killed by enemies who feared the growth of humans, the number of other human tribes that Rick's tribe could absorb also decreased, and life became worse day by day.

In other words, Danlei had his subordinates keep an eye on Rick's tribe, and whenever they were about to collapse, someone would clear out the predators around them under the guise of a campaign.

However, these cleansers were all forced by Danlei to avoid contact with this tribe. Due to this deliberate avoidance, Rick's human tribe has not had any contact with Avalon to this day.

From the perspective of the Avalon city's leadership, Rick's tribe was merely a toy of their king, who observed their path to survival from a godlike perspective.

Because Danlei was seen as a dragon spirit by outsiders, the human officials of Avalon did not object to Danlei's interest.

In this messed-up world, humans are considered to be doing relatively well if they are kept as pets or enslaved by higher races.

Because at least this way you don't have to worry about dying for no reason.

Just like in modern society on Earth, the two populations of cats and dogs have been able to grow so large because of their basic status as human pets.

For life, the ultimate goal is simply to survive.

When faced with a life-or-death choice between freedom and life, the number of people who choose to give up freedom far exceeds the number who choose to give up life.

So, someone quickly answered.
"Everything is normal in that tribe, except that they recently got a new leader who is twelve years old."

Upon hearing this, Danlei realized that, due to his butterfly effect, Rick had ascended to the position of tribal chief a year ahead of schedule.

Therefore, Danlei gave the order.
"Find two relatively thin people who have no magical talent, are agile, and have offspring to join that human tribe, and ensure that the new leader can live to the age of 20."

Tell them that I will bless them if they complete the task.

If they die, their descendants will immediately receive my blessing and the best education.

(End of this chapter)