No health bar? You call this stunningly beautiful NPC sickly?

Eileen's words were so informative that they left all four of them momentarily speechless.

Your Majesty the Goddess... was actually using your own life to buy them, and all living beings, that tiny bit of breathing space?

Everyone's thoughts were racing, and after Eileen finished speaking, she didn't say anything more.

The four followed behind her, each sorting through the information they had just received. According to the current information, the goddess was not incapable of taking action, but rather unwilling to do so.

That seemingly invincible power, every single second, was eroding her emotions and reason as a "human being," pushing her ever closer to that cold, ruthless "master."

The old royal court, the god-killing faction, the false gods... they were like a group of sharks that had smelled blood, using every means to force this lone guardian to use that deadly power time and time again.

The Battle of Haicheng was a long-planned war of attrition.

Shen Die was speechless for a moment. A chill ran from the soles of her feet straight to the top of her head. It turned out that her every move was actually part of the schemes of those false gods.

Han Yue stood to the side, his lips pressed tightly together, not uttering a word.

His prized survival rules, honed through years of experience in the bizarre world, amounted to nothing in the face of the power struggles of these ancient beings.

These so-called top players are probably not even considered pawns in the eyes of those false gods; at most, they are just dust that can be tossed aside at will.

But Her Majesty the Goddess, in order to protect them, these specks of dust, did not hesitate to burn herself.

This is no longer a matter of perspective; it's a kind of compassion that he simply cannot comprehend.

If a person becomes a god, he will lose his humanity and only have divinity. Therefore, the "Lord" that the goddess worships is undoubtedly a true god.

But if he is a god, why does he have such a unique "favoritism" towards Miss Number One?

Yuexi crossed her arms, her usually lazy and carefree face now as solemn as if covered with a layer of ice.

Her beautiful brows furrowed tightly as all the previous clues flashed through her mind frantically.

A conflict has arisen.

According to this veteran elf, once one ascends to godhood, one will be assimilated by divinity, completely lose humanity, and become a cold being with only rules and order.

So how could that "Lord," as a true deity, have feelings of "favoritism" that belong to selfish desires?

Divinity is selfless and impartial, while favoritism is a typical form of selfishness.

How could these two completely opposite qualities coexist in one god?

unless……

Yuexi's pupils suddenly contracted, and an extremely audacious idea uncontrollably emerged from the depths of her heart.

Unless, the reason that Lord can still retain this "favoritism" towards humanity is because... He has entrusted his humanity to something, or rather, to someone.

That Lord did not retain his humanity; he simply reserved all of his remaining humanity for one person.

And this anchor point...

Yuexi's gaze drifted uncontrollably toward that void.

Who else could it be but that goddess Her Majesty?

Only this explanation can connect all the clues.

But if that's the case, why did this master disappear? If there are true gods and so many false gods in this world, where did this strange game come from?

Wen Gu, who was standing next to him, had obviously thought of this as well.

He has been trying to deconstruct the world with logic, but all his deductions are based on the premise that "the Lord" is an omniscient and omnipotent supreme being.

If the goddess is suppressing her divinity, and the Lord is using her as an anchor of humanity, then the Lord's disappearance may not be an accident.

Perhaps the Lord left on His own initiative.

Because as long as He continues to stay by Ran's side, every act of favoritism He shows will bring Ran closer to the divine position.

However, once one becomes a new god, one will lose what the Lord cherishes most.

Thinking of this, Wen Gu's breathing became rapid.

In order to preserve a person's humanity, a god chose to disappear from her world.

But that person, in order to protect the sacred realm left by God, endured faith day after day, personally pushing himself towards the end of becoming a god.

On the other hand, Han Yue and Shen Die's ideas were much more practical.

They didn't have as much information as Wen Gu and Yue Xi, so they couldn't deduce such a deep inside story.

But the elf lady's words had already opened a door to a new world for them.

Han Yue's mind raced.

Miss Eileen said that the number of people in the Sanctuary is in the "trillions".

What does this mean? The total population of Earth is currently only tens of billions. One "King" is one trillion, which means that the number of believers in just one Holy Land Church is at least ten thousand times the population of Earth.

Considering the medieval setting of the eerie world, which is similar to Western fantasy, with a population density far lower than that of modern society, how vast and boundless must that land be to support such a large population?

The size of this strange world is probably tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of times larger than Earth.

And the eerie game...

A glint of light flashed in Han Yue's eyes.

Is it possible that the eerie game itself is an outsider that has invaded the world where the Sanctuary is located?

Just like now, it has invaded Earth.

The Holy Land and the Old Royal Court, these local forces, have been resisting the encroachment of the Strange Game. Now, their world is on the verge of collapse, so the Strange Game has set its sights on Blue Star, this new "server".

The reason these players were able to be matched together is perhaps simply because they are all on the "Blue Star" server.

Elsewhere, perhaps countless other worlds like Earth are simultaneously experiencing this damned game.

This conjecture sent a chill down Han Yue's spine.

If that's the case, then everything they experienced before—the so-called instances, rules, rewards—was just a program set up by that outsider to accelerate the erosion of this world.

And these players are the pathetic "virus" carriers chosen by this program.

The four people, each with their own thoughts, fell into a long silence.

And the one who started all of this, Mu Zhixi, was secretly overjoyed as she manipulated the alternate accounts.

[Faith Points +1211, Faith Points +988, Faith Points +2045]

Looking at the frantically fluctuating numbers in the system backend, Mu Zhixi silently sighed, "Indeed, playing the victim card is always the most effective."

As long as the protagonist's background is portrayed as tragic enough and the responsibilities she bears are portrayed as heavy enough, the audience will automatically and spontaneously offer her sympathy and admiration.

And these are the purest and highest quality faith points!

Mu Zhixi certainly wouldn't miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. With a thought, she secretly separated a sliver of her consciousness and issued an instruction to the system.

"Open the live stream."