Lucky billion players, you've never seen one before / I can accumulate my own luck

After discovering that no one else had been infected and collapsed, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Breaking the limits of top-tier A-grade psionic energy is still very useful.

However... they couldn't maintain this extreme state for long.

"Savage was attacked? How could that be... From where did the attack come from? From the Conceptual Domain?"

Quentin Pompeii, known for his fiery temper, exclaimed in surprise.

“It should be Fan Xiao.” The long-haired speaker said at this moment, “This place and the previous palace are separated by two realms. Fan Xiao was able to attack across the realms of life and death... He most likely used S-level psionic energy.”

"He's just an S-rank psionic potential user, right? He's already this powerful with S-rank psionic abilities that haven't even fully awakened? Attacking across worlds—only S-rank items can do that," Javier Hillen exclaimed in surprise.

“Savage’s memories have just been shared with us,” the Speaker said. “According to his memories, Vanshaw had contact with ‘God’ a long time ago, and even had a conversation with him. It’s likely that ‘God’ helped him raise his S-rank psionic awakening level in some way that we can’t understand.”

“What an amazing ability… Fortunately, Fan Xiao’s evolution rate hasn’t broken through to the S-class range yet, otherwise… even Longinus probably wouldn’t be able to withstand his attack,” Sassoon said.

Their immediate implementation of the "Longinus" defensive strategy appears to have been the right move.

It's hard to say whether he can defend against Fan Xiao when they're face to face.

But at this moment, Fan Xiao is in a different world from them, so his attack will definitely lose a lot of power when it spreads over.

If we can't even prevent this... then we can only accept our fate.

“There’s no point in discussing this now,” Valentine sighed. “Our time to break through limits is limited and won’t last long enough for us to clear the level and leave. Once we break through limits, ordinary defenses might not be able to withstand Van Shaw’s attacks, so… it’s time to make a decision.”

Upon hearing this, everyone looked at the speaker.

Of all those present, only the Speaker, the dungeon boss, was deeply bound to this A-rank dungeon, enjoying immortality—to kill him, one had to meet the corresponding dungeon conditions; otherwise… unless the dungeon was destroyed, the Speaker would remain immortal.

Only the Speaker can survive the current situation with Van Shaw and pass on the results of this effort after the instance closes.

Therefore... at this moment, under Fan Xiao's threat, there is only one best solution—that is to give all their power to the Speaker, amplify his strength, and further increase the success rate of the plan.

As identical entities, their powers can be combined without any repulsion.

At this point, the speaker said, "Let's test the effectiveness of ordinary defenses first. If they are effective, the success rate will be much higher if the five of us split up."

"Then... I'll give it a try."

Javier Cillen offered the suggestion.

As soon as he finished speaking, he withdrew his ultimate defense and switched to using the defensive spiritual energy inherent in his spiritual clone for defense.

The next instant, his body twisted in the same way as Savage, who had just died.

About ten seconds later, Javier Hillen shook his head, enduring the pain, and said, "No, I can't hold on much longer. This is... a massive stack of instant-death attacks!"

“Then let’s merge.” The speaker no longer hesitated.

The next second, the other four people all raised their hands and touched him.

The spiritual entities of Javier and the other three spread out from their bodies and, through touch, merged into the Speaker's body, becoming one with him—not simply attaching themselves to him, but rather their spirits, consciousness, and thoughts were all integrated.

Thump, thump, thump... Four corpses fell to the ground.

Soon, the corpse was attacked and dissolved in place.

The speaker, feeling his spiritual energy dwindling, sighed softly and dissipated his spiritual energy limit.

The next second, Fan Xiao's attack landed on him.

Twenty seconds passed...

A minute passed...

Two minutes passed... The speaker remained in a state of near-death.

Under the protection of the entire instance, he ensured his continued survival.

At one point, the Speaker felt the instant-death attack on him stop.

He waited a little longer, and only after finding that no new attacks were coming did he relax his tense nerves.

"What terrifying power..."

The speaker was still shaken.

……

The interior of the palace has a slightly ancient feel.

Fan Xiao stopped the execution of the "Judgment of Inevitable Annihilation" and frowned slightly.

Although the distance was very far, he could vaguely sense that he had killed six people, including Savage, except for one person who he just couldn't kill no matter what he did.

The impending death of the deceased will completely disappear—through this phenomenon, he was fairly certain of the list of Twilight Council members who had entered this instance.

They are Duke Kane, Savage, Javier Hillen, Sassoon, Valentine, Quentin Pompeii... Apart from the Speaker who must preside over the instance, these are all the players who have entered.

They are all dead.

The one who survived was the speaker.

but……

Vanshaw was unsure whether the people besides Savage died at his hands or from other causes.

He always felt that the feedback after hitting the target wasn't quite right... *thud*—he tossed a coin to confirm it.

The answer is that the members of parliament other than Savage did not die at his hands.

"With the dungeon boss as their backer, they couldn't possibly die suddenly, which means... they most likely committed suicide. And suicide always has a purpose. A common story trope is probably bestowing power upon the same person, causing them to unleash their full potential. Coincidentally, these council members are all identical entities, which fits this trope perfectly..."

Fan Xiao checked again with a coin—his guess was correct.

Dr. Zhuang has a really straightforward personality.

Even in the face of death, they did not hesitate at all... Fan Xiao couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration.

Unfortunately, this matter involves S-rank psionic energy, and he must intervene to prevent the other party from succeeding... regardless of their purpose.

"The Speaker of the Parliament is most likely tied to this instance. To kill him, you would probably have to meet some instance condition, such as... obtaining a certain item or gaining some kind of recognition."

"If he were in front of me, I could take him down with the little angel, but right now... I guess I need to understand and clear this dungeon first."

Fan Xiao thought to himself.

In fact, directly destroying this instance would also indirectly kill the Speaker.

However... there are two reasons why he cannot do that.

Firstly, there's the objective reason—it's too difficult to clear A-level dungeons.

It's not that he can't do it, but it would waste a lot of time repeatedly executing the "inevitable annihilation judgment".

In the previous rounds of attacks, he frequently used this powerful move, which had exhausted the mental energy he had accumulated in the "Creation Realm" over the past few days.

If he continues to fight in a bold and unrestrained manner, he will have to mobilize the real-time mental energy of the "Palu"s—to destroy the dungeon, the number of times that need to be mobilized is not small, not just dozens or hundreds of times.

Considering that the "Palu" also need time to rest and recuperate, the battle lines will definitely be stretched out for a very long time... so this plan can be directly rejected.

As for the "Angel of Slaughter's" ultimate move... having the little angel slash out of the "void" to tear apart and engulf the instance is an operation that hurts the enemy a thousand while hurting yourself eight hundred, and could easily take him down in one fell swoop.

There's precedent for this—in the B-rank dungeon "City of True Love," during Sakura's future simulation, Fan unleashed a massacre amplification of his spirit, then activated his ultimate technique to destroy the entire dungeon, ultimately causing a massive collapse that ended up trapping him as well.

Before the Guardian Angel was available, this kind of operation was not allowed!

The second reason is subjective.

In other words, he wanted to eliminate all of Dr. Zhuang's counterparts in the activated instance, so that he could use the sealing ability of the evolution game to block all of Dr. Zhuang's means of connecting with the outside world.

To prevent the other side from making any underhanded moves that would catch him off guard.

After making the decision, Fan Xiao abandoned the idea of ​​continuing to use "Inevitable Annihilation Judgment" and directly brought up the player panel, focusing his attention on it.

Previously, he had been focusing all his energy on communicating with Dr. Zhuang and verifying the truthfulness of all the other party's words, but he hadn't looked at the dungeon information.

Now that he saw it... he was stunned.

The "Netherworld" instance is now open.

[Background Information: My name is Fan Xiao. By the time you see this, I will already be dead.]

Having committed the heinous crime of massacre, I finally received my due retribution, suffering an attack from righteous people, and died alone in the snowy night.

[Only after I died did I realize that death is not the end, but the beginning...]

【hint:】

1. This place has a complete society.

2. This is a world where good triumphs over evil.

3. Use magic to defeat magic.

[Instance Quest:]

1. Survive

2. Wash away your sins

3. Resolve historical issues related to the cycle loop.

"..."

"I actually died..." Fan Xiao was slightly stunned for a moment, but then he immediately realized what was happening.

This should be a hint about identity information.

The copy is telling him that he is now in the identity of a dead person, and the implied meaning is probably... he needs to act in accordance with the identity of a dead person, otherwise he is very likely to step on a landmine.

"So... this instance is a supernatural instance?"

Fan Xiao made a basic judgment.

The dungeon name "Netherworld" also fits the supernatural element.

After all, just hearing it evokes images of the world of the dead.

For example, the underworld, hell, and the like.

In particular, the term "cycle of reincarnation" appeared in the third instance mission.

It's basically a done deal.

What Fan Xiao was more concerned about was the third point in the dungeon prompts—to use magic to defeat magic.

Does this hint at a method to kill the dungeon boss?

Thinking of this, Fan Xiao tossed a coin... Hmm, there really is a connection!

As for more specific details... let's investigate the dungeon first.

Fan Xiao looked out of the main hall.

He activated his "Eye of Truth," instantly seeing into the distance and scanning his surroundings.

Instantly, he saw the entire dungeon—although the "Eye of Truth" was quite ordinary in his eyes, it was still an A-level psionic power, and its effect was quite extraordinary in his exclusive domain.

"In planetary-type worlds, the movement of celestial bodies outside the planets is simulated and disguised using copy rules..."

Fan Xiao seemed to be deep in thought.

This aligns with the information provided by Dr. Zhuang—that this copy was formed based on the original 010 partition after its destruction.

Outside the palace lies a complete human world.

The architectural style and people's clothing style are quite similar to ancient styles, giving Fan Xiao a feeling of traveling back to ancient times.

The strange thing is... there are very few people.

After watching it repeatedly for more than ten minutes and making a rough estimate, Fan Xiao discovered that the total number of people in the entire instance world was estimated to be less than ten million.

Yes, the entire planet couldn't even muster ten million people.

Moreover... these people are all alive, not dead.

He had already confirmed this by flipping a coin.

Since the instance is called "Netherworld," its main setting is very likely related to the world of the dead.

In other words, the space he is currently in is most likely not the actual dungeon crawling area.

"There is no danger in this palace. Duke Kane and Savage both chose to hold their talks here... This place might be the private territory of a dungeon boss, the place where the Speaker usually convenes council members, similar to a... safe house in a dungeon."

"I didn't enter through the normal player entry method. Instead, I was directly pulled into this palace. If I want to participate in the dungeon storyline... I guess I need to find the right place first, which is the 'Netherworld,' the world of the dead."