"Don't worry about your companions, they've just gone somewhere else."

The Divine Envoy seemed to see through his confusion and spoke proactively.

"Somewhere... else?"

"That's right, this is also one of my abilities: creating illusions and inducing false perceptions, allowing consciousness to walk towards its own destruction without realizing it." Yipuxi Long explained, "Of course, I didn't really do that, just made them take a wrong turn or two. From their perspective right now, they're probably fighting alongside you against the powerful Fallen Demons who came to intercept."

"Are you trying to tell me that they are all safe?"

She actually nodded directly, "Not only that, I have arranged a perfect ending for your companions. The Fallen Demons and Divine Envoys will eventually be defeated, and the anomalies and erosion will disappear. They will be exhausted from the battle, but at least they can lean against the corner and enjoy the joy of victory with laughter."

Waving fists and feet in an empty room until all energy is exhausted, then lying down with a smile—when this scene appeared in Roland's mind, he felt chills down his spine.

He wasn't sure about the others, but he knew Fei Yuhan and Vakiris extremely well. They not only had extraordinary willpower, but also were very sensitive. He didn't expect that in the face of Yipuxi Long's ability, they wouldn't even have a bit of resistance.

No... not to mention those two, even he didn't notice—this was really strange. According to past experience, the Divine Envoy's ability should be ineffective against him.

Thinking of this, Roland's vigilance immediately increased to the extreme.

"Then what?"

"There will be no then. The whole world will end, whether it's the world of consciousness or outside the world of consciousness, everything will start again. But compared to reality, they will at least disappear in joy, without feeling any pain, which is my benevolence—"

Before the other party finished speaking, Roland moved.

He leaped up, crossed the gap of nearly twenty meters between the passage and the platform, flew towards the Divine Envoy, and then punched out! Taking advantage of the enemy's rambling speech to launch a sudden attack, this trick had been verified by him many times!

The surging power in his body responded to his will. With a loud bang, a shockwave swept across the platform, and the railings, operating instruments, and robotic arms erected on it cracked in response—they tumbled down to the bottom of the storage room, making continuous muffled sounds.

Even Roland was amazed by the power of this blow.

He only knew that absorbing those magic cores would enhance himself, but he didn't expect that unconsciously, his body had reached this level.

However, the expected touch did not come from the front of his fist.

Yipuxi Long seemed to disappear like a bubble, and reappeared behind him.

"How does it feel to become stronger? The gift I sent you should be quite useful, right?"

Roland was stunned for a moment, and then quickly realized the true meaning of her words.

"Wait, that astrolabe—did you send it?"

He had entrusted the association to investigate the source of the sender, but ultimately nothing was gained. Whether it was the identity system or surveillance, it showed that the sender only existed at that moment. Whether checking forward or backward, the other party seemed to have disappeared. Now, thinking of Yipuxi Long's abilities, everything made sense.

"It's called Gamma, also a Divine Envoy."

Yipuxi Long said calmly, as if discussing not her own partner, but an irrelevant "thing."

Roland was shocked for the first time. After confirming again and again that he hadn't misheard, he asked in disbelief, "...Why?"

"Because I want to know the answer, an answer that only gods know." Her voice was slightly absent-minded, "Now you understand? I have no hostility towards you. To go to the God Realm, you must use the dream world to achieve it. On this goal, we are at least consistent."

The turn was too abrupt, and Roland didn't know what to say for a while.

"You don't believe it? The world won't deceive you." Yipuxi Long spread her hands and said, "I didn't summon a rift like Delta to isolate you from the world, but you still failed to see through my illusion, which is proof. Precisely because I am not hostile, the dream world does not reject my ability."

"...You are actually, Lan's people?"

This was the only possibility Roland could think of. After all, Lan said that there was more than one Divine Envoy who had betrayed.

"I don't know how she explained it to you, so I can't answer this question accurately." Yipuxi Long held out two fingers, "If you ask if I am on the same side as her, then the conclusion is 'no'. Before coming here, I had no memory of Lan. Even in Prism City, I killed her with my own hands."

Roland couldn't help but raise an eyebrow.

"Or if you ask whether I have a common goal with her," she put down a finger, "the conclusion is also 'no'. I do this only because of my own ideas, which has nothing to do with her—you can understand it as that I am helping you."

"Helping me is destroying this world?" Roland sneered.

"You are wrong. It is not me who destroys the world, but the gods." Yipuxi Long shook her head, "To avoid misunderstanding, I will say it directly. You should have noticed the changes outside—the barrier covering the sky can temporarily prevent the expansion of the dream world, so as not to touch the God Realm too early. Otherwise, even if the Divine Envoy is still there, the gods will not hesitate to destroy everything accumulated so far. In fact, you have absorbed too many magic cores recently, and are only one step away from the edge. If I guessed correctly, it should have been Lan who was monitoring the expansion of your dream, but she died in my hands, so no one told you what counts as 'simultaneously' arriving at the source of magic."

She even knew this!

"But this barrier also prevents me from contacting the outside world. You can't possibly control the real world, can you?"

"No. But at least I know that you have opened the road to the Bottomless Abyss, and the next thing is just a matter of time." Yipuxi Long said slowly, "You should be able to guess the channel through which I get information—that's right, the content of your conversations with the Martial Artist Association and Graycastle Design Bureau will be submitted to the headquarters, which is my hands, in the form of reports."

And those contents included the Sunbeam Project, and the feedback on the use of various weapons... Roland suddenly realized that the other party used these fragments to piece together a picture of the entire outside world.

"Have you never considered that my coma might cause accidents?"

"This is also one of the unknown factors, but I have no better way—only when you enter the world of consciousness, this world will be activated, so it will inevitably trap you in it." Yipuxi Long patiently replied, "Fortunately, you and I don't have to wait here all the time. The area after the connection is isolated can adjust the flow of time by itself. If you want, a blink of an eye can be a day."

Roland immediately opened his eyes wide and dared not close them for a moment, fearing that when he woke up again, hundreds of years had passed outside.

"Don't worry, the things you are worried about will not happen," she raised the corners of her mouth, showing a smile for the first time, "The barrier needs to be maintained by magic. Even if all the cores stored here are exhausted, converted into outside time, it will only be a month and a half... And that is the final deadline."