"Someone has died in reality..."

Gazing at the dimming stars, Eve sighed softly.

She knew this day would come.

In fact, it wasn’t until the "Elf Kingdom" had been running for a year and a half on Blue Star, with over two million summoned players, that the death of players in reality occurred. This can be considered quite late.

Although the time flow rate in Segis World is four times that of Blue Star, the average lifespan of elves is 12-15 times that of humans.

In other words, even if the "Elf Kingdom" continues to run, players will die one after another before the NPCs wither away.

And this doesn’t even take into account various unexpected situations.

Life is powerful, yet fragile.

In the Segis World, players who fearlessly face death and charge into battle are, on Blue Star, just ordinary people.

A car accident, a disease, a fire might take their lives.

Not everyone is like Eve, able to traverse to another world and directly become a lofty Divine after death.

For ordinary people, death means the end, death means being forgotten, death means being abandoned by this ever-turning world...

Death... for ordinary people, the more it is contemplated and imagined, the more terrifying and sorrowful it seems.

With a gentle sigh, Eve reached out and drew a line in front of her.

Divine Power circulated, and the images on the trunk of the World Tree appeared before her, showing the pained Nightingale clutching a Boxed Meal, and players like Hu Lu with reddened eyes, holding back tears.

"Boxed Meal..."

Eve murmured.

She knew this player.

The top player on the combat power leaderboard in "Elf Kingdom," the record holder for the longest online time, the strongest instance strategist... his titles were far too many.

And now, with his death, everything had ended.

Eve wasn’t surprised by Boxed Meal’s death.

As the hidden ruler of the "Elf Kingdom," she knew the specifics of each player’s reality. She was also fully aware of Boxed Meal’s identity and physical condition.

However, knowing is one thing. But seeing an outstanding player summoned by her actually die, even Eve, who had witnessed many separations and reunions in Segis World and in the memories of believers, felt a sense of sadness.

Of course, despite the sadness, Eve now knew that an opportunity to validate an idea she had long ago had come...

With this thought, Eve quickly connected to the dim star of Boxed Meal, projecting her Divine Soul Power over...

She seemed to traverse the boundless starlit sky, crossing infinite time.

At this moment, Eve seemed to see her consciousness breaching a mysterious boundary, countless stars leaping behind her, and the whole world stretched into a myriad of magnificent endless lights...

Finally, the light seemed to reach its end, the view changed abruptly, and Eve saw an incredibly familiar planet.

Azure, beautiful, like a pearl in the universe.

That was Blue Star.

It was once her home.

In this moment, for the first time, Eve managed to project her Divine Soul Power onto Blue Star by leveraging the temporary connection of consciousness following Boxed Meal’s death!

"Blue Star... I’m back."

Gazing at the beautiful planet before her, Eve muttered with a complex look in her eyes.

The next moment, she gently leapt, and the projection formed by Divine Soul Power vanished from the spot.

...

Blue Star, Tianchao, Spring City.

Towering skyscrapers stood in rows, automated electric cars whizzed by, drones for maintaining urban greenery flew in the garden-like parks along the roads, trimming the flowers and plants, and soon, the cut branches and dead leaves were cleaned up by the roadside sweeping robots.

Suddenly, a faint radiance gathered at the roadside, and Eve’s figure gradually emerged among the bustling crowds.

However, her appearance didn’t draw the attention of anyone.

It wasn’t that Eve deliberately used Divine Power to conceal her identity, but rather that a certain force seemed to have isolated Eve from Blue Star.

She was here, yet not here.

She was like a phantom projection, unable to affect reality, and could not be sensed or perceived by anyone.

Eve was not overly surprised or disappointed by this.

Ever since "Elf Kingdom" began to gain popularity on Blue Star, Eve had repeatedly tested projecting her power to Blue Star.

And back then, she realized that even if she expended a large amount of Divine Power to project to Blue Star World, she still couldn’t interfere with Blue Star’s actual reality.

If a metaphor was needed, her projection was like a mirror that couldn’t be observed.

As a "living being" in the mirror, Eve could see, observe, and perceive the Blue Star World, but couldn’t influence it.

And the only thing Eve could affect was the illusory Blue Star Network, in the post-information era where human consciousness was highly connected to the network...

She could touch even the "consciousness," which was still not fully understood by Blue Star’s most advanced scientists.

Moreover, it was thanks to this that Eve could call upon players via the network world and reduce the focus of Blue Star’s authorities on the increasingly popular "Elf Kingdom" through the world of network consciousness.

However, previously, she only projected part of her power.