Embers Ad Infinitum

ow much damage one suffered in the game, they would be fine as long as their emotions didn’t exceed a certain limit.

In the current situation, this game also had a Censorship Mechanism installed.
Gore, danger, and violent matters would be filtered out.
It was to ensure that the players maintained a healthy body and mind while remaining emotionally stable.

Jiang Baimian had previously been wondering how First City could protect Oray’s two descendants and prevent them from being killed by an organization.

It had to be known that Awakened had many abilities.
They were also concealed and bizarre.
When assassinating a person without showing any signs, even powerhouses of the same level as the assailant might not discover them.

Just like how the noble nearly choked to death after taking a sip of water.

According to Jiang Baimian’s thoughts, the most effective way to prevent Awakened assassinations was to carve out a safe zone and prevent strangers from approaching.
If they needed to travel, they could clear the area in advance and filter out the people coming and going.

But from her observations of Marcus and Avia, she realized that the two of them often went out—they participated in gatherings or watched gladiator fights.
They never deliberately kept some distance from others.

This filled Jiang Baimian with confusion, but she couldn’t find a suitable explanation.

Now, she roughly understood the reason: the Marcus and Avia people saw were actually in a virtual machine!

This way, whoever wanted to do something nasty would definitely be discovered by the virtual world’s owner after the three layers of emulation and be stopped in time.

This ability is really interesting…
In the virtual world, the aristocrat eventually choked on his water.
This means that the first layer that synchronizes real-life data is an unconscious, instinctive replication.
Therefore, it’s impossible to filter out such dangerous information…
This also explains why I can sense bioelectric signals and why Shang Jianyao can also detect human consciousness.
This is a rigid mechanism that completely replicates every detail…

After that, the choking on water isn’t reflected back to reality.
Therefore, the noble is fine, and so is his cup…
Here, the virtual world’s owner discovered something amiss.
In other words, the data filter is actually at this level…

He provided us synchronized feedback on this matter to see everyone’s reactions? Yes…
The subsequent performance of the noble choking to death was purely virtual.
There’s no longer any real-life basis…
This means that the virtual world’s owner has very strong control over this illusion…

By tracking the dangerous information, he easily locked onto the Awakened who used his abilities and found his location…
This can explain most of what just happened…
Thoughts flashed through Jiang Baimian’s mind as she connected all the details.

Long Yuehong also knew what a virtual machine was.
He roughly understood Shang Jianyao’s meaning after some thought.

This made his eyes involuntarily widen a little.
He increasingly found Awakened terrifying and strange.

Jiang Baimian then glanced at Shang Jianyao and didn’t say anything about her guess or communicate with him.
She knew very well why the latter had used the relatively professional term ‘virtual machine’ to describe the current situation.
This was because their every word and action would enter the virtual world and be monitored and filtered.

It was normal for the virtual world’s owner not to understand the meaning of ‘virtual machine’ if they weren’t educated.

This should be considered an illusion ability.
It’s highly likely to belong to the Shattered Mirror domain…
Previously, Avia also had Awakened in the Shattered Mirror domain…
However, the Clam Dragon Church is mainly popular in areas where Ashlandic gather…
According to the company’s information, First City doesn’t have any traces of Clam Dragon Church activity…

Jiang Baimian knew that only the thoughts in her mind were safe.
Therefore, she cast her gaze at the colosseum and made all kinds of guesses as she watched the competition.
Having one individual appear can be considered a special exception, but two might not be a coincidence.
Could it be that they come from a Red River religion that worships Shattered Mirror? This religion has a very close partnership with First City?

In fact, they had said something that they shouldn’t have said just now.
However, the overall situation was still fine.
It could be explained that the two of them had a certain level of understanding of Awakened and were relatively familiar with General Phocas.
They knew the two city guard majors—Ducas and Cassiel—and had never met Marcus.
They had only heard a little about him and thought that he was leading an oppressed life.

Such conditions would be common from any filtering amongst First City’s high society.
It wasn’t considered special.

With their new discovery, Jiang Baimian felt that their operation today had been fruitful.

Amidst orderly and intense thumping sounds, the tall gladiator—who was wearing leather armor and holding a shield and a spear—walked out.
The black double-headed tiger jumped out and looked at its prey with brutal and bloodthirsty eyes.

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