Four Split Personalities

Fifteen minutes later...

In the inner city area of the City of Light, at the square in front of the great cathedral

"I still don’t understand, what exactly is a Guard Knight..."

Seated on a bench, Mo Tan vigorously scratched his hair, staring at the fountain in front of him that radiated a multicolored mist, and spoke with particular frustration, "What’s all this about, what exactly does Xia Lian want to do?"

Yi Chen, who was next to him, shrugged his shoulders and reached out his little hand to catch a few droplets of water that had splashed over, "I don’t quite understand this myself, you can ask Sister Xia Lian later, but Yizou is a good girl, you know."

"That has nothing to do with whether she’s a good girl or not..."

"Indeed."

Yi Chen smiled, then flicked a water droplet from Mo Tan’s forehead, "Troubles on your mind?"

The latter sighed deeply and shook his head slightly, "Not really."

"That means you do."

Yi Chen continued tirelessly to repeat the gesture of catching water with his little hand and flicking it onto Mo Tan’s face, "Want to talk about it?"

Mo Tan nodded gently, and then rubbed his forehead with some hesitation, "Firstly, it’s about the player’s matter... Xia Lian already knows most of it."

"I know."

Yi Chen wiped his hands on the hem of his skirt, wrapped up in Mo Tan’s long robe (which can be draped, is not considered equipment, does not add attributes) and nodded forcefully, "Didn’t Sister Xia Lian realize it back in Misha County? We even promised to give her a satisfactory answer later."

Mo Tan looked around to make sure there was no one and then took out a common quality Priest’s Robe from his baggage and put it on, shrugging, "You can tell her everything about us players when you get back; there’s no need to hide anything now."

"Really? Can I?"

Yi Chen tilted his head at him with some concern, hesitating, "There won’t be that possibility where an NPC knows too much and gets harmonized by the system, right?"

"No."

Mo Tan responded with unusual certainty; after all, a certain Prince who had almost completely studied the players was still living comfortably, so the likelihood of Xia Lian running into any trouble after knowing the truth was slim to none.

And this was precisely one of the things that made Mo Tan uneasy.

You see, in most games, NPCs can’t understand those ’player actions’ at all; even the smartest AI is usually limited by ’initial rules’ and will choose to ignore or talk to itself. However, The Realm of Innocence is not like that...

Although there are indeed rules like ’fainting when disconnecting while being watched by an NPC’ or ’logging in at dead angles out of NPCs’ views’ that seem to protect player identities, the existence of such rules is a problem in itself...

If NPCs couldn’t understand, then why go to such lengths?

A rule that simply ’ignores player logins’ would do the job, wouldn’t it?

Mo Tan was quite baffled about this...

And the analysis by Hugh Bresen before gave him a certain premonition.

Perhaps it wouldn’t be long before the ’player’ secret would be completely exposed to this world, and the Holy Church Union definitely wouldn’t be the last to find out.

By then, Yi Chen, who possessed the identities of a ’player,’ ’Goddess of Dawn’s Favored,’ and ’Goddess of Darkness’s Favored,’... how would he cope?

Just as the conjecture previously confirmed by Xia Lian...

The colossal entity of the Holy Church Union is not monolithic.

It could just be overthinking, unnecessary worries, but the current ’Hei Fan’ couldn’t help but be concerned.

Chapter 507: End