It was much later that Julien and the others understood what had happened to them.

If in the current mongoose team, there is a spellcasting class.

If in the current mongoose team, there is a graduate student in cutting-edge physics.

If in the current meerkats team, there is a fire that follows them.

Maybe everything will be different in the future.

However, history has no ifs.

Julien, as a retired officer, as a former mercenary chief, could not understand what he saw.

The same is true of his soldiers.

This is the closest human beings on Earth have come to the truth of the matter before it all happened. However, no one understands this.

This was the last time the Nail could be observed by humans, and since then, neither world has ever been seen again.

The members of the mongoose team, who are witnesses of history, are just looking at the scene in front of them in a dazzled manner at the moment.

The castle was supposed to be dim, lit only by a faint glow of fire from nowhere, but the room in front of me was not.

A pale light appeared in the air.

It wasn't that there was no lighting fixture, and there was no beam of light, but an ominous pale glow seeping directly out of the air, as if blood was flowing from a wound.

And this hall, which should have been pitch black, was turned white by this light.

Unidentified objects like cracks snaked in the air, like spider webs, and Julien thought at first that a huge spider monster had appeared, but if he looked closely, he could see that this was not the case.

"This ...... Finally...... What is it? Julien gasped and couldn't help but say.

The hall is about five meters high and fifty meters long and wide. And these cracks, emitting white light, completely filled the hall, as if not satisfied, and even squeezed into the surrounding walls.

It's also not a good idea to squeeze it, because the crack looks like it's there, but it's like the wall is trying to build on it.

No one understood what these were, but the sight of danger and beauty captured everyone's hearts.

In the center of the crack, an egg-shaped basketball-sized object floats motionlessly in the air, and on the mirror-like surface, you can see an image floating, but it is difficult to see what it is from this distance.

"These lights...... Was it all produced by that egg? Zorro swallowed and said dryly.

There was no one to answer his question, and the players present were just soldiers before, and the phenomenon in front of them was beyond their comprehension.

"Who...... Go see what the hell that egg is? Julien didn't know what to do with the situation.

The members of the Mongoose team looked at each other, and finally one of the players raised their hands.

"Commander, I'll go!"

Julien nodded, "Peggy, be careful, maybe it's a magic prop." ”

In terms of their knowledge, it is understandable to judge that it is a magic prop, after all, this world is a magical world. However, if there was a genuine magician here, he would also scratch his head, because this is not a phenomenon that magic can understand at all.

Not all unknown phenomena can be classified as magical.

Peggy, who had plucked up her courage, slowly staggered her steps, carefully bypassing the bands of light, and headed towards the center. Behind him, more than a dozen of his companions watched his movements with wide eyes.

Peggy took a long time to get to the center, and the egg-shaped object was hovering in front of him.

A distance that can be reached as soon as you reach out.

However, Peggy did not immediately reach out her hand, but frowned strangely, first looking left and right, and then from below, constantly changing angles. The more he looked, the stranger his expression became, and his companions in the distance could only see his strange reactions, but they didn't know what he was seeing.

"Peggy! Let's see if we can get that egg down! One of the team members suddenly shouted.

Peggy turned around and showed a tangled expression: "What's the ...... What an egg......"

After saying that, he looked in that direction again and continued to change the angle.

"Let Peggy handle it herself, after all, we don't know what he'll see." Julien spoke up.

After a while, Peggy seemed to finally find his way, he sat on the ground, and then stretched out his hands, as if trying to hold the object in front of him.

Seeing Peggy start to move, the members of the Mongoose team cheered up and watched what he would do.

However, just as Peggy seemed to be about to catch the egg-shaped object—

"Quack~~Click~~" A very strange sound suddenly sounded, as if something had broken, and those cracks began to change dramatically.

The cracks that glowed with white light shrank back to the center as if they had life!

Perhaps it's not true, but these bands of light aren't shrinking, they're falling—toward the orb in the center!

The bands of light scattered throughout the hall disappeared into the egg-shaped sphere, and Peggy, who was caught off guard, was slashed by the bands of light underneath the sphere!

Without making a sound or shaking, Peggy's body inexplicably cavities appeared one after another after the light band was swept over, and his skin, his muscles, and his bones were taken away without the slightest blockage!

In just a second, all the bands of light shrank back into the sphere, and then the egg-shaped sphere became transparent from the mirror, and then disappeared into mid-air without warning!

The whole process was quiet, there was no superfluous sound in the hall, and all that was left was Peggy, who was screaming for the dismemberment.

"Peggy!"

"Save him!"

"Healing potion!"

The scrambling crowd rushed forward to give first aid to Peggy, who was almost divided into three pieces, and no one paid attention to where the vanished orb had gone.

Such an injury would definitely be hopeless on Earth, but in this world, as long as you leave a breath, the player can also be saved. Therefore, as long as they are not completely dead, players are unwilling to give up their companions, after all, death other than PK has to pay a price.

After rescuing for a while, Peggy's body grew back again, and the price was almost 3,000 gold of various potions.

As soon as she came to her senses, Peggy took Julien, quietly stuffed him with a piece of paper, and squeezed his hand tightly.

"I saw this thing fall out of the egg at the last moment!" Peggy whispered in his ear.

Julien looked at Peggy's face full of confusion, shock, and didn't know what emotion she wanted to express, nodded silently, and then left the crowd into a quiet corner and opened the piece of paper.

His eyes widened at the first sight.

It was a very ordinary thing, a photograph of two beautiful women on the Champs-Élysées. In France, it's a very common thing -

If it weren't for the fact that the place where it appeared was in the game!

Julien instantly understood Peggy's feelings.

This photo says a lot and can be said to say that nothing is illustrated.

After answering one question, it brings up more questions.

In any case, Julien understands that the world is no longer the same.

Julien's hand shook as if the little piece of paper was too hot to grasp, and he struck a match with a trembling hand, lit it with a shudder, and threw it down the dark staircase.

He was just a small retired officer, and what he saw was still too heavy for him now.

He would rather fool himself into destroying the photograph that would scare everyone than think deeply about what it represents.

Even if he had known that this world was infinitely close to a real world, he could not afford such a problem.

And that's—

Since real-world items will appear in this world, can people too? On the other hand, can the monsters of this world also invade the real world?

Julien couldn't imagine the shock caused by the revelation of this photo, whether the world would be closed because of people's fear. His career, his life, his future, and his family's future are all inseparable from his struggle in this world.

So, he decided not to let anyone know about it.

Nothing as if it had never happened.

Little did Julien know at the time that the world would soon change.