Emptiness, darkness, as if one was placed at the quiet bottom of the sea.
This was the all-too-familiar death.
Su Ming'an opened his eyes.
The steady beating of his heart returned to him, and everything felt tangible again.
The moment Dong An'an cut open his neck, he decisively ordered the Cloning in the Hawk Hound Army to commit suicide, to prevent his save point from freezing after his death.
Somehow, this death hadn't been as painful as before, even giving him a feeling of having had a short nap.
...Was it because he was becoming accustomed to death, or rather, had he become numb to it?
The concept of "Player Death" had always been depicted ambiguously in the world of games, where players could resurrect and participate in the next instance after clearing all their Points and strength.
But the rules never explicitly stated what the concept of "Death" in the instance really was.