I, the Geo Archon Morax with 2.1 Billion Mora, Have Joined a Chat Group [284]

"Over a decade...? If I don’t get out in over a decade, Mom will be worried."

Reign kept his expression wide-eyed and innocent, his dewy eyes locked tightly onto the boy in front of him.

“Don’t stare at me like that. I said I was just—” The boy suddenly paused, clicking his tongue. “Alright, fine. You’re only three or four. Not understanding me is normal, I guess. Why am I even arguing with a toddler?”

“Tell you what—we’ll talk as we walk.”

Without waiting for Reign’s opinion, the boy grabbed his tiny hand and started forward.

“First of all, little guy, I don’t know if you can understand any of this, but since you asked, I have to answer honestly. That’s one of our core values at the Unmanned Guest Processing Services Corporation.”

“Even if you’re just a kid—three or five years old—it still applies to you.”

“Listen up. I’ll only say this once. According to the past thousand years of research conducted by the Seven Major Corporations of the Accelerated Domain Star, we’ve discovered that this Hyper Thought Acceleration Field isn’t a physical location in the real world, but a network—some kind of unknown technology built upon human cognition.”

“In this network, while the laws still reflect magical principles, there’s no such thing as skill panels or system windows.”

“The defining trait of this place is the time ratio—a thousand to one. One hour here equals 3.6 seconds in the real world.”

“So even if you spend fifteen years here, that’s only five days back home.”

“As long as your family doesn’t cremate your body in the meantime, worst case scenario, you’ll just wake up absolutely starving. And if they happen to pry your mouth open and feed you some sugar water or broth, you might not even feel anything was wrong at all.”

“That’s why I said—in this network, time is the cheapest thing there is.”

“Ahhh~~~” Reign tilted his head up, eyes blinking at the boy as if he hadn’t understood a word.

But internally, his thoughts were surging like a tidal wave.

No way. Is this real? I suddenly have access to science... in a magical world? This is just too bizarre!

And this level of tech—this is beyond futuristic, it’s full-blown science fiction. It’s a hard genre shift!

Even while panicking inside, Reign kept his face as blankly innocent as ever.

The boy, meanwhile, was still rambling nonstop.

“You know what’s really convenient about this world? You can set your apparent age to whatever you want. Me? I’m actually eleven years old in the real world—so I look eleven here too. But I’ve been living in this domain for seven hundred and thirty-two years. Older than some of the longest-lived elves, I swear.”

“They say the first wave of people who entered the Hyper Thought Acceleration Field died horribly. Luckily, one lucky bastard stumbled across a ruin left behind by Zhongli, the Geo Dragon.”

That name made something stir in Reign’s mind, though his expression didn’t change.

The boy went on chattering.

“Ruins are a godsend. When we first showed up here, the only reason we weren’t eaten by monsters, spirits, or who knows what else was because of ruins like those.”

“Honestly, even if you can respawn in this network, dying hurts like hell. That pain doesn’t just go away. A lot of good people lost their minds from the trauma alone.”

“My own brother gave up on living here. Without the support of the Field, he and I drifted apart fast. Our difference in knowledge, experience, perspective... it made him feel tiny and narrow-minded to me.”

“Ever since then, I’ve grown more and more dependent on the Hyper Thought Acceleration Field. These days, aside from the bare minimum of social interaction, I live completely inside it. Once your brain adapts to a world where thought runs a thousand times faster... regular people in the real world seem like pitiful turtles. No—snails. No—coral. Just... stuck.”

“I wish the Field would just expand to everyone. But every new slot costs 1,000 Civilization Points to purchase. Took me the last hundred years just to earn 800. It’s a bottomless pit.”

“Brother! Brother!”

Reign cut in, flashing a sweet, pleading face in an attempt to steer the conversation.

“That Zhongli, the Geo Dragon... is he the one who spoke into people’s minds a year ago? My brother says that god is a bad guy.”

“Hm?” The boy stopped walking, glancing down at Reign. “He is.”

He lowered his head slightly, falling silent in thought for a moment. Then he muttered, almost too softly to hear, “But I don’t think Zhongli is evil—at least, not in the way your brother says. Maybe... maybe it’s just that gods and humans see things too differently. The way they perceive the world is so far removed from us.”

“This Hyper Thought Acceleration Field—it’s a gift from him.”

“A human mind moving a thousand times faster can learn and master more than a normal person ever could in a lifetime.”

“To give you a simple comparison: there are only about 30,000 humans known to be active inside the Field. But in these thousand years, they’ve acquired knowledge and strength that far surpass the entirety of human society.”

“If those 30,000 ever brought all their combat abilities into the real world? They could wipe out humanity in a matter of days. That’s not a fantasy.”

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