A chilling silence descended.
It was so profound that I imagined I could hear the candle flames burning.
It took me a moment to realize the silence had formed because every person in the underground chamber had stopped breathing at once.
I swallowed against my dry throat.
The butlers from Clean3 had been the decisive evidence that convinced me I summoned him.
‘Dominic was connected to one of my past playthroughs, just like the butlers.’
But I had never cleared CoV.
The god I summoned had been abandoned inside an unfinished game, losing his memories and becoming trapped within Dr. Dominic.
‘Though perhaps summoning an entity like Dominic was what broke the game.’
In any case, there was no doubt that I had fulfilled the conditions for the True Ending.
The player had summoned the Outer God in the role of cult leader.
The way the window of choices had failed to force my actions and begun producing errors made that clear.
But….
No System Window announcing an Ending had yet appeared.
Dominic also continued to exist unchanged.
Without speaking, he stared into me.
His gaze seemed…