After learning the truth of the entire matter, Little Silver was frozen for a long while as if his acupuncture points had all been hit. He was trying his best to digest everything.
The good news was that Beast King wasn't dead. As long as Beast King was around, it was still possible to revive the holy beasts.
The bad news was that Beast King had now sunk into a withdrawn state, and had no way to pull himself out of the virtual reality he was addicted to…
In studying how he could write novels like Father Wang, Little Silver had specially read books on human psychology before, to figure out what kind of stories readers preferred… Based on his analysis, what His Majesty Beast King was doing was a form of psychological escape.
Perhaps it wasn't that His Majesty Beast King couldn't clear the game, but that he didn't want to, hence why he was entangled inside the game narrative.