Chapter One: The Uncrowned Player Found a Crown

His dormant friends list lit up name after name. World chat boiled over. Some mocked the bearer for being unbelievably poor. Some offered to buy his account. Others had already posted directions to the Cemetery. Professional players transferred from overseas servers in the middle of the night, and every major streaming platform raised the same homepage banner. His phone vibrated. Chen Fang, Zenith's team manager, was calling. “Gray Raven. Ashes Unextinguished is you, isn't it?” There was no greeting. “Give the account to the club. One hundred thousand. Enough to fix your hand.” Lin Jin watched teleportation pillars multiply outside the map. “The item is bound. Transferring the account won't work.”