Chapter Two: One Yuan Can Ignite Reality

When Lin Jin regained consciousness, the game had no sky. Endless black water stretched beneath his feet. Billions of transparent monuments rose from its surface, each containing a frozen character. Some held swords aloft. Some were running. Some had their fingers spread in the instant before a spell. Their names, servers, and logout dates floated above them like epitaphs. [SERVER 0 CONNECTION COMPLETE.] [CHARACTER RECONSTRUCTED—LEVEL 1. BASE CLASS: WANDERER.] The Crown remained. A white figure assembled from pixel noise climbed out of the water. It had no face. A single 0 glowed in its chest. “I waited ten years, and the one who finally arrives is a starving sparring partner?”