Song Shige

Biodata

Power Progression

Background and History

Song Shige was formerly in the military and became the Mutual Aid Association’s ace fighter. A forum post described his three initial attributes as all close to 7 and identified him as a model promoted by the authorities 19. He later recalled serving in a military district in the Central Lands and regarded himself as an ordinary “genius” before the Survival Game 736.

The Association concentrated resources on his development, and he competed with Ye Xu for the leading positions in the level and kill rankings. After an extended period of monster hunting, he held first place on both lists and earned 7,500 skill experience from the first daily settlement 10 12 13.

After returning from his class-change Trial Instance, Song Shige sought psychological counseling with Jing Yunxin. He had been deeply affected by the destruction of the Dungeon’s civilization and the loss of his allies 82 83 84.

Appearance

Song Shige is burly and heavily muscled, with a broad hand and a powerful build 10 39.

• His biceps are described as bulging and rocklike 10.
• When fighting with Flame Attachment, he can become almost entirely enveloped in fire 17 28.
• His later fighting appearance includes dark red energy and a blood-red Zhanmadao. Away from battle, he has also been described as looking like a cheerful boy next door 89 128 387.

Personality

Song Shige is a driven monster hunter who pushes himself to maintain his ranking, once going two and a half days without sleep to grind levels. He enjoys direct combat and finds navigating conversations more difficult than fighting a monster horde 12 14 17.

He values the Mutual Aid Association’s judgment and support. Although eager to try luring Monster Tide attackers away from his shelter, he abandoned the plan after its Tactical Analysis Department warned him of the risks. He was also pleased to lend the organization Survival Coins when it needed funds 20 32.

As chairman, he acted ruthlessly against corruption and collusion within the Association, using his strength to enforce the principles he wanted the organization to follow 91 92. Despite his path of slaughter, he later reflected that he did not enjoy killing and regarded it as a means of gaining power 736.

His experiences could leave psychological scars: the destruction of the Trial Instance troubled him deeply, while mental erosion in Dangerous Terrain gave him a tendency toward delusions despite his otherwise intact reasoning 82 83 90.

Abilities & Skills

Demon-Seeking

Song Shige’s talent combines temporary attribute gains with a defensive effect tied to his maximum attack power 14.

• Attribute boost: Grants four temporary free attribute points while active.
• Offense and defense as one: An attack weaker than his maximum attack power has its effect greatly reduced. Against a stronger attack, the stated damage taken is the attack power minus his maximum attack power.
• Limit: The talent consumes stamina, preventing him from keeping it active indefinitely 14.
• He allocated temporary points to Strength and Constitution to wield the Monster Beast Saber freely 17.
• A rule preventing Strength from exceeding Constitution by more than three points later limited how he could allocate the temporary points 233.
• As his attributes grew, activating the Talent became far more demanding on his stamina, increasing the importance of his stamina-recovery passive 551.
• He developed Demon-Seeking into a path of negation: he can slash apart aspects of an opponent and, with the evolved Blood City, draw on their power. He can also sever his own limits, raising his attribute ceiling 736 788.
• An attack he used against Chu Tianjun erased Chu Tianjun’s existence from the world 969.

Flame Attachment

Flame Attachment consumes Mana to coat a weapon or the body in flames. Su Luo taught Song Shige the skill after advising that it suited his attributes better than Fireball 14 15 16.

• Ignite: Adds damaging sparks to attacks.
• Ember Recovery: Killing an ignited target restores a small amount of Mana and stamina.
• Flame Burst / Explosive Flame: Releases a short-range explosion that damages and knocks back enemies at a large Mana cost.
• Flowing Fire: Spreads sustained fire across an area, continuously damaging enemies.
• Song Shige also used Blazing Flame Slash to project a concentrated flaming strike 16 17.
• He raised Flame Attachment to its maximum level using Skill Experience Stones 32.

Appraisal

Song Shige used Appraisal to obtain partial information about the Level 4 elite Insect-Devouring Mage, including its level, Spirit and several skills 17.

Demon King

Demon King is Song Shige’s Forbidden Class. Its first skill provides a percentage-based boost, while its second complements the stamina consumption of Demon-Seeking 307.

• Living Beings’ Sustenance: Killing living beings grants an additional stamina-recovery bonus, with the benefit increasing according to the number and strength of those killed 307.
• His Zhanmadao is a growth-type weapon and one of his class skills. He also has a growth-type class skill that makes him stronger through killing 510.
• After he killed a Greater Demon, his stamina passive increased more than tenfold, and he drew on the demon’s power through Slash to Preserve, Change to Survive 823.

Martial Will

Song Shige developed Martial Will and fused it with his combat abilities 171 194.

• It strengthens resistance to mental attacks, illusions, fear and erosion, and imbues his energy attacks with greater penetration and destructive power 195.
• His tests showed that its normal state improved all attribute performance by 10% and made internal energy more active 195.
• He could unleash a will shock that weakened opponents with weaker or absent Martial Will. He also identified a potential domain and will manifestation as deeper applications 195.
• He later cast aside the Martial Will he had maintained and integrated it into Blood City as its foundation 737.

Blood City

Blood City is a purple skill Song Shige obtained through an Exploration Quest. Initially unusable until he obtained a trait, it incorporated Martial Will and rose to Level 2 during practice 171 196.

• Its manifestation can suppress enemies with killing intent and Martial Will, as when Song Shige used it against Level 9 monsters in the second District War 220.
• He can draw souls into Blood City; he used it to temper Han Song’s will through repeated lethal encounters and revival 518.
• He used Blood City to store the remains and resources of slain Chief Gods 556.
• Blood City eventually evolved into a Blood-Colored World and a sea of blood. Song Shige can revive through it while the sea endures and use it to withstand or share the burden of a powerful curse 826 848.
• Against the Night Chief God, he condensed the sea into a blood-colored Small World that resisted her authority to erase him 848.

Equipment and Items

• Monster Beast Saber (excellent) — A massive horse-slaying saber with high attribute requirements. It grants +2 Strength and +2 Constitution; Song Shige used Demon-Seeking to wield it freely 17.
• Zhanmadao — His later growth-type class weapon, upgraded to perfect quality during the District War and nearly Epic quality by a later expedition. It broke while he fought a Greater Demon and was subsequently repaired 128 510 823.
• Greatsword — A door-sized blade he used against monster hordes before wielding the Monster Beast Saber 10 17.
• Stamina Potions — Restore energy; he used them to continue grinding and to support his training 10 13 14.
• Flame Attachment skill book — Sent to Su Luo so he could learn the skill and teach it back to him 14.
• Targeted Dungeon Teleport Ticket (temporary) — Used to travel to the Wizard’s Abandoned Experimental Field 38.
• Vast Sea Scroll — A spoil from Region 8 that bound itself to Song Shige and resisted attempts to examine it 141.

Relationships

• Su Luo — Teacher and ally. Song Shige credited him with helping him master Flame Attachment, stalled a Monster Tide enemy at his request, and later met him in person to deliver supplies. They subsequently explored Dangerous Terrain, fought in District Wars and faced powerful gods and demons together 16 19 27 39 84 90 207 554 823.
• Qin Lang — Association contact who arranged Song Shige’s tutoring and handled organizational resources. Song Shige later lent 30,000 Survival Coins to support shelter fusion and market stabilization. Qin also arranged for him to seek counseling and supplied evidence before an Association purge 12 32 82 91.
• Ye Xu — Rival on the level and kill rankings. Song Shige blocked him after their competition for first place 10 12.
• Number Two — His squad leader, who successfully proposed adding him to the Association’s Council 35.
• Jing Yunxin — Association member and psychologist to whom Song Shige was referred after his Trial Instance. They later fought on the same District War battlefield 82 83 207.
• Han Song — An Association survivor whom Song Shige escorted during Out-of-Zone Exploration and sent into Blood City to temper his will 518.
• Fu Li — A fellow Survivor who traveled with Song Shige through several Dungeon eras. Song Shige became familiar with Fu Li’s Galgame System and its effects on affection 592 629 787.
• Lan Cijiu — A Survivor Song Shige encountered during the Large Dungeon. They later fought after Lan Cijiu brought a Greater Demon to the battlefield 630 645 823.

Story Role and Major Arcs

Learning Flame Attachment

The Mutual Aid Association initially asked Su Luo to tutor Song Shige in Fireball. After seeing his attributes and talent, Su Luo suggested that a pure mage skill would be a poor fit. Song Shige instead sent him the Flame Attachment skill book and raised his Mana for training 12 14.

Song Shige struggled to sense the Fire Element and stabilize the flame, but learned the skill with Su Luo’s guidance. He soon used it against the Monster Tide vanguard, fighting through an elite Insect-Devouring Mage’s worms and leveling up after his final attack 16 17.

Monster Tide

Song Shige defended his Level 3 shelter and was one of only three survivors to challenge the sixth wave. He cleared the eighth wave and fought two Level 4 elite Thunder War Rhinos in the ninth, intercepting a crossbow bolt before it could strike his wall 25 28 29.

Before the tenth wave, Su Luo shared the status of the Level 5 elite Earthshaking Boulder and advised that Song Shige could not defeat it. Following the Analysis Department’s advice, Song Shige declined to spend his saved attribute points to force the attempt and stopped after the ninth wave 29.

Dungeon Investigation

After the Monster Tide, the Association voted to add Song Shige to its Council. He later traveled to the Wizard’s Abandoned Experimental Field to deliver supplies to Su Luo and investigate the dungeon. Entry was blocked while Su Luo was inside, so Song Shige reported the restriction and waited 35 38.

Once Su Luo emerged, Song Shige delivered equipment, attribute-boosting resources, materials and gifts from Qin Lang. He then entered the dungeon, obtained a Class Change Certificate and used it after returning 39 40.

Trial Instance and Association Leadership

In his class-change Trial Instance, Song Shige helped defend a border commandery against beasts, then built a faction after local elites forced him out of power. He fought the director of Great Yong’s Superpower Management Bureau, killed his own allies when they inexplicably turned on him, and ultimately watched a beast tide consume the world despite his attempts to save its people 84.

After completing his class change, he returned distressed and was referred to Jing Yunxin for counseling. He later joined Su Luo in exploring Dangerous Terrain, where they gained skills and attribute resources but suffered mental erosion 82 83 84 90.

At the Association’s second meeting, Song Shige killed corrupt members and became chairman. He left routine operations to a system of capable and loyal personnel while maintaining the order he had established 91 92 96.

District Wars and Trait Dungeons

During the District War, Song Shige fought alongside other Zone 76 survivors and faced the Trickster, Caoyuanshi, a powerful muscular freak and Mech Armor. After a prolonged fight, he withdrew and rejected Mech Armor’s proposal that it help him secure first place in exchange for second, telling it to take third instead 107 124 128 132 135.

Song Shige later obtained a purple skill through an Exploration Quest and entered Trait Dungeons. He lost one match after teammates turned against him but won a hundred-person battle royale; Blood City subsequently incorporated his Martial Will 171 193 196.

In the second District War, he joined Su Luo, Jing Yunxin and Guizishi on a battlefield where they defended the Tinder. He used Blood City against the attacking waves and helped investigate the unusually simple monsters before their region cooperated with others on an amplified wave 207 220.

Later Expeditions

After suppressing an anomaly source, Song Shige killed more than ten million infected people, strengthening his stamina-recovery passive. He later returned to Association headquarters during the urban legend crisis and killed an impostor disguised as a reporter 307 387.

On a later expedition with Su Luo, he beheaded the fifth-generation god of fire. Fourth-generation gods then overwhelmed the pair as they tried to escape 554. He subsequently traveled with Fu Li toward the Central Continent, met Ye Zizhen and Brutus, and learned that twenty quadrillion Demon Insects threatened the Dungeon world 629 645.

In the Wasteland, Song Shige discerned that Silk Woman’s Rainbow Threads were draining trapped Survivors and refused a purported offer to cooperate against her, suspecting the message might be a probe. During prolonged contemplation, he formulated his Demon-Seeking path, integrated Martial Will into Blood City, and used the Wasteland’s resurrection property to repeatedly break his own limits 735 736 737 752 788.

He later challenged Great Demon Graham and was destroyed in their first clash, only to be reborn from Blood City. Against a Greater Demon brought by Lan Cijiu, he struck 1.08 billion times, breaking his Zhanmadao and killing the demon; he then continued fighting Lan Cijiu despite an Abyssal curse 799 823.

After killing the Night Chief God’s clone, Song Shige revived from her true body’s attack and resisted her world-shaping authority with a blood-colored Small World, but she dragged him into a false world 848. In a later District War, he forced Chu Tianjun to disclose the requirements for Talent advancement and set out to find a way to rank up Demon-Seeking 969.

Notable Quotes

“Collective wisdom is always more reliable than me guessing on my own.” 20

“Don’t you dare damage my wall!” 29

“Ten thousand years was too long; he would seize the day.” 736

“The abilities I've developed so far... let me slash most things belonging to my opponent, and in combination with the evolved Blood City, I can draw on their power. I can also slash apart the shackles on myself, which raises my upper limit.” 788