Chapter Summaries

Xiao Ran entered True Game, where its system failed to overwrite Prometheus’s influence and created a character whose attributes appeared as question marks. After learning that Earth faced multiversal world fusion and that the system would monitor him, he was assigned World of Warcraft as his beginner guidance mission.

• Xiao Ran entered True Game after adjusting the overlapping panels and choosing to confirm.
• The system could not synchronize or scan Xiao Ran because his body already had semi-datafication rules, but it created his character, Ran Alex Xiao, with mysterious, unreadable attributes.
• Xiao Ran demanded an explanation, prompting the system to reveal a vision of Earth drawing in worlds and fragments during multiversal world fusion.
• The system, calling itself System or Eternal, explained its mission to protect Earth and described four supreme forces, including Dimensional Force, Mind Force, Infinite Force, and Eternal Force.
• Xiao Ran questioned the system’s claims and told it that he would not destroy Earth; the system said it would monitor him.
• The system assigned Xiao Ran a beginner guidance mission in World of Warcraft, and he welcomed the chance to enter a world with magic and the Burning Legion.

Ran Alex Xiao arrived in Azeroth for a newbie mission and explored Goldshire before traveling to Stormwind City. There, he met King Varian Urien and offered to resolve Stormwind’s threats in exchange for payment.

• Ran Alex Xiao received missions to gain experience and defeat Kobolds, Gnolls, Overseer Narg, and Graf Swift-tooth, then set out for Goldshire.
• Ran Alex Xiao explored Goldshire, earned coins from two would-be thieves, and rode a cart toward Stormwind City.
• Stormwind City guards inspected the cart, while the squad leader secretly reported Ran Alex Xiao’s arrival.
• Ran Alex Xiao explored Stormwind City, visited its Auction House, and deliberately headed toward the palace as watchers followed him.
• A golden-armored general escorted Ran Alex Xiao to King Varian Urien, who welcomed him as an ally foretold by the Holy Light and mages.
• Ran Alex Xiao offered to handle Stormwind City’s threats as a mercenary in exchange for suitable rewards.

Xiao Ran explained his mercenary offer and ideals to Urien, then showed the banquet guests a video of his powerful, peaceful interstellar realm. He proposed that Urien organize rewards for missions so Xiao Ran could fight Azeroth’s threats in exchange for knowledge and other goods.

• Xiao Ran told Urien he wanted to work as a mercenary, and Urien invited him to discuss employment during the banquet.
• Xiao Ran described his role as a king and puppeteer, criticized Azeroth’s cycles of war, and argued that different races could coexist.
• Xiao Ran projected a video showing his fleet’s battles and the peaceful cooperation of many races across his territory, astonishing Urien and the guests.
• Urien said Azeroth might someday reach such prosperity but doubted he would live to see it, and Xiao Ran explained that his legion also bore the name Burning.
• Xiao Ran offered to complete missions against threats such as the Scourge and the Burning Legion in exchange for goods, knowledge, and Class Inheritance, and said he would approach other factions if Urien refused.

Xiao Ran cleared Stratholme and its surrounding area in an hour, earning the promised class inheritance and payment from Urien. He then negotiated with Azeroth’s leaders for broader missions and access to their knowledge, warning that the Burning Legion and beings in the Twisting Nether threatened their world.

• Urien offered Xiao Ran a mission to purge Stratholme in exchange for a class inheritance, knowledge, and one hundred thousand Gold Coins, while promising to arrange support for preserving the city.
• Xiao Ran summoned Dragon God Mecha and sent it to Stratholme, where its Dragon Scale Machines eliminated the undead and monsters in the city and nearby area.
• Xiao Ran returned to Stormwind City after exactly one hour and met Urien, Muradin Bronzebeard, Tyrande Whisperwind, Mekkatorque, and Jaina Proudmoore.
• Urien confirmed Stratholme had been cleared and gave Xiao Ran the promised rewards and a catalog of goods he could buy with Gold Coins.
• Tyrande agreed that the allied leaders would act as a unified employer, and Xiao Ran requested knowledge from every race and copies of Dalaran’s spellbooks.
• Xiao Ran told the leaders that Azeroth had attracted the Burning Legion and beings from the Twisting Nether, arguing that their valuable knowledge and resources should be exchanged for his help before disaster struck.

Xiao Ran exploited the Alliance’s mission list to clear threats across Azeroth and collect enormous rewards, then demanded further payment from the Horde before hunting Deathwing and the Burning Legion. He left the world with a massive haul, though he never found Sargeras.

• Jaina challenged Xiao Ran’s offer and warned that the Alliance did not need an unknown outsider, but Xiao Ran offered to work with the Horde as well.
• Urien gave Xiao Ran the Alliance’s mission list, and Xiao Ran rejected additional personnel and set out to complete missions across Azeroth.
• Xiao Ran and his machines cleared mission targets throughout the day, earning vast rewards and leaving battlefields that drew the attention of mages and leaders from both factions.
• Xiao Ran returned to Stormwind, turned in his completed missions, exchanged rewards for knowledge and rare goods, and asked the Alliance to secure further offerings from the Horde.
• Xiao Ran hunted down Deathwing and destroyed large numbers of Burning Legion monsters, but failed to find Sargeras before leaving Azeroth with his collected gains.

After completing his mission, Xiao Ran visited the True Game city, bought items for research, and reunited with Yun Han and his disguised teammate. He returned to Earth and was reunited with his parents, promising to spend time with them while admitting he might have to leave again.

• Xiao Ran met Yun Han and his teammate, gave the girl a portable B-rank Iron Man Armor, and toured the True Game market with them.
• Xiao Ran spent nearly all his currency buying equipment, skills, class cards, and other items for study before parting ways with Yun Han and the girl.
• Xiao Ran returned to Earth, traveled to his hometown, and waited outside his parents’ home until morning.
• Xiao Ran knocked on his parents’ door and revealed himself, and Dad Xiao and Mom Xiao welcomed him home in shock and tears.
• Xiao Ran reassured his parents that he had not run away or broken the law, asked them not to tell others much about his return, and said he would stay with them for a year or two although others were waiting for him.

Xiao Ran reunited with his parents and spent time with them while planning how to protect them and introduce advanced technology to Earth. He began explaining his disappearance to Dad Xiao, revealed his inhuman eyes, and proposed moving the family to the capital before an unexpected visitor arrived.

• Xiao Ran decided to spend two days with his parents and considered finding a partner to help protect them while he was away.
• Xiao Ran sent information about high-energy batteries, a Thermonuclear Energy Engine, and Variable Fighter armor materials to a department, then chose to postpone contact with officials.
• Dad Xiao asked Xiao Ran where he had gone, and Xiao Ran said he had been abducted by aliens and revealed his evolved eyes.
• Xiao Ran calmed Dad Xiao and said he would explain what he could over time, then proposed moving the family to a large property in the capital.
• Someone knocked at the door, and Xiao Ran put his contact lenses back in and warned Dad Xiao not to say anything carelessly.

Xiao Ran cooperated with a routine visit from neighborhood and police officials while concealing the details of his disappearance. He arranged to relocate and protect his parents, then contacted the authorities with an offer of technology in exchange for land in the capital; seven hours later, their representatives arrived.

• Aunt Liu brought Officers Xiao Wang and Xiao Zhou to record Xiao Ran's return and update his household registration, while Xiao Ran claimed amnesia and declined to discuss his past.
• Xiao Ran told Dad Xiao that he would arrange to move his parents to the capital and gave him medicine that could slow aging.
• Xiao Ran sent the authorities an offer to contribute valuable technologies without compensation in exchange for a plot of land in the capital, and asked them to meet him within a day.
• Seven hours later, several people in military uniforms and suits arrived while Xiao Ran's extended family gathered at his home.
• Xiao Ran met the visitors in the corridor and asked them to show their identification.

Xiao Ran negotiated a cooperation agreement with Major Luo, including land, compensation, privacy, and protection for his family in exchange for advanced technology and training. He also arranged to move his extended family to the capital, then began presenting the first technologies and preparations for the research program.

• Xiao Ran told Major Luo that he would cooperate in exchange for city land, compensation for future contributions, privacy, and protection for his family, and warned that an external threat existed.
• Major Luo reported Xiao Ran’s statements to his superiors and was appointed Xiao Ran’s official liaison.
• Xiao Ran urged his relatives to move with him to the capital, promised to provide for their households, and set expectations for the family.
• Xiao Ran explained to Major Luo that he had visited the game and another inaccessible place, and that his technologies came from the latter.
• Xiao Ran offered advanced technologies, training, and enhancement for twenty elite personnel, and Major Luo agreed to the conditions.
• Xiao Ran demonstrated his Personal Terminal and used it to scan and project Major Luo’s map.

Xiao Ran arranged a secure residence and protection for his family while briefing Major Luo on the dangers of the game and the need to prepare for otherworldly threats. After organizing a guard unit and training twenty selected people with Class Cards, Xiao Ran returned to True Game to begin his second round.

• Xiao Ran chose a prime downtown site for his family's residence and asked Major Luo to arrange construction, family services, and confidentiality lessons.
• Xiao Ran gave Major Luo a Personal Terminal, outlined the game's risks and the possibility of worlds invading, and urged him to build up military strength.
• Xiao Ran offered Major Luo a crystal, then left without insisting that he accept or use it.
• Major Luo's increased attention helped the Xiao family, and twenty selected people arrived half a month later to become guards and trainees.
• Xiao Ran used Class Cards to grant the twenty people class knowledge and aptitude, then withheld Bloodline Serum and Portable Armor for now.
• Xiao Ran finished making preparations for his family's safety and entered True Game for his second round.

After building a new life at home and completing his first three missions, Xiao Ran entered the veteran-level world of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, intent on collecting Cores and taking the Aetherium. He joined the Argentum Trade Guild and agreed to cooperate with a powerful Gamer named Miasma, while keeping control of their plan and spoils.

• Xiao Ran finished his third newbie mission, settled into his new home, helped lead research projects, and raised his Paladin class to level twenty.
• Xiao Ran entered Xenoblade Chronicles 2 with fifty other Gamers and used his terminal to learn about the world, its factions, and its Cores.
• Xiao Ran chose the Argentum Trade Guild as his faction and decided to seize Cores, starting with the Aetherium.
• Miasma approached Xiao Ran to propose cooperation, and he agreed on the condition that they follow his plan and divide the spoils according to their contributions.

Xiao Ran and Miasma formed a temporary team and joined the Argentum Trade Guild by purchasing three months of intelligence access and steward identities. Xiao Ran then controlled Chairman Baen and planned to use him and the guild to support their looting.

• Xiao Ran and Miasma signed a contract to team up, and Miasma explained her abilities and knowledge of the game world.
• Xiao Ran told Miasma to identify valuable targets and factions, then said he wanted to join the trade guild.
• Xiao Ran and Miasma offered Chairman Baen ten million G for three months of intelligence access and steward positions, and they signed the contracts.
• Xiao Ran paid Chairman Baen and used his telekinesis and mental power to bring him under control.
• Xiao Ran explained that he intended to use Baen to obtain more resources and issue missions the pair could complete themselves.

Xiao Ran joined the Argentum Trade Guild’s salvage mission to reach a sunken ship carrying an Aetherium, while other Gamers planned to seize it. When the Gamers moved against the Ira Organization, Xiao Ran revealed overwhelming forces and demanded a proper discussion, leaving everyone stunned.

• Xiao Ran failed to make True Game recognize a quest issued to himself, then learned more about the Ira Organization and its Man-eating Race members from Miasma.
• Xiao Ran met Jin, Miet, and Nia in Chairman Baen’s office and took charge of the guild’s salvage operation.
• Xiao Ran led the Ira Organization members and a group of Gamers to the sunken ship’s coordinates, where they salvaged the vessel carrying an Aetherium.
• A Gamer proposed that the Gamers take down Jin and Miet first, and Xiao Ran told Miet he wanted to claim everyone and everything aboard.
• Miet accepted Xiao Ran’s offer to deal with the Gamers, while Miasma summoned and buffed a host of creatures.
• Xiao Ran deployed the Dragon God Mecha and thousands of Dragon Scale Machines, surrounding everyone and leaving the Gamers and Ira Organization members dumbfounded.

Xiao Ran subdued the Gamers and negotiated with the Ira Group, offering to help them while pursuing the cores held by the Papal Hall. After Miasma secured contracts from the Gamers, the True Game granted them a frightening permanent BUFF, leaving them terrified of Xiao Ran as they prepared to travel to the Papal Hall.

• Xiao Ran surrounded the Gamers with Dragon Scale Machines, restrained them, and offered them the choice of paying for their lives or working for him.
• Xiao Ran took Miet, Zhen, Nia, and the Ira Group aboard a submarine, explained his plans to save the world and acquire cores, and asked them to become his vassals.
• Xiao Ran opened the Aetherium's room, retrieved the item he wanted, and arranged to ride with the Ira Group to the Papal Hall.
• Miasma had the Gamers sign contracts requiring them to follow Xiao Ran's orders and give him their other gains for the mission.
• The True Game turned the contract into a permanent Terror's Gaze BUFF, granting compliant Gamers bonuses and threatening contract breakers with the loss of 999999 Soul Points.
• Xiao Ran told Miasma to organize the Gamers' missions and prepare to board the Ira Group's ship to take the cores from the Papal Hall.

Xiao Ran took control of Ira’s base, sent Gamers to gather intelligence at the Papal Hall, and exposed Miet’s attempted betrayal. He equipped Miasma with Portable Armor, then arrived at the Papal Hall in the Dragon God Mecha and demanded its people submit or face destruction, as armed resistance began.

• Xiao Ran ordered the Gamers to infiltrate the Papal Hall, collect its cores, and capture the Pope alive while eliminating resistance.
• After Miet showed hostility, Xiao Ran pinned him to a wall, demonstrated the transformed sword and his ability to transcend physical laws, and warned the Ira group against scheming.
• Xiao Ran gave Miasma a crystal that bound her to Burning Legion A-3 Portable Armor and transferred its operating knowledge to her.
• Xiao Ran departed the warship and arrived above the Papal Hall in the Dragon God Mecha, where Yinglong called on its people to submit to Xiao Ran or face Divine Punishment.
• Xiao Ran noticed through the GN Particles that many people at the Papal Hall had taken up weapons and chosen to resist.

Xiao Ran seized the Papal Hall, recovered what Blade Cores he could, and led the Ira group and the Gamers into the World Tree to meet its creator. After securing the world’s stored technology, he learned that Blade memories and damaged Cores could be restored and began considering how to separate Man-eating Races from their fused lifeforms.

• Xiao Ran took control of the Papal Hall, gathered more than 3,800 Cores, and ordered Yoshitsune to restore as many Blades as possible from Maipeni’s implanted Core fragments.
• Maipeni died during the transplants, and Yoshitsune recovered fewer than ten intact Cores and several dozen fragments before Xiao Ran led everyone toward the World Tree.
• Xiao Ran destroyed the World Tree’s serpentine guardian and led the group through the tower to Elysium, where Miet guided them to the world’s creator.
• Xiao Ran asked the god for all stored technology, especially Core research, and connected a terminal to download the information.
• The god explained the Blades’ origins and said their erased memories could be recovered, while damaged Cores could be repaired.
• Xiao Ran said he could separate fused lifeforms at a fundamental level and asked about restoring Man-eating Races such as Zhen.

Xiao Ran uncovered the god’s plans for the World Tree, completed his mission in the Xenoblade world, and returned to reality with valuable cores and technology. At home, Mom Xiao demanded that he find a girlfriend and give her a grandson within a month, leaving Xiao Ran wondering whether a fellow Gamer might be a suitable partner.

• The god explained that Blade cores could be repaired, shared technical data with Xiao Ran, and gave him the Sky Ladder’s highest authority.
• Xiao Ran told the Ira Blades that Miet had been reverted to a core with his memories erased, Jin’s core would be repaired, and the supermassive Titans needed to merge to restore the world.
• Xiao Ran completed the Xenoblade missions, left Jin in the world with his Tower of Babel authority, and took the Trinity Aetherium, Crystal Weapon, crystal coffin, and collected cores with him.
• Back in the True Game town, Xiao Ran refused Miasma’s offer to give him her mission rewards and asked her to contact the Gamers who might work for him.
• After returning home, Xiao Ran faced Mom Xiao’s demand that he bring home a girlfriend within one month, while Dad Xiao urged him to leave the family a child and heir.

Xiao Ran returned to the research institute, discussed security and future technology plans with Major Luo, and discovered that his mother had arranged blind-date profiles for him. He met Situ Yaoyao, arranged for her to gather the Gamers into the Burning Legion, and agreed to help her with her next mission before she set another meeting for the following day.

• Xiao Ran told Major Luo that the institute was progressing toward producing fighter jets and mechs within two years, and asked him to protect his family after Xiao Ran left.
• Major Luo presented a proposal for a mass-produced Crysis Nanosuit, and Xiao Ran said he could provide nanotechnology samples but could not develop its biotechnology.
• Major Luo explained that Mom Xiao had arranged blind-date profiles for Xiao Ran, who found Situ Yaoyao’s profile among them.
• Xiao Ran met Situ Yaoyao in a café, learned that the Gamers she contacted were willing to work for him, and told her to form the Burning Legion and gather them in the city.
• Situ Yaoyao said she was ready to advance to Gold, and Xiao Ran agreed to help with her next mission; she then arranged to meet him again the next day.

Xiao Ran met Situ Yaoyao for their arranged blind date and explained his power, existing wives, child, and limited time in this world. Situ Yaoyao accepted the situation, and Xiao Ran offered the Pocket Monsters world as a betrothal gift to free her from her Gamer identity.

• Mom Xiao revealed that she had arranged Xiao Ran and Situ Yaoyao's blind date and ordered him to bring Situ Yaoyao home that night.
• Xiao Ran met Situ Yaoyao at the café, where they agreed they were serious about the possibility of being together.
• Xiao Ran told Situ Yaoyao about his immense power, his legion, his existing wives and child, and his eventual departures from this world.
• Situ Yaoyao said she could accept Xiao Ran's circumstances and was willing to become his wife.
• Xiao Ran offered to handle Situ Yaoyao's Gamer identity and give her the Pocket Monsters world as a betrothal gift.

Xiao Ran and Situ Yaoyao began dating, toured the Solar System, and quickly set a wedding date as their relationship deepened. Xiao Ran also organized the Burning Legion’s new members and established their duties, restrictions, and support, leaving Miasma and ownership of Pocket Monster World as the remaining issue.

• Situ Yaoyao accepted Xiao Ran’s proposal, and the two began their date with her leading him around the city.
• Situ Yaoyao chose new clothes for Xiao Ran, then met his parents and extended family at his home.
• Xiao Ran took Situ Yaoyao to the Moon, Mars, and Jupiter, and their bond grew as he shared his experiences in space.
• Xiao Ran and Situ Yaoyao’s parents met several times and set a wedding date, while Major Luo handled incidents that arose around them.
• Xiao Ran gathered the new Burning Legion members, set rules for their service, and gave them combat resources and support.
• Xiao Ran left Miasma and ownership of Pocket Monster World as the final unresolved matter.