It was already noon, yet the sky was dim and gloomy, like dusk.
As if waking from a nightmare, Chao Mu, who had been dozing against the sofa, abruptly opened his eyes, drenched in sweat.
"This is..."
Turning back to look at the dim light in the room, Chao Mu froze for a moment before suddenly raising his head to look at the sky.
In the darkened sky, the sun was teetering on the verge of collapse, as if it could go out at any moment. A black vortex circled around it, devouring the life force of this world bit by bit.
After staring at the sun in the sky in disbelief for quite some time, Chao Mu lowered his head to look at his still-intact hands, his pupils violently contracting.
"The world hasn't been swallowed by [Extreme Darkness] yet, and I haven't become the Fire Sage either... I've returned to three years ago?"
As perhaps the last Fire Sage in the world, Chao Mu knew how this world would end.
After [Extreme Darkness] descended, the world lasted less than a month beneath its devouring force before completely falling into darkness. After that, the world became a hell called despair.
From the moment the world fell into [Extreme Darkness], the system had completely lost contact. Everyone in the world had been abandoned within that boundless darkness. In order to survive, Players like him had burned everything in the world that could burn, then used their own souls as kindling to Ignite.
—They turned themselves into firewood to fight against that endless darkness.
After becoming kindling, the light radiating from their bodies could drive away the Monsters in the darkness, bring vitality back to the land, and exhaust everything they had for one final hope.
But regrettably, until Chao Mu had