Sun Can

Biodata

Power Progression

Level-to-tier discrepancy: The retrospective explanation maps levels 10, 20, and 30 to Tiers 1, 2, and 3, respectively. Chapter 134 nevertheless calls his advancement “level 10” while placing his strength near Tier 2 134 424 621.

Background / History

Sun Can was an ordinary university student who supported himself partly by playing headset games. While logging into the virtual-reality game New World, his vision went dark. He awakened in a room resembling—but not matching—his rented home, without his gaming helmet, and discovered that he had entered a world suffering a zombie apocalypse 424 680.

He arrived thirty days after the outbreak. A responding system told him that returning home required completing its quests, granted him fire powers, and assigned his first task: kill ten ordinary zombies. He survived by hunting, gathering supplies, and using the system’s inventory 424.

His ultimate mission was to eliminate every zombie in the world, after which he could return home with his acquired abilities. He initially felt detached from this world and kept that mission secret. Later, he decided he would not abandon it: its power had given him both an extraordinary lifespan and a responsibility, and he still felt indebted to Shen Jin for saving his life 643 680.

Appearance

• Exceptionally handsome face: Shen Jin describes him as handsome enough to make other men jealous and later compares his appearance to a Japanese anime protagonist 19 347.
• Muscular upper body: Often exposed after his flames burn away his clothing 70 195.
• Glassy, magma-like flames: His empowered hands and weapons acquire a smooth, intensely hot glaze 134 595.
• Fire spirit body: During high-level combat, his body becomes molten, glasslike fire; while gathering Nether power against the protectors, only his eyes remain black 657 692.
• Monarch’s crown: At advanced Tier 4, the purple lotus beneath his feet transforms into a crown 694.

Personality

Sun Can is confident, competitive, and drawn to difficult fights. He welcomes challenging missions and enjoys facing opponents stronger than routine zombies. His bravado can be comically undercut: after declaring that nowhere in the world is beyond his reach, he immediately sits down obediently when Shen Jin asks whether he still needs equipment 195 347 531.

His confidence repeatedly becomes recklessness. Nearly dying in Twin Stars Tower teaches him to respect preparation and Shen Jin’s cautious approach, but he later charges the Plant Zombie without his summons and becomes trapped. He recognizes the need to play safely without entirely overcoming his impulsive nature 426 595.

He rescues survivors without demanding payment, stays until injured companions recover, and remembers favors. His growing trust in Shen Jin eventually changes him from a largely solitary hunter into a cooperative commander willing to settle at Home No. 1 84 195 215 605.

Abilities & Skills

Combat System

Sun Can’s system resembles an RPG built around killing zombies, completing quests, and learning skills previously available to him in New World 424 621.

• Experience and leveling: Filling his experience bar directly increases his strength and restores him to full condition 621 622.
• Character interface: Tracks stamina, strength, agility, intelligence, health, and energy 424.
• Skill Academy: Allows him to spend skill points on his former game’s skills; also referred to as System Academy 419 424.
• Inventory: Stores food and other supplies 424.
• Infection immunity: Passively protects him from the zombie virus 424.
• Recovery: Food slowly restores health; Zombie Crystal Cores replenish energy but inflict the Rend debuff 424.
• Army-based experience: Kills by his subordinates award half experience, making mass combat substantially faster than relying only on his summons 622.
• Advancement limit: Level 40 strengthens him without granting Tier 4; he must cross that threshold through his own development 623.

Fire Combat and Material Conversion

His fighting style combines powerful weapon strikes with persistent magical flames 595.

• Flaming weapons: Enhances swords, throwing knives, arrows, and other weapons with fire damage 70 407 595.
• Precision burning: A Flaming Throwing Knife destroys an L-Type Zombie’s brain and burns out the virus 70.
• Persistent flames: His enhanced arrows can burn evolved zombies to ash even without an immediately fatal hit 407.
• Magma slime production: Converts green slime into magma slime using his distinctive flames; Shen Jin’s other fire users cannot reproduce the process 348 549.
• Limit: The Plant Zombie’s concentrated poisonous mist can extinguish his flames 595.

Group Buffs

His aura skills empower both summons and human troops. Their maintenance cost does not increase with the number of recipients: he pays an activation cost and a small continuing expenditure rather than supplying all their energy himself 605.

• His fire buffs support more than two thousand fighters during the B City assault and turn plasma attacks into wider-area incendiary blasts 595.
• Training his body and mental power allows him to strengthen these skills beyond their initial system-granted performance 626.
• Exploration links their energy to the Nether, explaining how he can sustain buffs across large armies 648 654.

Soul Summoning

Sun Can creates undead combatants from zombie remains. The quality of the corpse affects the resulting summon’s strength 134 352.

• Intermediate Soul Summoning: Supports up to ten Skeleton Warriors and five Ghosts 345 419.
• Later force: Travels with twenty Skeletons, ten Ghosts, and five Vampires 511.
• Replacement troops: Rebuilds destroyed summons from zombie corpses; uses them to shield human subordinates from danger 588 622.

Core Dweller and Nether Access

Core Dweller summons a massive lava giant with high physical offense, defense, and firepower 622.

• Its Wildfire does not harm allies carrying Earth Enchanting 622.
• Its summoning portal permits brief expeditions into the Flame World when stabilized by his allies 648.
• Sun Can’s flames activate the constructed Nether portal, making access a joint undertaking with Shen Jin 654.
• He encounters naturally occurring Core Dwellers in Nether lava and tames one as a mount; he later tames a Ghast 654 656 668.

Psychic and Defensive Techniques

• Trance of Wrath: An army-wide aura that triggers psychic “divine punishment” inside enemies. It disrupts Flying Zombies long enough for his troops to kill them, but costs more energy than his earlier buffs 622.
• Dreamscape: Lightning Punishment: Briefly confuses and slows the Tier 4 apeman before Sun Can strikes it into the ice 640.
• Innate mental defense: Helps him withstand the Plant Zombie’s minions, whose psychic attacks could overwhelm ordinary Tier 3 Superhumans 595.
• Blazing Vines: A self-created combination of plant growth and Flame Shield. Forms a burning defensive nest that protects his summons and repels Flying Zombies 588 595.
• Flame Barrier: Encloses major enemies, including Tier 4 Zombie Tyrants; later connects Earth with the Nether and gathers fire spiritual energy 661 678 692.

Flame Monarch

At advanced Tier 4, Sun Can merges his Light of the Mind with the Nether and gains the authority of its recognized monarch 694.

• World-powered attacks: Every movement carries the power of an entire world 694.
• Nether regeneration: Even before becoming monarch, lava restores his injuries and energy during his fight with Shen Jin 657.
• Rule compatibility: Earth recognizes him rather than rejecting his power as it does the invading zombie forces 694.
• Mind Flame: Used against the Zombie Right Protector after his advancement 694.
• Protector suppression: Uses Nether power and Earth’s rules to restrain the two protectors, then burns away their bodies. Their minds remain, and he warns that resurrection through the Zombie World may still be possible 694.

Equipment / Weapons / Items

• Magma slime greatsword — Forged by Shen Jin with cobalt bindings; its Superheat and Lightweight traits suit Sun Can’s fire-enhanced combat 353 356.
• Firewood armor — Tailor-made to exploit his ability, protecting him while retaliatory flames burn attackers 407.
• Knight slime helmet — Its Enderference effect saves him from death in Twin Stars Tower, returning him to the ground-floor entrance; the helmet shatters 353 426.
• Tinkers’ Construct Knapsack and Traveler’s Belt — Provide twenty-seven and nine storage slots, respectively 347.
• Nano Armor — Used against Murata, whose saber energy severely injures Sun Can and drains the armor 542.
• Quantum Armor and Helmet — Protect him in B City; the helmet helps resist surprise psychic attacks. Heavy poison exposure and giant-form combat rapidly increase power consumption 588 595 600 631.
• GraviSuite — Used during later combat and Nether exploration 631 656.
• Senzu Beans and Energy Crystal Cores — Combined for rapid recovery after severe injuries or exhaustion; direct core consumption can cause intense pain and bodily strain 423 426 601.

Relationships

• Shen Jin — Rescued through repeated system quests; becomes his equipment supplier, trusted battlefield partner, and host at Home No. 1. Shen Jin’s helmet saves Sun Can’s life, while Sun Can later helps force Shen Jin’s Tier 4 breakthrough 19 424 426 605 658.
• Void — Friend from before his transmigration and confidential adviser. Their communication is a personal secret, not a system function. Void instructs him to conceal his system and looks after his parents 134 289 424.
• Parents — Remain in his original world; he asks Void to care for them while he searches for a way home 134.
• Li Moxiao — One of the companions he rescues when Shen Jin is absent. He stays until the injured survivors have largely recovered 215 424.
• Shang Qian — Initially misinterprets his connection to Shen Jin as romantic; this is a misunderstanding, not an established relationship 23 26 289.
• Hu Shou — Ally in Nether exploration and Tier 4 Zombie Tyrant hunting. Praises Sun Can’s unusually strong Tier 3 foundation 633 648 661.
• Ye Fan — Rescues his team from a Tier 3 Zombie during an emergency quest; Ye Fan unexpectedly advances to Tier 2 afterward 455.

Story Role / Major Arcs

Notable Quotes

“My name is Sun Can. Maybe it was fate that brought me here to save you.” 19

“How laughable. I used to think Shen Jin was a coward for hanging back. Turns out playing it safe is true wisdom!” 426

“My greatest wealth is the Flame World. The power of the entire world... is actually my power!” 692