The Little World Is Full of Fun

"Captain Just Wants to Go Home and Play Games" by Panda's Melancholy

Mo Yi: "Headmistress, a Captain has limits, so this is my resignation letter—"

"Captain, I told you the funds are a little tight. I'll definitely pay your salary next month, meow... Wait, you said you want to resign?"

Theresa, who had been pretending to be busy with her head lowered, could no longer keep up the act and shouted:

"Captain, why can't you be more understanding of the academy? Our cause is noble, and our future is bright. This is merely the darkness before dawn. Can you bear to let everyone's dreams fall before daybreak? All over two years' worth of salary?!"

"Ahem, how about I divert some of next month's funding and pay you one month's salary first? What do you say?"

Captain: "Salary, the money I lent you—it doesn't matter anymore. I'm resigning for my dream."

"Starting tomorrow, I'll be a happy person. I'll raise donkeys on an island, farm stones to feed Jeanne, bring warmth to the countryside, and rank up in Honor of Kings—"

A Judas crashed down in front of the office door.

"Pay the ten billion breakup fee in the contract first. No, the breach-of-contract penalty. Then we can talk."

Little World, Endless Fun

"Three years, then another three years, then another three years... I've already played Honor of Kings for nine years. When will it ever end? Sigh—"

My name was Mo Yi, an ordinary yet somewhat unsuccessful transmigrator.

Ever since arriving in this world, which resembled the one I had once lived in, Mo Yi's life had been uneventful. When he was born, Changkong City's sky had neither flashed with thunder and lightning nor changed color as winds and clouds churned. No purple qi had arrived from the east for three thousand li, surging majestically across the world. Nor had the entire sky whispered Mo Yi's name. Naturally, as time passed, he had not gradually become a Partner of Justice before eventually being crowned king.

Mo Yi was merely a child born in an island city called Changkong City, suspended near the far eastern edge of the Asian continent.

Then he began an ordinary life and grew up ordinarily. Nothing much changed, which was why he called himself a somewhat ordinary transmigrator.

Until, ten years later, two people—whether Supernatural Ability users, martial cultivators, or magicians, he did not know—dueled atop the Pinnacle of the Forbidden City in Changkong City's skies. One shockwave from their battle struck a nearby building. The collapsing building happened to smash down near the car his parents were driving, and Mo Yi became a half-standard transmigrator—no little sister, a house, and both parents dead.

Yet Mo Yi was not happy at all with such a standard opening. Although he was a transmigrator who retained his memories, having lived one life before made him understand even more clearly the importance of cherishing those before him.

Though he always wore an indifferent expression and interacted with his parents as if he were already a little adult, the warmth in his heart had not even had time to bloom before it came to an end.

After spending a month in the hospital, Mo Yi finally returned to his empty old home. During those helpless days of rage and grief in the hospital, he had also successfully activated the cheat every transmigrator needed, taking the first step toward reaching the peak of life.

After obtaining his cheat, he would farm and develop for a while or go through a near-death adventure. Once his divine arts were complete, with the background music of "Out of the Mountain" playing, he would find the two immoral Supernatural Ability users who had casually destroyed public property in Changkong City's skies back then. Depending on the situation, he would beat them until they cried—or beat them to death—and avenge his great grievance!

That was what Mo Yi had initially believed. Well, plans often failed to keep pace with reality, and that was why Mo Yi considered himself a somewhat unsuccessful transmigrator.

The cheat Mo Yi received was something that, once activated, played the words "Little World, create happiness with your heart" in his mind. It was similar to a game store with neither artificial intelligence nor customers.

So Mo Yi simply called it the Little World Game. Within that interface, he could choose games to clear, and while clearing them, he could obtain corresponding rewards such as items and abilities.

It sounded like an extremely orthodox and overpowered cheat. If he quietly played games for a few years, wouldn't he emerge as the Bald Great Demon King who commanded lightning?

Unfortunately, Mo Yi was only a Trial Player. Only after clearing the tutorial games provided by the Little World Game could he successfully bind with it and become an Official Player.

And so, ten years passed.

In the first year, Mo Yi cleared three small games: "Temple Run," "Fruit Ninja," and "Plants vs. Zombies."

Little World could load the games onto Mo Yi's phone, and he only had to play them on it.

At first, he thought it really would be that simple. Then, after playing "Temple Run" all night in the hospital and listening to a nurse tell him to rest early, he finally understood just how naive he had been.

Because he played on his phone during the day, but after falling asleep, he had to personally experience in his dreams all the crazy moves he had pulled off in the mobile game.

Mo Yi could no longer remember how many times that night he had been kissed by the huge jagged mouth behind him. The setting of one hundred percent pain was utter garbage. He had no idea which drunk game designer had come up with it. He really wanted to drag that person over and let them experience the joy of one hundred percent pain for themselves.

Thus began days that were painful yet happy. After running for who knew how many days, Mo Yi finally escaped the temple and received two abilities: "Mo Paopao" and "Riding EX."

The effect of "Mo Paopao" was that, after equipping the ability, his movement speed increased by one hundred percent while fleeing. He had a one hundred percent chance to evade attacks from behind, and even if he faced a desperate situation, so long as there was theoretically a one-in-ten-thousand chance of escape, that probability would trigger one hundred percent of the time. The note read: As long as I E fast enough, my teammates' question marks can't catch up to me.

The effect of "Riding EX" was also easy to understand. No matter what kind of vehicle it was, so long as Mo Yi considered it a mount, the moment he sat in the driver's seat, he would instinctively become the god of Mount Akina. Even if it were a dragon, he would ride it for you to see. The premise was that Mo Yi could touch the dragon and survive its huge mouth. The note read: I still remember the fireworks beneath Mount Akina's sunset that night when I was sixteen. They were the most beautiful bloom I had ever seen in my life.

"Temple Run" was not a difficult game to clear. Mo Yi had played it in his previous life, and it took only a few months. The following "Fruit Ninja" and "Plants vs. Zombies" were much the same.

After being crushed to death by fruit rain and bitten to death by zombies countless times in his dreams, Mo Yi finally cleared the initial tutorial games.

The ability obtained from "Fruit Ninja" was "Fruit Sword Saint." Once equipped, it granted a one hundred percent chance to slash any incoming flying object. The note read: After I sliced every fruit in the world, I discovered that nothing in the world could not be cut. Could this be the legendary realm of the Sword Saint?

The reward from "Plants vs. Zombies" was "Plant King." Once equipped, it granted the ability to control the growth and mutation of plants. The note read: Legend says that in a world of flowers called Sunflower Field, there lived a Tyrant of Flowers. Perhaps only by defeating the king of old could I truly be crowned Plant King.

To a certain extent, these three tutorial games were easy to clear, and the abilities they provided were excellent and powerful. Escaping, fighting, controlling, even farming and production—none of those posed any problem. Of course, they differed slightly from the development direction Mo Yi had envisioned. They were not abilities for direct combat.

Even "Fruit Sword Saint," the only ability that sounded like combat, merely guaranteed that he would hit the target. It did not mean he could break through its defenses!

If he could not even cut through the opponent's armor, wouldn't charging in be suicide?

Simply put, it was an ability for bullying fragile chickens.

As for the note on "Plant King," it left Mo Yi even more speechless. Just because it was phrased so tactfully did not mean he did not know who that Queen was. Before transmigrating, Mo Yi had worked as a game designer. How could he possibly not recognize her?

Defeat her and be crowned king?

Wouldn't he get slapped to the ground with one punch the moment he charged in?

And although he had abilities, the amount of mana he gained through gaming and its subsequent growth meant that if he went all out, he probably could not last even three minutes.

Of course, Ultraman only lasted three minutes against little monsters too, so duration was not the main contradiction. Personal skill and strength were what mattered.

The mana activated within Mo Yi by Little World was not fixed like data. Whether through physical growth or daily hard training, his total mana would slowly increase. It was just that the growth rate was a little slow. If he cultivated on his own without techniques or methods, then after roughly 4.6 billion years, he could challenge that woman and debut as the new generation's Plant King.

After completing the three tutorial games, Mo Yi also received the trial game, "Honor of Kings." Only after passing it could he become an Official Player.

The trial game was on a completely different level from the previous tutorial games. The earlier games only required him to clear them, but "Honor of Kings" required Mo Yi to achieve outstanding performances during the game, such as becoming godlike, getting pentakills, or going on rampages, in order to obtain Soul Stones. Once he collected ten Soul Stones, he could summon that hero in his dreams. Then he had to show off his real skills and embark on a spontaneous Date-A-Live with them. If he successfully gained their recognition, he would clear one stage.

To pass the trial, he had to gain the recognition of half the heroes in Honor of Kings. Once he gained their recognition, he could seek them out at any time to learn from them and so on.

Of course, heroes on the side of order were easier to deal with. If they were evil heroes by nature, the only way to gain their recognition was through the "make friends through artillery" method.

The strength of the heroes appearing in Mo Yi's dreams would also be adjusted. Their overall strength was only slightly greater than his, which gave Mo Yi the possibility of clearing them.

Thus, Mo Yi lived a busy life: attending school and playing games during the day, studying Runes with the Great Demon King Ryze at night, learning cooking from Tahm Kench, the River King, and learning to strike the heavens with Ashe, the Frost Archer.

And so, ten years passed. Mo Yi was still a proud, stubborn, and unyielding Grandmaster.

A full ten years had passed. Compared with other transmigrator seniors, Mo Yi had not even gained the true recognition of his cheat, let alone compared with those heaven-defying seniors who became kings at six, lords of the world at twelve, and unified the divine realm at eighteen.