P.S. Thanks to Blind Man and Canglong Tengyunxiao for the tips, and to Shi Yu Zhong for the monthly vote! Sixue's new book, Cultivation Chronicles of Explaining the Characters, is up. It has a fascinating premise. I'll let everyone know once it becomes searchable!
Ten years passed in the blink of an eye.
Time moved so quickly. Before anyone knew it, the years had slipped through their fingers.
In the Dark World, the former Central Military Academy had been renamed the Origin Land.
It lay closest to the Burning Hell's projected territory. It was the headquarters of humanity's class-changers and the front line against the invading monsters.
That day, in the Origin Land...
Young Jilia emerged from the class-change area, her face alight with excitement. She had just advanced into a great Spellcaster and gained her first spell: the Lesser Fireball Technique!
"Congratulations, Jilia! You've grown up now. You're a brave Spellcaster, and you can finally do your part for this continent!"
A burly man with a massive axe on his back patted her head as he spoke.
"Yeah. Ten years... That little girl has finally grown up. Now she can fight alongside us!" A woman in tight leather sighed, then whipped a dagger from its sheath on her thigh and spun it through an elegant flourish.
"Ten years already. It went by so fast without us even noticing." A man wrapped head to toe in gleaming white armor revealed a solemn, saintly face as he spoke.
His words plunged the others into a sorrow they could not quite name.
Ten years ago, heaven and earth had changed.
First, the Virtual Realm had descended. The Evil Angel Race had brought Heaven Mountain and its seven tiers into this world with overwhelming force.
Then, just as countless lives stood on the