The Urban Horror Game Designer
Chapter 62

The hero with only three days left to live

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The Shadow World had written a script for every monster born within its shadows. Their purpose was to help the shadows invade reality. If they developed other ideas along the way and failed to grow along their intended paths, the Shadow World would do everything it could to drag them back into the shadows.

Xuan Wen was much like Gao Ming. From the moment she opened her eyes, she had been fighting back.

She did not want to live like this forever. She believed she could change things.

She was a marginal supporting woman with barely any presence, an unpopular side character. She was neither the most beautiful nor particularly pleasant, but whether because of Gao Ming's influence or something already within her, she had chosen a dangerous, insane path. She had stolen the powers and destinies of eight heroines, leaving herself with eight wounds that would never heal.

Xuan Wen could not stop the Flesh and Blood Immortal's Main Will or the vicious soul Situ An had become. To buy Gao Ming enough time, she had no choice but to borrow the Shadow World's power.

As she returned to the shadows, she tried to drag Situ An and the Flesh and Blood Immortal in with her.

"Fusing with the Divine Heart takes time. Even if I get that heart, you won't be able to hold them off for me. So the best choice is for me to hold them off while you fuse with it." Xuan Wen was rational, unaffected by the turmoil of emotion. Everything she did was to pry fate off its course and secure a better ending.

Shadows blanketed the underground level like nightfall. Xuan Wen's body seemed to become a wound slashed between the two worlds. Shattered faces poured out of the Shadow World, enveloping

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