As the two worlds merged under the power of the rules, everyone became a player, whether they had played the game before or not...
The real world entered an era in which everyone played the game, an era where players and monsters coexisted...
At that moment, monsters were attacking across the globe. Almost nowhere was safe, and everyone had no choice but to take up weapons and fight...
Against the game's monsters, conventional firearms were almost useless unless heavy weaponry was deployed, but that would only cause even greater losses...
Moreover, monsters had invaded heavy weapons stockpiles across various countries and regions. Even those who wanted to deploy them were powerless to do so...
With monsters everywhere, the strength people had gained in the game became the key to whether they could survive...
Some of the earliest players had already reached level sixty or seventy and could still handle ordinary monsters with ease...
But for those who had never entered the game, this was a nightmare. Without high-level friends nearby to protect them, death awaited...
The entire social system had collapsed, and even the authorities were powerless...
Fortunately, China had announced its policy of getting everyone into the game early on, and more than half its population were Ability Users...
When the monsters invaded, countless Ability Users stepped forward and successfully held them back, preventing countless casualties...
Soon, everyone discovered that killing monsters in the real world could increase their strength, and monsters killed in reality also dropped equipment...
This thrilled everyone. It meant they could grow stronger by continually killing monsters. Once they were strong enough, the disaster would no longer be a threat...
The merged world seemed to have become the Game World. The only difference was that if they were killed, they truly died...
That also meant