"Want to grab a meal together tomorrow?"
Chen Nian sent the message to Xia Wen, the campus belle of Linhai City University.
Suddenly, her status changed to "typing..."
Chen Nian felt a little nervous.
But to his surprise, the first thing that appeared was a screenshot-of his own chat history!
[Hey, big bro, how should I turn down this simp?]
Chen Nian: ?
[Sorry, wrong person.]
She couldn't even be bothered to unsend the earlier message!
[Chen Nian, I'll be honest. Stop simping over me.]
[Sure, you're pretty good-looking, but who would be interested in a shut-in loser who does nothing but play games and read novels all day, with no ambition?]
[People need some self-awareness, understand?]
Chen Nian didn't reply. He simply blocked her.
What was wrong with being a shut-in who played games? How did reading novels offend her? Was he eating her food?
In fact, Chen Nian was very popular, especially online.
Xia Wen had no idea that plenty of girls pursued Chen Nian every day. Right now, for instance...
[Big bro, why haven't you replied to me yet?]
[Can you stay on the phone with me while I fall asleep tonight? Don't make me beg, big bro!]
[You received a transfer of "1314."]
[I'm wearing black stockings today. Want to see my legs?]
Chen Nian: I wouldn't mind seeing your legs.
[Image, image, image... Do they look good? I can even mail you my worn stockings. Give me your address.]
Chen Nian: Next time, for sure.
They were all messages from girls!
Of course, Chen Nian wasn't a scumbag. He had met all these girls in the game Calamity.
It was a massively multiplayer online game that had taken the world by storm, with over a hundred million players!
And Chen Nian was the strongest player in Calamity.
What did it mean to be the strongest?
When a tide of millions of monsters, all manner of calamity beasts, and primordial monsters gathered to deal a devastating blow to the players' main city...
He had stood alone outside its walls, slaughtering mountains of corpses and seas of blood, single-handedly turning the tide and shocking the world!
He possessed the world's only "Word Spirit Sage" class. His words became law, and he had countless fangirls across the world.
His ID was "Buyu."
He was a sacred monument in the hearts of tens of millions of players, someone they could only look up to!
Chiling, the flame mage queen, was a goddess with a million followers. She had confessed her love to Chen Nian with a sea of flames.
Rumor had it that she was the beloved daughter of the general commanding national defense in real life!
The ice queen Luo Xue had used her consummate ice and snow abilities to fight her way through ten thousand miles of forbidden territory, just to retrieve a "Rainbow Blossom" for Chen Nian.
Legend had it that she came from the Zhao Family, renowned throughout the martial arts world, and was an eighteen-year-old prodigy!
The lofty sword immortal others looked up to was simply his lively, adorable little sister Xiao Qi, who wanted nothing more than to cling to him every day...
Rumors said she was the heiress of the Su Group, one of the world's top hundred corporations!
There were simply too many people in this game who had fallen for Chen Nian!
Countless rich women wanted to pin him to a bed.
However, Chen Nian had always adhered to one principle.
-Online relationships weren't reliable.
That was why he had seriously pursued Xia Wen, hoping to have a relationship in real life.
Yet just moments ago, Xia Wen had insulted him, calling him an unambitious shut-in loser!
In fact, Xia Wen had no idea that Chen Nian had already made his fortune through gaming, buying his own villa and luxury car and amassing over a hundred million in assets...
He had earned all of it himself as a university student.
Now it seemed that real-life relationships weren't so easy either. Forget it, then.
Boom!
A bolt of red lightning flashed outside the window!
Chen Nian went to the balcony and drew back the curtains. The sight before him left him stunned.
The heavens split apart, and a blood moon hung overhead...
Crows screeched, and fierce winds howled...
Suddenly, it was as though the apocalypse had arrived!
At the same time, golden text appeared before Chen Nian's eyes.
[The game "Calamity" has merged with the real world.] [Monster deployment complete.] [Your character has been detected to possess the unique talent "Word Spirit Sage." Inheritance in progress...] [Countdown to the Blood Moon Calamity: 30 days.]
What?!
The game had merged with the real world?
At first, Chen Nian was utterly bewildered.
But as a shut-in who had read plenty of novels, he quickly understood what it meant.
It meant that the monsters and dungeons from the game would appear in the real world too. People would be able to unlock their genetic locks, obtain extraordinary abilities and superpowers, soar into the skies, and delve beneath the earth...
Even more outrageous was that he had inherited his in-game talent, "Word Spirit Sage"!
This was the most broken, most powerful talent in Calamity, the only one in the world.
It was precisely this talent that had set Chen Nian on the path to becoming the supreme king.
Was this real?
At first, Chen Nian still wondered whether he was dreaming.
"Status panel?"
Name: Chen Nian Talent: Word Spirit Sage (Unique) Genetic level: Level 1 (Tier 1) Genetic energy: 0
He tried calling up his status panel, and to his surprise, a screen of light really did appear before his eyes...
Chen Nian was stunned. It was exactly like the game!
There were 99 genetic levels in total. Upon reaching the maximum level, one could unlock their genetic lock and advance to the next tier.
Genetic energy = experience points.
So he had kept the talent he had obtained in the game, but everything else was starting from zero?
Another text prompt appeared:
[Please draw your initial Word Spirit.]
Normally, Word Spirits were gradually unlocked according to one's genetic level!
But upon obtaining this talent, one could draw one directly regardless of level, allowing even an extremely dangerous Word Spirit to be used immediately.
Numerous arcane golden characters appeared before Chen Nian's eyes.
He tapped forward with his index finger. In an instant, golden light erupted like an exploding star!
[Sequence 121: Word Spirit "Golden Sword of Judgment" awakened!]
Chen Nian took a deep breath, barely able to contain his joy.
This was a high-risk Word Spirit that could only be learned in the late game!
How powerful was the Golden Sword of Judgment? As long as a creature was within its domain, the golden sword hanging in the air held the power of life and death over it!
Once, Chen Nian had used a single Word Spirit to drive back hordes of demons from every direction, earning the adoration of ten thousand people.
With this Word Spirit right from the start, wouldn't he be invincible?
"Aaaah!"
A woman's scream suddenly came from outside.
Was that his next-door neighbor?!
With no time to think, Chen Nian vaulted out of the second-floor window.
Once outside, he discovered several demonic hounds, pitch-black as ink with blood-red pupils, attacking his neighbor's yard!
The monsters from the game had already seeped into reality.
They were attacking humans indiscriminately!
He would test the Word Spirit's power on these monsters first.