【Nakano Azusa-nyan: Nyan nyan nyan? Are all these perks real, nyan? Also, I really want to hurry up and get in to see Miss Lilith in person, nyan.】
【A Lifetime of Sakura Fame: I can actually join Brother Cheng's guild? Count me in!】
【Boundless Moon Sea: I really want to see the real Goddess in the game, ehe.】
【Unrenowned Fun-Seeker Spark: The NPCs' emotion system is really smart, so this looks like a lot of fun.】
【Minecraft Hao Chen: Can I reupload this post for a video?】
【Bruce: ??? Wait, you even want to reupload Brother Cheng's game review?】
【He Zixuan Who Meows 11 Times: Thanks for the hard work reuploading, Brother Hao. (Facepalm)】
【Fantasy UU: If I don't reupload, what are you guys gonna watch? Ooh~ (Suppressing a laugh)】
【Absolute Beginning Balance: Oh no, if Brother Hao doesn't reupload, I really won't have anything to watch.】
【Loves Eating Caviar: Minecraft Hao Chen? What's up with him? Wasn't he an MC creator with three million followers?】
【He Zixuan Who Meows 11 Times: You don't even know this? Brother Hao is just too authoritative.】
【Unrenowned Fun-Seeker Spark: Hilarious. To this day, nobody knows if Brother Hao has ever actually played Minecraft since he started making videos.】
【Fantasy UU: Just kidding, he hasn't even downloaded the game.】
【Absolute Beginning Balance: I can't hold it in.】
...
The cheerful chatter in the comment section continued, with comments and replies flowing across the screen like water.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the screen...
In a bedroom that was neither too big nor too small, the light from a computer screen reflected off a young face.
The youth looked to be around seventeen or eighteen, with slightly long black hair casually draped over his forehead and handsome features with a hint of lazy rebelliousness.
Huddled in a gaming chair, he rested his chin on one hand while slowly rolling the mouse wheel with the other, reading through the comments one by one.
A faint smirk lingered at the corner of his lips.
When he saw the replies under “Minecraft Hao Chen,” he finally couldn't help but burst out laughing.
“These guys... the forum is even more entertaining than the game itself.”
He tossed the mouse aside, leaned back into his chair, propped his legs up on the edge of the desk, and looked up at the ceiling light.
“Though...”
His gaze drifted back to the screenshot at the top of the screen.
The Goddess floating midair, her holy radiance undiminished even in a screenshot—the sense of oppression still stirred something inside him through the screen.
Then came the screenshot of the Shadow Dragon. Blotting out the sky, colossal and ferocious, its body composed of dark black photons spanned the sky, its vertical pupils gazing down coldly at the ground.
“Tsk...”
The youth's eyes narrowed slightly, and his lazy smile gradually turned into the excitement of someone who had stumbled upon something truly good.
He sat up straight, rubbing his hands together as his knuckles cracked lightly, like a player warming up before a big match.
“《Glorious Era》, huh?”
He pronounced the game's title word by word, his voice dropping slightly with a deliberately deepened tone.
“Looks... pretty interesting.”
He suddenly stood up, kicking away the gaming chair's footrest so hard the chair slid far away. Standing in the middle of the room with hands on his hips, he threw his head back to gaze at the sky—or rather, the ceiling—and took a deep breath. In a chuunibyou tone, as if reciting epic lines, he declared:
“I, a traveler of ten thousand realms, having crossed the thorns and abysses of countless virtual worlds, have finally sensed the call of destiny here!”
“That beautiful angel! That majestic dragon! And that—supposedly super cute blonde saintess!”
“All of this manifests a singular truth to me—”
He raised a hand, fingers spread wide as if trying to grasp something invisible, his eyes filled with a mysteriously serious intensity.
“This game... I shall conquer it!”
As soon as the words left his mouth, he pulled his hand back, coughed twice, and reverted to his lazy demeanor, muttering, “...Well, nobody else heard it anyway, so it's not embarrassing.”
He then lay down inside the gaming pod in his bedroom and opened the game he had pre-downloaded.
The black login interface lit up quietly, featuring a slowly rotating angel holy crest in the center with a golden halo shimmering around its edges.
In the bottom left corner of the interface was a small line of text: 《Glorious Era》 Version 0.2.0.
“Come on, come on, come on...”
The youth muttered as he tapped his finger on the interface.
“Let me see if this game is really as amazing as they hype it up to be on the forum.”
“If it fails to live up to its reputation—”
He paused, grinning.
“Then I'll write a thirty-thousand-word roast post on the forum, bashing everything from graphics to plot, from NPCs to devs, turning Nan Cheng's strategy post into my personal background prop.”
“So—don't disappoint me.”
He pressed the “Connect” button.
【Ding—】
【Game connection successful...】
【New version detected】
【《Glorious Era》 Version 0.2.0】
【Updating version...】
【Downloading update package... 10%... 47%... 89%...】
【Ding—Update successful】
【Loading game...】
【Loading successful】
The youth's vision darkened for a second before blossoming into a soft, gold-and-white light.
Beyond the light, he arrived in a pure white space.
A system prompt to create a character sounded in his ears.
Gazing at the “self” standing before him, waiting to be customized, the curve of his lips slowly widened beyond control.
“Alright.”
“Looks like this trip won't be wasted.”
He rubbed his hands together, leaned closer, and began meticulously wrestling with the character creation interface.
—And judging by his expression, he probably wouldn't be coming out anytime soon.
Rate on N.U.
