Chapter 1
Chapter 1
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Translator: crow
Chapter Title: Possession
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There are two kinds of people in this world.
Hardcore grinders and casual enjoyers.
Some people scrape by day after day with grim determination, while others just roll with whatever comes, savoring the moment.
1st: Shoot Towards the Sun (Starpoint Sect)
2nd: Carnivorous Dinosaur (Heavenly Demon Cult)
3rd: 97-Year-Old Grandma Kim Sam-soon's Final... (Zhuge Clan)
The young man with the nickname 'Shoot Towards the Sun', Lee Hyun, fell squarely into the camp of those desperately wringing every drop of enjoyment from life.
This ranking was all the proof anyone needed.
Dominating the World.
A classic masterpiece in the wuxia genre, so well-crafted that even over a decade after launch, players still logged in regularly.
In a game teeming with the foulest, most stagnant veterans, Lee Hyun proudly held the top spot in PvP as the rottenest of the rotten.
And he'd done it with the relatively niche Starpoint Sect, no less.
Lee Hyun savored a spine-tingling thrill from the steady stream of curses hurled his way.
The reason these veterans, who'd poured thousands of hours into the game, spat venom at him was simple.
The Starpoint Sect, the faction his character wielded, specialized in hit-and-run tactics leveraging overwhelming mobility and attack speed.
Strike first with lightning precision, then instantly pull back out of range—a supremely intelligent, wise, and ruthlessly efficient combat style.
Some called it cowardly and cheap, but Lee Hyun paid no mind to the excuses of weak losers.
No matter how much they whined, in the end, only results mattered in this world.
Victory and first place—that was all that counted. The process? Irrelevant.
'If you're gonna play, play to win.'
One of Lee Hyun's personal mottos.
And so the Dominating the World chat blazed with vitriol aimed at Lee Hyun for a good while.
If it were just an annoying playstyle, he wouldn't have drawn this much hate.
Starpoint Sect wasn't the only faction with a grating style, and everyone here was a veteran who'd mastered the game inside out.
Amateur hit-and-run nonsense? They could dismantle it with their own styles.
The real issue was...
'Shoot Towards the Sun' was an overwhelmingly dominant number one.
The undisputed PvP king of Dominating the World, a monster who'd crushed them endlessly and ascended to the peak of all veterans.
That's why it pissed them off.
It grated enough getting their lovingly optimized characters and builds demolished, but by a hit-and-run rat? What gamer wouldn't rage?
It was right in the middle of this routine WWE spectacle that it happened.
A single message popped up in the corner of his screen.
Having already wrapped up his preliminary trash-talk, Lee Hyun checked it right away—and could only gape in shock.
'Remake... announcement?'
The message was a remake notice from Wind and Cloud Pavilion, the devs of Dominating the World—a game that hadn't seen so much as a patch, let alone any notice, in years.
"No friggin' way... For real!? A real remake!?"
All thoughts of the chat flew from Lee Hyun's mind.
Remake! Remake!! A game he'd figured was basically in maintenance mode, just waiting to shut down, was getting a remake!!
It was like watching a coma patient who'd lain dormant for years suddenly rip out the life support and stand on their own.
'And a beta test to boot... I can't pass this up! Gonna tear into it before official launch!!'
Without a second thought, Lee Hyun installed the beta sent via email.
"...What the hell."
"Initiate Disciple Baek Hyun! Can't you focus on your training?!"
When he opened his eyes again, he was no longer Lee Hyun—he was Baek Hyun, an Initiate Disciple of the Starpoint Sect.