Streams of blood flowed from the piled-up corpses, soaking the earth and turning it muddy.
In the landscape where crows hovered high above, their eyes gleaming amidst the snowfall,
at the center of this desolate scene sat a man atop a corpse.
The man, clad in a black cloak and practical armor, silently glared into the empty air.
His fingers traced that void as if something were truly there.
To any onlooker, it would seem like the act of a madman, yet he continued to stare at what only he could see.
Before his eyes floated something that, by his standards, resembled a game interface, akin to a quest window.
At the center of this quest window lay an endless list requiring countless scrolls to fully view.
The man’s finger pressed firmly onto the center.
[Completed Side Quests]
[! Netchagni’s Smile Amidst the Battlefield]
[Mountain Troll Elimination]
[Black Dagger Gang Elimination]
…
……
The list was long, numbering in the hundreds.
As he gazed upon it, his eyes narrowed, revealing an emotion of resignation.
His teal irises once again turned upward.
There, another list appeared.
An exceedingly simple one.
[Ongoing Main Quest]
[None]
[Completed Main Quest]
[None]
When the game he once enjoyed and loved became reality,
he felt both bewildered and hopeful.
He believed that someday he could look back on this place as merely a memory. He trusted that completing all the main quests would send him home.
But the world wasn’t so easily tamed.
It had been 12 years since entering the game, Eternal Dominion,
and he was still Aslan, the game character he had created himself.
