Online Game: From Nobody NPC to Lord of the Hydra

Lu Chen, a deep-space professional gamer, wakes up one day having transmigrated to the time before a game's public beta. He's become a cannon-fodder NPC, and a villainous spy to boot.

An intelligence agency agent in Los Santos with a bit-part character profile, a Hydra spy stuck in a cycle of three years, then another three years...

In a world overrun by demons, where vengeful ghosts are rising again, werewolves and vampires run rampant, and superpowered beings soar everywhere, he's nothing but cannon fodder.

Fortunately, Lu Chen still has his player interface. Killing monsters makes him stronger, and he can level up all kinds of skills with “experience points.”

Level up the Golden Light Mantra, with its max-level effects: forced purification, Daoist rites to deliver spirits to the afterlife, a hundred-foot golden radiance that kills anyone it shines on.

Level up Sword Control, with its max-level effects: a formation of ten thousand swords, a reincarnation sword formation, and ten thousand swords spinning.

Alchemy lets him synthesize anything: Great White Shark + steel = armored Great White Shark.

Player: “*Game dev, this BOSS is too strong! We can't beat it!”

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.