How Did Playing a Game Turn Me Into an Interstellar Mercenary?

[A slow build-up at first + no mindless power fantasy + not invincible, a small-time character’s growth early on. Read with caution if that’s not your thing.]

A pushover in real life, a powerhouse in the game!

You ask where I got these knockout punches? I picked them up, of course!

I was playing a building game, and all it took was finding a smart watch for me to suddenly become a remote-controlled alien mercenary?

Whatever. I’ll treat it like a dungeon run. Let’s do this!

As I kept fighting, I earned a pile of blueprints for advanced alien technology:

Solar furnaces, with more energy than you could ever use!

Humanoid mechs, making mechanical ascension a reality!

Huh? The game actually accepts these blueprints. If I can build all these impossible pieces of equipment, I guess I’ll have to be the boss!

Wait, if these things are real and can be built in the real world, then doesn’t that mean...

Lu Fan:

“Holy crap!!!”