All Things Return to the Ring

Three months after the “Heavenly Trajectory Convergence” phenomenon, the boundary between reality and illusion blurred completely. The game dimension known as the “Abyss” invaded Blue Star. Monsters ran rampant, cities crumbled into ruins, and human civilization teetered on the brink of destruction.

The survivors awakened digitized status panels and talents, becoming “players” who struggled to stay alive.

Ling Chen was an ordinary man barely clinging to life amid the ruins of the apocalypse. From the start, he awakened only the most good-for-nothing F-rank talent, [Minor Repairs], and struggled on the edge of death.

At the brink of certain death, as he lay dying in a desperate situation, his talent underwent a miraculous transformation.

[F-rank talent “Minor Repairs” has met the conditions for evolution... Evolving...]

[Congratulations! You have awakened the unique SSS-rank Mythic talent, “All Things Return to the Cycle”!]

From then on, he followed a completely different path.

[All Things Return to the Cycle]: Reverses the state of a designated item to any point along its causal chain.

A rusted iron sword could be restored in his hands into a peerless weapon tempered a hundred times.

An exhausted potion could be instantly replenished at his fingertips.

[All Things Return to the Cycle]: After killing a target, there is a chance to strip away its “causal fragments.”

From these fragments, he could glimpse the origins of monsters and discern their fatal weaknesses. He could recreate their powerful skills and make them his own. Even more, he could piece together the shocking truth behind the apocalyptic catastrophe.

While the gods gazed down from the heavens and treated all living beings as pawns, Ling Chen reversed causality and seized control of its source, advancing step by step from the Abyss.

“Your game, my rules.”

This is the story of a man who rose from the dust, ultimately weaving the Abyss and turning the gods’ game of chess on its head.