Reborn to Turn the Tide: Before the Game Invasion

When Yu Xunge opened her eyes, she stared at the luxurious chandelier on the ceiling, still somewhat dazed.

Hadn't Yu Xunhuan trapped her in a formation in the dungeon and drained her blood?

In the very next second, she instinctively stirred the energy inside her. A year on the run had turned this into a reflex: no matter where she was or what the situation was, she would first find somewhere safe, then think things through.

But she sprang up with a graceful, athletic flip, and nothing happened...

The response from her body told her she was just an ordinary person now.

Just then, voices came from outside the door. It was a voice she could never forget, even in her dreams: her agent, Liu Zhengliu.

She sat up and looked around. A hotel? Beside her pillow was a phone she hadn't seen in years. She picked it up. The screen showed February 21, 11 p.m.

The year 2078!

Yu Xunge felt her breathing quicken. Had she been reborn? A year before the game invasion?

No one knew that one year later, on this very day, the entire Blue Star would be invaded by the world of a game called Calamity of Myriad Races: Rift of Terror.

To plant an anchor on Blue Star and link itself to the planet, the game that would invade Blue Star arrived in 2078 in the form of a game. It briefly held three closed beta tests, each lasting only seven hours. They came without warning, and almost no one knew about them. Still, a few hundred people downloaded the game, whether out of boredom or by chance. By the third test, word had leaked, and as many as a hundred thousand people logged in ahead of time.

Among those who took part in the tests, some would spend the rest of their lives regretting that all they had done was play