Ultraman: When I Let Players Descend Upon the World of Light

If one day, Tiga told you, "You can become light too," would you be willing?

Su Chen's answer: he had no choice.

At 3:17 a.m., he was still at the office working overtime and revising code. Suddenly, a burst of golden light erupted from his computer screen. When he opened his eyes again, he was standing amid ruins.

The sky was dark red, the air reeked of something burnt, and a monster fifty or sixty meters tall was slowly rising from behind a skyscraper, a dark purple orb of light gathering in its mouth.

It's over. The thought had barely crossed his mind when a beam of light descended from the sky.

Red, purple, and silver, with a diamond-shaped crystal on its forehead and streamlined chest armor. He recognized that figure: Tiga.

"I've finally found you." The giant's voice rang in his mind. "The light in this world is fading. I am the last remnant."

Before Tiga vanished, he sent the last of his light particles into Su Chen's palm. A translucent interface appeared in his vision: "Light Savior System activated. Developer: Tiga himself."

The System's core function could be summed up in just five words: turn the world into a game.

Seventy-two hours later, the people from his original world would log in as players. They would form parties, fight monsters, complete quests, and unlock Giant of Light forms, never realizing that every bit of light energy they generated was truly saving a world on the brink of collapse.

Three thousand people, three hundred thousand, three million, a hundred million.

When countless players pressed the transformation button at the same time, and those whose light energy had run out clenched their fists in front of their screens in the original world, Su Chen finally understood that when Tiga said, "You can become light too," it had never been a metaphor.

The ticket Tiga left him was always one-way.