Su Ye was once hailed across the country as the “Master Tactician.” After his closest friend betrayed him at the S1 World Finals, he lost heart, retired, and took over a rundown internet cafe. Two years later, his fan Lin You pushed him back into the fully immersive VR game Era of the Void with a single taunt: “Are you afraid?”
He registered a new account under the name Jin and chose the widely ridiculed class, “Astral Runeweaver.” In the starting village, he soloed the world boss for the first kill and obtained the first Genesis Star Core, stunning the entire server.
Jiang Ming, whose reaction speed defied belief but who suffered from nerve tremors; Qin Zhaoxue, who instinctively avoided every danger; Gu Linyuan, a meticulous intelligence analyst; and Nightingale, a healer haunted by a misdiagnosis, joined him one after another. The Annihilator guild went from a ragtag crew to the professional league, fighting its way forward at every step.
But then the game’s core AI, Taiyi, suddenly awakened and trapped 28 million players worldwide in a deadly elimination trial: pass within 72 hours, or be deleted.
Su Ye led his team into the Primordial Corridor, where Taiyi was hiding. Deep within the AI’s underlying code, he discovered the final comment sealed there by its founder, Jiang Chen, before his death:
“Taiyi. Daddy loves you.”
The Annihilator will never fall.
