The year the eerie order descended, Jiang Du died in an S-rank instance.
For ten years after his death, his consciousness was trapped inside the instance. He watched helplessly as wave after wave of players entered, solved its mysteries, and died. Over those ten years, he learned every instance rule inside out. Then he was reborn.
After being reborn, Jiang Du found a “guilty rule” inside him. It was called the Law of Sin, an abandoned law of judgment left behind by the Old Gods. It could imitate rules, override taboos, and even devour anything. The price was that each time he used it, Jiang Du lost one human sensation: sweetness, cold, drowsiness, tears. He was slowly becoming the rules themselves.
Using his memories from his previous life, Jiang Du saved Wen Yiran, who was supposed to die in the first instance. She was his first love, and the only person who could enter the blank spaces in his memories and piece together what he had lost. The first time she entered the depths of his memories, she saw an erased area, like a sealed room with an ancient inscription carved into its door: “Guilty.”
Seven people joined forces to turn the tide in the eerie-order instances. Zhao Tiezhu shouted half a sentence before sacrificing himself. Lin Mobai betrayed them, then returned. Jiang Ruoli’s stolen past, and the true name A Jiu never dared to mention: everyone carried their own “Law of Sin” within them.
When Jiang Du discovered the truth behind the eerie order, that it was a struggle for the divine throne after the Old Gods’ deaths, and that the Law of Sin inside him was the very law that had once judged “Death” itself, he had to make a choice: become a god, or let everyone make it out alive.
“This is just a game.”
“And I just happen to have no intention of losing.”
