The King's Avatar: Failed to Protect the Mage

An unexpected encounter spanning eight thousand kilometers.

Daisy is a top student at ETH Zurich, a campus goddess, and a prodigy in AI ethics. When her family takes on the job of hosting China's Glory international invitational team in Switzerland, she downloads the game on a whim, hoping to do some advance research. Less than half an hour after creating her account, however, a level-75 Japanese player is chasing her around and humiliating her with a little wooden stick. She's a level-three beginner, utterly unable to fight back.

Just as she's about to quit the game, a Warlock steps in.

With a single sentence, he scares off the troublemaker. Then he takes her to a peach-blossom creek, sits down to chat with her, and speaks in a warm voice with an easygoing manner, his gameplay as smooth as flowing water. Daisy thinks: So this must be one of those legendary top players. She follows him everywhere, running dungeons and completing quests, and even works up the nerve to ask for his WeChat.

A few days later, she opens the Chinese team's player profiles and freezes.

The handsome man with refined features in the photo has the ID: Soxar.

Yu Wenzhou, captain of the Blue Rain team, captain of the national team, and one of Glory's Four Tactical Masters.

And she'd actually sworn to him, "I'll protect the Warlock."

Even worse, he still doesn't know who she really is. He doesn't know that the girl who chats with him every day, saves flowers for him, and shares little details of her life is the same person who will be waiting at the airport with a bouquet just a few days later.

In May, Zurich's lakes and mountains bask in the light as the drums of the international invitational tournament prepare to sound. When a beginner in the game meets a legend in real life, a story about Glory is only just beginning.