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Three thousand years after the Star Calendar began, human civilization has entered the early cyberpunk era.
Shen Nianyu, who grew up orphaned and dirt poor, was out looking for scrap metal to sell when the Abnormal Incident Response Group lured her in with a high salary. She became a cleaner of eerie dungeons.
The good news: Her genes might awaken an ultra-rare supernatural ability.
The bad news: The awakening failed.
Worse still, that year the eerie descended upon the entire world, and all of humanity entered protected zones.
Left alone in the level 99 dungeon "Radiation City," Shen Nianyu thought: Is nobody going to do something about this? Half-human, half-eerie lives matter too!!
Three years later, in the isolation facility...
Shen Nianyu suddenly opened her eyes.
She had awakened the SSS-rank supernatural ability "I Am the Grim Reaper" and gained tremendous mental strength.
Shen Nianyu: Hello again, eerie dungeons. Wait... what's with this zero balance?! Hold on, it's only been a few years! Why have prices worldwide gone up a hundredfold?! Aren't I the Grim Reaper? How did I end up a pauper?!
Still, being broke doesn't stop her from being the Grim Reaper.
Eerie: Let's corrupt this human and drive her mad.
Eerie: !!! Why is she purifying us?!
Players: Let's mentally control this human and make her take the fall for us.
Players: !!! Don't kill me! I was wrong!!!
Shen Nianyu: Exorcise one, then another, exorcise them all...
Later...
Eerie: Take all my items, just purify me already!
Players: Take all my points! Please enter the dungeon and help my family pass on!
A ridiculously talented top player returns to the beginner's village.
Worldbuilding: eerie dungeons + cyberpunk + a System bound to everyone + a little base-building.
A System-upgrade progression story. The heroine isn't a lone wolf, but has no permanent companions. Most of her companions are women.
The heroine becomes the strongest later on. A feel-good power fantasy.
There is a romance. The male lead appears in "Wenwen Nisen Fairy Tale Town," and the romance gets a fair amount of focus.
A scheming, jealous, green-tea-type pretty boy who is purely support X a ridiculously powerful, rakish, cunning old fox of a rascal who is a top-tier dom.
Note: There are plenty of descriptions of the male lead through a female gaze. He falls in love with the heroine at first sight, with an intensely one-sided crush, and is clingy, flirtatious, forward, and seductive. Includes dog-training fiction. The heroine is firmly in the position of emotional power. Please avoid this if it's not for you.
The folklore, feng shui, bagua, mythology, religion, and other details are all researched as I write. Please feel free to correct me if anything is wrong.
Dungeon list:
Chinese village: [The Hanged Ghost Village]
School rules horror survival game: [Dawn of the Butcher]
Stockpiling for survival in a gods' game: [The Flood and Blizzard City]
Chinese family role-play: [Wenwen Nisen Fairy Tale Town]
Mutated creatures in a multiverse undersea setting: [The City Where the Deep Sea Floods In]
Steampunk cruise ship game: [The Free Seahorse]
Western fantasy, endless time: [The Silent Place]
Final chapter: [Radiation City]
My next book will be a plot-driven story titled "The Game Descends: I Was Once a Max-Level NPC." Here's the blurb for anyone interested.
"Scepter" is a full-dive holographic game themed around magic. With its vast world and polished production, it became a global hit as soon as it launched.
The game's most important NPC is Maidi Xierge, a genius in magical research who became a healing magic professor at the top magic academy, Valandigang Academy, at just eighteen.
The genius professor was framed and died unjustly while working on a top-secret, epic-level magical research project.
The players' story begins when an ordinary commoner finds Maidi Xierge's lost wand. They level up, explore the map, and uncover the truth about the magical world.
Lan Lian is a university student who has been timid since childhood and has suffered constant bullying.
Her stepbrother even pushed her off a rooftop.
On a cold operating table, just after the doctor pronounced Lan Lian dead, the waveform on the heart monitor suddenly began to move.
Lan Lian's eyes flew open.
She remembered. She was Maidi Xierge.
After dying, she had been reborn into this world as a baby.
She also knew a secret: Her world was about to descend upon this one in the form of a game.
With bones broken all over and her limbs in casts, Lan Lian lay in her hospital bed with her phone and opened the severely stripped-down mobile version of "Scepter." She promptly put together a starting combination of elemental classes that players widely considered the worst.
Players in the game: Hey, hey, who are you? Your phone is so underpowered you're lagging into pixels, and your gear setup is just as awful. Can you even play or what?
After the game descends...
Players: What? Do you have cheats? You can do that? The guide lied! Isn't this the worst combination? How is it so powerful?!
The native inhabitants of the magical continent: Aren't I your favorite NPC? Give me some more potion recipes... Teach me some more healing magic...
A revenge and game-upgrade progression story, a feel-good power fantasy. The memories from her time as an NPC and the early part of the story are frustrating, but after her awakening it's pure wish fulfillment. The writing is lighthearted and a little ridiculous. The heroine is the strongest.
The world of "Scepter": high magic + steampunk + Lovecraftian elements + goblins + beastfolk + mutations. Includes various races from Western fantasy settings, such as dwarves, dragons, and vampires.
There is a romance, and it gets a fair amount of focus: a tsundere, long-lived crow-like beauty of a witch x a genius, dark-hearted archmage.
Note: The male lead is a virgin, while the female lead isn't. Please avoid this if it's not for you. The heroine has a deceased former love who was the light of her life, and there are quite a few detailed flashbacks. The male lead is described extensively through a female gaze.
Female Alpha, male Omega. In public, the male lead is aloof; in private, he spends all day acting spoiled and begging for attention. He's extremely obedient and scores full marks for gentlemanly conduct, but secretly gets jealous of the heroine's ex-husband.
Theme: Self-reliance and self-improvement
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Wonderful, wonderful, I love this height 😏 I should be able to pick up the hero easily
The so-called importance of leaving traces of work!
Agree! I agree so much! Short plays are like this now!
The author's description is so cute~[continue]
In fact, compressed biscuits are also delicious! I think the most delicious flavor is the original egg [Sprayed Egg]
Such a beautiful article, why are there so few comments?
From now on, everything weird will be Lord Death's licking dog 🐶
The full level is 100, and the dungeon has reached level 50. Is there anyone as stupid as Xiaopang? This is not the first time to download the dungeon.
"Source: Dawn of the Butcher" gives the author a big bug~ The invisible armor of the Sea Spider King, source: the city of the deep sea. The ax is the dawn of the butcher. [Compare your heart]