The Split-Personality Savior

[Advance preview: The Regional Showdown. Click the author's column to see it.]

2060, a residential district.

A forgotten television broadcast a call to defend their home.

Sui Sui pushed open the door in exasperation, bringing the old era to an end.

The long age of demons had awakened once more.

"Our commander has a genetic disease and can't do strenuous exercise. But thanks to her wise leadership, order was restored across the land."

Sui Sui's most devoted supporter, a black-haired young man, was enthusiastically praising her to the new recruits.

In Spark City, famed for its freedom, the people worked through the night to build a statue of the city's lord, a figure dressed in black with silver hair.

The citizens knelt on the ground, overcome with gratitude. "Your spirit will live on in this land."

She had many other names that remained unknown: Sui Sui, the visitor from another world; the current head of the official organization; and the leader of the greatest source of evil.

The Regional Showdown

2290, the ruins.

The native Morris covered himself in brown oil, leaped and danced around the fire, and sang the songs of his ancestors. He bowed his head to the earth, praying to Heaven for food and weapons.

2290, the modern world.

After finishing a day's work, Yue Si put on a gaming helmet and passed through a portal summoned across time and space, arriving in this bleak land of reddish-brown earth.

On that day, Chris, an aging native with nowhere left to turn, met the future city lord, the only god-tier player.

Theme: Life is precious.