Blurb 1:
The Lost Eye of Ke Er is an upcoming full-dive role-playing game set in a Lovecraftian wasteland.
Its early promotional campaign touted plenty of selling points. The most celebrated were:
- The eerie yet magnificent landscapes created by collisions between space and time;
- Countless supernatural, indescribable horrors.
The rules of the game are simple:
1. Clear away and purify all the world's filth.
2. Kill the proxy bride.
When the game first launched, Cong Ying took a job boosting accounts to save up for college expenses. She accepted a beta account belonging to a rich kid.
But she closed her eyes, opened them, and found herself transmigrated into the game, with a hidden identity that made her worthy of a server-wide manhunt.
Cong Ying, No. 066
[Class]: Purifier
[Identity]: Proxy Bride
Cong Ying: ??????????
Blurb 2:
In this game world, violent collisions between temporal vortices have left dark matter covering 70% of the planet's habitable land.
Countless horrifying incidents have taken place in areas permeated by dark matter.
The Federation government recruits mercenaries to cleanse and reclaim contaminated land, while ability-user guilds recruit hunters to take on missions of all sizes in contaminated zones.
They enter these zones and are tainted by dark matter day after day, struggling to survive as fear transforms them into monsters.
Only Purifiers can offer them brief salvation.
Grade C Purifiers have no consciousness entities and can only cleanse others through physical contact.
They are the lowest-grade Purifiers, yet highly sought after in the Federation government's arranged marriages.
Buying out a marriage requires a large number of Federation credits. To earn them, you either work for the Federation, take missions from a guild, or, failing that, get them from relatives.
Cong Ying transmigrated into the body of a Grade C Purifier with no family, no money, and no credits. All she had was a... government-assigned fiance who wouldn't leave her alone.
"Grade C Purifiers are trash. Marrying an elite hunter is already the best you can hope for."
"With purification abilities this weak, you'd have to protect her if you married her. You'd make a lot more money selling her on the black market."
"All Purifiers act like they're above everyone and untouchable, except for Grade C. You can do whatever you want with them."
Cong Ying: Why be a Purifier? I'm switching classes and becoming a Hunter!
#Help, this is a real world!#
#She is his only salvation, and theirs too.#
#Nonsense. How could that infamous Hunter possibly be a Purifier?#
#Damn, she's the proxy bride!#
Reader's guide:
1. Wasteland plus Lovecraftian horror, with a touch of cyberpunk in the central city and subtle sentinel-guide elements.
2. The female lead is the strongest. The couple is set, and he isn't the fiance. Plot-focused.
3. Inspired by the stories of Lovecraft and Bloodborne.
4. Not traditional Lovecraftian horror. Read with caution. There are monsters.
Blurb dated January 15, 2023
Theme: Self-reliance and independence.
