The Only One in the Know

The moment the game launched, the exit button disappeared. Pain synchronization was locked at 100%. Ten billion players were trapped in the game world, with no way back.

Lin Shen, a retired esports player, had been secretly recruited by Nebula Corporation for a closed beta three months earlier. While the rest of the world was still screaming in panic, he already knew the trigger locations for every hidden quest, the respawn coordinates of every world boss, and the astonishing secret buried beneath the game.

He made the first kill on the Abyssal Serpent and changed to the hidden class Shadow Abyss Walker, accomplishing in less than thirty minutes what others could never manage in a lifetime.

But he soon discovered that the Abyssal Epoch wasn't a game.

It was the final legacy an ancient civilization had left to humanity, and the ultimate trial to decide whether civilization would survive.

When the Lord of the Abyss awakens from the darkness, when cities around the world become battlefields, and when the white-haired technical director leaves behind just one sentence before disappearing

“Lin Shen, we chose you not because you're the strongest, but because you're the one who understands best.”