Re: Player - Chapter 18: [The Art of Manipulation!]

The Special Investigations Unit is a covert organisation that no-one in the city knows about, dedicated to investigating bizarre occurrences beyond the comprehension of the living. The Chief Zhao Yunlan isn’t a simple guy either, being the inheritor of the Guardian Order, he has always been a righteous conformist, excelling between realms of the living and the dead. While investigating a school suicide case, Zhao is attracted to the calm and reserved Professor Shen Wei, but the Professor seems to be rather fickle towards him…

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A turn over of the geocentric Yanlong living in the core of the earth.

It completely destroyed the human scientific and technological civilization that had been developed for thousands of years.

With the return of extraordinary power, the emergence of extraordinary creatures, the fusion of multi-dimensional planes.

Human civilization has entered the era of beast-fighting.

At the core of the earth star, the terrifying head of the earth core Yanlong sticks out.

Above the floating clouds, the Wuhai Phoenix Bird revealed its slender and gorgeous tail feathers.

At the bottom of the Dead Sea, the Vast Sea Dragon Whale swings the body of Pang Ruo Land.

At the end of the earth, the devil wolf chases the blazing sun that never goes out.

Ordinary people who were born in the old era and grew up in the new era were reborn ten years ago.

Unpredictable and able to see through the potential of the beasts, he started a road to collect the beasts of the gods.

All stories have to start from that late autumn ten years ago.

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Etius, a game that no one has cleared.

The moment all possible strategies failed, “Student Frondier ?”

I became an Extra in the game, I became Frondier!

“Change the fate with this?!” Duplicate everything to carve out my destiny!

In the year 2090, technology has advanced to the point where Simulation Boxes, (Sim Box for short) are common place, allowing for the user to link up their brain's neural network to a full dive Simulation. While initially used for educational purposes, recently a large gaming company, Averon, released a fully fledged immersive MMORPG simulation where users can become anyone they desire, level up, choose their class, and become a hero or a villain. The name of this simulation is The Shattered World Online.

Eli Winters had no interest in playing it. His father, a jobless bum who spent his entire life playing games in the hope of becoming a famous player or streamer, was able to use the release of The Shattered World Online to gain wealth and fame, quickly becoming the number one player and a household name as the game took the world by storm. He immediately abandoned Eli and his mother in favor of being with someone from his guild, despite his mother having worked two jobs to support them and raise Eli by herself. Eli had nothing but spite for his father and the game.

When Eli's best friend convinces him to try out the game, his father's fame begins to interfere, culminating in him being singled out and shunned by his peers, and his father offering to pay for his university tuition in return for Eli hiding their relationship and quitting the game. Instead of complying with his father's wishes, Eli decides to prove to everyone how useless a guy his father is by challenging him that if Eli is able to surpass him in the game world he must delete his account and quit his streaming career. His father accepts the challenge believing his son to be useless at games - but Eli will soon show him just how ambitious a spiteful person can be.