Chapter One: Logout Failed
Kai's fingers flew across the keyboard, the screen before him flickering with rainbow-colored loot boxes and exaggerated 3D character models.
"Epic drop rate increased for 24 hours!"
The banner pulsed with every color imaginable, a final cash grab before the game's shutdown.
"Garbage," Kai muttered, sipping cold coffee. "Even the whales gave up."
Once, Mythic War: Reborn had pulled in millions. Now, it was a dead mobile game with recycled events and a player base made up of bots and bored devs like him.
With a sigh, Kai typed the final lines of code for the knock-off gacha event he'd been assigned—something about medieval skins and Crusader heroes—before slamming the Enter key.
The screen flashed.
Then it roared.
A deep, ancient voice echoed from his speakers:
"You dare to play god with fate?"
"What the hell—?"
His monitors exploded into blinding light. The floor dropped. The world vanished.
---
He woke up face-first in dirt.
The scent of smoke and steel burned his nostrils. Somewhere nearby, a woman screamed. A bell tolled—deep and foreboding. Kai groaned, rolled over, and saw a sky darkened with crows and fire.
Behind him, a massive wooden gate slammed shut.
In front of him stood a creature straight from a nightmare—a towering wolf-man clad in spiked iron, dragging a bloodied axe across the stones.
Kai stumbled backward. "Okay. Dream. Glitch. Hallucination."
A glowing interface hovered in the air above him.
> Gacha System Activated
Tokens: 0
Territory: None
Title: None
Summons Available: [0/1 Free Roll]
The beast growled.
Kai's eyes darted around. He had nothing. No sword. No power. Just a game system—and one free pull.
He hit Summon.
The screen shimmered.
A figure appeared—clad in silver, eyes blazing like suns, swinging a flaming greatsword.
"Summoned: Sir Alric the Flamebound – Tier S"
The werewolf lunged.
Sir Alric met it mid-air, steel and fire crashing into fur and fury.
Kai blinked.
"Okay," he whispered. "This might not be a dream. And I think…I just rolled a legendary."