I Am a Rune Engraver, Carrying a Knife Makes Perfect Sense - Chapter 23 - Playing for Real

His name was Arlan, a social outcast for his overweight body and constant bullying of his classmates.Today he was trying a brand new VR game called Abyss Saga. He had waited months for it, saving what little money he earned from cleaning a neighborhood cyber cafe.His parents don't give him money anymore saying he would get more fat.Putting that aside, the moment the game booted up, a soothing voice echoed in his ears.​[ Welcome to Abyss Saga. Please enjoy the most immersive underwater fantasy world. ]​[ Please choose your Role:​• Merfolk​• Crabkmen​• Water Fairies​• Sea God“Huh!”“What's this? Is this some kind of glitch?” Arlan muttered in bafflement.​To his knowledge, an overpowered Role like the Sea God shouldn't exist for a beginner player. Heck, there might not be a single player with the Sea God's Aspect yet.​While contemplating this impossibility, he clicked on the last option.​[ Role Confirmed. ]​[ Transferring the player to.... ]​[ Error! ]​[ Error! ]​Seeing the constant errors, Arlan thought the glitch was acting up again. However, what happened next shocked him.​No. Not just him. Every human across the planet.​A Universal Notification flashed in everyone's mind, mechanical and authoritative:​[ Congratulations! You Have Inherited: Aquabyss Domain (Divine/SSS+) ][ Talents: Sea God's Physique (Divine) ]---[ GLOBAL NOTIFICATION! ]​[ Sky Lord Aegis is the First Sky Lord to acquire a Divine Tier Follower! ][Admin_01]: “Again? How are we going to live like this?”[EternalWarrior]: DIVINE TIER FOLLOWERS?! That's impossible! This must be a system bug! Where did you find them, Aegis? Answer Us![FallenPaladin]: The Sea God is real! First the water, now a Divine-Tier Follower! Aegis, I beg you, come to my Island! I will be your personal servant![ThreeBeautifulPrincesses]: @FallenPaladin Do you have no shame at all?[FallenPaladin]: I don't want to talk to bitches.

Chu Qianze turned the pen in his hand in a circle and smashed it against the drum next to him, the loud drum sound resounding around him.

Facing the two people who looked over at him together, he pulled out a polite smile, which was very dazzling under the neon light.

“I’m sorry, you are ruining my eyes.”

Later:

Feeling the gazes of the people around him, the flashing lights that flared from time to time, and a few gasps, Chu Qianze’s mouth twitched: “Is this a new way to surprise people?”

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Chu Qianze, who had just arrived in the world and was getting acquainted with his surroundings, was inexplicably pulled by a man and was held in his arms.

“I already have someone I like; it’s him!”

Chu Qianze looked at the person blankly, but saw that the other person turned his eyes away, his breath a little disordered.

“..?”

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“Shit, why this guy!?”Of all the unique characters he could’ve transmigrated as, it had to be the bastard instructor.Vanitas Astrea.A third-rate middle game boss, who was dismissed from the University after severe allegations, losing his teaching profession and ultimately, exiled from the Empire.“.....How did I even get here!?”Vanitas must now circumvent his way around this new world, confront his past, mend broken relationships, and prevent looming tragedies that would lead to his demise.

Chosen by the System, Jing Ling, each time she was completing a task would harvest a bunch of scum males.

The accumulated grievance caused her to have an accident while performing the task. Reborn in a parallel time and space to a seventeen year old body, although the gender has changed from female to male, the various attributes and skills that were redeemed from the system were still there.

Looking in the mirror at a face that could cause the downfall of a country and its people, Jing Ling’s infuriatingly arrogant smile emerged.

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Don’t be afraid, this time I don’t want you. Change your girlfriend 🙂

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