Chen Lun arrives in the year before the game's launch as an unexpected NPC, watching a new era unfold before him. Steampunk aesthetics collide with divine mysteries—the Seven True Gods' Sequences, obscure artifacts, consecrated halls, and safe havens blur together in shadowed depths. A black top hat crowns his silhouette against a desolate landscape. Assembled behind him: former game versions' most notorious antagonists. The voiceless Nun Floey. The Bloody Painter Noah. The blade-wielding Antonio. The fractured Clown Alec... Chen Lun smirks, "While players hunt monsters, I hunt players. The logic is impeccable..." ... Known also as "Players as Perpetual Assets: A Practical Guide," "These Bosses Command Fearsome Power—Yet They Answer Only to Me," "Impossible—I Too Can Ascend to Godhood?!"