Ash Burn's journey from orphaned gamer to world-shaper begins when he conquers Apocalypse Online, the most brutal VR game in existence. His victory should have brought fortune, but instead, he awakens in the apocalyptic realm of Heaven's Favorite: Wrath of Gods—a doomed universe pulled straight from a novel he once devoured. The cruel twist: he's trapped as a nameless extra in someone else's story. Equipped with scattered glimpses of the future, an iron determination to endure, and command over the Runes—ancient forces that gods and demons wage war to possess—Ash must navigate a minefield of threats. A reckless protagonist pursues his own destructive path. Ambitious angels hunger for godhood. An unavoidable cataclysm looms on the horizon. Walking the razor's edge between reshaping destiny and triggering irreversible ruin, Ash uncovers a disturbing truth: the world's fate operates on rules far more complex than survival and strength alone. An ordinary extra possesses the power to reshape an entire world's future—or become another corpse buried beneath destiny's weight. The real question demands answering: was Ash ever truly expendable, or does his presence signal something far greater?