Gold text? No way! Dark gold text? Even less! Blue text? Still no!

After picking and choosing, Brian Carter was left with only a pair of ordinary white-text iron rings in his hand, which, apart from decoration, had no other use whatsoever.

Looking at the rings in his hand, so ordinary they couldn’t be more ordinary, the corner of Brian Carter’s mouth curled up slightly. Inside the pitch-black battle armor he wore, a faint purple glow gradually began to emanate.

In an instant, this faint purple glow rapidly expanded, and a head-sized ball of purple flame ignited in his chest. Under the pitch-black armor, it looked especially dazzling and brilliant.

“What does it mean to turn decay into magic?”

Brian Carter smiled as he watched the slowly floating ball of purple flame in his palm. He took out a crimson fire magic crystal from his spatial ring, and, together with the purely decorative ring, tossed them both into the purple flame.

The next moment, the crimson magic crystal and the ring began spinning rapidly within the flickering purple flame. The two objects kept colliding, until finally the crimson magic crystal was completely liquefied and merged into the ring. The somewhat dull ring began to emit streaks of dazzling red light.

Ding...

With a crisp sound, the crimson magic crystal was fully absorbed into the ring. The purple flame flowed back into his body along his arm, and the once utterly ordinary iron ring now glowed with a captivating red light.

Blazing Flame Fox Ring: For human-level, tier five and below ice magic, freezing time is halved. Magic power +10. Human-level, tier one Fireball Spell is instant-cast, ten times per day, no level restriction for wearing.

Soulfire of the Alchemy King! The unique secret technique of the number one expert in online games! A reward obtained after completing a super quest, the Soulfire of the Alchemy King in the game can be used to synthesize equipment and materials. As one’s mastery deepens, the equipment refined becomes even more advanced.

For someone to become the number one expert in a game is no simple feat. This Soulfire of the Alchemy King could be called the secret weapon of the top player back then. While others were busy hunting for a suitable weapon by defeating a boss—

The number one expert in the game was constantly killing magical beasts, obtaining magic crystals and dragon crystals. Then, using his own Soulfire of the Alchemy King, he would fuse the magic crystals with some mediocre equipment, creating gear with excellent abilities. This is why, when Brian Carter opened the top player’s spatial bracelet, he found that aside from magic crystals and dragon crystals, there was also a pile of magical beast hearts—also called magic cores—that could be sold in shops for a good price.

A person who can refine equipment on his own with the Soulfire of the Alchemy King can at the very least easily become a wealthy figure in the game, and it’s much, much easier for him to become the number one expert than for others.

“So, this magic crystal is from a low-level fire fox.”

Brian Carter put away the first ring he had ever refined himself. Although among the three levels—heaven, earth, and human—human level is the lowest grade of equipment, this ring was made from the worst materials and still turned out this well, especially with no level restriction for wearing, something even many divine artifacts can’t achieve. It could be considered a top-tier item among low-level equipment.

“Killing the Deep Blue Demon? That’s nothing! I’m going to take down the ultimate boss in the game, the Creator God Xue Te!”

Brian Carter gripped a sword in his left hand and a staff in his right, his confidence swelling as he shook the Flying Ring in his hand, his body covered in multicolored battle aura as he sped toward the nearby Xue Te Forest.

At the same time, a technician at the headquarters of “Fantasy World” gently pressed the Enter key on the keyboard, steadied himself, stood up, and said, “The game has been completely shut down.”

The headquarters fell silent. A game that had run for years had just ended like that.

Chapter One: The Fierce Transmigration

Looking up at the star map in the sky he had never seen before, then down at the mouse-like creature with two horns at his feet, and finally at the unknown beast he had crushed to death beneath him, Brian Carter slapped himself twice, feeling a burning pain on his face, and finally confirmed one thing: he had really transmigrated.

As someone who often read online novels, Brian Carter was no stranger to the term “transmigration.” He just couldn’t figure out how, while playing a virtual reality game with a helmet on, he could actually transmigrate—and even bring his in-game equipment with him.

Opening the spatial bracelet on his wrist, which looked like a birthmark, he found several pieces of artifact-level equipment from the game, along with a pile of magic cores obtained from killing monsters, all lying quietly inside, silently confirming that they, too, had transmigrated with him.

Looking at the dragon crystals, magic cores, and these few artifacts before him, Brian Carter once again recalled what had happened before his transmigration.

At that time, the online game Fantasy World was about to be permanently shut down. On the last day before closure, he spent ten yuan to buy the account of the game’s top player, then logged in, planning to enjoy being the number one for once. While he was fighting a boss, everything suddenly went black—and he ended up in this place.

A wolf’s howl came from deep within the forest. Brian Carter shivered and cautiously looked around.