In the blink of an eye, Olivia Carter’s entire equipment had been sold off, leaving him with only a set of novice village cloth clothes. However, his Wushen (Martial God) title still gleamed, marking his irreplaceable, glorious history in this game.

“Lucy Gray, come out!”

Olivia Carter called out softly, and immediately, a faint glow shimmered in the air ahead. A delicate elven maiden appeared there—Olivia Carter’s exclusive elven attendant. Every player entering the game would have such an attendant; in reality, she was a system-configured sprite, guiding players through every operation in the game.

“Big brother!”

Lucy Gray joyfully wrapped her arms around Olivia Carter’s neck. She was nothing more than a string of data, her figure exquisitely petite, without a real body, standing about 30 centimeters tall as she sat on Olivia Carter’s shoulder, smiling as she said, “Is there something you need Lucy Gray’s help with again?”

Olivia Carter smiled slightly. “Lucy Gray, delete all my skills.”

“Huh? Big brother, really?” The elven attendant looked at him in shock.

Olivia Carter nodded. “Iris scan, confirm identity again, delete them!”

“Yes.”

The elven attendant reported the deletion results in a mechanical voice, one by one—

Yinshen Slash, SSS-level skill, Grandmaster level, deletion successful!

Blazing Sword Technique, SSS-level skill, Grandmaster level, deletion successful!

Ice Crystal Shield, SSS-level skill, Grandmaster level, deletion successful!

Stellar Art, SSS-level skill, Grandmaster level, deletion successful!

……

Dragon-Binding Spear Technique, SS-level skill, Wushen title granted skill, cannot be deleted!

Falling Star Step, SS-level skill, Wushen title granted skill, cannot be deleted!

Forging Technique, SSS-level skill, Grandmaster level, exclusive class skill, cannot be deleted!

……

In an instant, out of 24 main skills, only 3 remained undeletable; all the rest were successfully cleared.

Olivia Carter frowned. Falling Star Step, Forging Technique, and the others were all hard-earned skills. Forget it, there’s no time to delete the class, just leave these skills and delete the account directly!

“Lucy Gray.”

Olivia Carter called out, saying, “Initiate the self-destruction program. I’m leaving.”

The tiny elven attendant silently looked at Olivia Carter, and suddenly her beautiful eyes filled with mist, as if she was about to cry. “Big brother is leaving? Big brother doesn’t want Lucy Gray anymore?”

Olivia Carter couldn’t help but laugh and cry. He had never seen the elven attendant cry before, so he smiled and said, “No, that’s not it. Who knows… maybe we’ll meet again just around the corner? Lucy Gray, help me with the destruction program. I’ve already decided!”

“All right, big brother.”

Lucy Gray still had to fulfill her duty in the end. The next moment, Olivia Carter passed the guild leader position to Emily Thompson, and then his body slowly dissolved into streams of data. Watching himself disintegrate like this was truly an unpleasant feeling.

But Olivia Carter endured it all. He understood that a man must know how to take responsibility; he had to do what he needed to do. Only cowards run away.

……

“Whoosh!”

The light dimmed, and Olivia Carter appeared in a confinement space, his body already gone. He called out to the system sprite, “Log out!”

One second, two seconds, three seconds…

Nearly half a minute passed in a flash, but there was no response at all. Olivia Carter grew even more puzzled. “Log out, what’s going on?”

No one answered him; all around was a void.

Olivia Carter finally lost his composure and shouted, “System sprite? Lucy Gray? Let me log out!”

There was no logout notification, but instead, a strong sense of dizziness hit him. Ahead, it seemed as if a spiral force field had formed, dragging Olivia Carter’s consciousness down.

System prompt: Exit program has been tampered with, system loading!

System prompt: Loading complete, your network has been forcibly disconnected!

……

“Huh?”

Olivia Carter was bewildered. An even stronger wave of dizziness swept over him, pulling his entire being into the darkness ahead, his body falling, falling endlessly.

“Who’s so despicable, actually pulled my network cable?”

Before losing consciousness, this was the last thing he said.

Chapter 0001: The Seven Luminaries Demon Emperor

His body plummeted rapidly, as if passing through a dark tunnel. Who knows how long it lasted—suddenly, a flash of light appeared ahead, and Olivia Carter’s body was freed from that tearing sensation. But an intense, scorching heat quickly spread all around. With a “thud,” he landed on something soft, but when he reached out to touch it, it was all burning hot.

“Ah, where is this? It’s so hot, like I’ve entered a roast duck oven!”

When he opened his eyes, Olivia Carter was startled. He was actually in a sea of flames, surrounded by boiling, fiery red magma, and he had luckily landed on a rock protruding from the molten lava.

Didn’t I just log out of the game? But where is this…? It doesn’t look like my room at home.

……

He was utterly astonished, when suddenly he felt a suffocating presence. A sinister voice echoed from above: “Heh heh, Seven Luminaries Demon Emperor, you call yourself a Demon Emperor, but you probably never imagined you’d end up like this today, did you?”