In his mind, the previous flat mechanical sound did not appear, and Henry Clark didn’t find it strange. After all, this thing that might be the so-called Lord God is definitely not one of those flashy “system” types—it would never act cute, never manifest as a moe girl or anything like that. It simply issues tasks, and then you either complete them or get erased—a cold and aloof type. To be honest, Henry Clark had already mentally prepared himself for this, since he had read too many “infinite flow” novels.

Henry Clark was not truly himself, or rather, he was not the original Henry Clark; he had transmigrated.

Henry Clark was originally a 27-year-old otaku from Z Country on a planet called Earth in the 21st century. One morning, when he woke up, he discovered he had transmigrated—he had crossed over to a vast, boundless world with a “round sky and square earth” cosmology, becoming a college entrance exam candidate in this world… a tragic disaster movie, just another part of the gaokao experience…

That’s right, this world had a very unscientific “round sky and square earth” worldview. The continent was said to be unimaginably vast and endless, though each day was still 24 hours, and there were still seasons like spring, summer, autumn, and winter…

This world also possessed supernatural elements. When Henry Clark first arrived, he personally saw an old lady dancing in the square who suddenly leapt hundreds of meters into the air. He also saw an office worker piloting a flying vehicle, who, upon landing, lifted the several-ton craft with one hand and carried it into the hangar…

This was a world far more technologically advanced than 21st-century Earth before Henry Clark transmigrated, yet it also possessed magic, cultivation, occult arts, psychic powers, and other extraordinary abilities. This world was called the Great Desolation Continent, and it was ruled by the Great Desolation Heavenly Court government.

During the several months since his transmigration, Henry Clark had figured out a few things. The Great Desolation world was extremely technologically advanced, and it was also an era of information explosion. Through the internet, he found out many things—for example, transmigration was something that had always been recorded on the Great Desolation world’s network.

Generally speaking, transmigration always occurred from high-magic worlds to low-magic worlds, just like energy transfer always goes from high to low to achieve balance. The Great Desolation world had long known about the existence of planes. In its scientific worldview, the universe was not a singular existence, nor was it simply a galaxy-type universe. Instead, countless planes formed a massive collection—a multiverse.

The Earth that Henry Clark came from was a galaxy-type large plane, and it was a no-magic or ultra-low-magic standard plane. According to the Great Desolation world’s scientific records, planes are classified by energy level: no-magic, low-magic, mid-magic, high-magic, and the one and only super-magic plane, which is where the Great Desolation world is located.

According to the Great Desolation world’s scientific theory, it should be absolutely impossible for any external being to transmigrate into the Great Desolation world. That would be like pouring together two cups of water, one at 200 degrees and one frozen at zero degrees, and ending up with half at 200 degrees and half frozen—impossible. Yet, Henry Clark had somehow transmigrated from a no-magic world to this super-magic world. He thought the only possible explanation was the stone watch he wore.

It was a watch carved entirely from stone, a souvenir that Henry Clark had bought by chance for a few dozen yuan. At the time, his friends had teased him, saying he’d bought a replica made by someone who had traveled back to ancient times and tried to recreate a modern item. He hadn’t thought much of it then, but now, thinking back, Henry Clark realized he had subconsciously put the watch on his wrist and then, without noticing, ignored it completely. No matter how cheap it looked, he had never taken it off.

His transmigration to the Great Desolation world was a standard soul transmigration—only his consciousness, memories, and soul crossed over into this body. In theory, nothing from the Earth plane should have come with him. But when he came to his senses, he found the stone watch still on his wrist. At that moment, he knew this thing was definitely extraordinary and was likely the root cause of his transmigration.

At first, he kept trying to solve the mystery of the stone watch—like dripping blood on it, dripping blood on it, dripping blood on it… and so on. He thought it was his golden finger, but who could have guessed that for months, the stone watch did absolutely nothing. It wasn’t until he dutifully participated in one of this body’s college entrance exam tests that a classic voice sounded in his ear.

“Enter the light pillar within thirty seconds. Transfer target locked. Lost XXXXX beginning transmission…”

The voice was majestic and deep, completely devoid of emotion, stating the message in a flat tone. Coincidentally, one of the tests in Henry Clark’s college entrance exam was to enter a subsidiary plane of the Great Desolation Continent for a field biology survey, and the entrance just happened to be a light pillar.

“…Infinite flow? Nightmare flow? Death movie flow? Or something else?”

As Henry Clark followed the tide of examinees, he kept pondering.