"Im dizzy..."

  Lei Wen was dizzy from high fever, he struggled to maintain his sanity, but his mind was more chaotic.

  The scenery that entered the line of sight was the mountain forest river bank at sunset, and the river water rushing down from the mountain continuously washed the pebbles on the shore.

  The river water and the riverbank, a dirt road with smooth pebbles, straightly divides the dense forest into two halves. Looking down at the mountain, the end of the main road is a magnificent city situated on the middle of the mountain, shining brightly with golden light.

  City of Gold!

  The golden city is exactly the same as the newbie zone of the game a few years ago.

  Raven was stunned by this scene - last night, he was still a top player in the ultra-realistic game "Aurora World".

  He clearly remembered the last scene he saw was under the dark sky, with fierce winds howling, countless undead pouring out of the divine realm of the lich god Vishaeron: a skull army in units of ten thousand, surrounding the corpse witch in the sea of bones, bone dragons and skeletal griffins swooping through the sky...

  The undead legion was endless, like a tide that could dye the entire world white. Their target was only one - Raven, who had been betrayed by his own master, the god of assassination, Shirek. He couldnt remember how many skeletons he had shattered, but in the end, it was the densest disintegration rays that covered the sky and buried Raven, who had no way to escape. After the light that could burn out the retina just by seeing its afterglow, the world became pitch black...

  In Ravens conception, with his last chance at reincarnation, what he saw when he opened his eyes should be this scene: a desolate wasteland devoid of life, with grayish-black rocky peaks jutting out in disorder, and in the distance, corpses scattered all over, countless pale blue ghostly fires drifting silently across the silent battlefield. In the center of his field of vision, two screens would be playing back the highlights of his own "brief life" in the game.

  Then you will see the skull face of Yagak, the ancient death god in the game.

  Yak is the chief steward of the Lord of the Dead, a fatalistic deity responsible for recording the ultimate fate of all departed souls. He never gets angry and always maintains an air of detachment and excessive politeness; his tone of voice sounds like the faint echo of a chill that has been lingering in a long-forgotten tomb. The only thing that concerns and strives for this king of all endings is to record the destiny of the entire world in an orderly manner, just as the world slowly sinks into death.

  Jacob then presents several reincarnation options...

  The scene he had imagined did not appear in Ravens eyes.

  What he saw was the Golden City that should have been destroyed in a volcanic eruption in 1318 AD in the game of Azeroth.

  Levin subconsciously wanted to get up, and his body suddenly felt an unusually clear sense of weakness.

  Levin was stunned - wait! Am I still in the game?

  Even if "Echoes of Eternity" boasts the highest degree of realism in a consciousness-syncing game in human history, there are still many places where you can tell at a glance that youre actually inside the game.

  For example, there are only a few monotonous waves in the river, for example, the trees in the game actually have only more than 50 shapes, for example, various negative states lead to only visual blur and physical heaviness, and for example, the dampness of early spring has only monotonous water vapor without the smell of all things growing...

  But what does Raven see now?

  The ever-changing waves of the river water.

  No two pebbles have the same shape.

  Tree branches swaying naturally in the wind

  There are also some festering wounds on his left hand that have attracted flies...

  All of this was too real, and it made Raven feel as if he were trapped in an illusion. Raven wished that when he closed his eyes the illusion would shatter, and when he opened them again he would find himself back in the cozy doghouse at home.

  Hallucinations havent disappeared.

  It should be said that ones own brains fantasies are the real hallucinations.

  At this moment, he was quietly lying by the river, with his lower body being washed by the river water. He felt a strong stinging pain in two places: his left rib and back. Leiyin couldnt help but pause for a moment, carefully feeling it out. His back should be just a superficial wound that wouldnt cause any problems. But his left rib... Leiyin subconsciously propped himself up with his right arm, flipped over, and touched his left rib. A sharp pain shot through him, interrupting his movement, and he barely managed to hold back a miserable cry.

  Troubles gotten bigger, Ravens rich experience in the game told him that he had a fractured rib and to make matters worse, the broken rib had pierced into his lung. Raven was certain that he had internal bleeding and whats more, the internal bleeding was starting to accumulate in his left lung, if this went on, he would eventually kick the bucket.

  No, its a miracle in itself that Im still alive today.

  "Uggghhh..." The flat stomach let out a disgruntled protest.

  My forehead still had waves of high fever coming over me.

  Alright, it turns out that all these things that seemed like seeing ghosts - being fatally injured, starving, having a fever... were all his!

  Levin pressed his right hand to his left ribs, feeling for the broken bone, gritted his teeth, and with a tearing, heart-wrenching pain, he wrenched the broken bone back into place.

  Originally, there would have been a blood-curdling scream, but the fresh blood gushing from his lungs choked his throat. After coughing up several mouthfuls of blood, his breathing became slightly more normal.

  Internal bleeding cannot be ignored, otherwise it will still be fatal.

  Leiwen began to focus his consciousness inward. He consciously slowed down his breathing, feeling the pulse of blood flowing through his body with each heartbeat. Slowly, slowly, he spread his awareness from his heart to the area around his lungs, and then continuously thought about tightening the muscles in that area, compressing all the blood vessels there, forcing them to close, letting the blood start to coagulate, thus stopping the internal bleeding...

  This is a very famous and difficult-to-practice legendary skill in the game - Self-Stabilization.

  Under intense concentration, Raven succeeded. Also because of his highly concentrated consciousness, he ignored a small voice...

  The injury has finally stabilized, and now its time to heal as soon as possible. Otherwise, the injury will not deteriorate but cannot be maintained for a long time.

  Raven finally had some time to think.

  "How did I end up here?"

  "Was it when I died that the game system upgraded?"

  "Isnt this kind of rebirth too terrible? Didnt the game company solemnly swear that rebirth would at most only drop one rank?"

  "I was a level 109 Shadow Master before my first death, and a level 118 Divine Assassin of the Gods Fang before my second. The game ranks professions by total level, with each 20 levels being a tier, from lowest to highest: Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold, Legendary, and then Sacred, which is considered the entry point for divine tiers... how are both of my characters Sacred?! Even if I were reborn as a Legendary powerhouse, I should at least have a Bronze body, and be immune to illnesses like fever..."

  "How did I end up reincarnating as an unemployed 0-level goblin in a small village next to the Golden City of Alras?"

  Levin muttered to himself. When he mentioned Arzamas, he involuntarily repeated the name several times.

  Right! I remember now.

  His name was Raven, a fifteen-year-old half-elf boy with pointed ears. Since he could remember, he had been living in the small village of Aras with his father Robert and thirteen-year-old sister Carlin. They were farmers and hunters. Although he always felt that he looked completely different from his father and sister, this did not affect the harmony of the family at all.

  The night before last, a sudden and massive goblin army destroyed the entire village, and my fathers life or death is unknown. The lucky survivors in the village hid in the only church in the village waiting for rescue. A day passed, but there was no sign of rescue. Last night, what we waited for was another attack by the goblins, and the church fell in the second half of the night. The fleeing villagers escaped from their homes and headed towards the safe place in their hearts - the Golden City.

  In the process of escaping from the relentless pursuit, Raven and Karin jumped into the icy river. Raven lost consciousness in the water, it was Karin who pulled Raven back to life with all her might against the torrent. Without Karin, there would be no present-day Raven.

  No!

  Wait!

  That raven had actually died in the water, and what Karin saved was just his body.

  I am Raven! An ordinary young man from Huaxia. My surname is Lei and my name is Wen, not the Western name Raven.

  "No! Both ravens are you!" a mysterious voice in his heart said to him.

  Two vastly different lives, two sets of memories that were worlds apart, at this moment were like pouring white milk and black chocolate into a blender. After a whirring sound, they merged together. They both lost their original colors, no longer white or black, but a blended brown color.

  I really want to look up at the sky and curse: "Its too absurd!"

  He never got to curse out loud, and cursing now would be pointless. From another fragment of memory, Raven finally figured out what had happened: he had crossed over!

  A death in the game allowed his soul to cross over into this world, identical to the game "ArcheWorld". To be precise, he entered a weak body that had died from shock, injury and fever, while merging with part of the deceased Ravens soul.

  Lei Wens brain was still in a mess, hurting badly. He clenched his fists with all his might and could feel his fingernails digging into his palms, but this did nothing to alleviate the pain in his head.

  He could clearly feel the deceaseds infatuation with life, his reluctance to part with his sister Karin, his hopes for the future, and his longing to become stronger. What left Raven at a loss was that all these emotions had now become his own.

  The turmoil in his mind began to subside.

  "The high player Raven in that game is me."

  "At this moment, the young Raven living in the world of Au is also me."

  Lei Wen began to accept reality, in Hua Xia he was an orphan, with no friends or attachments, playing games while waiting for graduation and the arrival of unemployment. Honestly, theres nothing to miss. If given another chance, he would probably choose to directly cross over into the game world...

  Huh?!!

  Suddenly an idea like a flash of lightning that cuts through the dark night, split open the mist in Ravens mind.

  According to the deceased Ravens memory, it is now March of the twilight years (Ou Chuan Li 1314, March), which is also the date when the game just started. From 1314 to 1318, these four years are officially referred to as the First Era by the game officials, and colloquially known among players as the Turbulent Years. The in-game history has been written up to: the fifth year of the Fourth Era!

  If the development of this world strictly follows the history of the game, then four years after the beginning of the turbulent year, a devastating year that lasts for three years will be ushered in, followed by two years of sailing and finally the war year of the new world.

  A surge of irrepressible excitement and ecstasy turned into a hot current that spread throughout every corner of Levins body.

  If everything is true, then in the next decade or so, Raven will become more prophetic than the prophets and more divine than the gods.

  Raven, who had the personal specialty of 博闻强记 from the beginning of the game, clearly remembered every process in the game. At the same time, as a traverser, no one would be clearer than him about what would happen next.

  From now on, in four years and two months, the era of destruction will arrive. The thrones of the gods will fall from heaven to earth, and the once-high gods will incarnate as saints of the holy realm, walking on the ground to seek the establishment of a divine kingdom on earth.

  Then in three years, the entire Azeroth continent will collapse due to the disappearance of the supreme god A and the withering of the branches of the World Tree that supports the Azeroth world. All sub-planes attached to this main plane of Azeroth will be affected, including the Heavenly Realm, Hell, the Endless Abyss, and various elemental planes.

  The only way to survive is to excavate the floating stones hidden in the Aochen continent, use divine power to build a floating continent that can hold the Divine Kingdom, move all believers and the most valuable things onto it, follow the guidance of the Starry Mother River to travel through dimensions, find another branch of the World Tree.

  Levin clearly remembered that only thirty-six floating continents successfully set sail, and in the end, only twelve floating continents reached another world. The exhausted gods and their descendants had to face another system of gods who vowed to defend their homeland...

  Leiwen was momentarily stunned, in his previous life he was a high player, but there was still a distance from the top players who were leading step by step. It was because of the slow upgrade and insufficient accumulation that he missed the opportunity to ignite the divine fire alone, otherwise he would not have fallen twice.

  Now that Ive entered the world of Azeroth, I no longer have two chances to revive. Am I going to waste this life too? Is this how I should spend my second chance at life?

  There are countless thoughts in my mind, but unfortunately, this second life seems to be ending soon as well.

  Whats worse is that Raven inadvertently recalled the fragments of being attacked last night and the night before, and he suddenly discovered a major problem like a nightmare.

  Taking a deep breath, Raven shook Carlin awake from her daze and yelled, "Wake up! Lets go! We cant stay here!"