MTL - Players Of Freedom - Chapter 42 : Play with leisure

His name was Arlan, a social outcast for his overweight body and constant bullying of his classmates.Today he was trying a brand new VR game called Abyss Saga. He had waited months for it, saving what little money he earned from cleaning a neighborhood cyber cafe.His parents don't give him money anymore saying he would get more fat.Putting that aside, the moment the game booted up, a soothing voice echoed in his ears.​[ Welcome to Abyss Saga. Please enjoy the most immersive underwater fantasy world. ]​[ Please choose your Role:​• Merfolk​• Crabkmen​• Water Fairies​• Sea God“Huh!”“What's this? Is this some kind of glitch?” Arlan muttered in bafflement.​To his knowledge, an overpowered Role like the Sea God shouldn't exist for a beginner player. Heck, there might not be a single player with the Sea God's Aspect yet.​While contemplating this impossibility, he clicked on the last option.​[ Role Confirmed. ]​[ Transferring the player to.... ]​[ Error! ]​[ Error! ]​Seeing the constant errors, Arlan thought the glitch was acting up again. However, what happened next shocked him.​No. Not just him. Every human across the planet.​A Universal Notification flashed in everyone's mind, mechanical and authoritative:​[ Congratulations! You Have Inherited: Aquabyss Domain (Divine/SSS+) ][ Talents: Sea God's Physique (Divine) ]---[ GLOBAL NOTIFICATION! ]​[ Sky Lord Aegis is the First Sky Lord to acquire a Divine Tier Follower! ][Admin_01]: “Again? How are we going to live like this?”[EternalWarrior]: DIVINE TIER FOLLOWERS?! That's impossible! This must be a system bug! Where did you find them, Aegis? Answer Us![FallenPaladin]: The Sea God is real! First the water, now a Divine-Tier Follower! Aegis, I beg you, come to my Island! I will be your personal servant![ThreeBeautifulPrincesses]: @FallenPaladin Do you have no shame at all?[FallenPaladin]: I don't want to talk to bitches.

Yang Yi, along with everyone else, is thrust upon a Maritime Survival Game.Some lucky individuals possess special ships; the Iron Heart is armed to the teeth, the Swift Wind is so fast it’s almost invisible, and the Ironhead charges forward with a massive ram.Only the Nightmare, Yang Yi’s ghost ship, has strange and gory elements.The protagonist’s journey won’t be smooth sailing — this is not a story for the weak-hearted.

When I read the development of the heroine getting stolen away, I left a malicious comment to the author.

But then I woke up later, and I’m now the villain who is supposed to steal the heroine.

Lu Chen woke up to find himself participating in a live-streamed creative competition show!Contestants were tasked with creating works based on themes given by the show.When the theme ‘Countryside’ was announced, other participants quickly began crafting heartwarming rural stories, tales of pastoral love, and picturesque depictions of harmony and simplicity.Lu Chen decided to take the road less traveled—he wanted to blow the audience away!He chose ‘Operation Icebreaker’ as his inspiration.At first, the audience thought they were getting a story about rural development. But as the plot unfolded, something felt… off.A village of 20,000 people, every household with the same type of large pot, and a full-scale drug production operation?The internet exploded.[Countryside theme, and you’re writing about a drug-making village getting rich together?]The producers were in chaos.We said countryside! What’s this Taizhai nonsense?Lu Chen, unfazed, replied, “Director, rural anti-drug campaigns are a countryside theme. Now, are we sticking to the theme or not?”And thus, the Master of Sticking to the Theme was born.Given the theme Fishmonger, he wrote The Legend of Gao Qiqiang.