The Demon King is Too Unfathomable! Chapter 5: ‘Calamity Online’, Coming Soon!

In an ordinary bedroom on Earth, a 14-inch OLED screen emanated a light reminiscent of the magic formation, lighting up a pair of square, rimless glasses.

A highly myopic youth sat in front of his computer, intently browsing through the mysterious webpage he had accessed via an unknown source.

He was Zhao Jinyan, an average high schooler.

If one had to point out anything special about him, it would be that his stature was slightly shorter, his glasses were slightly thicker, and his personality was slightly introverted.

But that was not how he had always been. He, too, had his peak.

Ten years ago, when he was in primary school, his peers used to respectfully call him ‘Brother Zhao’, but that nickname quickly turned into ‘Little Jinyan’ when he advanced to middle school, and whatever nicknames he had afterward were not worth mentioning.

Anyway, he had had enough of the trashy game called 《Real Life OL》.

While he was idling away on the internet with such thoughts, he encountered a suspicious ad.

【…The world’s first full-immersion, virtual reality online game will be entering closed beta soon! Do you want to start a new life in another world? Join us now!】

【’Calamity Online’ is coming!】

【Official site: NNN.XXX…X.ysj】

‘I have never seen this domain name before. It doesn’t even start with www… Is it a private server?’

Despite the dubious domain name, Zhao Jinyan, perhaps out of faith in his plug-pulling speed and computer-rebooting skills, clicked the hyperlink.

‘What if it’s true? It will be cool to see how realistic a so-called full-immersion, virtual reality game is.’

Zhao Jinyan didn’t know what had truly moved him was the ad’s next line—’Do you want to start a new life in another world?’

【Fleetingpast】

Zhao Jinyan registered under this username before rapidly scrolling down the webpage to examine the details. Yet, there was no game demo or advertisement video at all.

‘Closed beta my ass. I bet they haven’t begun development yet!’

Speechless, he tapped on the official forum page and quickly realized that he wasn’t th

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