There was no light in Lin Xuan's studio apartment. Only the flicker of a blue holographic panel, projected from a worn-out gear embedded into his wrist.
"Daily Login Bonus: [2 Reality Shards] Claimed."
He tapped the panel, expression flat.
That was all he had left.No food. No credits. No hope.I n this world, where the Dungeon System had merged with reality, only the Awakened could thrive. Everyone else — like him — was cannon fodder.
Ten years ago, rifts began opening worldwide. Dungeons spilled out onto the streets. Monsters started roaming cities. Then came the Reality Manifestation Phenomenon — where loot, skills, and EXP gained in-game could manifest in real life.
The strong got stronger. The weak disappeared.
Lin Xuan… he was supposed to be one of the former.
He wasn't.
He had Awakened three years ago. His initial scan had shown promise: high Potential stat, mid-tier compatibility.The world told him he could be a top-tier Hunter.Instead, he was stuck as a Level 9 Bottom-Rank Scavenger.
Every attempt to enter real dungeons ended in injury or failure. No team would accept him. No guild would sponsor him. The system wouldn't even generate decent loot.
His classmates had bought houses, cars, girlfriends with their manifested gear.
He? He sold his system loot just to pay rent.
"Maybe I was bugged from the beginning," he muttered.
And maybe… he wasn't entirely wrong.
That night, something strange happened.
As he lay on the floor, hungry and half-asleep, the system pinged.
[Error Detected]
[System Flag: "Manifestation Lock" Removed]
[Hidden Function Unlocked: Reality Sync v0.01]
"…Huh?"
A blue ripple surged out from his body. His HUD glitched. Reality shimmered for a second — and then—Clink!
A small silver coin rolled out of thin air.
[Reality Shard] has been manifested.
Lin Xuan's breath stopped.
The system had glitched.
The loot wasn't staying in the game anymore.
It was now… real.
He stared at the shard in his hand. It was cold. Metal. Tangible.He tapped the panel again.
[Skill: "Inventory Access" - Locked]
[Unlock Condition: Direct Reality Manifestation]
[One-time Unlock Available: Proceed?]
"Proceed."
[Skill Unlocked: Inventory Access (IRL)]
[Items stored will now exist physically upon retrieval]
Bzzt—
A glow lit up his living room.
Ten low-grade potions, three rusted swords, and a cracked leather armor appeared on his floor.
They were real.
Not data. Not virtual. Not projections.
He had just become a real-life item holder
"…This isn't a hack," Lin Xuan murmured.
This was a loophole. A backdoor. A system oversight.And it was his.He had a thousand trash items stored over three years of failed dungeon runs — worthless in-game, but in reality?
Tools. Resources. Currency.He could heal injuries. Sell materials. Melt scrap into cash.
He could—no, he would—build his empire from this.
Starting now.
He grabbed an F-Rank loot box from his inventory, a basic one he'd gotten two years ago from a failed sewer dungeon.
[Use item? Y/N]
"Yes."
The box cracked open.
Out fell:
[Rat Bone Knife x1]
[Mana-Infused Cloth x2]
[Weak Poison Flask x1]
He picked up the poison flask.In-game, it would deal chip damage. In reality? He dipped it into his kitchen rat trap.The rat dissolved into black goo.His eyes widened.
"…This isn't a game anymore."
He logged into a public dungeon matching app.
[Requesting Solo Entry: Rank F - Abandoned Metro Line]
He smiled for the first time in years.Everyone had thought he was trash.
They were wrong.
The world had changed. The system had glitched. And now—
Lin Xuan was about to manifest his legend