I'm a Young God, Won't you Raise Me

The world was his stage, until a career-ending injury forced a legendary pro gamer into early retirement. Now, his days blur into a haze of solitary screen time, revisiting the digital battlefield he once commanded. But the lines between game and reality shatter when that very world materializes around him, no longer a fiction to be played, but a living, breathing reality to be navigated. Yet he awakens not as a hero or a player, but as something far stranger—an entity outside the system, burdened with a cryptic task: to register others as characters. The mechanics are alien, the purpose unclear, and the rules unwritten. With no guide and no manual, he falls back on his one true advantage: absolute, encyclopedic knowledge of this world's every secret, every trap, every hidden path. For now, survival means moving forward—clearing the first obstacle, then the next—trusting that his past mastery will illuminate the way through this impossible second life.