A new chance
Astral Gladiator
A hybrid fighter class of physical and magical power that uses astral power to obliterate its enemies.
One of the most powerful and difficult hidden classes to use in the Infinite World, the most famous virtual reality game in the world.
The number of people who played this game in the first month was only a few hundred thousand, but it surpassed a billion in two years and two billion in one or three years.
After a decade, just over four and a half billion people were playing.
Whether for wealth, pleasure, or fame. Everyone had their reason for playing Infinite World.
…
In a hospital in a certain small town in the countryside in China…
Wang Cai was one of the players who had a rare hidden class but was very difficult to use.
The Astral Gladiator.
His appearance could be considered youthful, but for very serious medical reasons, he was lying in a hospital bed. A game device was on his head, showing that he was playing Infinite World. But looking more closely it was possible to see that he received help from some devices to keep his body alive.
His appearance was sickly and very weak.
The only reason he continued to live was to know where he could go with his character.
Inside the game…
Wang Cai was fighting a giant transparent-bodied creature, but inside were several thousand glowing stars.
This creature was called the Astral Immortal, one of the powerful creatures in the Infinite World.
Wang Cai needed to defeat the creature to complete the final quest to unlock the last skill of the class.
The dagger in his hand glowed with a very bright yellowish-white light.
"Meteor Impact!!! StarFury!!! Solar Blast!!!!! Lunar Burst!!!!" He screamed with all his might.
Making half a movement of turning to one side with his body, he cut with all his strength as he turned again to the other.
Meteors are created in the sky and fall like rain. Stars shine before they explode. The sun and artificial moon explode strongly.
BOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!! BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!!
The battleground between the two was like a galaxy being destroyed.
Wang Cai fought the creature alone, the nimble and quick movements prevented the creature from hitting him.
slash!!! slash!!!! slash!!!!
Several powerful fifty-meter-long energy blades cut the creature into several pieces.
ROAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
After a fierce and deadly struggle, the creature let out a very loud and powerful roar before falling down and disappearing like an explosion of pixels.
ding… ding… ding…
"You have defeated the Astral Immortal"
"You have completed the quest"
"Astral Union skill has been enabled"
Wang Cai felt great joy in his heart. A rare faint smile appeared on his tired face.
"Open Skill Window"
The window was opened and many skills were shown, but there was only one that he showed interest in.
The only one that was shiny and had the word NEW on top.
Unfortunately, before he could read the skill's effects, his vision began to dim.
"I'm dying??" He muttered, but no one could hear his voice.
"I worked so hard, but in the end, I couldn't see the result… If I had another chance…" His hand didn't even have the energy to touch the screen to see the skill description.
Everything went dark.
In the real world, the doctors tried to wake him up in every possible way, but to no avail.
Wang Cai died.
…
"AHHH!!!!!!!" A startled scream came out of his mouth.
Everyone around him was very scared and thought he had had a heart attack. But they soon returned to what they were doing after seeing that there was nothing wrong with him.
"Wang Cai, what are you doing??" A man wearing a suit, who was sitting next to Wang Cai, asked in amazement, as he too received a great fright from the sudden scream.
"Liang, I apologize. It's just that I was sleeping and I had a nightmare." Wang Cai tried his best not to look scared or surprised at the sight he was seeing.
"Looks like your nightmare was really bad this time, your scream startled anyone who heard. Shall we take this opportunity to have a drink? That might help to calm down."
"Not today. I have a headache and I want to sleep."
"It's okay. Another day we can do that."
"Wang Cai, finish your work. Stop sleeping." An irritated female voice echoed behind him.
Without needing to look, he continued to do the work.
…
After another long day of work, Wang Cai returned to his small and old house.
It wasn't very elegant, but it was comfortable and enough for him to live in.
Looking at the old look of his home, a sense of nostalgia and happiness wells up in his heart.
"I'm home..." He muttered, tears falling down his sad face, but in his heart, great happiness could not be contained.
"I really came back…"
Lying on his old and not-so-soft bed, Wang Cai was still trying to understand what had happened.
The last scene he remembered was that he had finished dealing with the Astral Immortal and enabled the Astral Gladiator's last skill, but before he could see the skill, he died.
"My last breaths were… If I had a second chance… It feels like the heavens haven't abandoned me and are letting me finish seeing what I want. My last wish… What I couldn't do in my previous life, I will complete in this life. Father, mother, your child will not live a poor life again. Lin Hai, you fat bastard, I won't forgive you if you die again from that damn car accident. Fatty, I couldn't help you before, but this time, I'll do my best for you to live." Wang Cai remembered many things from his previous life.
There were so many things he wanted to do but couldn't because he was poor.
Now, things would be different.