Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Maybe, just one more time

"Huh, I did it."

Lumen said as he watched the screen.

The word 'Victory' appeared, written in a sizable font in front of him. His events and statistics display under its words like a credit scene. He just cleared the final event of the game.

"Heh, who would know that I would finally finish this game."

Even now, he can still hear his running heartbeat that hasn't calmed down yet. Thinking that it took him more than five and a half years to complete the game definitely helped bring him joy.

After pausing the credit, Lumen stepped back from the machine to calm his heart and went to his kitchen to prepare a snack to enjoy his hard-earned victory.

Lumen Lurch was a simple person with a simple wish for a stable life. After reaching age 65, he finally got what he wanted by retiring from government work at 65 years old with a complete retirement plan with extra benefits and some additional gifts from government officials for PR.

With his new two-story house built in the countryside and monthly income from the government providing him along as he had yet to kick the bucket, Lumen decided to do things on his bucket list.

That was to sleep till 10 AM without worrying, play games, and watch media all day. Of course, with the latest tech's help, Lumen eats and exercises healthily so that he doesn't die in a few years. Due to his daily routine or loss of weight called work and responsibility, he began to look at his upcoming days in a more positive way and started to take joy.

"Damn, is this what it means to be used to the lifestyle."

Lumen grumbled, realizing he had gotten sleepy due to his sleep schedule. Shaking his head to wake her foggy mind, he finished preparing her snack.

Seeing a single old man preparing a snack in an empty house, some people would mock him for living pointless life without having a wife or child to care for him. That would be right. Even Lumen knows that he focused too much on his work and family forgetting his own life, but he doesn't regret it. His life motto has no regret for his choice as it's a choice he made, and if he suffers from those choices, it's his fault, but no one else's.

A few minutes later, Lumen finished making his snacks, but it became something hardly called a snack. As it was a large bowl of fried noodles mixed with fried meat sausages and eggs, and the man remembered to pick his favorite chilled drink from his fridge too. Then he realized he had broken his diet again.

"Damn, this unhealthy shit."

You are reading story World Clash: The Lord wants to do its own thing in peace at novel35.com

Said Lumen, but his hand refused to let go of those 'shit.' Ultimately, he decided to fix his exercise schedule to burn those. With his snack, he returned to the machine and continued the credit.

Just Out Of Reach!

The game was released ten years ago. This game is a classic at this point.

It was a rogue-lite RPG where the player had to pick his faction led by specific individual lords and build a base in order to protect the city on the border. The player's task was to protect the base and raid the headquarters of enemy forces in each turn.

However, the game was infamous for its brutal difficulty because of the permanent death of characters, disgusting rng, unfair enemy tactics, economy, and spreading corruption mixed with a constant threat of enemies at the gate.

The game had been globally popular at the time of its release, but it was now just another one of those old classics with few die-hard fan bases and modders keeping it alive.

One might wonder why he decided to play the game at this time.

First of all, it was accessible that one could play using almost any device that connected to the platform installed initially.

The second was his small wish of being the first person to finish the game's most incredible difficulty.

The hardest difficulty was called 'World in Conflict.' And on top of it, there was a game mode called 'End Game,' which, at the specific time, various events happening around the game world called 'end game scenario.' Combining both of these brought you difficulty that players decided to name "Manhua simulator" due how unreasonable game become as other 'support' factions would declare war, cut their support and sent their forces upon even the most minor grievance and continue to fight to the death for that stupid reason even when they themselves getting devoured by monsters.

Some people had cleared the 'Just Out Of Reach' difficulty, which was right below the World in Conflict difficulty. There is a person who cleared the World in Conflict difficulty without the End Game mode, but this is the first time anyone has cleared it in This Realm must-die mode.

But now, ten years after its release, a person who cleared the Hell difficulty in This Realm must-die mode finally appeared—and that person was this man!