Chapter 1

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Ke Meng. 

Family name: Ke

Last name: Meng

He was B site’s new unboxing narrator and video uploader who posted videos of him eating and created mundane daily vlogs occasionally. He was not famous, with just tens of fans.

He yawned at the computer screen with his dark eye circles while looking like he was in a daze. 

As a video uploader, nobody would watch the videos that you uploaded when you were not famous. You were merely entertaining yourself.

It was late, so Ke Meng was exhausted after he was done editing a video. He went straight to bed and fell asleep after tucking himself in. He even forgot to upload his video.

He fell into a deeper and deeper slumber. There was the blooping of water in his ears as well as low mumbles of gibberish.

He seemed to be in a dream where he sank deep into the ocean. He dreamed of a gigantic monster with an octopus head. It was as big as a mountain, and there were countless tentacles on its chin. Its body was plump while there were two pairs of rudimentary wings on its back. With its eyes closed, it was lying in the middle of the ocean city made of green rocks piled up together.

He began floating later on as if his soul had left his body. He flew into the gigantic octopus-headed monster’s body instantly.

At that moment, he had a sensitive touch besides extraordinarily strong hearing ability.

He could hear the ocean’s flow, as well as the noise of the marine creatures swimming in the water.

“Where am I?”

It was dark, and he could not open his eyes.

Suddenly, an ethereal female voice came into his head. “The game has begun.”

Ke Meng opened his eyes upon hearing that voice.

Gigantic, majestic green rocks filled the entire city when he looked over. Some of the green rocks hovered idly above the city, arranged in an odd manner. There were detailed and sophisticated carvings on the stone pillars that were oozed with foreign style and beauty.

There were some fishes swimming in the city, resembling little bosses taking a walk in the backyard.

However, those fishes panicked when Ke Meng glanced at them. They swam out in a panic. Some fishes even hit their heads on the wall as they were terrified.

Due to his awakening, the dull, rotten, black ghosts in the city swam over.

They looked strange as they wore a cloak and were hollow in the middle. The creatures in the pitch-black cloak spoke a foreign language that Ke Meng had never heard before. Although he had never heard of the language, he understood what they were saying.

They did not talk much as they were mainly worshiping his name, to be exact, it was his godly name. The name was rather long.

Secondly, they were reporting to him that they were unable to remove the Elder God’s seal. External help was required to remove the seal.

They would spread His name out there while they would try to remove the seal before Astrology Day.

Ke Meng opened his mouth in an attempt to ask. However, he realized that he could not even open his mouth. There seemed to be an unknown force sealing his mouth, so he could not speak.

‘So, is this the power of the seal?’

Subsequently, the humble ghost apostles left the massive green rock city that was buried at the endless ocean bottom. They swam far away, Ke Meng had no idea where they were going.

Without the humble ghost apostles, the entire city of green rocks lost its liveliness. There was the sound of water flowing and marine creatures.

Those marine creatures that could escape, had run away. Approximately a thousandth of them had escaped. 

Those that failed to run had fallen into manic, and they were delirious.

“Where exactly am I?” Ke Meng mumbled to himself.

However, nobody told him where he was. He wanted to turn his head, but he could not move.

The power of the seal spread through his entire body. Apart from opening his eyes, he could not do anything else. He could sense the ocean water flowing, as well as everything that was happening in the green rock city.

His body was clearly not his original body, or he would not have sensed so much information.

Could he have transmigrated?

Who would believe transmigration in the society of science?

He thought to himself for a couple of minutes while chaos erupted in his head.

‘I’ll stop thinking and just assume that I’ve transmigrated!’

“System!” he shouted internally just to test it out.

He never thought that the system panel would actually appear on his screen.

“Name: Cthulhu

Status: Ultimate Boss (Elder God’s Seal)

Life: 999.9 billion/999.9 billion

Mana: ∞

Physical/Magic Resistance: 100 million

Skill: Sacrifice Reception, Death Glare, Evil God’s Might, Tentacles, Consciousness Suppression, Physical Attack Immunity, Mana Attack Immunity, Attack Rebound, Lightning Regeneration, Blood Rebirth, Dream Invasion, Dream Distortion, Dream Dissemination…”

Ke Meng could not help but reveal a shocked expression after seeing the insane status and countless powerful skills.

“What’s happening? Did I become the Ultimate Boss of a game?” Ke Meng said while losing himself.

If this was not a dream, he was winning, especially since he had been given a super account as soon as he began the game.

However, Ke Meng noticed something as time passed by.

There was a negative status which was the ‘Elder God’s Seal’ in his status bar.

“Elder God’s Seal: 90% deterioration in all conditions! Body movement has been prohibited!”

Ke Meng looked at his Death Glare skill which was a passive skill. Everything that he stared at would experience a 90% deterioration in condition. That was one of the reasons why the marine creatures were afraid of him.

Then, there was the Evil God’s Might that was a passive skill too. It had an extremely terrifying suppression on one’s consciousness. There was a certain chance of killing someone by making their bodies explode, but its function was focused more on making creatures fall into manic.

Apart from those, there were many skills with overlapping effects. Some were active skills while some were passive. 

Such a compelling boss’s body was restricted by the game with a seal. Indeed, it made sense. Otherwise, the balance would be broken.

Due to his abilities being sealed, a small portion of marine creatures at the border could escape safely.

According to the information on the panel, he was the Ultimate Boss.

What was the meaning of ‘Ultimate’?

It could be understood as watching a drama from the beginning until the end twice. That would be the Ultimate. In games, it would mean a player playing the game twice and finding out that Ke Meng was the final boss.

The game would only be considered as completed when the player beat the real final boss.

However, the explanation was applicable to console games.

For online games, it would be playing one’s account to the maximum level and playing the game all over again after drinking the elixir to remove your level, starting from square one.

According to such a setting, Ke Meng would have to wait for a long time until the day his seal would be removed.

Therefore, he stared blankly in the ocean water for a couple of hours.

In the massive City of R’lyeh, Ke Meng watched the dark ocean water. It was constant as it felt like eternity. 

Meanwhile, the marine creatures that had gone insane were bashing their heads all over the place. They would eat other marine creatures when they were hungry.

Those maniacal marine creatures gave a tiny bit of fun to the City of R’lyeh.

Ke Meng stared at those tiny marine creatures. They were pathetically as tiny as ants.

As he watched closely, Boss Ke could feel the powerful muscle strength coming from their bodies. Also, there was a line of notation on each of the marine creatures’ heads.

“Level 999”

“Maniacal Shrimp Overlord”

“Maniacal Crystal Scorpion”

“Maniacal Mutated Lightning Jellyfish”

Those were not simple creatures. 

However, Ke Meng thought their bodies were actually pretty big if he were to think about it another way. After all, he was massive himself. Naturally, the things that he saw became tiny.

Nevertheless, he felt bored as he watched further. Having gone insane, they could not use their skills, thus they were fighting merely with brute force.

A call came into his ears from far away when Ke Meng was feeling extremely bored.

The voice faded near and far in the beginning. It was rather coarse, and it was elusive as it went in and out. However, it was getting clearer as time went by.

“Oh, the almighty Cthulhu…The Sleeper of R’lyeh…The Great Old One!”

At that moment, the scene of an eerie sacrificial ceremony appeared in Ke Meng’s head.

It was a poor little mountain village. Over ten people were wearing black robes, covering their entire bodies.

They wore cat masks, so their faces could not be seen. They were worshipping His God’s name from far away.

Among them, two people in black robes danced around the pond. They would hop occasionally as they worshipped Boss Ke’s long godly name. They would also play the wind chimes in their hands.

Meanwhile, there was an unknown magic formation that seemed powerful and was made of some glowing material around the pond. It exuded a blurry, blue glow.

A lit white candle was on each of the eight corners around the magic formation while there were some spices placed beneath each candle. An indescribably pungent scent came out of it, spreading through the entire mountain village.

What was more intriguing was that there was a green gleam burning on the candles.

‘What’s that?’

Ke Meng typed a question mark in his consciousness.

Never had he expected the fanatics of the little mountain village to be cheering in excitement as if they had just witnessed a miracle. They knelt on both knees and bowed, kowtowing while wearing their cat masks. As they kowtowed over ten times, nobody dared to lift their heads to look at the pond. They were scared and respectful at the same time.

One should not stare right into God’s eyes.

“Oh, the mighty Cthulhu! We’re the villagers of the Cat-faced People Mountain Village. Many adventurers have been coming here to steal the Cattail Grass lately. They stole it without asking, and they claim that it was the Rookie Village’s herb-collecting mission. Please kill them. They’re pirates! They’re demons!”

One of the people moved carefully with his body lying low on the ground as that was said. His body was shaking as he dared not lift his head to look at Ke Meng throughout the whole process.

He held a basin with both hands, and his head was on the ground, replacing his arms. He knelt on both knees to balance his body. He moved to the pond by wiggling before he placed the basin on the pond.

Ke Meng blinked. If he did not see it wrong, there was a strange-looking cat in the basin.　　

“This is a little something from us. Please accept the sacrifice from your slaves.”

A bright gleam was suddenly shone as soon as that was said.

When Ke Meng opened his eyes, he was staring at a ceiling. It was not the dark ocean water city or the Cat-faced People Mountain Village with the strange ceremony.

It was the ceiling of his home.

“Have I returned?” Ke Meng stretched his arms out of the blanket and saw human arms.

He took his phone and pointed the front camera at his face. Indeed, it was his face, and it had not turned into an octopus head.

“Haha, so it was a dream. See, I’ve said that transmigration is impossible when we live in the society of science.” Ke Meng facepalmed himself. He was laughing at himself, thinking that he had transmigrated earlier.

However, an extraordinary meow rang out at that moment.

“Meow!”