Chapter 1 — Forbidden Access
Alex Anderson's fingers tapped the keyboard one last time. The familiar rhythm echoed through the dim, silent room of his New York apartment.
The cold blue glow of the screen lit up his focused face.
Self-taught hacker. Cybersecurity student.
He spoke the language of code like it was his native tongue.
That night, something unexpected happened — a breach. A vulnerability in a system that was supposedly untouchable.
Buried deep behind layers of digital defenses, a single encrypted file stood out.
Without thinking twice, he clicked it.
A surge shot through his brain. Not pain — something... electrical. Virtual.
The screen glitched. The world around him warped.
Reality cracked like glass. And then—
Silence.
Darkness.
And then—sound. Movement. Something ancient... colliding with something impossibly advanced.
A fight. A world. A legend.
Murim.
The word echoed in his ears like a myth that had crawled out of the dark web.
And yet... here he was.
No warning. No guide.
Just raw instinct and an overwhelming sense that nothing would ever be the same again.
Alex was just a regular guy —
But in this hidden world, he was about to find out that regular could go legendary real fast