Yan Qi always felt he had completely messed up the way he transmigrated.

He ended up inside a depressing ability-based manga where everyone is doomed to die. On top of that, his awakened ability 【Golden Speech of Decree】 has a fatal side effect: when altering causality, the more directly he states something, the more devastating the backlash from the laws of fate becomes.

In order to pull his doomed companions out of this narrative meat grinder, Yan Qi was forced into “active duty.”

He became the most unfathomable “riddle man” in the entire defense zone.

He thought he was just surviving by speaking like some cryptic fortune teller, but the plot had already gone completely off the rails.

When he suffered such severe backlash that blood seeped from all seven orifices, yet still forced himself to stand just to maintain his “mysterious expert” image—

Lin Jianchuan, the usually cold and rational tactical commander, turned red-eyed:

“Are all the paths you’ve given us… paid for with your life?”

Yan Qi (silently wiping blood from his lips): ? No, I just hurt so much my legs gave out and I can’t kneel.

In this era where human life is worth less than grass, the abyss descends and powerful conglomerates treat resources as chips.

Until a boy appeared, always accompanied by a storm of black feathers.

He coldly observed the schemes of the powerful and casually spoke prophecies that reversed life and death.

Everyone thought he was a monster manipulating the board, a god without pain.

But no one knew that this raven-cloaked chessmaster would bite his blanket at night after every battle, enduring unbearable pain alone.