Our main guy, Nie Yan, was known in the game as this Level 180 powerhouse Thief – definitely one of those top-tier players you'd look up online to see who's powerful. But here's the rub: outside Conviction, his life was a disaster. He couldn't provide for himself properly because he relied on selling things from inside that digital world. His father got screwed over by ruthless enemies in both real and game life, basically setting him up.
Driven mad by this, Nie Yan swings into action within Conviction itself. Tracking down the source of his family's downfall took guts and skill – a risky move for sure. He makes the final, desperate call on his character, eliminates that threat permanently... but there are consequences when you go full power like that in these kinds of games.
After pulling off this ultimate raid, he gets cut down hard. It was brutal; his life flickered away fast because of it. But then? The light kinda just… went out, right? You know how sometimes people say the digital world is a different plane?
Wait, no. After that intense action sequence and being brought low by enemies shot at him from high ground or something, he finds himself lying there on the virtual ground... until suddenly, it's like his character powered down completely.
His eyes snap open – not to the same game state or anything procedural. It was a *real* restart. Back to when he was young again. Suddenly, all that experience and knowledge he'd built up over years wasn't just data anymore; it felt like something he could finally touch with his own hands in this new real-world iteration.
Now, here's the clever part: Nie Yan has these two worlds stacked against each other instead of being separate. He knows *everything* about how Conviction works and what makes a big score there – grinding, gear optimization, maybe even some shady player market dealings he learned from before – AND he now understands his own broken reality much better than ever.
He’s got the game know-how plus this fresh start outside it. No more just surviving in-game with barely enough cash; he's aiming to actually *thrive* everywhere at once. That second chance is going to be intense, and I can't wait to see how he conquers both planes now.