Sitting at a table in his spacious kitchen, an 18-year-old boy named Lukas was savoring a giant burger that a rude middle-aged delivery person had just delivered.

Still annoyed by the delivery person's lack of manners, Lukas rudely swiped his finger across his phone screen.

He looked at the recent news about dungeon attacks with the burger in one hand and the phone in the other. Most of them were useless news, but some caught his attention.

[ Rank-B dungeon attack ends in tragedy. ]

[ Rank A dungeon called 'Bloody Ants Dungeon' cleared for the first time in four years. ]

[ New Rank A player awakens in South Korea. ]

These were attention-grabbing news. Lukas enthusiastically read, all while taking big bites of his burger, which disappeared in seconds.

"Ahhh~~ I'm satisfied." Lukas left the fries on the table and went to his room on the second floor. After turning on the computer and opening YouMedia, he searched for exciting videos.

His YouMedia homepage was filled with videos upon videos of dungeon attacks. It had become the site's main content since the dungeons started appearing. Thousands of channels were created.

Most of them were small channels, but a few stood out. The owners of these channels were more famous than actors in popular movies. YouMedia became the main entertainment in the world.

However, to have a successful channel, you had to be a [ Player ], strong, and also good-looking.

"This guy annoys me." Lukas opened the top-ranked video on the site, a video of an attack on a Rank A dungeon. It was an exciting video with great editing that could make anyone anxious and excited while watching.

Lukas couldn't deny it. "He's amazing."

Phent Mortis. A ridiculous name, but he is strong and good-looking. Lukas wasn't ugly and looked quite mature for his age (18), but he wasn't as strong as Phent. He wasn't even a [ Player ].

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Currently, Lukas works as a supermarket cashier.

"I wish to become a player." Lukas clicked the [ Like ] button below Phent's video. After that, he clicked on Phent's channel called "K1ller," which had over 15 million followers.

However, when he clicked on Phent's channel, the page didn't load.

"Hm, did the internet go down?" Lukas looked at the bottom right corner of the monitor and noticed that the internet was still working, but the page wouldn't load. Even when he tried to refresh, nothing happened.

Suddenly, the page finally loaded.

However, it was a blank screen.

But the tab's name had changed. It used to be "K1ller - YouMedia," and now it was just "YouMedia." However, Lukas could see some strange characters after the site's name.

Something flashed on his screen when he put the mouse over the tab to see if he could read it.

"Whoa!" It happened so suddenly that it hurt his eyes.

The screen started flickering wildly. The main page of YouMedia appeared and disappeared repeatedly, and slowly, the videos' thumbnails were being changed to sinister eyes.

"What the hell is this!" Nothing happened when Lukas tried to close the browser or even turn off the computer.

The page continued flicking wildly, and all the video thumbnails were changed. Piercing red eyes stared at Lukas. Every hair on his body trembled, and he broke into a cold sweat.

Those eyes were staring directly into his soul.

"Do you desire power? Do you want to become strong enough to defeat that guy you hate?"

A voice came through the speaker on Lukas' desk.

"Who is it? Did someone hack my computer? What kind of joke is this?"

"Just answer me. Do you want power?"

"What kind of power?"

"Just answer yes or no."

Lukas thought for a moment. He did desire to become a player; that was undeniable. But could he trust this person? Maybe this wasn't even a person but a monster trying to deceive him.

There have been other cases like this before.

However, the possibility of becoming a player and getting strong made Lukas quite indecisive about what he should answer. But the person inside his computer was getting impatient and continued to question him.

And due to his excessive desire to become strong and the pressure, he accepted.

"Yes."

A dreadful silence filled the room when he accepted the mysterious voice's proposal. He couldn't even hear the cars outside; everything had become quiet.

And the computer screen, which had looked bizarre before, now returned to its normal appearance. He could only see the YouMedia site's home screen as if nothing strange had happened.

Lukas scratched his head and chuckled.

"Some stupid hacker fooled me."

But after his words were spoken, something beyond his imagination occurred.

Lukas was bombarded by [Notifications]

[Notifications] floated in front of his vision as if he were in a VRMMO game, which is still very popular. He was astonished for a moment but kept his composure.

[Welcome to Media System]

[Produce videos, hire editors, advertise, and earn plenty of 'Views' and 'Likes' to become strong enough to become the 'Greatest Player the world has ever see.']

In addition to the welcome message, something like his statistics appeared. It was an ability that every player would receive, which was to see their abilities.

[Name] Lukas

[Class] Media Player SSS (Unique)

[Level] 1

[Strength] F

[Endurance] D

[Agility] E

[Magic] G

[Passive Abilities]

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[Active Abilities]

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[Videos Created] 0

[Likes Accumulated] 0

[Comments Accumulated] 0

"Damn, it's huge. I've never heard of a 'Player Database' as big as this."