Death Notice

“…The Apostle Soul Mark has entered the Boundary Dimension. The Shattered Laws are activating…”

“…Detected that the Apostle’s team is a beginner-level Black Iron Team of three. Starting to match with a Quest World…”

“…Detected that both the Leader and Vice-Leader of the Apostle team have experienced Prime Material World No. 2036. The Leader, Apostle 70053, possesses a World Token— Iron Cross First Class. Matching entry into Shadow World No. 2036-5…”

“The Apostle Soul Mark has been absorbed into the plot reserve body and transformed into a Law Body. External camouflage has been applied to the Apostle Soul Mark (According to the plot terms of the Apostle Covenant, this reconstruction is free of charge).”

“Starting to synchronize the Apostle with this world’s Law data. Temporarily sealing equipment items in the Storage Space that do not comply with the World Law…”

Quest Mode: Plot;

Quest Difficulty: Warrant Officer Rank – Colonel Rank;

Current Status of Law Body: 47%, Severely injured, unconscious;

Surrounding Environment: Safe;

Current World Exploration Degree: 21.28%;

World Essence Plunder: None;

Additional Note: This world is a parallel mirror spacetime of Prime Material World No. 2036. This Shadow World diverged from the main timeline in the spring of 1945. The Plot Identity that the Apostle is currently possessing in the current world’s history also has records ending in the spring of 1945 AD.

“Reminder: This world possesses some Space-Time Laws from alternate dimensions, the Magic Web has not yet been established, there is a basic foundation of magical laws, and technology is at the end of the second technological revolution (Electrical Age).”

“Reminder: This team’s mission stay duration is initially two weeks. Due to possessing a World Token, there is no need to complete the Guidance Mission. The Main Plotline will automatically trigger after entering the Quest World. This world is a low-magic Shadow World with high Exploration Rate. No extra boost for plot exploration rate.”

Countdown to formal entry into this world: Thirty seconds.

Countdown begins: 30, 29, 28…

Qin Lun felt as if he had no weight at all, his whole body was in an abnormal floating state.

However, his consciousness was very clear, and he even had some vision. It seemed like his soul had separated from his body, floating above a male human, with only the end of his soul body connected to the body like an umbilical cord.

This male human had a pale face, with his eyes tightly shut. His thin cheeks were stubbly with beard, and his broad forehead was covered with golden bangs, slightly obscuring his face. He lay on a hospital bed, covered with a white sheet, appearing extremely weak. Judging from the surroundings of the hospital bed, he should be in some poorly-equipped intensive care unit.

An orange-yellow light shield enveloped his soul body and transformed body. The surface of the light shield flashed with streams of information like fleeting glimpses, like a narration before a play starts. This was some background information about this world.

World Background Introduction:

I am in hell, yet I look up to heaven,

Angels and demons intertwine,

The battle of two worlds is like a Divine Comedy!

In the Gregorian calendar year 1866, the German Siemens made a generator. In 1870, the Belgian Gramme invented the electric motor. Electricity began to be used to power machines, becoming a new energy source supplementing and replacing steam power.

The electric power industry and electrical appliance manufacturing developed rapidly. However, just as humanity stepped into the “Electrical Age,” in the ionosphere tens of thousands of meters above the Earth, a thousand-meter-long, pitch-black Space-Time Rift was expanding and subtly affecting this world.

When time entered 1945, as the entire world was at the end of World War II and Nazi Germany was about to fail, people could finally see the huge Space-Time Rift above them with the naked eye.

At the same time, in various remote corners of the human world, such as the Earth’s poles, the Sahara Desert, the Grand Canyon, and even the Mariana Trench, some strange creatures began to appear.

Most of these creatures were large in size and gradually moved towards densely populated areas, posing a threat to human survival. However, by the end of World War II, human gunpowder technology had reached its peak. The small number of mysterious creatures invading human cities were quickly eliminated by humans.

However, these mysterious creatures were like treasures to certain nations and countries in the world. For example: several Axis powers about to face defeat, multi-ethnic Central European countries, and some colonial countries and peoples in the world seeking independence and liberation.

Human research discovered that these mysterious creatures were actually mutated forms of Earth’s animals and plants. They were affected by some radiation or virus, which transformed them into their current forms and gave them combat power surpassing that of Earth’s creatures.

Several major countries at the end of the war, especially Nazi Germany, began using these creatures as blueprints to develop powerful biochemical soldiers.

But by this time, World War II was nearing its end, and the Allied Forces held the battlefield initiative. The small number of German biochemical soldiers did not shake the Allied Forces’ advantage. As the war entered the spring of 1946, except for a few Nazi remnants who went into hiding, the Third Reich collapsed abruptly, and this prolonged world war finally came to an end.

However, the world celebrating its victory did not realize that a catastrophic crisis capable of wiping out humanity entirely was quietly unfolding, completely unnoticed by anyone!

“Demons” and “Angels” descended simultaneously, and an era resembling mythology began…

“Apostle 70053, the countdown is over. The Main Plotline is about to trigger…”

World Setting: Divine Comedy World

Time: Summer, Year 134 of the Divine Comedy calendar

Location: Vienna

Main Quest: Insufficient data

Scene Explanation: The quest is in team plot mode. Other Apostle teams may exist within the same scene. Different Apostle teams can share the quest plot. Final rewards are allocated based on quest contribution. In this mode, killing Apostles from other teams does not drop Bloody Cubes.

As the countdown ended, Qin Lun felt an irresistible pulling force from below. His Apostle soul was completely absorbed into the male body below.

As his soul merged with the Law Body, Qin Lun felt his body become extremely heavy, his head throbbing as if about to split, and he was in a state between dream and wakefulness.

“Rat-a-tat-tat!” Qin Lun faintly heard rhythmic gunfire in his ears, but in his current state, the gunfire seemed to come from the horizon, like war drums from heaven or hell, distant and unfamiliar.

“Gunfire… this physical condition… the arrangements by Star Void…” With his body severely damaged, Qin Lun’s thoughts were somewhat chaotic, like a computer at the end of its lifespan, even thinking felt delayed.

Qin Lun disliked his current situation very much. He tried hard to focus his consciousness, wanting to wake himself up. But his body’s response was very sluggish, his efforts felt futile. Fortunately, he could always feel a cool stream slowly repairing his body, allowing him to gradually recover.

“It’s the Green Gift from the Ayala Weapon Casket…” Qin Lun felt slightly reassured. At this recovery speed, he should be able to force himself awake in a few more minutes. Although he would likely still be extremely weak, at least he could open his eyes and observe his surroundings.

“Captain, target found, room 703!”

As his body recovered, Qin Lun’s hearing became clearer. He soon heard messy footsteps approaching the door of the hospital room.

“They’re here for me, damn it!” Qin Lun immediately realized.

Although he knew that Shattered Starry Sky wouldn’t put him in danger right from the start in such a physical condition, he still felt a sense of urgency. No matter what, Qin Lun was not used to letting himself fall into situations beyond his control.

“Take him away, be careful, don’t harm Lieutenant Colonel Kluge!” Several footsteps quickly reached Qin Lun’s bedside. A deep male voice, deliberately lowering its volume, gave orders to the people beside him.

“Lieutenant Colonel Kluge… is this the Plot Identity I’ve possessed?” Qin Lun tried hard to recall, confirming that he had never used this plot name before.

“Yes, Captain!” Several voices with pure Bavarian accents sounded in Qin Lun’s ears.

“Germans… Iron Cross First Class… World Token! So I’ve returned to a previous World War II World!”

Qin Lun felt his body being lifted and then placed onto someone’s back. At the same time, his thoughts became increasingly clear. Unnoticed by everyone around him, his right index finger trembled almost imperceptibly.

Qin Lun finally felt the various parts of his body. The various chaotic sounds in his ears also seemed to come from the distant horizon to his side. He slowly opened his eyes a slit, a sharp gleam flashing in them.

With the up and down motion of the body carrying him, Qin Lun silently observed his surroundings. His earlier feeling was correct; he was indeed lying on the back of a soldier wearing a gray military uniform. They were surrounded by several other soldiers holding submachine guns. At the front, a burly blond man should be their leader.

They were walking along a corridor. Judging by the smell of formaldehyde, this should be a hospital. But from the heavily peeling paint on the walls on both sides of the corridor, this hospital seemed very simple and crude. He really wondered what the economic situation was for this Lieutenant Colonel Kluge he had possessed.

Within Qin Lun’s field of vision, in some open wards and infirmaries, there were bodies lying everywhere, bleeding. They seemed to be some medical staff.

“These brainless guys!” Qin Lun silently cursed, the sense of urgency in his heart growing stronger.

The soldiers taking him away were probably Germans. From the current situation, they might be on the same side as him. But the protection of this hospital was not tight. These people could have acted cautiously and taken him away secretly. Now, with all this commotion, they were bound to alert some enemies.

As he observed along the way, Qin Lun’s eyes suddenly lit up. In an open ward along the corridor, a patient struggling to get up flashed past his eyes.

“St…stop!” Qin Lun let out an almost inaudible moan, his fingers digging into the neck of the soldier carrying him.

But the German strongman carrying him showed no reaction at all. The force Qin Lun could currently exert was less than a mosquito bite to him, and the surrounding chaotic noises also covered up Qin Lun’s low moan quite effectively.

“Huh?” However, the blond young man walking at the front of the group suddenly stopped and looked over at them in surprise.