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"Hello!!!" A young handsome man yelled in a dark room with only one silver table. Only on top of that table was a lamp that illuminated only the table and the two chairs next to it. Other than that, nothing could be seen for miles.

The young man, although handsome, was quite scrawny as if he had been malnourished for quite some time. His deep black eyes tried to find any signs of life in that dark space but he saw nothing.

Nothing except darkness.

The young man kept on yelling for quite a while until finally, a response came, "Would you just shut up? My head's banging already. I don't need your sh*t the first thing I opened my eyes."

"You…?" The young man was very confused as he saw the owner of the voice who looked like he had just woken up from deep sleep involuntarily and was still quite groggy. The distinct features of the newcomer were his dark hair, his deep dark eyes, and the handsomeness that even made the first young man ashamed.

But what the first young man was most confused about, or terrified by, was the identity of the second young man. He had seen him, just not that handsome, or such lithe. Take all those things out and what was left of the second young man was the first young man. A scrawny but handsome man.

"Yeah, me. What're you gonna do about it?" Wei Jun said as he stood up and flexed his muscles. Deep crackles were heard coming from his muscles and his head still ached quite a bit. Still, he toughened through it and looked at the first young man who was also Wei Jun.

Wei Jun (2) looked at Wei Jun (1) and sighed. "It's you," He said as he took a seat at the table, looked at Wei Jun (1), and said, "Is this a confrontation or what? You're still not dead, you son of a bit*h? Do you know how many problems you've caused me?"

Wei Jun (1) looked at Wei Jun (2) incredulously before he lunged at him, grabbed him by his collar, and said out loud, "You have the nerve to say that to me! You took my body!"

"Of course, I did," Wei Jun (2) said before he grabbed Wei Jun's (1) arms and pushed them away, still keeping his hold on them and pushing Wei Jun (1) on the floor, throwing him down and putting his foot on his neck.

Wei Jun (2) sighed and said, "Not that I wanted to. But I did, and that's all that matters. Besides, I'm living a better life in your body than you ever did."

"You bastard!" Wei Jun (1) tried to push the foot on his neck away but his scrawny arms were barely able to budge the foot, let alone pushing it off.

"I get it. You're angry." Wei Jun (2) said as he knelt down, exchanging his foot with his knee as he looked deep into Wei Jun's (1) eyes and said, "But tell me one meaningful thing your life did. What is it that you have done in your whole life that could be considered even a little bit important? What was the purpose of your life?"

"It's my life! I lived it however I wanted and I'll live it how I want!" Wei Jun (1) yelled.

"Such childish beliefs," Wei Jun (2) said as he stood up and kicked Wei Jun (1) on the side of his stomach, throwing him away, "Life is not something you enjoy while doing what you want. Life is something you struggle for something you want. All you did ever was enjoy said life. I struggled for it. That's why mine lasted more than yours. Because it was meaningful."

As he said that, Wei Jun (2) slowly walked towards Wei Jun (1) and grabbed him by his chin, making him look into his eyes, "Look into my eyes. See if I've ever had fun with my life. You won't see such a thing. I struggled through it. But when I look into yours, all I see is fun. You felt petty for others who were better than you and never tried to make yourself better than them. I made myself better than them. You ridiculed the weak, never worried that they might rise up one day and cut you down. I made sure they didn't."

"Did you ever, even once, in your life, struggle to make yourself better? I did. I did all of those. I did better with this body in these last few months than you did with your entire life."

"If anyone deserved this body, then it's me. You, the person who just wasted it, don't deserve any part of it."

As he finished saying that, Wei Jun (2) raised his hand and brought it down, finishing it for once and for all but his hand stopped. As if something was blocking his way, an invisible barrier that he couldn't see but was preventing him from doing what he wanted.

[I don't mind if you killed him, brother]

[But killing him without making proper use of him]

[That doesn't sound like my brother]

Wei Jun (2) stopped. He pulled his hand back, shaping it into a fist, and punched Wei Jun (1) in his face, knocking him out.

Wei Jun stood up, his eyes fixed on the notifications he just received. It was his brother's voice, the person who practically raised him.

Wei Jun remained quiet for a while before he asked one simple question, "Are you the one who trapped me here?"

[If by here, you mean that world]

[Then yes]

[I'm the one who threw you there]

"Then tell me this. Is there a good reason?" Wei Jun asked.

[A ve~ry~ good reason]

Wei Jun heard the usual playfulness in his brother's voice but that also meant that he was serious about what he said. If his brother, the most unpredictable person in the world, said that, then there must be a good reason for it because there was one thing his brother never did even if he was unpredictable.

"You never do anything without a reason so I won't ask what the reason for me being here is." Wei Jun said.

[You have my gratitude for that]

"But tell me this," Wei Jun said before he asked, "Why does it have to be me?"

[Because you're getting weaker by each passing day]

[The ferocious little brother of mine was nowhere to be seen]

[But look at you now]

[Not even a year and the havoc you've caused exceeds any records made ever]

[And you did all that without even having all the information]

Wei Jun remained quiet. The system had said the same thing. The system mentioned that there may been more before him but none of them could do what Wei Jun did, in such a short amount of time, and with such little information.

Wei Jun sighed and asked his next question but before he could, his brother spoke through the system…

[Be careful]

[That's your last chance]

Wei Jun stopped. Whatever he was about to ask, he changed his mind about that. He closed his eyes and opened them again, looking down at the unconscious original Wei Jun on the floor before he asked, "Why him?"

[Because he's useless]

[Nothing about him is special]

[However, that just makes him special]

[So useless of a life that even the world laws had abandoned him]

[What other vessel would be better to drop you in?]

Wei Jun didn't understand half of it but he did understand that Wei Jun, the original one, was special for some reason. Not from the point of view of this world but from the point of view of his brother.

If he was important in that sense, then he was important to Wei Jun. As his brother said, he'd milk every little advantage he could from the original Wei Jun and leave nothing but an empty husk back.

That was his motto after all.

Wei Jun sighed and turned to the system panel once again, not to ask any questions because if his brother said no more questions, then there were no more questions left in his arsenal.

All he could do was deal with the fact that he was in another world and that his sole purpose was to destroy that world. How he did was irrelevant.

But something told him. Something deep down sent signals to him. The destruction had already begun.

[Yes, it has, brother]

[Yes, it has]

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Vhroom!!!

Thunder roared on the top of the Yuan Yin city. Dark clouds formed up in the sky but they didn't just form on the entire city, but just on top of a few specific spots.

It was a bizarre scene and not many could make anything out of it.

Until…

"What is that?" A woman asked the man she was enjoying coffee with, pointing at a strange circular glowing mass of what seemed like clouds in the middle of the road.

The couple stood up, making their way closer to it. Many people were taking pictures of whatever it was and also standing near it like them.

That was a mistake.

Hiss!!!

Suddenly something slithered out of it. It was a giant snake and the first thing it did as soon as it came out of the circular cloud was to gobble up the person standing closest to it.

"Ahhh!!!"

Mayhem struck the city in an instant.

The day many remembered in the future as…

The prelude to the abyss.