What Ill Intent Can a Casual Player Have?

Retired at 25 after conquering the competitive scene, Chen Qian returns to the virtual world for some 'light hobbies'—suppressing rogue AIs, raising a Fire Queen, purifying hostile factions, enslaving Void Beasts, crafting spirit-bomb WMDs, raiding interstellar tombs, and wiping out alien civilizations. Hard work? Please. It's all casual fun. He even picks up pocket change along the way: gold, spirit stones, rare energy cores, mech blueprints, medicinal herbs… and the occasional maid (scratch that). Just enough to scrape by, you know? He's totally reformed now—just an innocent, laid-back gamer…