Nash's new life gets complicated when two thugs from the Steel Bone Gang corner him at an intersection, recognizing his godlike face. Weak and starving, Nash does not panic. He uses his pattern-recognition brain to predict Jakob's clumsy bear hug, ducks, and ruthlessly crushes the thug's groin, following up with a calculated kick that cracks Jakob's knee. After extorting 87 Arls, Nash hides his face and heads to the Digital Hub. To boot the computer, he has to swallow his pride and say the voice command, Praise the Arlean Civilization for Giving Us a Wonderful Future. Under the alias Noir, he hacks the Earth Alliance registry, forging counterfeit identities for desperate clients. In a week, he amasses 50000 Arls and catches the eye of Axel, a Blue Alliance spy, launching him into the high-stakes trade of stolen alien resources. This connection proves lucrative when Axel pays him a massive sum of one million Arls to identify Arlean pirates who stole a cargo of Void Crystals. Nash delivers the precise real-time photos and residential addresses of the thieves, but the transaction leaves him exposed. The local gangs and the Landon City officials begin a relentless manhunt for the mysterious hacker Noir. Realizing that his makeshift home in the slums is no longer secure, Nash uses his newly acquired wealth to rent a high-security villa in the Cloud Garden Residence. He fortifies his new home with defensive traps and surveillance cameras, preparing for the inevitable clash with the powerful forces hunting him. This move ensures his physical safety but leaves his digital footprint active, drawing the attention of dangerous players who realize that Noir is operating within the borders of Landon City.

When an Arlean pirate named Cortell flees with a cargo of stolen Void Crystals, Nash sees his ticket to transcendence. He tracks the bleeding pirate to a high-rise, sets up a cheap D5 sniper rifle, and overclocks his body to make a perfect shot, killing Cortell and looting 29 dark crystals. But his rapid rise attracts Elias, a hostile Arleanian noble who corners Nash in an abandoned factory. Elias unleashes the devastating Crimson Eye Astral Art, shattering Nash's arms. In a desperate struggle, Nash uses his Runic Space to manually override his broken limbs, twisting his legs at unnatural angles to pin Elias down and bash his skull to mush. To clean up the mess, Nash performs raw, unmedicated surgery on his own left arm, using a sterile knife to piece his bone fragments together like a puzzle while his Sensing Module maps the damage. This gruesome self-surgery is a turning point for Nash, proving that his Runic Space is not just a tool for convenience, but a brutal necessity for survival. He successfully pieces his arm back together, but the lack of medical resources forces him back into the dark web to secure more funds. Just as he recovers, the domineering Void Warrior Camilla tracks him down. Recognizing his unique fighting style and his connection to the stolen crystals, she strong-arms him into joining her elite Crimson Phoenix Squad, threatening to expose his identity to the Crimson Gang if he refuses to cooperate. Left with no choice, Nash reluctantly agrees, entering a dangerous alliance that forces him out of his peaceful seclusion and onto the front lines of gang warfare.

The domineering Void Warrior Camilla forces Nash into the Crimson Phoenix Squad, dragging him into an escort mission for a wealthy heir named Lloyd. When the rival Fendi Gang ambushes them with three Void Warriors and a cloaked Void Beast, Nash shows his squad what a real sniper can do. He fires a double-bullet shot, hiding the second bullet behind the first to kill a dodging Void Warrior instantly. When the invisible black jaguar Void Beast strikes, Nash activates his newly programmed Overloading Module, forcing his heart and blood vessels to run at 300 percent capacity. For sixty agonizing seconds, his body steams like cooked pork as muscles tear and bones splinter, but he successfully keeps the beast occupied until Camilla kills the tamer. Nash collapses into a bloody heap, saved only by a high-grade healing pod that brings his saturation to 4 percent. This near-death experience forces Nash to realize the severe limitations of his current physical vessel, prompting him to dedicate the next five years to refining his Runic Space programs. He integrates the basic Void breathing method and the Crimson Eye Astral Art directly into his training modules, steadily climbing toward the threshold of an official Void Warrior. However, this period of quiet growth is shattered when he is suddenly summoned back to the Crimson Gang headquarters, where a massive assembly of hundreds of Void Warriors signals that a planetary conflict is brewing, threatening to disrupt his peaceful cultivation. Nash must now navigate the treacherous internal politics of the Crimson Gang while hiding his true combat potential from the watchful eyes of Void Commanders.

Five years of intense training pass, and Nash integrates the Crimson Eye Astral Art and the basic Void breathing method into his Runic Space, multiplying his training speed fivefold. Now a seasoned Void Warrior, he enters the Dark Plane, a dangerous universal battlefield where survival is measured in merit points. Masked and wielding a makeshift spear, Nash slaughters dark beasts in the Silver Forest, catching the attention of William, a rich but clumsy musclehead from a powerful family. Nash agrees to tutor William in the virtual world, setting the pain threshold to 1000 percent and simulating a hyper-lethal white rabbit to beat the rich boy into shape. This partnership nets Nash a staggering ten thousand void crystals per hour, giving him the massive financial backing he needs to fund his astronomical training costs. This massive influx of wealth allows Nash to purchase advanced S-class training equipment and secure elemental crystals to begin training his soul. But his rapid progress in the Dark Plane does not go unnoticed. During a high-stakes hunt in a five-star danger zone, Nash and his team are swarmed by over seven thousand flesh-eating Carrion Beetles. Nash is forced to unleash his full combat modules to save the team, earning the respect of veteran warriors but also drawing the attention of powerful interstellar corporations. As he balances his role as a state chancellor in the real world with his secret identity in the Dark Plane, Nash realizes that his path to true cosmic power will require him to step out of the shadows and face the galaxy's strongest entities head-on. With the cosmic competition looming on the horizon, he must decide whether to continue playing it safe or risk everything for absolute transcendence.