The Roaming Homebody

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It was a radiant midday, yet, astonishingly, one floor remained shrouded in darkness despite the brilliant sunlight.

On the 34th and topmost floor of the Golden Scale Building, every window was concealed behind heavy curtains. This wasn’t because the people here were peculiar, but simply because the sole owner of this floor—Lance—detested the sun.

Orphaned at the age of eight, Lance had lost his father, a career soldier, to a fatal mission, while his mother had died giving birth to him. Yet it was from that moment his legendary life in the three-dimensional world truly began.

From early childhood, his father had trained him, bestowing upon him a body and mind far beyond the ordinary. At eighteen, he embarked on his first investment, funding it with his inheritance and earnings from various part-time jobs. Thus began his ruthless battle in the business world. After six years of relentless effort, his corporation was thriving, now ranked among the nation’s top five conglomerates, and he himself counted among the five richest men in the country. This, of course, was what the public knew. He held another, more secretive identity: a member of "Venom Sting," the Celestial Empire’s elite special forces. Each member had a distinct persona—businessman, student, teacher, soldier—and unique expertise, along with their own code names. His: "Viper," master of assassination and close combat, and one of the most hunted individuals in the world’s shadowy underworld.

However, he had already transferred all operating rights of