Mingchao is a dreamlike world, where the boundaries between virtual and reality are blurred. Zanni, the five-star diffraction resonator who will debut in version 2.3, her existence seems to be an absurd fate arrangement. She is a character who constantly strives for breakthroughs and achievements in this virtual world, and her existence seems to have long been doomed to a tragic ending.
Zanni was doomed to an inescapable cycle from the beginning. Her growth came from those cold and ruthless materials – low-frequency poly-square sound core, medium-frequency poly-square sound core, high-frequency poly-square sound core, full-frequency poly-square sound core… These cold items represent the price of her life, but she has never really felt the pain behind them. She is just a set character. In the virtual world, like a part of countless numbers, she completes every task and waits for the arrival of “victory” one day.
Her breakthrough seems to be a meaningless attempt again and again. She acquires materials, upgrades weapons, and unlocks skills, as if these actions can bring some kind of relief, but reality makes her realize that all this has no practical meaning. Zanni’s heart is so empty that it is chilling. Although she keeps improving her strength on the surface, her soul is still empty. Behind every breakthrough, what is hidden is nothing but deep boredom and helplessness with life.
No matter how hard she tries to collect sword calamus or how she climbs to the top of each level, what has never changed is her deep sense of loneliness. She fights against enemies again and again in the game, but she has never had a dialogue with her true “self”. She has never asked herself why she can’t find her own answer in this virtual world.
Just like the materials she needs, every seemingly ordinary item hides countless pains and regrets. She fights again and again, constantly sublimating herself, but she can never really reach that distant goal, that true self. When she finally became strong enough to face all the enemies, she realized that she was just a consumable in this virtual game, like countless programmed characters, driven by the designer of fate.
This may be her fate, an inescapable virtual nightmare. Her growth and breakthrough are just to make her finally realize that in this virtual world, all efforts are in vain. Her future is destined, and her tragedy is the fate that she is powerless to resist.