Ah right, I haven't read the novel yet but Supreme Uprising, the novel with the most votes in male lead right now gives off the same vibe of CoPW in its synopsis and art style. Yeah, so check that out.
Actually, I was waiting for the last two weeks for it to win, but now that The Legendary Mechanic is up for voting I'm leaning towards that. After all, the MC has two swords and an assault rifle furthermore the MC transmigrates into a video game world he once played, as an NPC.
This is the synopsis.
What do you do when you wake up and find yourself inside the very game that you love?
What do you do when you realize you that you have not only become an NPC - you have even been thrown back in time to before the game even launched!
What will happen when our protagonist's two realities coincide?
Han Xiao was a professional power leveler before his transmigration. Using his past life's knowledge, Han Xiao sweeps through the universe as he prepares for the arrival of the players. This is definitely not your typical transmigration novel.
My question is: Are the players actually going to come...or are they not? This reminds me of Night Ranger and a few other novels but the players did not come in those, so this would be a new concept.
There are two ways of looking at this, either the players can come meaning that they are playing a game that is actually a fleshed-out alternate universe without knowing. This means he got sent into the past, as an 'NPC' or native of that game world. (Or possibly sent to a different timeline at an earlier point in time if you really want to debate transmigration).
Or, those past players and him included were playing the virtual simulation version and he alone got transmigrated into the real alternate universe one. This is the pretty typical way of how Second Chance Video Game Transmigrations are done.