The Dengel

​Synopsis: THE DENGEL ​To save their real lives, he must become their worst nightmare. ​Fifteen-year-old Leo is the definition of perfect. He is the top student in his class, a gentle soul who effortlessly helps everyone around him, and completely adored by his peers. He is also dying of absolute boredom. Reality feels like a flat, predictable script where everything comes too easily. His only escape is High Level, a dark fantasy web novel with a flawlessly constructed plot. ​Then, the universe glitches. ​At 11:30 PM, a toxic white notification from the "Game Maker" overrides his phone. A catastrophic error has dragged ten thousand arrogant Earthlings into the world of High Level as "Players." Armed with future meta-knowledge, these transmigrators are shamelessly hoarding items, breaking the story's structure, and steering the world toward total collapse—a collapse that will trap their souls in a dead simulation forever. ​They cannot be reasoned with. They cannot be talked down. To save them, they must be violently purged from the server and forced back to Earth. ​The Game Maker needs an Administrator. A Cleanser. A Villain. ​Accepting the role, Leo transmigrates into the novel as Min-hae—a timid, clumsy, entirely invisible background character. By day, he blends into the shadows, watching the clueless Players disrupt his favorite story. But when the sun sets, the kind golden boy vanishes. Armed with a razor-thin metallic weapon and an eerie nursery rhyme, he steps into the fog as The Dengel—a smiling, psychopathic urban legend. ​The rules of the hunt are absolute: The more the Players fear the myth of the White Angel, the more terrifying Leo's system privileges become. ​Let the game of hide-and-seek begin.