Celestial, that's me

My name is Eric. To the world, I was just a useless orphan in the Bronx—a perpetual target for bullies, with my older sister in the Marine Corps as my only family. Broken and exhausted by reality, I dropped out, locked myself in my apartment, and buried my life inside a dying online game. For thirty years, I lived entirely in the digital realm alongside six other players, completely oblivious that dungeons were opening, monsters were invading Earth, and Hunters were rising to fight them. Together with my six virtual companions, we conquered the final boss. But when I finally stepped outside my apartment for the first time in three decades... Earth was gone. All that remained was the floating wreckage of my building in the vast silence of space. As it turned out, my party members weren't human. They were Celestials—supreme overlords of the cosmos. As a token of gratitude for standing by their side until the end, they shattered the laws of time to send me back before the apocalypse—armed with all the absolute power, skills, and legendary gear I earned over thirty years of relentless grinding.