The Dragon King's VRMMO Escape(The Second Multiverse)
Agamenticus Rialto is the Final Boss of Aethelgard Online-Lvl 18,523, possessing infinite HP, and wielding forbidden mastery over time and frost. He should be the ultimate threat. Instead, he's terrified. Thanks to a catastrophic system anomaly, the Dragon King's Defense stat has been permanently reset to a pathetic 10-the same as a beginner. Every single high-level monster, and every clumsy player with a lucky hit, now risks triggering the System Deletion Protocol, forcing his permanent recycle.
To survive, Agamenticus must venture outside the safety of his data core and begin a humiliating quest: recover the scattered Defense Core Shards, the only things capable of patching his flawed code. His first target is hidden within a mythical, long-forgotten tunnel connecting the bustling Tutorial Fields to the dangerous Soskano Woods.
Forced to rely on the "insects" he despises, he teams up with a profoundly dysfunctional duo: Royson Eubhara, a high-strung, secretly royal Cleric who insists on procedure, and Susan Zenia, a chaotic, clumsy archer whose accidental damage output is so high she almost ended Agamenticus in the town square.
With the relentless G-Force agent, Hina, tracking every anomaly, and an arrogant child sub-antagonist named "Lord" Pip constantly getting in their way, the Dragon King must survive the embarrassment of being vulnerable and keep his chaotic party alive long enough to reclaim his status-before the game's developers hit the 'Delete' button.
(This is a new project set in a parallel multiverse to my previous protagonists, so there won’t be any references aside from a very surprising returnee.)