A decade after its 2016 debut, King of Avalon invites its half-billion players to pause and look back at the long arc of a game that has outlasted most of its contemporaries. FunPlus marks the milestone not merely with nostalgia but with transformation — elevating Merlin, the wizard who has watched from the sidelines since the beginning, into a figure players can finally call their own. It is a quiet reminder that in the world of live-service games, longevity is itself a kind of mythology, built one returning player at a time.