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Within the popular VRMMORPG "New Genesis", there was a ranker by the name of Arthur Holmes, commonly known by his in-game alias “Merlin”. 

Arthur was one of the few original beta testers still playing after 30 years, he was originally a ranker, a player whose entire goal was to stay at the top, ahead of everyone else.
However after 15 years he sacrificed his player ranking in search of knowledge.

Arthur became a lore hunter, a player who indulges himself with the world's vast lore and unexplored history, preferring to uncover the world’s secrets rather than endlessly fighting monsters.

At the age of 48, 30 years after the game came out, Arthur uncovered the greatest secret of all, and yet, ironically, his negligence in levelling up was the one thing holding him back from realising his goal, he knew he would never be able to catch up to the rankers, a gap of 15 years was Impossible to overcome.

If only he could restart…

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Restarting From Genesis

'That explains the clear difficulty spike.' Merlin thought as he watched the notification disappear. 'But what issue did we solve? We just destroyed the statues, it's not like we saved the villagers.'

Merlin made his way over to Callisto, who was panting heavily and holding her wounded fists.

He reached down and grabbed his goblin hexer's staff, throwing it back into his inventory before taking out his herbalist kit, placing it on the stone floor beside her.

"I didn't bring any water with me, damn." He mumbled to himself. He turned towards Callisto and asked her if she had any water.

He was instructed to grab the waterskin attached to her belt, a water bottle of sorts made from animal skin. Merlin shook it around and found that it was almost full.

He reached into his herbalist's kit and pulled out the mortar and pestle, before looking through his inventory once more.

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