Tormented by loan sharks, Lorn had lived the life of an 'ascetic'. He would willingly become homeless and live the life of a beggar (and only sometimes a pickpocket), so his hard-earned money wouldn't fall into his debtors' hands. Hopefully, they would finally leave him alone after realizing he's worth nothing anymore.

But realizing his plans, the debtors decide to sell him as a guinea pig! 

The One Country's grand experiment attempting to copy a human's consciousness and put it inside the digital space! The only catch is, 80% of the test subjects are expected to receive lasting damages to their brain. 

However, Lorn finds a once-in-a-lifetime chance. The researchers were creating a virtual world using the digital space. And to create profits from it, instead of simply creating boring-old Virtual Earth (and calling it the Metaverse), they were making a game out of it!

The first fully immersive VRMMORPG in the world!

As the first tester of this game, Lorn would be a disgrace if he couldn't make money off of it!

Falling Cosmos

Lorn and Esther resumed their challenges. Esther revealed that he intentionally gave the hardest challenges to Lorn first. Every 5 task, there had to be a fight, and those usually happened at the very end. Since Lorn could complete them at the start, there was no need to take the other challenges so seriously.

And like Esther said, they weren't so difficult. Lorn quickly finished five more and was done finished with the Divine Trial.

He went to Crow to hear about how the others were doing. Sybil and Danton were almost done. They only had their fight against a Bloodkin left. Crow also revealed that they asked for Yara's help, as she was the only tank on the team.

Lorn hoped they asked him for help, but he stopped worrying soon enough. With Sybil and Yara, their victory was guaranteed. He decided to hear about the history of Iais in the meantime.

The end of the trial