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

"What happened here?" Lorn couldn't help but ask.

Their surroundings were dead silent. If they didn't see the few lights that were coming from the houses around and the few guards patrolling, they really would've thought that Vexis had become a ghost town.

No children ran through the streets, no vendors sold their goods and no couples walked drunk hand in hand.

They were in the inner city of Vexis. Walking through the outer city inhabited by soulless, some level of desolateness was expected, but it definitely wasn't normal in the inner city.

They were only gone for two days for the Trial, what the hell happened in between?

"Maybe there was an epidemic or something," Sybil commented, "All the guards are wearing gloves."

Some of the guards in question noticed the four's gaze and eyed them suspiciously, whispering to each other.

"What you looking at?" one suddenly shouted.

"What happened to the city?" Sybil asked.

The dream