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 tried convincing himself that it was just a dream, but what he experienced was definitely not normal. A dream about forced suicide, Sybil managing to feel it, and his jumbled senses after waking up.

Lorn didn't know how often people dreamt about suiciding or dying, but he knew for certain that he himself never had a dream like this. If he had to have a dream like that, it would've been when he was stuck under Elan's control. But with freedom just around the corner, Lorn had no reason to dream of death. He even managed to teach Elan a lesson!

As for Sybil sensing something wrong, it could only be explained by their spirit bond. When they first leveled it up, it said that they both cared for one another. It wasn't impossible her to sense something amiss.

The jumbled senses, however, had no explanation. Lorn could ignore it if he was feeling slightly cold or hot, but the bucket of cold water he drank almost scalded his innards.

A chat at night