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

Immediately, Elan fell into his shadow. A ten-meter-wide pool of darkness engulfed the arena. Lorn heard that it was possible to attack Elan while in this state, but they had to hit him accurately. For someone like Rank 10, who couldn't do AOE attacks, it was a difficult task.

However, Rank 10 had expected that and threw something into the air after making a sideways pulling motion in front of him.

'Is that a grenade?' Lorn couldn't help but think, seeing the object.

It was egg-shaped black object, and it even had a pin that needed to be pulled. Whatever it was, it made a small arc in the air before exploding a meter above the ground.

Lorn was in disbelief, but judging from how the other spectators looked unperturbed… it wasn't anything that crazy?

The price of powerful skills