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

A week quickly passed inside the One World. At this point, Lorn was practically living inside the game. He last logged out two weeks ago, so he definitely needed to take a break soon, but he wanted to at least reach rank 1 before he left. After all, he was only one fight away, and it was a fight against Sybil.

For the top 3, it was Sybil, him, and Elan.

After reaching the top of the D-rank ladder, people couldn't just challenge the C-rank ladder. Since there were so few C-ranks and since they all had to hunt stronger lever monsters, they couldn't be loitering around the city, waiting for challengers.

Instead, the countries organized a tournament twice every year so Hunters could decide their ranks.

The game plan