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 got up and walked into the arena.

He was instantly met with the roars of the crowd. The auditorium was stacked.

It was a Sunday. Only the most interesting matches happened today. And since there were no C-rank free challenges, most of the time a D-rank match would be the most exciting thing of the week. Not only that, Lorn was the Rank 2 challenging the throne of the current Rank 1.

There were other stuffs that affected the number of people. Before the arrival of the Undying, the ladders were rather stale. But during the past two months, the ladders all around shook up quite a bit.

The most active was the D-rank ladder with all the various Undying joining in. As far as Lorn could tell, very few of them seemed to know about Spirit Bonds. They didn't possess many skills, and they were also not that well-versed in fighting.

Even on the forums, Lorn couldn't see any mentions of Spirit Bonds.

Comet