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 status effect that cut off one's access to the System. It was a terrifying debuff and if Lorn was one of the residents, he would probably be having an existential crisis right now. But he spent 99% of his life without the system, so the effects weren't so debilitating.

"I'd have loved to talk more with you, but the Shadowspawn's still alive so I'll make this quick."

Before Lorn could even think of forfeiting, the shadowy knife fell on his forehead, crushing Lorn's skull.

It did not hurt as much as he expected. There was an uncomfortable stinging pain and then a pure, throbbing and unbearable pain. With it the ever-growing dread of having one's brain destroyed encroached his every cell. The fears of whether he would actually die because of this. An endless buzzing of thoughts and memories. And then… nothing.

Glaring weaknesses