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

On the morning of the update, Lorn sat on his porch with Irene. He was holding a large stress ball, squeezing it slowly. His hand was almost back to normal. He decided to give Gwen his thanks the next time he saw her.

Beside him, Irene was sitting inside a hanging ball chair, slowly carving a piece of wood. They found a place that taught carving nearby and visited it. Lorn did not like the teacher there. It was obvious he wasn't taking Irene seriously. But out of either obligation or because of his standards he directed her to some reference materials and gave her a brief lecture about good woods and how to choose them.

Afterwards, he gave her a few pieces of wood and asked her to carve whatever she wanted with them. With that, he would know where to start with her.

A special punishment