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 Lesser Blessing of Serenity," Lorn murmured as they came out of the Divine Trial. "Kinda underwhelming."

The Divine Trial also didn't give Lorn the chimera he made a puppet of. He couldn't even feel its presence any longer.

"Yeah," Adrian nodded along. "Since we killed the manticore, we should've gotten the Blessing of Serenity without the Lesser. Maybe it was because Sybil was too strong?"

The rewards for Divine Trials varied depending on how the challengers did it. The harder it was for the party, they better the rewards were, but if the party had too easy of a time, then it wasn't as good.

Since Sybil managed to one-shot the boss, she could definitely be considered overpowered, but it wasn't like she did that effortlessly. She and Lorn also had to rank-up during a very stressful moment, so it wasn't like they had it easy…

'Was it because Lucas was watching over us?'

The Path forward