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

The match resumed and as planned, Lorn shot out all the skills he was holding onto. His skill Tethers hit the first 'Elans' and just disappeared without doing anything. Lorn was carefully watching all of them, searching for the one different reaction.

No such reaction occurred, but that was expected.

<Go,> he ordered to his puppets. <Yeth first.>

Yeth dashed forward, valiantly scouting ahead for any traps. Vick followed close behind. She was spreading its soul as wide as possible, searching for Elan. Her soul was liquid, and she was an intelligent monster, so her control of her soul and her sense wasn't so bad.

And since she wasn't using any skills, this was completely acceptable.

<Vick, be ready to flee into your dream realm,> Lorn reminded.

The final confrontation