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

"I'm surprised you're willing to talk so much about such things," Lorn said.

"I imagine Earthlings are more familiar with the helplessness of being alone, considering all the top Undying Hunters are choosing paths and branches that grant them loyal underlings," Orso smiled. "There's only so much one man can do."

Lorn chuckled and put his hands on his chin.

"When I first realized how few people were here, I thought about these things as well," Lorn said. "I believed that the ban on killing we had was a method to prevent something like that."

"I considered the possibility as well," Orso sighed. "But there's one giant problem attached to that. The One Emperor holds control over that ban. Leaving Vox's fate to something so unreliable as the One Emperor's whims is not something I will allow myself to do."

Evil plottings