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

With the party over, Lorn put on his headset and logged into Falling Cosmos. He had many things he needed to do before the Tyvat cadets arrived.

First of all, he had to meet his party members so they would have a general idea on what was going on. Lorn checked if anyone in the team was overly loyal to the king. He asked some questions while using Visions and Whispers and found that his teammates didn't really care who became king.

He later found out that most of the people on the One World did not care about such things, since the monarchs and rulers rarely ever affected the masses. With how many monsters and possessed the world spawned out of thin air, practically no one went hungry.

And besides, for most soulblessed, their job was to direct and order around the soulless. They would wake up, make sure all the soulless under their control were doing the job, refresh the orders if necessary, and go do sweet FA. Their life wasn't hard.

Redefining their goal