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

As such thoughts spread everywhere, the game's launch day finally came.

"Well, this is kinda anticlimactic," Yara said, as she and Lorn watched the news on TV.

<<All across the One Country, the streets are empty and the malls desolate. The only places that are full now are the new VR Diving Spots that were built specifically to accommodate players of Falling Cosmos.

<<Not just in the One Country, reports state that residents of all the countries in the world are experiencing the same situation. On the game's official website, the number of new players count 20 million worldwide.>>

<<Due to the sheer amount of people trying to log in, the game developers are allowing the players to log in, batch by batch, and it's expected that the complete login process would be finished by 19:00 in the evening.>>

Anarchy