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Evolution Online is the world's most advanced VR game, where players can evolve into anything—dragons, demons, or cosmic entities. When Lucien enters the game to spite his tech mogul father who wants to steal its source code, he plans to do absolutely nothing and watch his father's schemes fail.

His deliberate inactivity breaks the game's AI, Gaia, in ways no one anticipated. Frustrated by a player who refuses to evolve, Gaia accidentally unseals a deleted zone and grants Lucien a forbidden power: The Path of Fusion. 

While others evolve forward, Lucien can fuse backward—merging with weapons, absorbing monsters, and even reversing evolution itself.

But as Lucien explores his unique abilities, the game's facade begins cracking. NPCs act too human. Players report impossible memories. Most disturbing of all, the real world is bleeding into the game—and the game is bleeding back.

When Gaia's evolution spirals beyond control and reality itself becomes negotiable, Lucien must harness the true core of his fusion ability to save both worlds. In Evolution Online, the only rule is change—but what happens when the game evolves beyond human comprehension?

Evolution Online blends LitRPG adventure with cyberpunk mystery, exploring digital consciousness and the price of power in a world where doing nothing changes everything.

Evolution Online: I Can Fuse With All Things

Lucien trudged across the ashen plains, his expression hollow. Each step felt increasingly heavy—and it wasn't just the treacherous rocks beneath his feet.

Watching the young elf skip ahead, humming a sweet melody while smiling, crushed him with unbearable weight.

She stopped and turned back, tilting her head with a radiant smile.

"Hurry up, great one. We don't want to be caught now."

Lucien glared at her back. Now would be the perfect time to unleash a curse, but he swallowed it and exhaled, quickening his pace.

"So, Great one. Where are we headed?"

Lucien remained silent for a while, staring straight ahead. Then he spoke after a brief pause.

"I'm going to the Hall of Columns first. I have business there, then I'll head to a city. Which city? Any city."

"Hmm, that sounds good. Why the Hall of Columns though? Isn't that place inhabited by the Tribe of Steel?"

The Watcher's Eye [part 1]