'Divinity Online'. The new breakthrough in the Full-Immersion Virtual Reality technology. After decades of work, Divinity Corp had achieved the impossible. Creating a massive video game world that people can enter and live in as if it were Earth. Their goal was clear, to create a world other than Earth that we can call home.


A place where the laws of reality vanish, and the true ceiling of power shifts completely.


Naturally, the shockwave Divinity Online created across the entire globe was unlike anything else. Every single person has heard of it, even those who have had no interest in video games before.


Giant corporations and even governments immediately rushed to start planning to invest in this new world and just like that, billions of people had their eyes on one single date: the 19th of July.

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Arthur, like everyone else, had heard of the game and was as excited as everyone else to try it, if not even more. With how much he grew bored of his life on earth, this fantasy world was like the divine call he had been searching for. However, there was a very small problem.


He had no money to buy the machine required to access Divinity Online. His wretched life had turned him into a broke teenager with no parents, and no relatives. But, by some kind of luck, he got his hands on one of those machines.

Not knowing what was awaiting him in that world, Arthur was simply seeking one thing... A new opportunity in life and to find a purpose he could work for when he had none so far.


[Welcome to 'Divinity Online'.]

[Assimilation Started...]

The darkness engulfed Arthur as he felt a horrifyingly suffocating feeling fill his heart. He clenched his teeth powerfully till they threatened to burst into small pieces. The entire world around him was changing in real-time as he struggled against horrendous pain.


He was confused, afraid, and alerted. He tried to grab his sword again, but his hand was shaking violently so he couldn't even do that. The other mercenaries around him slowly disappeared as the ship started emanating a red hue. A smell of burning filled his nose.


His eyes teared up before it slowly shifted to stare at a silhouette standing right behind where Deka was standing. There, a familiar seductive woman stood motionless, staring at him with a beautiful smile.


Chapter 324 - Chapter 324- Stone Hand