'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...]

Yonathan watched as the boy walked away in complete silence. His eyes flashed with a peculiar glint. 'While this task's goal is to get him familiar with the concept of the training, what this truly tests is something completely different.'


"Hah… Hah… One… step!" Arthur grunted as he moved his extremely heavy legs, almost dragging them on the dirt as he finally reached the first point of the trail.


"*Gulp*... Just walking to the starting point felt like a marathon already… 100 laps…" Arthur felt a chill run down his spine just imagining what he was about to do. That alone made him feel like giving up and just leaving this place instead.


However, the words Yonathan had told him were still ringing in his head, and it made him swallow his fear and finally focus on the task. The next step, all he had to do was to simply take that next step, and when he finishes that task, he tries to take another step.


Chapter 347 - Chapter 347- Exo-Burst (Part 4)