'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.

***

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!!" The boy yelled at the top of his lungs. Exhaustion could be heard very clearly in his voice. He was barely even able to pronounce the old man's name properly between his breaths. "Did I make it?!" 


"..." The old man stared blankly at Arthur as if he were seeing some kind of alien. This was the first time in a very long time that he was truly and utterly speechless about something. Even his mind refused to comprehend what kind of monstrosity he had just witnessed. 


Yonathan knew very well how hard this process was. Each lap would double the difficulty from the previous one, and by the 50th-60th lap, the body would've already reached its limit, and every single lap after that, the only thing one could use is their will. No amount of stamina or strength could accommodate something as taxing as this… Only sheer will could push someone to pull it off.


Chapter 350 - Chapter 350- Exo-Burst (Part 7)