'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...]

He peeked through the cracks in one of the broken ships, expecting to see a glimpse of the man. After all, this game had been going on for the past hour, and the same thing happened again and again. He was getting a little frustrated, but he didn't let that bother him as this was bound to happen.


However, it didn't take long to realize that… something was rather odd about the noises. The boy's face slowly changed when he realized that he wasn't hearing a human being.


'The noises sound like… groans?' He thought to himself. 'Is that even human? What the hell?'


He cranked his neck up, slowly seeing more and more of the scene. Eventually, his eyes caught a glimpse of the thing making that noise, and he was immediately shocked. Instead of the man's silhouette, all he saw was a crouched, disfigured silhouette, arched on the ground as if it was sniffing the ground.


Chapter 355 - Chapter 355- Exo-Burst (Part 12)