'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...]

'I can't touch it, or it could spread to me. It looks like it has a consciousness of its own. Is it some type of fungus or bacteria?' Arthur asked himself as he looked closely at the substance with his sharp eyes.


This was the first time he had ever seen anything like this, and it gave him immense discomfort just being that close to it. The image of this black matter taking over the man's body as he was suffocated slowly and ruthlessly was up there with the worst things he had to witness with his own eyes.


It made him feel completely powerless even though the substance itself didn't even look threatening. However, Arthur knew that it could easily take over his body and then what could happen was simply a nightmare.


So, even though he was desperate to figure out how he could get the man out of it, he didn't rush or panic. Panicking would only make him make mistakes in a situation that required no mistakes.


Chapter 374 - Chapter 374- God's Gate (Part 12)