'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...]

For the next hour or so, Arthur gave the group some time to mourn the death of the man and say their farewells to him. As much as time was a crucial aspect of their entire trip, he wasn't a heartless monster not to let these people at least say goodbye to their friend.


One by one, they all stood before the man and talked to him for a moment, sharing their heartfelt words as everyone else cried silently. Arthur couldn't understand what they were saying, but he could understand the tone, and it only made him feel even more for that man and for these people.


He completely forgot that he was playing a game and that these people were supposed to be just code on a screen. Yet, that idea was completely erased from his head the moment he stepped foot into this world for the first time.


Chapter 376 - Chapter 376- God’s Gate (Part 14)