'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...]

If Arthur were asked to define that word from his own perspective, he would say one thing and one thing only. Loneliness for Arthur was the epitome of human torture. The human being is a social creature by nature, and if that aspect was robbed of their lives, the results are usually detrimental on so many different levels.


The first time the boy experienced true loneliness was after coming home from his grandmother's funeral and closing the door of the house behind him. What welcomed him was a dark, gloomy, and empty house with no life attached to it.


He remembers vividly how he stood there, a blank expression written all over his face as he stared around him. Before that moment, the weight of the loss hadn't hit him yet as he was still in shock from everything.


Chapter 388 - Chapter 388- God’s Gate (Part 25)