'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...]

"What are you trying to tell me…?" Arthur whispered, his eyes fixated on the abyss below. His voice wavered between disbelief and curiosity. "Whoever—whatever—you are down there, what are you trying to say?"


The air around him had shifted. That same still, dead air now felt alive, brimming with something he couldn't see but could feel in every bone. The whispers continued, barely audible but unmistakable. They weren't hallucinations—he was sure of that now. Something was speaking to him.


He strained his ears, leaning closer toward the void. It wasn't the first time he'd looked into it, but it was the first time he heard something from it. That change meant something. The God sealed below… was aware.


And more than that—it wanted to be heard.


'Is it asking for help?' he wondered. The whispers carried with them a strange weight, as if laced with sorrow. There was no rage, no madness in the voice. Only pain. Loneliness. Desperation.


Chapter 399 - Chapter 399 – God’s Gate (Part 36)