Chapter 1

Ard Saga, the world’s first and currently only Virtual Reality Game.

In 2021, this revolutionary game, released by the Korean game company Miracle Entertainment, which appeared like a comet, swept the world as soon as it was released.

A virtual reality field where reality and virtuality are indistinguishable, where real life breathes!

Numerous NPCs equipped with AI that perfectly passed the Turing test, with intelligence and emotions so complete that they are indistinguishable from real humans!

Endless content to explore, and infinite freedom!

It was only natural that people all over the world would fall in love with Ard Saga, which realized another world within virtual reality.

Average concurrent users: 200 million, annual sales: 100 trillion won, new record for sales growth rate!

Ard Saga, which has repeatedly broken its own tremendous box office records, has already gone beyond the limits of a game, bringing with it immense popularity and buzz.

And among them, the biggest star was none other than the Hero Eugene.

A handsome face like a sculpted beauty that would make even most celebrities cry.

An orphan who lived a difficult life, juggling high school studies and part-time jobs, and then won second place in a scratch-off lottery by chance.

A user of the hidden class ‘Hero’ who started Ard Saga after purchasing a capsule with the prize money at the suggestion of his friend MuscleMan, a Ranker in Ard Saga!

A humane man overflowing with justice and conscience, a rare sight these days, who fought head-on against the tyranny of giant guilds!

All of these were words that described Eugene.

Eugene was the undisputed, self-proclaimed best player in Ard Saga, the idol of countless users, and the very embodiment of a righteous hero.

But where there is a hero, there is also a villain to oppose him.

If Eugene was the hero of Ard Saga, the villain of Ard Saga was none other than Drakan.

Guild Master of the giant guild Iron Blood Alliance, boasting the number one spot in the guild rankings!

A top Ranker who unified the continent and succeeded in the Overlord Quest!

But behind that feat of continental unification, there were various dark sides.

Notorious field and dungeon control, monopolization of important information and quests!

Various heavy taxes imposed only on general users, not guild members!

Blacklists and infinite k*ll orders!

Drakan and the Iron Blood Alliance had risen to the top of the world, building their achievements on the unification of the continent using all sorts of evil practices.

As the saying goes, power doesn’t last ten years, and flowers don’t last ten days.

The era ruled by evil, created by the seemingly eternal Drakan and Iron Blood Alliance, and the collusion of giant guilds, came to an end in less than a year at the hands of Ard Saga’s hero, the Hero Eugene.

The moment Voltaha Castle, the last stronghold of the Iron Blood Alliance, fell to Eugene and his guild, Lightwing.

Eugene rose to the top in Ard World, a game with 200 million concurrent users, another world.

All of this happened within just one year of Eugene starting the game.

Poetic justice. Finally, justice prevailed, and evil was defeated!

All the users of Ard Saga were thrilled and cheered by the realization of justice, something they had only seen in comics, novels, and movies, by Eugene’s story, which was like an unscripted drama, and by the textbook happy ending.

But in that happy ending, there was no place for the villain Drakan, and people erased the defeated villain Drakan from their memories.

The fallen villain, Drakan, was quickly forgotten in Ard World.

And six years have passed.