Want to cheat fate, get rich, and cure yourself of any ailment? Welcome to Arealm! But don’t go back—everyone is rewarded for persistence with Dependence. You won’t get bored: deadly anomalies, enraged mutants, unstoppable Zombies… And people aren’t any better either. Because Arealm is also priceless resources—and where there’s a smell of money, the interests of big criminality and big politics intersect. The attempts of a handful of scientists to get involved in Arealm are extremely unsettling to those in power, and only a squad led by Major Pletnev stands guard over the interests of ordinary people.
But even more sinister events mercilessly break into the lives of Arealm’s inhabitants…