Year 2037…
In the wildly popular game “World of Arcona,” the Seventeenth update has taken place. From now on, all the sensations experienced by users immersed in individual capsule pods during gameplay have become indistinguishable from real life. Roman Kozhevnikov felt this to the fullest—not by his own will, but because he ended up in Arcona. And not just in Arcona, but in the most terrifying place there: the Lands of Demons. Merged with his character, the demon Kryan, Roman has to do more than just survive—he must also take revenge for his imprisonment in virtual reality, where the credibility of pain sensations has reached one hundred percent…