Eight years ago, ECLIPSE—the world's first neural-immersion game—swallowed reality whole. Its rules overwrote the world, turning players into survivors. Death meant permanent deletion once resurrection counts ran dry. Ethan led survivors through eight years of brutal combat and finally slew the world-tier boss, Nidhogg the Void Dragon, dropping the Dragon Core—a mythic item that could rewrite the world's rules. But his two most trusted comrades, Marcus and Rachel, betrayed him. Marcus drove a blade through Ethan's chest to seize the Core. Yet the Dragon Core never acknowledged Marcus. The instant Ethan died, it triggered an unknown power and rolled the entire world back eight years. Ethan opens his eyes in the final hours before ECLIPSE's launch. This time, he'll claim the Founder's Chip first, seize resources before anyone else, rewrite old tragedies—and uncover NEXUS Corporation's hidden agenda. But if the future has changed, what awaits him?
