Far into the future, humanity has finally found world peace under one single conglomerate of nations.

During the midst of this great peace, virtual reality technology was finally made a reality. With it's introduction and enhancements into time dilation, many begin finishing their formal education by age 10 and often live on their own by age 16.

Many now work from home with the help of VR technology, finishing month's worth of work in a single day's time.

One such stay at home office workers, Vance, play a new genre of games in his free time, VRMMORPGs.

With the now critically acclaimed Eternal Legend Online drawing his attention he decides to take a break from his usual games and try it.

All credit for the for the cover of the story goes to the clip art site I found it on, here's the link:

https://www.onlinelabels.com/clip-art/Lab_Icon_Erlenmeyer_Flask_-_Purple-109419.htm