Alex and Enea are back the Crystal Sphere, where, in their lack, a catastrophe has struck. Virtual the truth is now controlled by the Reapers: hybrid identities evolved from high-level NPCs who destroy human players to harvest their neurograms.

Reapers are constantly over the prowl for more neurograms. No-one is safe off their cannibalistic greed.

Survival with this new world becomes an ever-increasing challenge. A Reaper military is going to invade the Agrion cluster. Rion Castle is just about the players’ last outpost-but the struggle is too unequal.