A novel set in the same real life universe as the Phantom Server series. This story is set before humanity had fully been moved into mega cities. You don’t have to have read the Phantom Server series to read this one but if you have you’ll get little references that will make you giggle.
The story of Alexatis, the first test subject of a revolutionary new neural interface. He’ll have to live in the fantasy VR game The Crystal Sphere as its first full immersion player and learn how to survive when he is one of the only players that can feel pain.