Everyone needed a dream.
And Lor had known his dream since childhood: to escape poverty!
He looked down on the home his parents worked so carefully to maintain. To him, it was far too shabby and unremarkable.
He deserved a better home and a status that would make everyone take notice.
So he fought for it.
At school, he studied hard.
After graduation, he worked hard.
But...
The fullness of his dreams only highlighted the stark bones of reality.
Even with all his effort, he could not fulfill his dream. In fact, even maintaining the shabby home he had always despised grew harder by the day.
By then, Lor had admitted how ordinary he was.
He was just himself, an utterly ordinary fellow, no different from the people he saw around him.
Perhaps he was even a little worse off.
After all, his looks and build were average. He was nowhere near as popular as those blessed with good looks.
When a handsome junior from his school, who had graduated less than a year ago, easily became his team's leader with the boss's support, Lor came to understand reality's cruelty even more deeply.
And so he grew increasingly cautious, and... began muddling through.
He watched the girl he secretly loved become another man's bride.
He watched his parents grow older by the day.
He watched his smile in the mirror become increasingly numb.
He cried.
He sobbed his heart out.
Then he entered this place.
A place that supposedly let people change their fate.
Change their fate by staking their lives.
Was it fair?
It was.
At least this place gave him a chance.
He swore to seize every opportunity.
Yet after just one Novice Trial, Lor recognized the reality of his situation.
The fear of death made his entire