Vertical alliances connect things that have been broken apart, stroke by stroke.
Horizontal alliances break things that are whole into pieces, line by line.
When Chu Ge, Earth's last master of the Vertical and Horizontal School, a tradition with over two thousand years of history, is invited into a near-future game, he finally understands why his master never told him why the school had dwindled until only he remained.
In this chaotic game world, where death is treated as fun, the soil needed to let the art of vertical and horizontal alliances reach its full potential, something the real world could never provide, is spreading without limit...
