The revolutionary global immersive online game Mythic Era suddenly arrived. Through neural links, players could awaken supernatural abilities in the game and explore a world blending Eastern and Western mythology with Lovecraftian realms. But not long after the game launched, players discovered to their horror that some of the abilities and items they obtained in the game, and even... the monsters they encountered, were beginning to appear in the real world! The game world and reality began to overlap. Players became the first true "Awakened" in the real world, and the first line of defense against monsters seeping into reality from the "game."
