Love, Lag, and Other Divine Miracles

The opening scene finds Vasco Rellano sprinting through the Weeping Woods, hotly pursued by a six-headed apocalyptic hydra. He isn't running out of fear; he’s just deeply annoyed by the 'frame rate drops' the monster’s massive particle effects are causing. Finding a quiet clearing, he slaps together a simple mud hut to use as a save point. Thanks to his glitched max-level stats, the hovel instantly radiates a divine, healing aura that cures the plague across the valley. Terrified by this casual display of omnipotence, the local Demon Lord, Xal-Gharat, surrenders and begs to become Vasco's butler. Vasco just wants to help people and enjoy the 'game' until the beta ends. His impossible feats draw the ire of the Alcazar of Gildenreach, a magic academy full of snobby nobles, but Vasco only has eyes for Inesca Torrente, a brilliant, ostracized rune-scholar who mistakes his complaints about 'texture popping' for profound prophecies. As a tender, slow-burn romance blossoms between them, a silent clock ticks down. The 'server shutdown' Vasco expects in ten months is actually the severing of his soul's tether to this very real world. Can Vasco realize the truth and anchor his existence before the love of his life watches him vanish forever?