Storyline

The year is 2018. The date is May 3rd. Over 30,000 Japanese players have found themselves trapped in a popular video game by the name of “Elder Tale”. Elder Tale is an MMORPG that is played via PC, which uses Japan's Half GAIA Project, a half-scale model of planet Earth. It is the world’s largest and most popular MMORPG in history that has earned a dedicated following of millions of players over the course of 20-year history.

This day will live on in infamy as it is known among most of the players trapped in the game as the Apocalypse. With the release of its twelfth expansion pack, Homesteading the Noosphere, the 30,000 Japanese players and several hundred thousand players worldwide who were logged in at the time of the update, became trapped in the game.

In the beginning, most people shared the same sentiment. That they were trapped in the game, scared to death about what implications this will have in real life, what they’re going to do. People who tried to leave the city, came back almost immediately after, scared that when they die in the game. They die in real life. Eventually, most players didn’t feel the need to try to find away to leave. Instead, they try to adapt to their new life and just play the game like they always have been. But, is the game the same as they always played it now?

Pre-Present Day Storyline

 * The "Wolves of the Night" obtain their first World First achivement in finishing the "Dragon King Festival Raid". It was a brutal race with another raid where it came down to the wire. Down to the final boss, The Dragon King. In the lead and having brought the boss down to 10%, the "Wolves of the Night", was wiped out, leaving only Yama to fend him off alone. Things were looking bleak as the other raid were going to catch up to them and pass them. But Yama did the impossible, he slayed the boss and stole the achievement of World First out of the clutches of this raid. With the victory, Yama became known as the Dragon Slayer as he obtained his current Phantasmal-Class gear.
 * Takeru Ao, real life name of Yama, carries his basketball team, the Tokyo Apache, to two National Basketball League championships in a roll in his first two seasons. With the start of the third season in 2018, Takeru was going to sign on to the New York Knicks and make his legend known there.