By day, Erika is a middling college student without much direction or motivation. But when she logs into ZRealm, she's the best on the server. ERIKONE the PALADIN gets world first kills like clockwork. When an impossible fight is patched into the game, the only way to beat it is to exploit an experience drain all the way back down to level one--risking her character and maybe even her account. Years of work could go up in smoke, and there's no guarantee she'll even be rewarded with the World First for her struggle. But life has its own curveball to throw her way, and ZRealm will soon become her only escape--and possibly her savior.