Immortal gods, online gaming, and a reincarnating goldfish … Lars Nilsson's life is about to level up.

Button pusher, office worker, up-all-night gamer, Lars Nilsson has just been booted from the top of the league in his latest high-stakes obsession. The arrival of a mysterious spirit animal and a sequence of cryptic in-game messages send Lars on a journey of cosmic self-discovery more challenging than any game.

Las Vegas, 1983, and an on-stage regression experiment tears open a passage to another dimension where a young assistant makes a deal with a mischievous supernatural being. The ancient immortal guardians of the afterlife have been lured from their position of authority after being tempted by the spoils of modern life. The land of the dead rots in their absence.

An online gamer's life is shattered when a Future Tech company sends him on a hyper-real quest to a land where magical creatures command the purple skies and shadow animals patrol the streets like deadly sentinels.

But what do the familiar challenges of this otherworld have to do with a reclusive gamer, and can the ancient immortals take back control of the afterlife before the land of the dead is lost to a powerful primordial force?

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