It is the year 2076 and internet has been deemed a Basic Human Right by the US Government, but there are still the haves and the have-nots. Most people can’t afford a car and take public transportation. Jason is a high-school student in a prestigious school, but he has problems being bullied by a fellow student. Problems that end up with his getting expelled. He goes home and starts playing the new VR game Awaken Online, where the game coaxes him into a non-normal start where he learns assassination techniques and necromancy. When he starts building his undead army the game developers think he must be cheating somehow because of the rate of his power-leveling, but the secret is more the result of the games AI controller who is grooming Jason to be the next Reagent of the city.  This series is unique because the AI game controller has overwhelming power to read and write human memories through the game helmet, but has little social interaction with actual humans.