Dragon Seed: The Archemi Online Chronicles (#1)

June 2068. After close to twenty years of global war, human beings will soon be extinct.

HEX is a super-flu with a five-day life cycle and a hundred percent mortality rate. It's tearing through an overpopulated world, killing millions, while teams of scientists and doctors urgently seek a cure. World governments are sending the privileged few to a space station, while the world's biggest manufacturer of military and entertainment AI systems is seeking a lateral solution: uploading people's minds into Archemi, a completely immersive fantasy VR-MMORPG.

Hector Park, a young conscripted soldier in the US Army, lost everyone he loves to HEX - and now he's dying, too. Determined to fight until the end, his world changes when he is approached by a mysterious woman with an unbelievable offer: to join the beta testing phase of Archemi and help the Ryuko New Reality Corporation give the dying a second chance at an eternal virtual life. However, the beta is a one-way trip, and a dangerous one at that.

Even if Hector survives, he'll have to find his place in a beautiful, savage world where the brightly colored dragons of Archemi and their human allies battle the invading drachan, evil technocratic dragons bent on draining the planet dry of magic and life. Not only that, but the real-life enemies of the Allied forces Hector fought may be playing games of their own. If Hector can't fight back from the inside, he might find that he's traded death from HEX for eternal slavery in another world.