Shin, the strongest player in the VRMMORPG The New Gate, defeats the game's final boss to free everyone trapped inside after it turned into a death game. He wakes up alone in an unfamiliar field only to find the game world has become the real world, five hundred years after his victory. Still wearing the strength he had as a top player, Shin sets out to learn what happened in the five centuries since, and why he's the one still here.