"“I’m no leader, man. I’m just a guy trying to look out for me and mine.”
-Maz’rael of the Verdant Watch-

Elijah Azrael Michaels and 19 other members of his guild were tasked to ear-mark a new territory for the world’s people to settle in a VRMMO called Avarice Online.
They failed.
He awakens in a forest, a day’s walk from North Gate with a new Avatar for his 15 to twenty-year stay in his new Virtual Reality World. Though things do not go as planned for Elijah.
Here, he wanted to be a Healing Paladin, but circumstances have changed him into a being with blood magic. Now he must master his new power set, learn the basics of magic to prove himself among the ranks of the Mage Guild, and somehow make it to level 10 to claim a class of his own.
Meanwhile, North Gate is being assaulted by demons and their ilk. His newly found friends are trying to become strong enough to build a new home. While the people of earth adapt to their new reality, beings native to this new world plan to use them for their own sake.
Unbeknown to Elijah, now known as Maz’rael, two sets of warlocks and their demon masters watch his struggles in amusement. One side desires to use him to their benefit. The other…wants to rend his body to pieces