DEMONS CREST LIGHT NOVEL SC (2025)

Yuuma Ashihara is playing Actual Magic, a virtual reality MMORPG, when it suddenly begins to fuse with the real world. While he tries to make sense of what's happening, he runs into Sumi, one of his classmates. Before, she was one of the cutest girls in his grade, but she's undergone a terrible metamorphosis-into one of the game's monsters! From the author of Sword Art Online and Accel World comes a story beyond VR and AR, where game and reality are one and the same.?

 The latest VRMMORPG, Actual Magic, has sealed an entire class of sixth graders in a terrifying game of life or death. Countless dangers await eleven-year-old Yuuma and his friends. One of their classmates has been turned into a monster, and gargantuan beasts lurk around every corner. Their only hope? The demon Valac who has possessed Yuuma's twin sister. Following Valac's guidance, Yuuma and his party set out to save their missing friend, Nagi. But an unexpected encounter awaits them...

The students of Yukihana Elementary School Class 6-1 remain trapped inside Althea, a mixed-reality hellscape. Yuuma wants everyone to work together to escape this nightmare, but unexpected treachery leaves several of his classmates turned to stone. A surprise attack with unclear motives, betrayal from a trusted ally, a disturbing new stat called a 'demonization ratio'…and now, Aria has transformed into a demon, just like Sawa! In order to survive, the students must learn to coexist with their demons. But what will this mean, and what price will they have to pay?