Click.

A fit, twenty-year-old man walked out of the door, wearing skin-tight light armor. He seemed to give off the air of someone who had developed his body through persistent training. With a confused expression, the man looked around.

“Wow, did I really spend six days here already? And it was only one day in real life?”

Even though the man had only been in the room for a day in real life, he felt that he had experienced over a hundred days’ worth of gameplay.

“You’ve spent all of your allotted time. Most users take a break in the middle.”

“Hahaha. If I did that, then I wouldn’t have gotten my money’s worth. But, it’s quite interesting. Did only six days pass here?”

“Yes.”

Although there wasn’t a limit to how much time a user could spend in the training room specifically, DIO itself had a limit, and that was one day in real-time. All users were forcefully logged out after playing for 24 hours.

Fortunately, when playing in DIO, a user’s physical body was resting. This way, players would wake up refreshed after their time in the game, much like waking up from sleep. This phenomenon actually stumped many scientists. The physical body may be resting, but the mind was still active, so how did users get a refreshed, rested state of mind after playing DIO?

In any case, the proof was in the pudding. Users didn’t feel any exhaustion or side effects after playing DIO. In fact, Merlin didn’t need to give himself any time to sleep in the past nine days. Actually, after logging out of DIO, he couldn’t fall asleep even if he tried. That was how refreshed he felt...