Poll: Dragon Seed blurb rewrite (Patreon)

I'm currently in the process of refining the blurb for Dragon Seed, and I'm curious: what do you all think about the rewrite compared to the current blurb?  

New Blurb:

Would you risk it all to soar with dragons?

Hector Park, a combat-hardened veteran conscripted into the turmoil of the Third World War, now fights a war more personal and insidious — the battle against an unforgiving virus threatening to obliterate humankind. He has three days to live.

When all hope seems lost, a lifeline emerges from the darkness: Hector's estranged brother offers him a chance to transcend mortality itself with a one-way trip into the revolutionary virtual reality of Archemi.

Hector embraces the experimental digital transformation and chooses the difficult path of the Dragon Knight. But Hector isn't the only one with dreams of taking to Archemi's skies. Vicious, ambitious fellow players, corrupt knights and ancient gods make Archemi a battlefield just as dangerous as the war Hector left behind. But if he succeeds? He will earn the trust of a dragon hatchling and forge an impenetrable psychic bond with her, a connection deeper than any human relationship.

LitRPG novels combine the structure and satisfaction of role-playing games with sci-fi and fantasy elements, seamlessly weaving game elements with story. If you love Dungeons and Dragons, Final Fantasy, and-or the Dragonriders of Pern, then this series will grip you and not let go. Join Hector on this Epic JRPG-inspired LitRPG journey, where the skies beckon and mankind's survival hangs in the balance.

And this is the old blurb:

What would you give to be a dragon rider?

Before being conscripted to fight in the Total War, Private Hector Park had a shattered family, a collection of old videogames, and a promising career as a motorcycle stuntman. Now, he is dying from a virus threatening humankind with extinction. He has three days to live.

When Hector’s brother contacts him after years of hostile silence, he offers him the chance to cheat death by joining him in Archemi, a full-immersion fantasy VR-RPG videogame. Determined to forge a life worth living, Hector undergoes the experimental upload process and chooses the difficult path of the Dragon Knight. To achieve his dream, he must prove himself worthy of imprinting a dragon, a being with whom he will share a telepathic bond more intimate than any human relationship.

But at what cost?

Join Hector on his first steps towards mastering the skies in Dragon Seed, the first book in the Archemi Online LitRPG series!