MotivatedSloth

"Hello, sir. Are you cashing out or leveling up?"

Dungeons Online was the first game that cracked the system. Let nerds earn by nerding, and they will nerd forever. And Dungeons Online did just that. 

Noobs turned into middle-class workers. Pro-players turned into celebrities and multi-millionaires. 

And there was Tom. Likely, the only top ranker that lived off the scraps and cat-food. A courtesy of his father that went and disappeared, leaving Tom with just enough money to survive until his graduation. Until the day where the option of cashing out would appear.

Dungeons Online. A game where developers never shared a single bit of information. A game where the death of one's avatar is permanent. A game that can turn a beggar into a lord just as quickly as turning a celebrity into nobody. 

But where does all this money comes from? How is it connected to the unnatural disaster that all governments across the world buried any information off? And how is this all connected to Tom's missing father?

Dungeons Online

"Tom! Tom!" A distant voice called, filled with grief and anxiety.

"Just let me sleep," Tom thought, feeling the overwhelming weakness of his body reaching all the way to the deepest point of his soul where his mind took refuge to enter a slumber.

"Wake up! Please!" The voice continued, introducing a new feeling to Tom's mind, who finally found a way to relax.

'Never a moment of peace, huh?' Tom thought, shaking his head a bit... But then, he shook his head harder. And harder. And by the time he felt the tendons in his neck snapping, he finally managed to shake himself awake.

"Ah!" Tom shouted as soon as his consciousness returned. But the pain of his neck that was behind the shout disappeared as soon as the young man opened his eyes.

"Tom!" Once again, the voice spoke. With vision slowly reaching his mind, Tom saw a wet face of Claudia, filled with tears.

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