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

"Hahaha, first!" Claudia shouted as she threw herself to the ground before snatching the glove from the ground. By the time she was gathering herself from the floor, Tom barely managed to twitch.

'She could be that fast?' Tom thought, baffled by what just happened.

"What do you think you are doing?!" The scrawny man's eyes opened wide, proving that he failed to understand what just transpired.

"No coming back now; I picked the glove, so we are going to fight to the death, right?" Claudia said, happily waving the piece of clothing around as if it was some kind of trophy.

"Were you that itchy for a fight?" Tom asked, rubbing his forehead with his hand.

"Isn't it boring to fight monsters only?" Claudia looked at Tom as if trying to teach a lesson to some naive kid. "What's the use of our power if we can't smash the faces of arrogant pricks like this one?" she asked, pointing her hand ostentatiously at the scrawny man.

Claudia's performance