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

"Repeat it so that everyone in the building will be a witness," Tom said in a cold voice.

This was exactly what he wanted. Exactly what he hoped to happen ever since he learned that there indeed was a world on the other end of the dungeon. But that was also the precise reason why he didn't act in a hurry or allow the excitement to go in his head.

'Historically, people are most prone to lose what they wanted to achieve just as they reach the last step of obtaining it,' he thought, bringing yet another motto of his father.

"We submit to you!" The girl screamed out, only to go back to retching her guts out in the very next moment.

Results of the fight