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

"You are finally back," Claudia said, crossing her hands on her chest. "Where did you yeet out to?" she asked, seizing Tom from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet.

'Is that how it feels to be a husband returning late in the night from a drinking party?' Tom asked himself, not sure how he should feel about the situation.

"I got us a place to stay," Tom replied plainly, not seeing any benefit to linger on the topic. "How are the things on your end?" he asked, hoping to change the topic as soon as possible.

"The guild master told me to get you as soon as you return." Claudia shook her head before releasing a deep sigh. "Come, then," she added a moment later, turning around and heading deeper into the guild.

The laws of slavery