Chapter 11: Home Sweet Home

I gasped as I returned back to reality, I started breathing heavily and collapsed. I heard footsteps approaching me but I couldn't make out who it was and collapsed. I woke up in bed with my mom's head on my bed sheets, sleeping. I smiled and couldn't believe that those days of me in the game were finally over. Of course I was going to go back, but I should probably take some time to recuperate.

Suddenly my mom woke up and found that I was awake as well. She looked at me tearing up at the sight of me and hugged me tightly. I couldn't say anything... I was back home now and away from the dangers of monsters attacking at any given point. Although this life isn't as good as my other one, I knew that this life was far safer. My mom looked at me and said, "Where have you been it's been a few days since I last saw you..." "Please don't make me worry about you again."

While I had disappeared apparently my bastard father thought it was a good idea to severe ties with us. He basically said fuck you to me and my mom and divorced. Of course I knew that most of our income came from that bastard, so somebody had to do extra work now. I put my right hand on my mom's shoulder and said, "Don't worry mom I'm here now." I told her about the game that had released and told her I could make money off of it. At first she doubted me but when she saw how serious I was being she agreed to my proposal.

I told her that I just needed some time for what was about to go down. She nodded in agreement and off we were to eat lunch, it was the afternoon. Surprisingly the same time as the game... Wait a minute... then- that means the time here is intertwined with the time there. It's like living two lives at the same time, but one is significantly better. The game developers must have really thought this through; some kids spend hours and hours playing without knowing the time.

After a quick bite of lunch I went upstairs to my room to check if my console was still there. To my surprise it was! Just checking though, I need to check on the latest update for the game, if there is one. I typed in my password and quickly searched up the website for any news. I clicked the link and as I did... I found a bunch of news about so many new things. For one thing the company added a trade feature so that players could trade with other players. They also have an incoming tournament for level 50 players.

I checked the leaderboard to see who was at top and at which level. I didn't expect it to be as high as the other leaderboards around the world but... Level 200 was the highest thus far. That was a little more than what I expected but that should be enough to attain. A new patch had been added just a few minutes ago, apparently they found a bug where some people were trapped. Now you fucking find out how to fix this shit? Never mind that, they added a feature where you could be supported by constellations.

Currently there are only twelve constellations implemented into the game. These being: Sagittarius, Aries, Capricorn, Cancer, Leo, Aquarius, Gemini, Taurus, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, and Pisces. These are constellations most people are familiar with and are used a lot. Each one gives something to the person it wants to sponsor and is limited to only one each. Meaning, you can only have one constellation supporting you at a time.

I scratched my head as I couldn't imagine how big the community had gotten now. It would be hard to get a sponsor with my skills as of now. Anyway, going back to the tournament it says here that the cash prize for the tournament will be $100,000. That could be a very huge help considering we need as much money as we can get. For now I guess I will check if anybody has anything up for trade that could be of value, and for how much. To find this out I had to again search for the website that most people used to organize these trades. As of now there isn't an actual website that automatically transfers items to players.

I found it and clicked on it seeing many trade requests. But again I know I have surprised a lot today but these items were really bad compared to the ones I had been using. If these trash items were going out for thousands of dollars than maybe mine will go for tens of thousands? I kept scrolling and scrolling until I found something worth my time. The description of the item was: an egg that can hatch as something good. From the description I could tell this would've been a shitty item for most people... BUT with my luck I can probably get something good out of it. The price for it was only $10.

Immediately I placed a bid on it and eventually they emailed me back saying that they can do the trade in game. I wrote back to them saying that any time is good so long as it isn't in the morning as I still had school. They agreed and said they could meet tomorrow at anytime between 3 and 8. After that I searched for any guides that could help me out for tomorrow. Apparently the monsters were revamped making them less lethal and forcing them to attack only inside dungeons. Another thing that had just been changed is that monsters are no longer being given ranks rather levels.

This meant that even an F- rank monster could eventually attain the power of an E -rank with enough time. The last thing I read was the most important; after a dungeon is cleared there is now a loot drop at the end.