Celestial was an amazing game, however once Silent Death obtained the Elder Gods Protection the game pretty much became unplayable as Silent Death members became juggernauts. No one could touch a single member, they literally became gods.
Once Marcus quit, he was quickly followed by the second and third seat of his guild respectively. John Decker was Marcus' second in the guild, also he had been friends with Marcus since childhood. John quit within a week of Marcus, telling guild members he was more suited to following.
Alice Morgan had only been friends with Marcus since she joined Silent Death, and had shown her loyalty when Silent Death went to war with the #2 assassination guild. It had gotten bad at one point when members from both guilds were quitting because they were losing to many levels and not really accomplishing anything. Silent Death came out on top but it had taken 7 months and many players had to wipe their characters because of level loss. Alice had lost 15 levels but still stuck around, out of all the players she was hit the hardest.
After Silent Death's big three left, Michael Reene the #4 assassin in the guild took over the leadership and completely changed how they did things. When Marcus was the leader of the guild members could only kill other players when attacked or on contract, Michael allowed the assassin's to kill whoever whenever, this caused an internal war and a lot of guys quit. Michael hated the big 3 because he could never top them, so once he got his chance at leadership he wanted to make sure the guild listened to him hence the rule change. Most of the players who quit were more like Marcus and that really annoyed Michael.
Marcus had grown bored and was looking for the next big game, it didn't help that his bank account was getting low as well, he had burned through a lot of his earnings because he wanted to enjoy life. As he was going through his emails he found one from the company who made Celestial, they needed beta testers for their new game. Marcus opened the email in his V.R.
" Hi Marcus it's been a long time." It was the president of OBERON'S REVENGE the company that made Celestial. Marcus had met him in person when he quit, Ron Geoff a man with two first names, Marcus had commented on this, Ron had said it reminded him to work extra hard so he could claim to always be first." So Marcus I'm contacting you personally and offering you a million dollars to beta test Dragon's Domain, in fact you'll be one of a hundred beta testers, the only catch is you'll have to play as an assassin. This is simply because I need experts of each field. Once the beta test is over you'll be able to play however you'd like. No items or missions from the beta test will be included in the actual game so there will be no advantage given to testers. If you're interested just reply yes and we will send you the game within the day and your pay within the week."
"Yes." Marcus wasn't happy about having to play as an assassin but he couldn't turn down a million dollars. No sooner did he say yes then a link appeared to download the game. Marcus clicked it and it downloaded within minutes. Marcus felt a little bored about being an assassin again but he knew in a couple months he'd have a whole new adventure waiting.
As Marcus' view cleared up he could see a massive structure, that looked like a monastery, with a few obvious looking assassin's out side. Marcus shut his eyes shook his head and then walked up to see how this all worked.