Year 2098, earth developed the technology that allows humans to fully immerse in virtual world. Naturally, virtual world and games gained much popularity and with time ingame money was as important as the money gained outside. There were virtual jobs and accomplishments.
Alvion Online was the undisputed most popular of these virtual reality games. İt was a land full of adventure, extremely realistic graphics, full neural immersion with all senses and more. The moment it was released it captured the hearts of everyone, making other games looking cheap and useless.
Axel was one of those that was captured by this game. At first he only played to gain some money but after a while he lost himself in the game. He spent 15-16 hours a day at game, sometimes even more without going out. He was also extremely succesful in the game, just 6 months after it's release he was able to rank in top 100 in his country. As the game developed and became more and more popular, Axel also became more rich and popular. He kept grinding Alvion Online as it's world was just much more interesting than the real world. Aside from his close family he rarely saw anyone in real life as he spent most of his time online. Unfortunately after 3 years of continous grinding... Axel became way too succesful!
[ 3 Years After the Release of Alvion Online ]
[ Land of Fire, 200 lvl, Danger Area]
A knight with full of extremely dashing equipment was standing in front of a 1000 team of players. All these players were the most elite forces in the game. They were all max lvl and some of them has even special and unique upradges that other players could never achieve. This player who was leading the charge against the İnfernal Dragon, one of the end-game bosses that were revealed, was the guild leader of one of the 9 greatest guilds in the game, Heavenly Swords. His in-game name was Heavenly King. An extremely domineering name. He grew excited as he ordered his guild with bravado.
'' Guys, after we take down this boss, we will finally have our own İmmortal Grade equipment! At that time no one will be a match for us!''
Heavenly King took a deep breath as he saw the İnfernal Dragon's health plummeted and was about to be killed. He rushed towards the boss to take the final hit in a glorious fashion but for some reason he was not able to move. He was confused as he looked around but then his sight grew dark and his vision turned gray, indicating that he was killed.
[ You have stepped on a hidden trap. İmmobilized for 3 seconds]
[ You have been killed by player Axel. You have been killed in 0.45 seconds. You have dropped 2 Legendary items.]
[ You have one unread message. Do you wish to read?]
Heavenly King was stunned as he looked in front of him dumbly. He was only seeing the ceiling. He opened the message and read it dumbly.
[ Axel: Thx for the boss. I will be taking this item. Need it for a set]
Heavenly King screamed in fury and desperation. ' İt is him again. Always, him. Every fucking time, every fucking boss, every fucking event. This, This fucking cheat! I hope you fucking die!'
There were only 6 immortal items in the game. İf someone took it, it would help them dominate nearly anyone. Heavenly King wanted to warn his guild but knew it was already too late. Dead couldn't warn the living but even if he could, it was no use. Since he acted he wouldn't fail, he knew this much. Heavenly Knight closed his eyes as he listened the notification ringing on his ears.
[Global Announcement: Congrulations to player Axel for obtaining the first kill at İnferial Dragon(End Boss).]
Meanwhile Axel happily left the dungeon and checked the forums curiously.
[He fucking did it again!]
[He is definitely a cheat. Why does the game company not delete him? This is getting more and more ridiculus.]
[+1, Please delete Axel from the game!]
Axel looked at the messages disdainfully. ' I am not a cheat. I just have 4 immortal grade equipment. Not even the full set.' As Axel was reading the comments he saw hundreds of people from 3 great guilds surrounded him. Axel looked at them with a sunken heart. ' Someone gave my location away!?'
A mage woman with extremely great equipment looked at him frostily.
'' Axel. You messed around enough. Because of you, major corporations around the world lost assets worth billions. I will give you one last chance. Join our guild and gave up on the immortal equipments. We will shield you from other guilds.''
Axel didn't answer and just turned around and ran away. While running Axel swung his spear around. Every time he spun his spear a few more corpses would appear on the ground. Axel just pierced their formation as if cutting through butter. As Axel was about to leave he was besieged by another round of elite players from all sides. 2 more great guilds arrived to surround him and Axel faintly saw that Heavenly King was coming here with his guild after getting resurrected.
' Who gave my location away!?' Axel was angry but still tried to leave. 20 minutes of struggle later Axel was locked in the middle of the guilds with hundreds of corpses around him. All 9 great guilds has arrived and there were even thousands of unrelated people and guilds. Some of them were recording the event and sharing the location with other people from the forums.
Axel frowned and looked at the leaders of 9 great guild leaders with indignant anger.
'' I played the game fairly just like you. I am no cheat! Why are you slandering me left and right? Everything I obtained was through my own effort. You 9 great guilds are always overbearing and doesn't want any solo player to rise. That's why you are doing such shameful things like surrounding a solo player with thousands. Fight me 1v1 if you dare!'' Axel spoke like such so that ordinary players would get on his side. Ordinary players naturally hated the great guilds for being overbearing and snatching their grind areas. But, this time he miscalculated as normal players started to curse him.
'' Axel, you once killed me in one hit and stole the treasure I found. This is right retribution.''
'' You once took a 100 kilometer ground for your own grind space. You are only 1 person! How shameless can you be? Just fucking die, you cheat!''
Axel's heart sunk as he looked around the people cursing at him with a dark face.
' Normally, common folk should support each other in front of these arrogant guilds. Why is it like this when it comes to me!?'
Heavenly King felt awkward as this was the first time his guild was favored against a solo-player. Normally people respected solo-players that went against guilds as revered masters, since they were very rare. Heavenly King coughed as he spoke to Axel with dignity.
'' Axel... Your crimes consist of but not limited to, baiting legendary monsters to popular cities and using them to loot cities, stealing more than 100 bosses from various guilds, killing innocent people for profit, wiping out 7 small guilds because of some petty argument... Axel, do you admit your crimes!?'' He shouted with heroic dignity as people around clapped and shouted passionately. Heavenly King was indeed very good at posing and was satisfied by the response of other players.
Axel sighed and sat on the ground thoughtfully.
'' These are very serious accusations. How about we speak for a bit? İf they are true I will compensate you. How about it?''
'' Just fucking die!''
10 minutes of bitter struggle later Axel was killed by the combined assault of the major powers and ordinary players and guilds started fighting for the loots, essentially creating a world war. Axel sighed as he got out of his gaming capsule and prepared himself lunch in his mansion. He felt pained to lose the account he created with years of effort but was not too emotional over it. He was already very rich and guaranteed his and his parents lifes. He was living in a max security mansion with billions of assets all over the world. His life was already secured, that's why he only played the game for fun and was being reckless as he wished. As he was eating his lunch he was already considering creating a new account. His old account was way too infamous and he would most definitely be killed to lvl 0 in a short time.
Axel had a long black hair and a thin and tall body. Even though his body was not very muscular it was well developed and he had a rather handsome face. He was also 24 years old this year.
Axel took out his phone and started reading news about Alvion. He really was addicted to the game so much that he would check on it's updates even when he was out of the game. Axel dropped his fork in shock as he read the latest news that came out just now intently. İnfernal Dragon was the last boss remaining so after Axel killed it a system update was triggered. İt seemed like Alvion Online was going to release a new server that would have his own seperate story and new world. This new server would undoubtly reveal new business opportunities as guilds would fight for supremacy once again. The old server were already dominated by 9 great guilds and several secretive people who had tons of assets with fake names. Axel was one of them as he had assets from 3 of the 9 great guilds and had some land under other names. Of course the 9 guilds didn't know that the Axel they hated so much was actually their sponsor and business partner that was gaining money along with them... İf Axel really wished he could reveal his identity and obtain support from various guilds because of their business partnerships but he played the game only for fun so he didn't do that at all. He was fine with them coming after him. Someone like Axel who was addicted to playing the game so much that he was only in real life for a few hours, money already lost it's meaning. He was just more 'merciful' to his partners.
Axel looked at his phone dazedly. ' I thought I would have to lay low for a while until I gained my equipment and lvl back but... it seems there is no need anymore? I can just log in to new server once it is formed and just start in the same playing field?'
'' HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA'' Axel's laughter echoed in the mansion as servants looked at each other puzzledly and strayed away from the unstable Axel.