Thwack

A big bulky leg landed on a young man's stomach. He looked like he was just a bag of skin and bones.

"Didn't I tell you to stay away from her? How dare you show your face here, bitch?" A muscular guy wearing a branded suit spat out as he landed another kick on the skinny figure.

This made him buck down and collapse, coughing more blood on the ground.

"Babe careful, don't kill him. I don't want to cause any problems for you. Just threaten him, that's all." A girl wearing a black dress chimed in.

"Nah babe... this bitch is quite stubborn and durable. Isn't that right, Roan? Tell me, you still want to see her?" The guy said, staring at him with disdain all over his face.

Not getting any reply, the muscular guy raised his leg to land another hard kick on the almost dead and curled-up man laying on the ground. Lucky for him before the muscular guy kicks him anymore, that girl came forward and stopped that guy.

"Babe enough, let's not spoil our mood because of a worm." She said that and turned toward Roan. Her cheeks turned red, slamming her heels on the road. She bent a little to grab his hair, pulling his head up. She inclined close to his ears.

"This is my last warning to you, retard. I am way out of your league. What are you in front of me, a loser, beggar, even your family threw out the trash like you? Can you even afford a single meal for me?"

He blankly stared at her, full of confusion. She grinned at him. "Just look in the mirror. Do you think I want to be with a beggar? Hehe," laughing she pointed at him, "Stop dreaming about me and see the difference. You can't even dream of coming close to me in this life."

She released his hair and stood up, staring down at him. "You want to know the truth right, so hear this. From today at this moment onward I am dumping you. Happy."

"Haha!"

"Haha!"

"Haha!"

People around laughed at this. She spat at him. Then, taking out her handkerchief, she rubbed her hand as if she had touched a speck of untouchable dirt. She looked at him frowning and threw that hankie on his face. She turned around, wasting no time, and moved back to her group.

"Come on guys, I gave an ultimatum to that retard. If he still dares to come, then he is all yours."

The muscular young man nodded to her and motioned to the guards beside him with his hand. Guard nodded their heads. 

The group of young men and women walked away from there without even batting an eye at him.

After that group walked away, guards acted according to the signal. They grabbed him by his shirt and started dragging him to a dark alley. As they reached in front of the alley, they grabbed his hands and legs and threw him into the alley like a rag doll.

His body smashed into the side wall. Guards left him behind without even checking his condition.

Roan lie still in complete silence and frozen. He glanced at the big trash bin and the walls in the alley. He had a shocked look on his face. It was not because he got thrashed by his Ex-girlfriend's man. Nope, a girlfriend was not a big deal for him, but it was because of something different...

Just a few mins ago, He was in the battle to protect the core. The dungeon core on which his future depended. He was fighting to protect the core of 1 of the 5 unique dungeons in Liberty Online. The special dungeon ruled by him, a player instead of any NPC monsters.

The specialty of these 5 dungeons was that the master of these 5 dungeons were players instead of NPCs or Monsters.

All of this started 4 years ago when the mysterious game Liberty Online got launched. This game changed the perspective of the world.

Liberty Online came with breathtaking, realistic graphics and extremely intelligent NPCs that could even outsmart many players. It revolutionized and broke the limitations of virtual reality that humans used to believe in.

It was a world of its own and within 4 years 98% of Earth's population had joined the game. After the auction houses opened, the in-game currency got linked to real-world currency. People started spending real money to buy in-game money and vice versa.

This created a tremendous opportunity, seeing these many multi-billion-dollar companies join the game to get a piece of this big cake called Liberty Online.

The strong guild and players earned enormous sums of money and gained investment from big corporations.

Like many, he joined the game expecting to achieve something big, but he just got himself trapped as a pawn, a slave of the Moonar shine guild. The guild where each one of his hard-earned contributions got snatched away by his superiors, leaving him only with some scraps.

At a time, when everyone explored and progressed quickly, he got trapped in the guild, following the order day and night like a slave. With increasing pressure in the game and from his family, he finally quit the guild. This led to a huge backlash. Guild took every item from him. The funny thing was that all those items were hard-earned by him. In the game, they left him with scraps.

This news reached his abusive parents. On one side, his brother and sister doing great, on the other side, he lost everything within a movement. His parents took him getting out of the guild as a failure. Their zero tolerance for failure led to them kicking him out of the house.

One year of him playing Liberty Online led him to the footpath. At present, almost 40% of the earth's population had joined Liberty online.

The game that players used to play for enjoyment now had become a source of livelihood for them. Even though he wasted one year and lagged behind those top players for an entire year, still he took another chance at Liberty Online.

He rented a scrap apartment and bought a Liberty Online gaming pod from his whole saving from working as a guild slave for the entire year and continued his struggle. This time he finally got a breakthrough, just within one month of leaving his home. He got the chance to change everything in his life. He got a unique class.

There were uncountable different unheard-of gameplay present in Liberty Online. Each of these gameplays was associated with a different type of unique class.

Among them, some famous classes are hero candidates, saints, popes, champions, and many more. The list of these hidden and unique classes was uncountable, and even the method of getting these classes was too different from one another.

There was a hidden class among these, a class known as dungeon master.

The dungeon master would get a dungeon to manage in the game. Yes, it was the class he would get as his second chance. Every hidden class provides immense power to the user, but these classes all had many dangerous restrictions on them.

One of the most dangerous restrictions placed on the Dungeon master class was that, under all circumstances, they have to protect their dungeon core.

Once the dungeon core got broken, then the account of the Dungeon master would get deleted. This was the most dangerous restriction for the Dungeon master class.

For him, getting that class was a lifesaver. In the entire game, there were only 5 dungeon master classes. He did everything he could to strengthen the defense of his dungeon. He spent the next 3 years improving his dungeon, but all of this crumbled apart when a few high-class, unique players came to invade his dungeon.

As they attacked floor after floor of his dungeon, he came to realize the flaws present in his dungeon, but it was too late to change anything. Still, he somehow defended at the start. Things changed when someone betrayed him and sold information about the monsters in his dungeon.

This helped invaders greatly. They started conquering one floor after another. He came to know many major faults in his thought process, but that understanding came very late. He came to know how he wasted his time on the wrong thing as the Dungeon master.

Liberty Online was never a forgiving game. His mistake led to the invader entering the top floor, where the core of the dungeon was present.

A few mins prior, he was fighting against many other players to protect his dungeon core.

But how could he compare to other monsters who were competing against each other to destroy his dungeon core? They had all the information about the monsters' weaknesses in his dungeon.

Not able to defend against them, he saw how that player slashed at the dungeon core. The dungeon core broke into many pieces and, along with the core, his character started getting erased little by little.

His dream shattered bit by bit with the character. He remembered the massive chest pain he felt at that moment. The pain increased with every passing second and everything became blank in front of his eyes. 

He died without being able to do anything but somehow he returned to the past, not at the beginning no he only returned 3 years ago when he got his own unique class. DUNGEON MASTER.