"Come back here Marvin!" Cattleya was beyond furious.

"How dare you walk out on me."

Marvin just ignored her as he walked up the stairs.

"Annoying bitch." He mumbled to himself.

"Oh, so that's how you wanna play, then play. Just remember you won't be having any meals in this house for the next two weeks."

Marvin opened the door to his room and upon hearing her remark he replied, "no shit" before slamming the door.

Tears welled up on Cattleya's eyes as she held her hand against her mouth. 'Why can't he listen for once.'. She thought as a sharp stinging sensation built up in her chest.

**********

Marvin's Room.

"Fuck me." I said as I walked towards the desk and slammed my head against the hard surface of the shelf.

I knew that I was in the wrong but I was too conflicted and proud to admit it.

"Pathetic." I said to myself as I remembered just how much of an asshole I was.

It's not that I didn't want to treat my mother right it was just that it didn't matter how much I tried I always ended up being me.

A pathetic and sore loser.

That was all I amounted to. No matter how much I tried I always ended up screwing everything up at some point.

"This world doesn't suit me." I said as I pulled out my laptop to check the new game I was playing.

Games, at first they were just a casual hobby but, the more I lived the more I realised that these were the only things that could help me.

Help me escape my reality, help me ever feel a sense of accomplishment. Help me feel alive.

In more ways than one these things had become the only thing I look forward to in life. The only thing I didn't fail miserably at.

|||Welcome to Apocalypse descend.|||

'I wonder what the new game is about.'

Apocalypse descend was an open world strategy game that came out today. It was based of our world's actual map and was said to be a blessing to humanity by the developers.

Not really sure what that meant tho.

But for some reason the game was largely supported by all the big wigs. Anybody who had at least a bit of connection was playing the game. For some reason it even became a trend and competition on social media to log in and create a formidable character before servers open.

'not sure why we're creating characters in a strategy and building game tho.'

With that, two hours passed as I focused on designing my masterpiece. For a game that had not been played except during the closed and open beta there was lots of information about where to find great items and best events in the game.

So using that information I created a character with some deadly penalties using the karma system which allowed us to give our character perks but due received penalties.

My plan was to create a formidable character by giving it almost all the perks and later clear away these penalties using items.

Appearance wise we had to create a character based of the players picture and are only allowed to slightly modify their features.

Definitely have him hunter eyes and fixed that cursed hairline.

After changing the eye colour to gray I found that I was just in time for servers to otepen.

||| 00:00:25|||

|||Would you like to choose this as your character. PS changes can't bead made once you beging playing.|||

|||Yes/No|||

I chose yes.

The decision that I would love to regret for a long time.

Looking at the list of penalties I was amused.

|||Split persona: Risk of losing control over avater.

Terminally ill: Player would die young.

Sickly body

Mana addiction. When using aura avater is subject to illusionisation and would die when the process reaches a certain stage.

Curse of a genius:The mind too great for the body to bear it's burden and so the body will suffer eternally.||

|||Welcome to Apocalypse descend begging digitisation.|||

"Uh??" Confusion overshadowed me as my world suddenly turned surreal and strange.

The world seem to transform into a breaking game as everything started disintegrating into blue pixels.

"Mother!?" I was filled with worry as I rushed out of my room to search for my mother. As I approached her room the rate at which the world disintegrated sped up. The wooden floor was affected.

I turned back to notice everything behind me was gone into a black nothingness.

'No no no no no no!!!!"

I screamed in my head as I found it extremely difficult to move or even feel my body.

" Mother!" I screamed as I opened the door to her room and saw her crying as she slowly disintegrated along with the world.

Sorrow washed over me as I fell to the floor unable to feel myself. Not once have I made her proud as I have always been a liability. I was her mistake and I was guilty for it.

If not for me she would have lived a better life.

I had lost all feeling of my body as all I could do was watch her despair stricken face as I slowly felt even my vision slipping away.

Right there and then I heard what I considered my last words, "I'm sorry." I whispered. I didn't know if she heard but it didn't matter. It didn't matter if a failure felt sorry. 'If only she had a better son.' Those were the last words that went through my head as I lost my awareness.

******************

*Click click click click

In a spacious room with bad lighting there was a setup of a bed and a small table were a laptop was placed.

A dark man with bags under his eyes stared attentively at the screen as his hands danced on the keyboard of the laptop.

As time passed words appeared on the monitor in resonance to his clicking on the keyboard.

The words " ...and so they prepared for a new era the start of the third version was on its way. What fate awaited them." were displayed on the monitor as the writer stretched his hands and let out a long yawn.

"With that I am done with arc 4"

The writer said as he stood up and approached the bed. "I deserve some rest." He said as he crashed into the bed and immediately fell asleep.

*************

"Hahahaha.."

The sound of loud resounding laughter spread throughout a gaming room as the voice of the world's number one player looked down at the monitor.

" I really did come back in time." He said as he looked at the slowly disintegrating world around him.

'This time I will surpass even Error and become the number one in the world ranking and when I get the rewards for ranking number one I will save the world and allow us progress even further from version three.'

"Let the game begin." Victor said as his world turned dark.

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