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“Hah! Hah! Hah! Just what the hell is that!?” I looked up at the huge monster that had flesh-like wings and six eyes. Its tall, massive body stood taller than any building ever had. There were thousands of us. Standing here under the smoke and debris of what used to be New York. Blood flowed down my body from my open wounds as I gazed up at the massive figure. It was as if the gods of old had decided mankind should not exist. But if we do not stop it here, the world itself will be over….

*Ringgg!!!* *Ringggg!!!*

“What the hell….” My alarm was once more going off. I have no idea why I keep setting it. It’s not like I have to work until later tonight. I held my head as I slowly sat up. I felt heavy like I always did. “That dream again….”

It was the same dream…. The same dream I have been having for many months now. Every night, it would be slightly different. And I could remember the dream clearly. But tonight was the first time I had ever seen anything like that in my dream. The strange thing is that it all started with the game I am currently waiting to play, Mortal Online, a deep-dive MMORPG.

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While not the first of its kind, it is the first to support some of the most realistic graphics ever made. It is said to use your own dreams to create the world around you, filling your brain with electric signals that will translate the game world into reality in your dreams. While the concept was not new, it never felt real, and the company Mortal Beyond, the creators of Mortal Online, have stated it will feel as real as if you were walking down the sidewalk in the real world.

Being the gamer that I was, there was no way I could pass up such a thing, hence why I was waking up so early. Now that I was thinking about it, I had taken on extra shifts just to buy the equipment needed for the game.

I sat up, rubbed my bedhead, and tried to smooth it out with my fingers as best as possible before heading to the bathroom to brush my teeth and wash my face. As for a shower…. It can wait until tonight. I normally shower before bed as it was too much of a pain to do it when I woke. If my parents could see me now, they would probably wonder why the hell I was such a grub, but well, whatever… Such is the life of a gamer.

At least I was not sitting in my parent’s basement mooching off them. As antisocial as I was, I was still working a part-time job paying for this stupid apartment I got lucky to find. Five hundred a month with everything included in the basement of some old lady’s house. I even got my own entrance. It was quite big and took up an entire floor except for one section, but that was all locked off and was meant to be an emergency exit.

The only thing I have to deal with is cleaning up the occasional dead rat that will get caught in one of the traps I set up around the edge of the house. Luckily, this only happens once in a great while.