BAM! Xiler slammed his fists on the table. ”We are so close to be fucking up right now!” Xiler took in a deep breath and closed his eyes to calm himself down. ”can we send in a team?” Xiler asked with his eyes still closed.

”No….Gracious capital is heavily guarded, and if we were to use our men placed inside the palace, they would surely be exposed and it would set us back.”

”so we can assume that gracious knows of us now….” Xiler still had his eyes closed. Gracious had the home field advantage, on top of that they had an army that wasn't anything to scoff at. We are still building more ships and that takes time, but it might not be time we have….

It was about time for xiler to log out. He told Song to keep eyes on this man and exited out of the game.

Xiler took a shower for about 15 minutes and came out in his towel. His hair was still wet as he walked into the kitchen. He stood at the kitchen counter for about five minutes, both his arms extending out on it.

”FUCK!” Xiler yelled, throwing everything off the counter in a fit of rage.

Two men in black suits ran in, guns at the ready.

”Everything ok boss?”

”GET THE HELL OUT!” Xiler screamed at them.

Both men left immediately, seeing there boss like that shocked them.

Xiler stood there and puffed out a breath of air and rubbed his hand through his hair. He walked away from the scattered mess and got dressed. Not long after there was a knock at the door and Victor came in.

”I heard someone was up here causing a mess,” Victor said looking at the stuff on the floor.

”I don't want to hear that sarcastic mouth right now, I ran into a bump in the game so I'm a little-pissed off.” xiler said while buttoning up his shirt.

”must have been a really big bump, probably a pothole young master. Those things can be very aggravating, I remember….”

Xiler cut Victor a look, getting the message Victor put up his hands.

”Ok, Ok..no need to be so mean young master.”

Xiler grabbed his phone and headed out the door. Before he could get downstairs, he felt his phone vibrate. Xiler answered the phone to find the voice of a woman on the other side.

”Hello, is this Mr.Tazami?

”um yes..” xiler said.

”Great! Hello Mr.Tazami, my name is Ms.Hicks and I am calling on behalf of Virt studios to set up a meeting. Are you available today?”

I couldn't help but smile to myself. Virt studios developed Expanding Stars Online (ESO). I knew it was only a matter of time before they tracked my account and contacted me.

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”Yes I am free today, where should we meet?”

”Wonderful, please come to our main building downtown. I have sent the directions to your email,” she said before hanging up.

I checked my email and sure enough, the instructions were already sent to my inbox. I told Victor to get the car ready, and we made our way to the city.

We pulled up to a luxurious building. I got out of the car and headed towards the building doors. Before I could get there a women came out to greet me.

”Mr.Tazami?”

”Yes,” I said shaking her hand.

She leads us to an elevator and we went up a few floors. We walked down the hallway and past a few offices until we reached a conference room. She said someone will be with us shortly and soon left. Not long after a man walked in.

His name was Harkson, and he was sent here to talk about my character in the game.

”Mr.Tazami, as you know. The game AI system is a very advanced piece of work. It creates, changes, and does everything for us in the game. A self-creating game that gives players the ultimate freedom, the ultimate reality. Touch, smell, taste, sight, and hearing is made as realistically as possible in the game. My point is...I am not here to tell you what to do, I'm here to give you a choice.”

”And what choice is that Mr.Harkson?” I said resting my chin on my hand.

”The choice Mr.Tazami is that we want you to tell us what you are planning. We see what you are doing and we can only assume that you are preparing for a fight. Your actions of attacking the smaller clans and guilds are not yet clear to us, so we just want to ask what your plans are.”

”So you guys are not trying to get me to back down or limit me somehow?” I asked.

”Of course not, the system will handle all things in the game and will take action to any situation that affects the game. We believe that a player should have the choice to, make whatever actions and decision they want. The game world is what you guys make it be. Have you not noticed that even NPC’s can make a choice. That's how realistic we wanted this game to be. Now mind you we couldn't make the game completely realistic for magic and monster and all that sci-fi stuff isn't really in a sense. I still think we did pretty well.”

I was honestly surprised. They were going to do nothing, even though I attacked a system city. A lot of real-world companies use the game for business. A lot had stores set up in florium that was destroyed during the attack belonged to real-world companies. Some companies even started to back guilds and clans financially, but probably took a loss in the recent attacks.

I know that Virt couldn't keep my account information safe for long from them, but I am prepared.

”So what is it that you want to know?” I said. At this point I had nothing to hide, they could see everything I am doing anyway.

”We would like to know mostly why you are doing what you are doing. You have the choice to tell us or not.”

”the reason why? I guess it's three reasons why I am doing this, no four reasons. The first reason is for revenge, the second reason is that the world turned on me, the third reason is that I got bored, and the fourth reason...is that I have the power to.”

Harkson looked at me from across the table, we looked at each other. Both of us did not move or shift our bodies. We let the silence blanket the room, and let what I said hang above our heads.

Harkson broke the silence with a sigh and closed his eyes.

”I understand now Mr.Tazami. That is all we wanted to know, you are free to leave as you wish.”

After leaving the building I decided I would walk for a little while. I ended up walking to the mall a couple of blocks away, seeing that I really haven't been there in a while. The mall was packed and busy as usual. I went to a couple of stores and then sat down in the food court for some lunch. I could not help but notice some of my classmates from school.

They were walking together laughing at something as they went inside a store. I started to look around more.

I could see a lot of people my age hanging out with friends or sitting down with a girlfriend. I thought back to a time when I had friends, how they quickly were bought out to betray me. How they screamed when I pulled out their fingernails and cried when I stapled them back on over and over again. I could not help but smile when I was remembering that. The couple only reminded me of her…

I had just lost my appetite and was getting ready to leave when...

”Are you Xiler Tazami?”

I looked up to see three guys standing near me. That looked like a bunch of street thugs, and the guy who called my name seemed to be the biggest of the group.

”Yes, can I help you, gentlemen?”

”Look fellas we finally found him, you pissed off the wrong people bro.” The biggest who called my name earlier said.”

”I told you he would probably be at the mall, you owe me five bucks Stink.”

”Fuck off! You know I hate when you call me that Darnell.”

The people in the food court was looking over here, they had a feeling that something was about to go down.

”If you don't mind I have somewhere to be, so if you would excuse me…” I said standing up. But I was blocked by the two who were arguing.

”Who the fuck said you could leave pretty boy. The big guy said.

”you really don't want to do this.” I said glaring at the trio.”

They all laughed as if I said something really funny.

”Who does this guy think he is? Big Joe fuck him up!”

”Sorry kid, you should've been careful to who you offend.”

I looked at the trio and smiled. ”So you really do want to do this? Ok gentlemen, ill play. I'm interested to know who would want to fuck with me anyway.” I said stretching my arms.

”Enough talk kid!”