Two days passed without any events, his stress from looking for a work and the the job interviews are driving him crazy. He spend more and more time in the game just to relieve tension.

In the meantime in the game developing company there was a meeting of stuff, there was an uproar about the player Darknym. His file had three problems for them to solve one in each game, but he was a special case probably one in millions.

In Allastar his magic powers had reached overwhelming numbers, he now needed an hour just to use up all his Mp, not to say his money that with every gamble multiplied to an unprecedented amount in the game since its creation, although only the administrators knew about it, the countermeasures taken were a set of restrictions on all guilds, setting a max amount of property per guild and other restrictions that wouldn't work on anyone but him.

Of course they had no way to stop him from gambling with a high luck since it was part of the game.

In the end, they had set so many gambling restriction that many players begun complaining, since gambling wasn't done only in the VIP room where his luck fell gradually and they even deactivated luck improving Items there.

The whole game administrative department of the company was now keeping tabs on one player, just to find a chance to delete his character for some misbehavior against a player or hacking but it was so fucking boring, all his days he spend in gambling and after he used up most of his Mp for near an hour just to raise his Mp.

There was that attack on the Rubrick town but they owed him a huge sum of gold to begin with, even if they took the damages from the money they owed they would still owe him a large sum of gold. Not to say that the Helllion guild were the worse assholes there were in the whole Drogan Continent, most people were happy about their downfall and there were rumors that many left the guild after the city lay in ruins instead of reporting the player, not that they could do anything even if they did, it was just one simple PK, not even worth considering, he wouldn't even be fined for more than some gold if he spawn killed people.

The worst thing they saw was his level 4000 character in Destros and they could do nothing about it since he did kill all the monsters normally the only thing they did was level up the bugs but they were too late since his Hp had become something of a legend by now, each time the bugs attacked him they gave him one Hp and he had now become a fucking meat shield, even a spaceship canon might not be able to one hit kill him by now.

His only normal character was the one in Altgaia but even that char was nothing but even that character had become a bit strange, as he had been turned into a medieval berserker. He had gained the rage stat that gave him the berserk rage skill that allowed him to survive on willpower alone, although they did change the skill a bit after some characters begun abusing the skill but still how the hell did he master the skill, it meant that he gained 10sec of Invincibility for every point, as well as multiply all his stats by two when used.

Of course in a shooting game that would be a stupid skill but with his high speed it made him a close quarter expert.

Berserker rage didn't allow for a player to lose his last health point until his rage run out, the trigger mechanics for the skill was a bit elaborate but it was widely known. You just had to get angry, some just remembered bad stuff about their life and puff they were in berserk rage.

If berserk rage was a problem then the other four of his skills were the real game breakers, he probably didn't care about them since he only used the character as stress relief, since the facility gave him a punching bag and a gun shooting array.

His other four were adrenaline rush that worked when he was low on stamina or Hp and he did get knocked out many times due to stamina depletion in the game only to log in once more after a short break.

Adrenaline rush did the same thing the berserker rage did, only that it activated every time his stamina or health reached 10% locking stamina at 10% as he had mastered it already.

Soft walk, they didn't really understand at at first but it made useless any hearing device that detected sounds from movement or earth pulse detectors. Earth pulse detects the pressure that the body generates when stepping on the ground.

Danger sense, was some sort of psychic ability or just plain instinct, it showed him any threat, even if there was a small lag in time, it was as if he had an Innate threat detector.

Last was his new skill named "trigger happy", it allowed him to shoot twice as fast than normal in expense of halving his accuracy. The problem with this skill was that it had a complex triggering system, it was triggered if the player became happy while shooting a gun. Just Imagining his boss being the target made him more than happy each time he hit the target.

There was another problem however with the skill, which occurred on higher levels, players having too good accuracy could use rocket launchers and heavy weapons.

Which made the game overly unbalanced, just Imagine instead of 1000shots per minute shooting 2000shots, without doing anything to upgrade the gun.

There were two reasons the skill was not touched, one was the President of the company was a trigger happy Idiot and the other being many other Influential people threatening them not to touch the skill, now another troublesome person appeared.

"Just hire him to the company and have him as a hired player, with his magic skills and in-game money, we can create a new country in Allastar where we can all have fun"

Said an employee that sat at the large conference table

"What are you saying, hire him for Destros, we just have to ship him to Echidna and he will become a fourth power, at last unlocking the omega mutant race"

Said some big shot whose teeth were protruding, but his golden pin on his tie made his position known to the others.

"What are you saying, we could use him at our company president's guild, I'm sure the president will love to have another subordinate with those broken skill"

Said another one as he looked at the lady director who sat at the end of the table.

"Can't we Just delete that perverted freak"

She said as she had seen the files they had on him earlier that day.

"There are two problems with that, even if we delete the Allastar character, the descendant system will still revive him with 10% of all his stats and more so he's like a hermit only interacting with Npcs"

Said another Employee

"If you call that a hermit, look at his destros character, he is locked inside a fully sealed laboratory, just killing bugs all day, even after we raised the bugs' levels three times he just sits there and absorbs them as if they weren't even hitting him"

Said the big shot from before.

"Wasn't there that glitch we used on that poor guy, that disabled his character inside the game unless he delete his character or found an ally to help him?"

The director said with a smile on her face

"That was a special quest that we created and he took the bait, how are we to make someone who doesn't care about levels or in-game money take the bait"

The first guy said.

"Wait he's not even a PKer not to speak that he has done nothing of concern yet, like the other one"

Another employee said.

"Just tweak with his luck in Allastar for the Deerg game and then send our ork guild for a raid on his city, if they can destroy it even better, just make the two to co-incite in the same day, last time he stayed in Deerg's casino for a long time, but since his luck will be average he will probably be deleted and return after 10minutes, his Avatar will be less of a problem for one of the three best players right DKing"

The director said closing the discussion about Allastar.

The big shot with the protruding teeth was the third best player of Allastar, the Warchief DKing.

He controlled almost all of the Ork clans of the Orkish mountains only losing to the Npc Ork warchiefs.

0rks in Allastar had high Magic resistance and some health regeneration, their magic was the shamanic spirit calling but it was quite rare to find an ork player who was not a shaman as well since it raised their magic resistance and offered them a magical familiar. DKing had a large Alliance of guilds behind him, as well as some high level players, although his level might not be as high as the two others above him, he is the only one who has a large enough guild and property.

"Now for the second matter of Destros? What are your opinions on the race that is to be made public, in my opinion its too unbalanced"

The director said

"You are wrong at that, any character could gain Hp of course the gene assimilation is a bit excessive but I think it's balanced with his Inability to use equipment"

The employee said

"Is that why he is moving naked all the time, and what's with the ghastly smoke that flies around him"

"Well normally he would be something like this"

The employee showed a design of some humanoid creature whose muscles can be seen through its skin, not to talk about it's organs.

"And how comes he is different?"

She asked with a puzzled face

"When you assimilate genes sometimes you will gain a special ability, his gene ability is rapid assimilation, other omega mutants will have other abilities, like overbearing Health regeneration or some psychic ability, the appearance of course is most likely the effect of the X-gene put in the wrong slot"

The development team's director said. He was an old man with white goat beard and looked akin to the stereotype of a psychologist rather than a programmer.

"So he has found a rare gene, does it have some side effect since you said it's set in the wrong place"

Said the director.

"Well normally it comes with excessive pain when falling bellow 10%, but it seems that the player enjoys pain so I don't know what other problem it might give, in the tests the players couldn't withstand the gene for more than ten minutes because of the itchy feeling it gives, not to say the screams from pain they gave when at 10% gene Integrity"

"This doesn't make sense"

The director said as she saw him walking randomly with less than 10% Integrity, without even killing the bugs on himself, just to try out his teleportation skill.

"As I said you probably have seen it at the archives, the player hasn't even budge from 100% pain how are you considering he would from 2% or even 10%, that can be seen as his Integrity falls"

The development director continued

"In truth we at the development also would like to hire the person who plays as Darknym, there's just too much he can give us developers, in truth we wanted to find him after his beta testing we even set Deerg to Invite him but he didn't like supervision, not that we can't understand that concept of though"

"So why do you think he will accept to work for you?"

The lady director said

"Simple we will give him what he wants most, a good salary and maybe some In-game powers to try out with the other candidates, last time Mr Dking over here didn't want to experience the pain spell but you probably don't know that there are only two players that have the spell right now but only Darknym can augment it so that it can be multicast or be used for more elaborate things"

The chief developer said.

"Well after the attack we will invite him to the company, I don't think he will do us any good but since he has caught so much attention it's worth a try recruiting him"

The lady director said.

"I'm sure he will understand his position after the raid"

Said DKing.

'I only hope he doesn't hold a grudge against you for that'

The old director thought with a concerned face since he had seen Darknym's file.

'if by some miracle he doesn't get deleted'

He didn't even want to think what his counter would be, the old director had seen videos of the Tempest in Rubrick, the videos had become quite famous since it had levitated the fallen mage class to new heights.

Many laughed at the Helllion's misfortune but most would only stay silent after seeing the cruel death of the many Npcs and players.

At another building at Chris' ex working place there was another meeting taking place.

"We need more Reporters in Drogan, they say there are events unfolding there that need to be recorded, I just received a call that there will be an epic proportion battle going on, how many Reporters do we have there?"

"Well other than our reporter in

the Helllion guild that stayed to film the Tempest, we only have three, one being Nancy who just recently arrived at the capital, the others are recording the south and the war with the Ice Queen"

"When did Nancy become a reporter?"

"Well she is getting paid to report on the celebrities from the Isleplains, It's said that some of them wanted to partake in the arena championship, there was even a commotion where an Npc gladiator disappeared in the middle of the fight"

"And can she reach the Dragoncliff city safely, I've heard that there are dragons near that place"

The chief editor said with concerns of their diva.

"Well we could always find her a few bodyguards, I think I heard there was that new sound engineer that prides himself being in the top 1000 players in Allastar"

"Then It's settled, make him a bodyguard and re-employ the invisible guy, by the way does anyone know if he plays the game, he would make a good Assassin...I mean reporter"

"I don't think he's playing the game and even if he did, he would be some hermit or mage locked somewhere practicing spells until he gets too bored"

"You think so?"

the director said and they begun laughing imagining stupid things about him being naked on one leg on the peak of a mountain or living in some dark tower outside of any players' view casting vile spells and experimenting on humans.

Darknym had his job back but the stress did not subside, today there was some sort of event at the station that coincided with Deerg's casino, of course he could always ask the other two engineers to replace him but he had no reason to do so since it was just a game.

The video started with orks that begun charging at a castle with four spires. At first he didn't recognize it but after seeing the first death ray shot from the spires he was sure, it was one of his own Castles. He could see the one armed gladiator coming out of a window shouting orders to the few soldiers that were in the castle, it would take a long time for the castle to get to full troops capacity.

The only thing Darknym could do was see how the orks overrun the castle after crushing its walls by using primitive catapults and siege trolls.

The catapults were just three tree trunks they stuck in the ground bend them and put a rock on top of them letting it fly.

The trolls just threw rocks as if they were catapults themselves.

Darknym sympathized with Golem who was in a hard situation but he had no way to help him, he needed his job, but inwardly he vowed to take revenge for his death.

The orks didn't stop after that they went to the next castle where Girdan was, this time there was a small miscalculation on their part.

Girdan had his own unit of slave hunters, who didn't fight fair, they used traps and other weapons and devices to incapacitate the first wave of orkish invaders.

There was no second wave as the Orks bypassed them going to the next castle but before even approaching they were doused in arrows, losing any will to advance against it as they saw a second volley coming.

The last castle they didn't attack as boulders came flying a long distance before they could even see the castle. What made Darknym mad was how the orks went for his city, they destroyed all the farms that surrounded the city. It was good that the people had already fled inside the walls and were probably on their way to the Inner walls.

The orks were left dumbstruck just by seeing the huge walls, at least the ork players were, because the Npc orks that were the majority of the army were too preoccupied raiding the farms.

"There were supposed to be numerous smaller gates surrounding the city, go and find the closest"

The Ork Warchief said inside his warcamp, abandoning any Idea of charging through the main gate that covered with its shadow the whole of their forces.

Darknym was a bit surprised but not because the orks knew of the smaller gates which only opened when an enemy was coming but because the station send Nancy, their diva as a correspondent to report on the orkish siege, meaning it was a planned thing.

At first he thought it was planned by the Helllion guild but seeing the third best player of Allastar it clearly showed it had nothing to do with them, at least until the Helllion guild came to help the Orks just to be killed by them in return.

The siege of the outer gates had become a standstill, sieges of this sort last for days, of course castle sieges too last for longer if there are players on both sides. The rest of the four hours before the final stretch, there was an extra coverage on DKing, the Warchief of the orks and his rivalry with TOBO.

'Well he will add another page very soon, in an hour and a half when I finish my work here, oh how I await the moment'

Chris thought in his mind thinking of a hundred ways to make him pay for what he has done to Golem and more Importantly to his castle and farms.

"Oi sound engineer be ready for promotions in twenty seconds"

It was the end of his shift now and Chris went home thinking only of ways to make his appearance more spectacular on the screen since he would be shown on the TV.

He logged into the game and a message appeared.

"You have lost a castle and your Megapolis is under siege would you like to enter Allastar?"

Darknym entered the game only to find himself in deerg's casino, not even the palace, he was Immediately inside the casino.

There were two other players and ten Npcs like before. Deerg begun Introducing the Npcs and players Darknym didn't care about them at all, he pointed at four of the Npcs and commanded them to come to him. The Npcs seeing he was the only one with soulstones accepted, in reality it was all ten who went to him but since there was some sort of rule that only allowed for a max of four Npcs in a group he didn't care.

His only hope now was the game wouldn't take too long. The Wheel spun and the game was "Deerg's hide and seek" the most time consuming game of Deerg's casino.

It was time to place the bets.

"Why the long face today is it cause your city is under siege?"

Deerg asked with a tone as if he was enjoying it.

"well that's one of the reason, the other one is because its ork hunting season and I can't go hunting because your games take too long"

"Do you have so little trust in your city?"

Deerg said with a bit sympathetic tone.

"Where did that come from, its the opposite, there's no way they can pass through the second wall of the city so there won't be any orks remaining by the time I'll come back"

Deerg laughed loud and said.

"Then how about we have a different bet, if your city falls you will lose all your Soulstones and your character will be deleted, if the city's defenses are safe then what do you wish for?"

"Well there's little you can offer me at the moments, what do you propose?"

"How about more spells, I've collected a fine collection of spells for you"

"I have a better how about you delete DKing if he fails"

"I'm sorry but he is not in my possession to bet his deletion"

"Then how about giving me dimensional magic so that I can throw my city to another dimension or something"

"You're a funny guy but spells of such caliber are not in my powers to grant"

"Then how about introducing me to someone who can grant my wish, if you are so mighty at least you know someone who can don't you?"

"You know there is a way that I can teleport your city and fortresses to a different dimension but you won't be able to return to this one afterwards"

"How come, I already have gate spells that can teleport me to other dimensions"

"Well lets say it's a bit special"

Deerg said with a serious tone.

"Deal but I want my city full of Npcs or it's not a Deal anymore"

"Npcs it will be, then its a deal"

Deerg said with a playful voice.

The game begun shortly after.

At the Siege the Orks were at a loss because they could find no smaller gates only lost their time and forces on a pointless scouting mission.

The war machines that were built into the walls chipped at their numbers even now as they couldn't even see from where the ballista and catapult missiles came from since the machines were too high for them to see. Most of the missiles were off by a lot but there were also some lucky shots that Instantly killed a large amount of orks or some unlucky troll.

"What are we going to do now, DKing the TV is waiting for news about the siege, but all we have to show were four long hours lost for nothing" Said an ork player from his guild who was a bit overanxious.

"Don't be so stressed out, we still have three cards to play, first we shall wait till nightfall and send the goblins, in approximately one hour, if that fails, then we shall hit with magic after the others arrive, last if even that fails then I and my ten captains will take the field, I'm sure I can at least chip the surface of that huge gate"

DKing begun laughing because he knew full well that even that would be a challenge, but he also knew that there was no player inside the city other than the Owner of it.

Inside Deerg's casino, Darknym saw the first monster appearing.

"Go fight the monster while I draw the magic circle around their spawning point, it shouldn't take long to defeat them"

Darknym cast some buffs on all the Npcs and players, some magic shield, made weapons spawn from the ground and gave them magical damage. Normally that took tons of magic to do for so many people but for him it was just a breeze.

The first monster was a drake that descended from the skies to attack them as they stood near the monster spawning point. Having magically enchanted weapons and a powerful magical shield made it easy for them to fight it but it was difficult to defeat it since it took flight after a few hits.

Darknym was a bit mad at them when the drake came at him and send a lightning at it that fell it to the ground, the rest was their job to slay it. It took him an hour to complete the magic circle, while sometimes healing or recasting the magic shield and weapons.

"Everyone get away from the magic circle!"

He shouted, when the gigantic circle was finished. There already lay 39 dead creatures inside and the players were fighting the remaining creatures 21 creatures, of course with a magic shield as strong as Darknyms and magical weaponry they had little chance of losing but Darknym knew better than being overconfident in Deerg's casino.

The other player didn't give him much credit as he was only supporting them who were fighting all this time the monsters appearing at the spawn point. They were indulged at leveling up their characters as the monsters that appeared were becoming stronger but sometimes weak monsters like goblins did come out.

"Just keep supporting!"

One of the players shouted back at him.

Darknym's four Npcs begun running away from the spawn point, the other Npcs in vain tried to persuade them to leave the magic circle. Some even betrayed their teammates running for their lives or just teleporting outside the magic circle.

"Ten, Nine, Eight..."

Darknym begun a countdown to activate the spell, when a gigantic dragon spawned from the circle.

"Zero!"

Darknym shouted as he activated the circle. A blood red color shone as the gigantic circle bound the dragon and the players inside the circle, draining them of their Hp and Mp.

Darknym didn't care now he just sat down and waited for the last 40 minutes of the game to pass. The spawned beings were bound by the circle and drained of their life, it was a complete chaos inside the summoning circle as the monsters were bound to the floor. Even the dragon couldn't escape the binding spell although from time to time it did try to deep fry him with its breath.

"Deerg!"

Darknym shouted to the sky

"Can I have a deal with the dragon?"

"A bet with a dragon, what bet is that?"

"I want to make an exchange with it, We shall exchange bodies if it doesn't like 30 days in my body then I will give it its body back, otherwise I will keep it forever if it doesn't come for its body"

"Well I don't think it can understand what you said but I will ask it"

The dragon was growling as if talking, although he couldn't make what it was saying.

"Prometheus says he agrees but only if there is a set place it can find its body and only if you can give it A million gold coins that he will not have to return even after the deal"

Darknym laughed

"Only a million, tell him I will give him a billion and the place is my city and my Tower is where he can find me, I will allow him to pass through all gates and passage to my palace"

The dragon spoke again and stopped spewing flames.

"He's accepted your deal, the exchange will begin after the game's end, unless of course if your city falls first"

Deerg said.

Back in the city and under the cover of the night, goblins were climbing the city walls. The war machines were still shooting non-stop, sometimes crushing a tent in the distance. After an hour of climbing most of the goblins stopped as their stamina was now low, they had no idea the walls would be so long, they had climbed at least 20meters high, those that fell died without a chance of survival, while those that waited had already decided to climb down once more.

"The goblins have failed we can only see goblin remains splattered on the ground from the fall"

Said the ork even more anxious than before.

"Well time for plan B to begin, call the mages we are going to pry the gate open with magic"

Said DKing although deep inside he was a little disappointing that they had to use their mages so soon.

Darknym had now won his match, he hadn't even got a godlike luck this time but still won. Of course the other two players had a better luck than him so they didn't encounter the dragon before the first fifty monsters.

"Well a deal is a deal, the town is standing and the game is over"

I could offer you another game but you will no doubt refuse.

"And why is that, if the rules are to my liking I could play a few more games, how many games are there today"

"Only three remain but what are the rules you would like"

"Well since we are betting between ourselves how about two out of three wins and you can bet on the number of winners while use the trap room"

"Nah, you are probably bent on cheating, you can just see the siege from here while the others play"

Darknym didn't care and just went and sat on a sofa watching the Large screen where the siege was going on, he saw a rain of goblins and was a bit surprised as he hadn't seen them going up.

The ork shamans begun casting spells at the large gate, it took them around an hour before they made a small scorching mark at the gate, his gate.

The next contestants appeared seeing him jumping up from the sofa and kicking the table in anger while Deerg was laughing at his behavior.

After the Introductions one of the two players asked in puzzlement.

"How come you didn't introduce him to us"

"Because he is not a contestant, he is a guest of the casino that is here on a private gamble, unless of course he wants to play"

"What's the game?"

Asked Darknym before anything else

"The game will be decided in ten minutes"

Said Deerg

"Then no, why gamble in a game when there's nothing on the line for me"

"Then how about the spells you so wanted?"

Said Deerg on the speakers.

"Keep them they are probably basic spells that can be bought in some other continent right?"

Darknym said silencing Deerg who had nothing else to say, due to Darknym's low luck he couldn't offer him powerful spells so they were mostly basic and advanced spells.

"You the one who asked about me how are you called?"

"Teemo"

Said the small gnome that was as small as a garden gnome, it's pointy hat and pointy ears making it look bigger than it was.

"If you can win the game then we could play a game of your choice but unless you can don't talk to me, I'm really mad at the moment"

The two came nearby and saw the screen showing the siege of something they didn't know if it was a town or just a really huge wall.

"What are they doing?"

Teemo asked seeing the orks casting spells at the solid gate, for some time now.

"they are ruining my fucking gates"

Darknym said with anger.

Teemo wanted to laugh but withheld himself.

"Are you a member of a guild?"

"I am a guild, by myself"

"Isn't that stupid, if you had a large guild they could just help in the siege and you would surely win"

"Are you stupid, of course I will win, the problem is it will take a lot of time repairing the gate"

"what do you mean repair do you own the walls or something?"

"I own the whole city they are besieging, If not for the stupid bet I would have been there in the spotlight killing them all off in a magical mayhem"

The two players just left him alone and went to gather their teams, they had already spent a lot of their time on him.

"Deerg you do know that I'm losing a good opportunity to become famous so tell me what that special dimension is all about"

"Well I could banish you to the demon world, you won't be able to return and you will have a few problems with using magic but otherwise you will be outside of any player's reach, even the administrators won't bother with you there"

"Sounds nice but what's the problem with magic that you mentioned"

"Magic there doesn't regenerate, so you will have to learn demonic magic or something if you want to survive there"

"Okay then give me some time to prepare myself and the city before we disappear from Allastar"

Deerg said nothing as he begun his game with the other contestants.

The gate was now breached but the hole was so little that they had to enter one at a time. The huge road and the large distance till the next gate made them feel trapped within the city, the orks that charged towards the next gate were shot down by loads of arrows.

The Mages still tried to make the hole in the gate bigger, only run out of Magic powers.

No Troll could pass the huge gate that still lunched missiles even as they entered the city. The camera showed as a warrior saved Nancy from an Incoming missile that nearly killed her. Darknym could recognize the warrior as George, the guy who had taken his job from him.

Darknym only had two hours left online so he begun casting spells to broaden his magic pool even more, the spells he cast were nothing that would cause damage but it was all he needed.

The siege was turning for the worse, missiles from the back and arrows from the front and another great wall in front of them. DKing and his ten captains were mercilessly bashing at the gate but even their monstrous strength wasn't enough to melt a gigantic steel door.

Only DKing's lava Axe had some little effect but the constant harassment from arrows made him angry. His captains awaited for him to make a hole in the gate but all he did was scar the door with cuts, since his axe couldn't cut as deep as the door was.

After an hour they retreated, awaiting for the time when the mages regain their magic powers. Darknym seeing them retreat shouted.

"Deerg am I to wait for 30days until they decide to attack again?"

The god of greed was a bit perplexed as well if he was to hold him for more than a day it would be difficult to explain why he held him there but the bet was a bet, not to tell that it was a command from the Administrators to hold him there until the siege ended.

"Wait until I call Time to come and make a bloody mess out of them"

Darknym said with a wicked smile.

He had a strange feeling that the unusual Deerg was hiding something, that have to do with the siege.

In the game company there was an uproar, as they tried to find who was time and what was his relationship with him, they couldn't see his recorded playtime but they could see his friend list.

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At first Impression they only saw an Oracle, but they knew nothing about him since he was a new player but the problem was that Oracles were rare and were held in high estimate by the Npcs, if he had an army or something, they were trying their best to find all they could but nothing came up as if he had been staying on a mountain all his life, his level was a mediocre 47 but they didn't know if Darknym was bluffing or no.

"So it was you and the company who are behind the whole siege fiasco"

Darknym said after Deerg's long pause.

"What are you saying mortal I'm a god, don't you dare saying such insolent stuff with such ease"

"I really would like to know what the forums would say if I told them about how you have been keeping me away from my city just to have it destroyed or how you tried having my character deleted by not offering me a choice to refuse the casino Invitation"

'Shit he's too smart, must reboot the Deerg A.I. once more, who was the one who said it would be easy'

The one operating Deerg thought .

"So are going to concede the bet?"

Deerg said with a laughing voice.

"Happy to hear from you Deerg, some Idiot was using you to keep me here while my city is under siege, but I don't want to return, I can always just rebuild it after the siege, but he was such a wimp that he didn't even want to have a new bet with me"

Deerg was laughing non stop as the God AIs had a somewhat strange relationship with the Administrators.

"So what was the bet you were on about with him and was turned down"

"I wanted something worthwhile and he offered me basic spells, to me someone who has 100soulstones to gamble, he offered some simple spells!"

"I feel your pain, who in their right mind wouldn't know about the price of a soulstone"

"He also sucks at gambling, the game of hide and seek I played was such an easy one that you lost twelve Items from your vault"

Deerg was now angry, Darknym could hear him swearing in a low voice under his nose.

"Of course he didn't even offer me a worthwhile bet for the game so you had one less item missing but I knew from that moment that it wasn't you, you are much alike me, you can see into my intentions, you know what I want before I even say it"

Deerg was still too angry with the Administrator, how on earth did they allow all the players and Npcs to win.

"So you want a price for your victory, other than sending you to hell with your city, which is really an Interesting reward if you ask me"

He did hear that it was the demon world but nothing about it being hell, well it wasn't something to worry about since it was a game anyway.

"And you want something better to bet on in order to play the few games that are to come, there are two problems here"

Deerg said with a serious voice.

"First you are already involved in a huge gamble but you haven't set any rules for the gamble, normally I could just send you back since there was nothing said about you not helping the city and second was that you also gained nothing by winning the first game and that's unacceptable"

"Although the bet with the dragon is another interesting one, do you truly believe that the dragon will chose to stay as human after the time of the contract is up?"

"Do you think being locked in a dirty cave and living in a palace is the same?"

"You truly know nothing of a dragon's mindset, you think he will even use a coin of the ones you gave him?"

"Do you think that humans and dragons are the same, if He is released in a city you think his pride will let him stay in a beginner's garb or stay in a cave after being talked about by others, society is not as easy on an Individual"

"Maybe you are right, so what's your preferable reward from the first game?"

"Some hot chicks that would suit my tastes some succubus with hair on her head would make a great gift I think"

"So you want to dwell into that field a little before leaving for the demon realm, although you didn't say which of the six demon worlds you want"

"I don't know yet since I haven't heard about them ever before"

"Well a hot chick or two I can give you but demons I cannot, the creatures lack a soul so they are outside my interests"

"Do you have any chick that would make my blood boil in excitement"

"My friend you must do something more than win a badly set gamble to take a beauty like that"

deerg said and showed him something that couldn't even be described as human, it was some sort of dis-morphed crystal golem which shone with a golden glow from within.

'I really can't understand his tastes'

Darknym thought while facepalming himself

"You know Deerg, If I had to take away such a beauty from you I wouldn't be able to live after it, can I see some humans in your collection"

"What's so great about humans?"

Deerg said in an irritating tone

"You see Deerg I'm not strong enough to play with higher beings like you can"

"Well you are a bit weak to play with the likes of my beauties so okay, I will allow you to take a hundred humanoids from my zoo but don't you dare touch even one of my beauties"

"Will they be set as my companions or slaves or something"

"Of course not, why would you want to play with a broken toy?"

Darknym smiled at his use of words. A golden gnome came taking him to a strange golden orb that teleported him to a strange place, all around him were glass cages with biotopes, he saw many monsters inside. The road they were on was a strange escalator that moved him slowly from one biotope to another.

"Stop"

Darknym said as he saw something Interesting in one of the Biotopes.

Back in the city the Ork shamans had regained their magic powers since the time had hit midnight in Allastar.

"It's Time!"

DKing said rallying the orkish forces towards the second gate, the second gate offered more resistance but the arrows were far less deadly than the missiles from the war machines.

"Protect the shamans!"

DKing shouted while himself lifting a huge shield to protect the shamans from the rain of arrows.

The Shamans were slowly melting the gates down as time was passing them by. DKing wanted the Siege to end in only one day but the fucking gates were a pain in the ass to deal with, and he knew there was one last gate waiting them ahead.

"Conserve your magic as much as you can!"

DKing ordered the shamans who did as he said, it took them longer to make a hole in the second gate but in the end they made it through.

"Orks begin your Advance, the last gate is immune to magic so begin breaking the magic devices on the walls!"

DKing said before seeing the Wall itself and the tower that now looked like a column dividing the heavens in two. DKing gulped and charged against the beautifully designed gates, they were thinner than the past gates but the many magical stones shot countless magical missiles at the charging orks.

DKing was about to slam his axe at the Gates when a force field bounced him off the gate, it was like rushing on a wall, but the strange thing was that he felt pain, he looked at his debuffs and saw that his pain level had been raised to 10% instead of 2%.

'Fuck'

He thought before the first fireball crushed on him and he begun screaming in pain, although he had a mediocre pain resistance, when pain is suddenly raised from 1% to 10% the impact can take you by surprise.

The TV reporters and viewers were also caught by surprise by seeing the second strongest player of Allastar rolling on the ground in pain trying to extinguish the flames.

All who charged onto the gates had the same sort of reaction afterwords, some even fell unconscious from the pain.

"Retreat!"

Shouted DKing as he recollected himself and they retreated all the way to the first gate since arrows were no less painful than the spells cast by the third walls that followed them all the way until they reached the second gate.

The ones who fainted, mostly players were finished of by the magic spells cast by the Magical walls.

DKing logged out and phoned the development department.

"Give me the Chief!"

He said in a fit of rage.

The old man came to the phone and said in a timid voice "Hello"

"What the hell is up with those gates!"

"Well it's just a 10% so it's inside the rules of the game, did you forget I said He was something of a masochist so something like that should be inside your predictions"

"So how do we overcome it?"

"Just keep getting hit until you gain the pain resistance skill, it shouldn't take too long since the pain is set on 10%"

"What did you say?"

"Well you could always just send the Npcs forward, I doubt they will have the same problems as you do or just activate your berserker rage, you will probably fill it real fast by the magic gates"

"That's a more legit plan, I'll take your words that it will work"

DKing said as he hung up the phone

"So how long can we keep Darknym busy?"

The chief asked a bit concerned

"As we can see, Deerg does a better job than we could have done, he has sent him to the labyrinth and gave him a hundred Npcs as a reward"

An employee said.

"Isn't that a bit too generous?"

The chief said

"He can take a hundred but they will not be neither his companions or slaves so it's like offering wild monsters to a player to play with"

The employee said laughing a little with the Idea.

"I really doubt that will be a problem for him but how is the siege going, will they reach his Dungeon heart?"

"Why do you call it that anyway?"

The employee asked.

"Haven't you seen the Dungeon he made to hold his guild hall?"

"Well it doesn't seem so elaborate"

"It's fucking copy of Deerg's labyrinth game, only that the traps are set in designated locations"

There was silence in the room as all the employees knew what that accounted to.

Back in Allastar DKing was laughing as he looked at his remaining troops, he had lost three of his captains in the attack, They had revived but they would have to travel at least 15hours before reaching the city once more.

"Gather the berserkers, shamans at the ready, shields-men be ready as well, Trolls begin chipping the outside gates, goblins get ready to infiltrate the tower when we open a hole, once inside wait for my command"

"Commander we have a problem!"

Said the anxious ork.

"What is it now?"

"The trolls were poisoned in our absence, they ate something that was drenched in deadly poison"

"How is that possible!"

"There's also another problem, the goblins are disobeying any orders, saying that we have to pay them for their losses"

"But we aren't paying them at all, what the fuck happened in my absence!"

DKing was outraged, if he didn't have a plan of charging the gate he would already be in full berserk mode now.

By the time they had retreated from the second gate, Glurb had already infiltrated their camp. He was the one who poisoned the trolls and persuaded the goblins with gold to delay them until their master arrived.

Darknym was too preoccupied choosing beauties and some other humans whom he found interesting, or was asked to take by the beauties. He knew that it would take long but he also had to log out as he had work tomorrow. But he still had over sixty Npcs to select.

The first ten he chose the survivors from a spaceship who were from the New order, it was funny but he decided to take all ten of the survivors, although there was only one girl among them.

The others were girls he saw and liked, of course he also took from the prison like biotopes some of their kin just because they asked him for it.

He didn't want to take more time than needed but he couldn't not see all the biotopes. He saw exotic creatures and monsters he wouldn't have been able to see otherwise, of course he only took humanoid creatures like humans, half orks, elves, beast men and some others.

The problem was they weren't all pretty and he was also asked to take their children with them, not that he cared. The time to log out had long passed and he knew that the siege was going on as he chose his prize.

"Are there more biotopes with humanoids?"

He asked the small golden gnome that nodded and led him to the next biotope.

The siege was still at a standstill because of the goblins refusing to attack the city, to DKing it was crystal clear that they had been bribed.

"Just drive them away already"

Shouted DKing now in full berserk.

The Goblins seeing his glowing eyes begun scrambling in all directions. The orks begun their last march towards the gates this time it was a perfect march, they didn't lose even a single troop. Now reaching the third gate once more DKing shouted.

"Shamans cast fury on the berserkers"

Lights of all shapes and colors begun shining over a large group of orks.

"Berserkers charge! crush the gates, Destroy! Destroy!"

DKing shouted and all the orks repeated

"Destroy! Destroy!"

It was really an epic charge where disregarding all damage, the orks rushed through waves of magic missiles and other offensive spells crushing head on on the forcefield doing some major damage until it shattered like glass, the highlight of the TV screen was DKing cutting a hole in the huge gates.

The orks pushing through the hole rushed towards the tower where two huge guardians stood, everyone thought that they would attack them but the guardians didn't fight them they just opened the gates of the tower for them.

There were at least three hundred orks remaining who passed through the gate only to find themselves in a strange place. It looked like a dungeon, the walls were carved with Images of dragons and Demons, some also had beautiful women dancing or having sex or being tortured, it was strange as there was no trap or guard for at least five minutes.

Nancy and George as well as some of their friends were looking at the strange sculptures on the wall.

It was as if they had entered the a demon's den, something was weird, every corner was dark and they could feel fear that could not be captured on screen.

It was because the walls were enchanted with a fear inducing spell.

Nancy was afraid to go further in but George encouraged her that everything would be fine, the orks had stopped going forward at some point seeing a strange black smoke in front of them, the few shamans who could use wind magic could only take a hundred orks with them, the last group were the reporters since they had a mage of their own.

two hundred orks were just waiting behind the black smoke, the ones that entered the black smoke died instantly. There was a crossroad and they had to separate, there were eleven teams, the last being the reporters' team.

Two of the three scouting teams didn't return.

"There was a pitfall trap ahead that had a slide, we were almost taken to some other area"

Said the scouting team.

DKing was a bit anxious now they were in what seemed to be a labyrinth of sorts full of traps.

"Don't make a move, I will make a call to an acquaintance"

The phone of the developer chief rang once more, this time the chief answered himself.

"DKing you have to hurry in ten minutes we will have no way to hold him in Deerg's casino"

"How come, wasn't he deleted and cowering in his tower all this time?"

DKing said a bit surprised since Deerg's games were considered hard to beat or even Impossible.

"What did you call for anyway, if it's about the schematics of the labyrinth you just have to go strait and not fall to any of the pitfalls and anything you do, keep away from the black slimes"

"Can't you send me a schematic with the traps that are laid ahead the labyrinth is too huge, it's much larger than the one I saw at the strategy meeting"

"Maybe you also want us to send you some magic being to help you, man up, the only problem you will face are the black slimes if you fall prey to them you won't be able to log in for two days and since it's you who attacked his base it's can even be called fair play, since you are doing a 1000 vs 1 player siege"

"Can you see what happened to the other two teams?"

"They are dead or...incapable to assist you any further"

In the screen the Chief could see a twisted ork orgy with the black slimes as he said the second phrase, a pity they were all male.

In truth they only had three females in the group, one being Nancy, the other a female shaman and the last one of DKing's captains a brutal berserker.

"Also prepare your troops across the black smoke for the undeads to come out of the smoke"

The chief developer said and Instantly weapons clashing could be heard from behind.

"Dammit couldn't you have said that sooner!"

DKing hung up and opened the chat with the ones on the other side.

"Report your situation"

"The orks who died from the smoke came to life and dragged two of our guys into the black smoke"

DKing had put it on the loud speaker so that everyone on their screens could hear it, but before they could understand what was going on even more clashes and even some screams were heard from the chat.

"They came again, they were four and took another one of our men, they are multiplying as they drag us into the smoke"

"Go back to the entrance"

"But we are at the entrance, the zombies just take someone and run away, they are as fast as they were when they were alive"

Truth was that the fear spell also had an effect on their running speed making it hard for them to reach the running ork zombies and since DKing had taken the best warriors with him the ones left behind weren't the best of the crop. The problem also being that the first two to die from the cloud were strong.

DKing closed the chat and announced

"We are going forward, remember three thing first we must be careful of the traps, second those that fall in the pitfalls are dead meat, third don't let the black slimes touch you"

There were 80 orks and 21 others from the TV crews, they were elves, dwarves and many other races, there were eight crews in total each from a different TV station.

Nancy's crew only had three people, One was George and the other was Bob her co-announcer in the TV show. If George was a knight in shining armor Bob was Prince charming.

Only one crew stayed behind and was now showing the Zombie onslaught as the Zombies were little by little becoming a real threat. DKing wanted to go as far away from the cloud before the 200orks return as Zombies to haunt them.

"Move next to the wall to avoid the pitfall!"

DKing said.

One of the reporters and another two orks fell into the pitfall, sliding all the way towards black smoke dying Instantly.

78 orks and 20 reporters were now moving to the next trap which was a strange meat grinder that took the entire room, even touching the thing was a bad Idea.

DKing called the chief once more

"What's the trick for the grinders?"

"There's no trick, In Deerg's casino there was but these grinders will continue unless you break them, It should be possible, just don't touch them with your skin, they are coated with deadly poison"

"Understood"

Said DKing as he hung up the phone

"Guys we have to break the thing down, but without touching it with our skin, it's got poison on it"

"But that reporter has already touched it and nothing happened to him"

One of his captains said.

A reporter had tried to see how painfull it would be to have his skin torn in the game, of course he was a dwarf who were resistant to poison but not immune.

"Just do as I said, I'm sure it is a nasty one, so be on guard"

The orks begun hitting the grinder without much success at first until, DKing and the mages created some heat crushing the upper part of the grinder.

"Now we have to jump across"

said DKing as he jumped to the other side.

The Dwarf just stepped on the broken parts of the grinder as they had stuck in the lower grinder stopping it from moving. Some other reporters did the same as he non of them had any bad effects or debuffs until an Ork reporter stepped on it and like acid his feet begun melting away in the end leaving only his bones behind.

78 orks and 19 reporters were now moving to the next trap, another pitfall or series of pitfalls, there was a thin ropelike passage for them to follow and from behind they could hear sounds of something coming towards them.

The two zombies that approached were killed almost Instantly from the veterans of the guild but it made them think a little more before sending the reporters last this time.

The orks divided into the front and rear guard, DKing being in the front guard, from the front guard they lost four people who fell into the slidding pitfalls. The rear guard was fighting against the zombies that now came in greater and greater numbers losing two men to them.

The reporters were now passing on the thin passage and the dwarf jumped just to see where it would take him, he heard strange moans coming from underneath and a strange slime covered his face before the disconecting him from the game.

Another three from the rear guard fell down as the stress from the zombies waiting at the other side made them rush too much.

69 Orks and 18 reporters were now going for the next trap, while the Zombie onslaught against the 200 orks that were left behind was now reaching its finale as only twelve female players remained, one of them was the female reporter who had stayed behind.

They had perplexed feelings as to why the zombies didn't target them, they were only targeting the male orks and although female orks weren't pretty to the eye, they did some pretty interesting things to add sex appeal to their characters. Mostly piercing parts of their body with rings.

The reporter and another were half ork beauties being elf-orks or something made them astounding, not to talk about the piercings that you could imagine the had under their armors.

They stood trapped between the entrance as the teleportation device was not sending them back and the black cloud as the zombies had all left to the other side now.

One of the twelve went towards the black smoke in an attempt to die only to find that the smoke did nothing to them.

"Is it sexism?"

One of them asked the others and they all agreed as they strolled through the cloud.

The leader of the group a rowdy Ork woman whose muscles were as big as her head send a chat request to the DKing.

"Leader all the traps don't hurt women, only men"

She said in a confident voice

"How many of you are there left?"

DKing asked

"Only twelve"

"Shit , just go forward all the time, don't touch the grinder, it's poisonous to orks and don't fall into any pitfalls, lastly stay away from the black slimes or try not to touch them they are sure death, a reporter touched one and for more than 10min he can't seem to be able to reconect into the game"

"Sure"

She said with confidence as the chat ended and she turned to the others.

"Time to win this thing, just don't try your luck too much"

She said as she stepped on the ledges near the pitfall and fell in. The rest were more carefull and in a matter of minutes joined the main force laughing their way through broken traps and black smokes.

Only 48 Orks and 8reporters remained and with the eleven of them 58 Orks and 9 reporters.

"How long do we have to go?"

Asked one of his captains, they had been going for an hour now and the traps chipped at their numbers, the mages were almost about to run out of Mp due to the many black smokes they had to pass.

"I will ask my Aquaintance"

Another call to the chief and a strange laugh came from the other end of the phone.

"He logged out, can you believe it he took the gifts and logged out without a care in the world"

DKing didn't know to be happy or to be scared about the statement about Darknym's confidence.

"How long before we reach his Guild hall?"

"Let me check"

A silence overtook the room for a while.

"Did you take a turn to the right somewhere?"

The chief asked in surprise

"Nope we went strait forward"

"Then the HQ just moved to the left"

"What are you saying?"

"You must have sprung some trap that moved the entrance to his HQ or something...let me see those codes"

The chief said and the begun shouting

"Idiots all of you!"

He shouted at the employees at his place

"Listen DKing the entrance will move place every hour that passes, it seems theres some sort of trick to it that it will also change place when all traps in a strait line are passed or eliminated, so it won't appear near you even if you wait"

"But we are out of Mp we can't go the other way and we will have to wait for seven hour until our Mp refills itself"

"I will make something out of it just stay put for ten minutes and we will use tears of Althea to heal you"

Tears of Althea the goddess of health is one of the strongest healing Items of the game it instantly refills all Hp,stamina,Mp and even removes curses and Illnesses.

Back in Darknym's Labyrinth the group of Orks and reporters were waiting for DKing's answer to how long it would take to clear the Dungeon, as they called it.

"Guys I have good news and bad news"

"Give us the good news first"

"Well there's no danger of player attacks"

A wave of Boos was heard from all the orks

"And the bad news?"

"The exit just changed place"

There was a silence until his female captain spoke up.

"I say we seperate into two teams of only females, that will go to both sides and just win the dungeon of that perverted sexist scum"

"I think it's not a bad I idea"

DKing said.

"But you will go as one since you are too few, we will take the other side, but wait for a few minutes for the starting signal"

DKing kneeled down as if doing a prayer although it was a scam to be begin with and drops of shining blue dropped from the sky, revitalizing them whole.

"Now first we reach the center and then seperate into two remember about avoiding the slimes"

"Whatever"

The female captain said irritated.It was supposed to only take them a few hours of their time and it had turned into a gaming marathon into the night.

The return was faster but they lost another two people.

They also left a group of people in the far chance that the entrance appeared again when they left.

Nancy and her crew of bob and Georg were now divided into the three teams, Nancy had to go with the female team, while Bob was left to wait for the entrance to reappear.

DKing's team had 38 orks and 4 reporters, as they seperated with the female group at the center of the Labyrinth. They did have to take care of some zombies for some reason they had begun appearing out of the many side passages from time to time.

DKing was Confident that In half an hour the whole Siege would be a success until he saw a new obstacle on his path, the black slimes. They were timidly moving left and right not even attacking them. with great caution the orks and four reporters passed through the slimes.

Further forward they saw a strange puzzle on the floor and a doorlike sculpture on the wall, it was a simple zigsaw puzzle they solved almost Instanly only to have walls fall from the ceiling and water begun flooding the room.

Instantly a call to the chief was made

"How do we pass the flooding room?"

"Let me see"

"Hurry, we are...bloobubl"

"Hit the door with all your strength It's shown at the puzzle anyway"

The puzzle was a woman hitting the door with a large hammer.

It would have been good if they weren't already submerged in the water, the many Orks saw their Stamina fall rapidly due to their lack of air.

DKing swam from near the ceiling of the room to the bottom, some orks had already died till he cracked the door open saving only 30 orks as the reporters were long dead.

DKing was a bit puzzled, did the traps switch grades in difficulty all of a sudden, as he saw a gigantic moving meat grinder in front of him. After a Hard fight and losing four more orks they went on to the next trap, the black smoke. They entered it using the shamans' air bubles but something unexpected happened as zombies emerged in the middle of the smoke, grabbing one of their shamans losing a group of ten people in one Instance.

He had only 16 orks remaining and infront of him were the black slimes once more.

He made a call just to ask something to the chief of development.

"Chief is there by any way some sort of trigger that make the traps easier for women to pass through"

"Let me check"

Said the old man as he looked at the codes of the trap.

"Yup there is one but it's a bit elaborate since some traps have two or three different triggers, for mixed parties, male or female parties the best would be if you had stayed together not that it would make the game easier but at least you would have better chances"

The chief said looking at another screen.Where the fourteen females were walking through the black smoke.

"Those Idiots, if we had seperated in three female teams from the start, I'm sure we would have already reached the entrance long ago"

Said the captain as she passed the now stopped grinding machine that had opened to let them pass.

"Don't you think that there will be some sort of trap at some point?"

Asked Nancy who walked next to her.

"Do you think I'm weaker than DKing!"

She said loudly irritated.

"Well he is the Leader"

Nancy had noted a fact that none there could oppose.

"Still he is a complete fool, I'm sure he will just call us out of the blue and say that we need to regroup or something"

And in a few seconds he so happened to call them and call for a regroup at the center.

When they reached the center they saw DKing a bit tired and soaking wet with only 12 orks remaining.

"We must create mixed teams, the dificulty becomes extremely dangerous if you have a group of only males"

"And let me guess, it becomes extremely easy if you have a group of only females"

The female captain said and saw DKing's somewhat akward face.

"Just go to where the others are waiting, we will seperate into two and go find that accursed guild hall"

"But the aquaintance said that it's better to stay in mixed teams"

"And why is that?"

"He didn't say"

"Just go to the others, it's just a game anyway, we can just siege the city some other time, when we are better prepared"

DKing wanted to shout or say something but his place was a bit difficult right now since he couldn't say that he was a secret employee of the game producers and had a mission of destroying the whole city just to show a player how strong their power in the game is.

DKing opened the chat to talk to the waiting team but noone answered.

"They took Bob"

Shouted Nancy as she was informed that a wave of zombies charged the eigth waiting players taking them towards the black smoke to turn them into one of their own.

"Okay, We will go with your plan for now Ballcrusher"

That was her Avatar's name, painfull.

The twelve women seperated into two groups of six and went to both sides while DKing took the center.

That was the last they heard of them as they all died inside the Black smoke by the zombies who now numbered around a hundred. Of course DKing survived but fell into a pitfall.

The last thing he saw was a black slime and was logged out of the game.

The two groups went forward each their seperate ways, not knowing that DKing had already fallen.

"If only I had gathered more of my friends"

Ballcrusher said as they were about to pass through the black slimes.

They walked without any concern but before they knew it the slimes had surrounded them and they were all disconected shortly without knowing what hit them. The other group had the same experience.

The chief of developement wanting to see something good looked at the slimes attacking them but to his dissapointment they only fell asleep.