Shi Xieren was 22 years old with 180 cm in height and 70 kg in weight, ex-runner athlete. He had a handsome face yet simple appearance. The short black hair with white skin and his pitch black eyes gave him the charm to attract a beauty.

It just pity that he didn't finish his school and now his profession was a gamer. This was a new profession set by the Government since 10 years ago after the first virtual reality game released. Actually, the gamer profession has been around 20 years ago when the people still used a computer to play the games.

Around 20 years ago the most popular and the biggest reward for the competition is Dota 2. But after the Virtual Reality game was released, the popularity Dota 2 declined though they were released the VR game for Dota 2. Even though the Dota 2 released their VR version but people tended to become bored quickly because of the gameplay the Dota 2.

The people shifted back to the MMORPG game, the first VR game released for the MMORPG was Fantasy Online. With 1 billion users all over the world, the Fantasy Online was successful at that time.

In the Fantasy Online, pro gamer could earn $10,000 to $100,000. After the Government knowing this fact, they set a gamer as one of the profession. Here the developer of the game started to create a tournament or competition before they created a league for pro gamer.

But four years later, the Fantasy Online closed. The developer paid half price of the equipment and total worth of money for every player because the developer game wanted to create a new game.

The new game was Universe Online, the brand new game with 80% realistic. Here the new journey for the gamer started again.

Because the realistic of the virtual reality reached 80%, the players playing this game reached 3 billion peoples. Another successful game at that time, but after the Universe Online released the rival started to pop out. There were two new VR games released after those two years.

But in the six years old of the Universe Online, the Government announced the shocking news. All VR games would be closed. The reason was that the Government of the 7 nation, the USA, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, England, and Germany planned to create a new game.

This news created uproar all over the world because the government gave a serious attention to the game world.

There were many rumors spread out after the news was announced. There were people made a speculation that because there was no war in the world then the government made a game as the competition as the nation to prove who was the strongest nation in the world.

The government didn't say yes or no to confirm the rumor. So eventually, speculation just speculation, people only half-believe and half-doubt about the speculation.

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Shi Xieren, the pro gamer of Universe Online. Yeah, if you determined the gamer based on how long he or she played the game then Shi Xieren was a pro gamer. He started playing the Universe Online when he was in the 17 years old and now he was 22 years old.

Five years experienced playing a game you could call him old player than pro gamer. However, what about him in the game? He was totally cancer. Yes, he was a fucking noob in the game. No one wanted to party with him, and his name was famous, especially for Chinese because he also Chinese.

Why was he called cancer? Even his best friend in the game didn't want a party with him, the best friend who introduced the game to him though it was not his fault that he didn't want to make a party with him.

His In Game Name (IGN) was Runner. Like his IGN, he was the fastest swordsman with a meager damage. It didn't exaggerate at all because of his speed almost the same as an assassin class.

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He raised all his attribute point to the Agility. That was why he became the fastest swordsman. Swordsman Class in the Universe Online was a damage dealer, but he could only cause a meager damage because of his attribute was all on Agility.

He cannot become a tank, he cannot become a support, and as a damage dealer? He could only cause a little damage to the monster let alone a boss. His best ability was running and escaping.

After the peoples who ever made a party with him spread the news about him who a swordsman raised up all attribute to Agility. After the news spread out, there was no one wanted to make a party with him, even his best friend, Yun He.

What about Shi Xieren responded toward this issue? Nah, he just ignored. He didn't care about what people said to him. His goal played this game was to become the fastest in the world.

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In the room with 4x3 meters, Shi Xieren gazed at the game capsule with blue color in the front. The room was stuffy, one bed, a capsule game, and a wardrobe but it didn't make him uncomfortable instead this was the most comfortable room for him.

Today, the blue-colored capsule going to be taken by the government, and when he wanted to buy a new capsule for the new game, the price was only half-price.

Before became a gamer he was an ex-runner athlete because some of the incident, he could not run anymore though he was still want to keep running.

Why did he want to keep running? It was his dead mother wish. His mother said before she died was "Keep running son and become the fastest in the world. Break all the record in this world, don't give up just because you experienced a failure you should keep work hard to make the failure become a success. I will keep watching you from above so don't stop running until you become the fastest in the world,"

His mother died when he was 11 years old. That was when he just started to attend the running competition. His father? His father died earlier than his mother, he didn't even remember what his father looked like because his father died when he was 2 years old because of cancer. If there was no photo of his father, maybe he would be able to recognize his father even though he was still alive in the front of him.

Relatives? He didn't have any relatives. His father was an orphan also his mother. His parents were a childhood friend from the same orphanage and became a couple when they were full grown up.

Actually, he realized why his mother last wish like that was because she wanted him to alive. She knew when she died she will leave her son alone in this world. So, she wished him to become the fastest in the world to keep him alive.

She tried to distract his mind from the sad and sorrow by setting a goal for him, so he could alive. When did he realize it? When an accident happened to him that made him could not run anymore. When he heard the diagnosis from the doctor that he could not run anymore like before, there was one word crossed in his mind "Suicide", yes, suicide.

All the time, he lived to fulfill his mother wish to become the fastest runner in the world. But when he could not run anymore, he realized that his mom tried distracting his mind so he didn't do a stupid thing like suicide.

Fortunately, he had a best buddy also a childhood friend that could help him, Yun He. Yun He was so worried for him when his mother died because he locked himself in his room. Finally, Yun He got an idea that could make him kept continuing run. That was Universe Online, the second VR game.

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Remembered about the past, he sighed ruefully. The blue capsule will be taken in this afternoon by the government, and the new game would be released in five days.

Yes, the new game that created by 7 nations and the developer of the VR game.

The new game name was "Tribe Online"