2 Past Experience

Playing for almost 5 years in this VR game, Pedro and his party entered the dungeon and swept up to the door of the boss room with ease.

They got tons of rare materials from the monsters but there were no weapons or accessories. This is for the reason that the weapons and accessories were dropped only by the bosses of each dungeon.

"Guys, this is it. Everyone ready?"

Everyone nodded in response and grasped their weapons.

The ancient door of the boss room opened slowly with a 'Creeeeek!'. In the middle of the room was the boss. It was a black dragon that was awakened from its sleep.

"Humans..."

The black dragon yawned and watched them as they advance forward!

"You dare wake me up from my sleep!?"

"Man... what a scary dragon!" A male player with a bow mocked with a smile.

"Be on your guard! Ready your teleportation crystals, Something feels weird with this boss!" Pedro held his teleportation crystal in his left hand.

He watched the movements of the dragon very closely.

Everyone in the party followed his order and took out teleportation crystals.

This was a common safety method done by the players who play VR games. This is due to one of the laws made by the governments on VR games like "Death penalties should result in true death of the player's character".

This law was based on the study of a psychologist to help develop different skills like social or survival skills of the people, especially the young ones who play games most of the time. At the same time, it may lessen the chance of people becoming addicted to VR games.

However, VR games have some cases into which this law was not applicable. Just like deaths due to losing on Duels or valid PvP battles, or tutorials and the like.

The risks they face were very high since it was a Hidden Dungeon. Hidden Dungeons are one of the rarest and hardest dungeons in the game. At the same time, the hard work they put on their characters in those past 5 years would be lost if they die.

"Vex! Charge now!" Pedro pointed his sword to the dragon.

The party's main tank grasped his sword and shield while staring at the dragon, full of killing intent. He nodded in reply and activated a skill that made him ram straight to the dragon.

As everyone was following up the charge of the main tank and execute their combo, the dragon turned its head towards the party in a lazy manner.

"Humans! You are brave... BUT NOT STRONG ENOUGH!"

Their mouths went agape as the dragon was still able to move after being hit by the tank's charge skill which should have had a 'stun' effect.

'This!'

Everyone wore a grim look as they were now able to check the dragon's name and information. The information only appears after it was engaged.

Monster details, like names, do not appear unless engaged. This was one of the features of this VR game that was set to increase the difficulty of the game.

[Atlas, The World Dragon]

Rating: God

Description: [unknown]

Skills:

[unknown]

[unknown]

A series of [unknown] greeted the party. It is at this moment that they realized that the dragon isn't something they should mess with.

As quick-witted as everyone was, they immediately activated the teleportation crystal in their hands.

"TELEPORT! NOW!" Pedro was anxious as his teleportation countdown, of 5 seconds, starts.

Everyone activated their teleportation crystal and the countdown started. This moment seemed to be the longest 5 seconds in their life.

Suddenly, the dragon showed a faint smile and exhaled a blue flame out of its mouth.

Fwaaaaaaah!

"You think you can escape me, humans...." The dragon chuckled as everyone had a grayed vision and received a system notification.

[You Died! Character deletion and automatic logout will commence in 3!]

2!

1!

...

"Nooooooo!" Pedro screamed very loud as he regained consciousness in the real world.

After a few seconds, Pedro got up from the VR Box and sat on his bed.

'What was that? A God~ Boss?! Isn't it that God NPCs or Monsters only appear at Main Story Quests? How come the boss of the Hidden Dungeon was a God?'

While questions bombard into his head, someone slapped hard at the back of his head. He glanced in that direction and saw his angry father standing near the door of his room.

"You useless piece of @@@@!" His dad scolded while pointing his hand to Pedro, "Can't you see that we are already sleeping?! It's 2:00 AM PEDRO! 2:00 AM! Here we thought something bad happened to you, only to know, you!!!"

"Calm down, honey... Calm down!" His mother entered the room and stopped his father by hugging and pulling his father away.

His father shrugged his mother and said, "This is the last time you'll do this young man! One more... One more time and you'd be saying goodbye to your games!"

When his father left the room, his mother sat down on the side of the bed.

"Don't mind him too much. Your father... he was just angry. The moment we heard your scream, he became very worried. He rushed immediately to your room. He feared that something bad might have happened to you! Only after seeing you and the VR box behind you, that he became annoyed. He only cares about you, son! I hope that you understand. Now, go back to sleep. It's only 2:00 in the morning, I'll go talk to your father."

"Thanks, mom!" Pedro forced out a smile as his mother left the room.

'Sleep? I hope I can!' He lied down to his bed and placed a pillow into his face.

~~~~~~~

Chook! Chook! Chook!

The next morning, Pedro was woken by his phone. He was receiving messages from his guildmates. Seeing that there were more than 40+ unread messages, Pedro scanned through them one by one.

Each of the 43 messages he received was from 43 of his guild members. All of their messages were similar. They will transfer to another guild after they learned that Pedro, their guild master, and the rest of the five-man party had died last night.

Pak!

Pedro threw his phone out of anger.

"I know something is fishy! Only 5 out of 50 were online last night? And now they are telling me that they will leave the guild? Fvck them! If they wanna leave then go! I have no use for traitors like you!"

Fortunately, Annie and the rest of the five-man party who died with him will still stay in the guild along with 2 more members. Since it was already Christmas vacation, Annie and the remaining members of the guild made another character and played early that day.

As for Pedro, he decided not to play for a day to cool his self down. He was still angry with those 43 members who left their guild.

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"Armaz Energy Corporation"

Pedro's father arrived at their company's main office. He headed straight to his office room located on the top floor.

Upon entering his office, the secretary of his father followed him inside.

"Were you able to get the information about this VR Box I told you about?"

"Yes, President Jon! Since last year, the developers of this VR Box had a major problem. It was their electricity consumption rate. Since then, the developers searched for possible solutions to the extent of even finding an Energy Company to collaborate in the research and design. Unfortunately, no Energy company displayed their interest to collaborate with them. The cost was high and the solution they wanna make was for something to be used in a game, which~"

"was opposed by governments all over the world." Mr. Jon Armaz interrupted.

"Yes, President Jon!"

"Then... How did they succeed?"

"Joe Energy Corporation International."

"I see... Check if Atomic Energy Crystal III can lower the energy consumption of the VR Box. If the RnD Department sends its approval, Try to contact the Manufacturer of the VR Box. We must get a deal with them, no matter how small."

"Yes, President!"

The secretary left Mr. Jon Armaz, who was looking down the glass wall in his office.

"If this doesn't work... I can only ask my son to establish a professional gaming organization that would endorse our company. Energy Corporations once did this kind of advertisement... It seems like it would be back, once again."