When he woke up from his pod Ezekiel was sore from laying in one position all day.
He had spent twenty-four hours in one place as the game had a time dilation of five to one, he had scheduled his days off that week to coincide with the first two days of the games service.
He would be working the night shift for that day but he would be able to handle it, when checking his phone he saw a strange message from his uncle though.
"Please be to the restaurant by 3pm, I have to discuss something with everyone."
When he woke up it was 1:25 so he had an hour to get ready.
When he got downstairs his mother was already gone for her own job but she had left a note on the table.
"Gina will come to pick you up for work today, your uncle wants everyone there by three for some reason.
Have fun at work love you baby."
Ezekiel made a quick meal since he had just woken up and while eating he checked the online news about BLO.
What he saw made him laugh, clips of his group running to the forest were eveywhere from different angles and showing off the leaderboard of the dungeon.
Comments on the clips were identifying who each player was, War God and Shade were well known streamers apparently and their streams were already known online.
People made assumptions about who was who, they figured out that Ezekiel was Belial because of the name being based on a demon which left Hope being the beastfolk.
Their descriptions were everywhere now.
When he heard the knock on the door he left to check it and outside was his cousin Gina.
They left for the day to go to the restaurant.
While drying himself off he went to the game forums to see if anything special happened, what he saw astonished him.
The first completion of a hardmode dungeon.
In his own gameplay he turned off server notifications so he wouldn't be annoyed by them but now he regretted it because he had lost the chance for a piece of unique gear.
In BLO unique quality gear was mad specifically for the player rather than generic gear that could be used by a class.
Each piece of unique gear would be made as part of a set and if you got all five pieces of the set then you would gain immense power according to the only player who had ever achieved it.
While he was thinking about the next paths for gaining unique gear he saw something in the clip of the party who made the achievement.
He saw players that he knew very well because of their fame.
War God, a demon player who pretended to be male to avoid harassment but was eventually outed as a female player.
She was the leader of a clan that would eventually become one of the greatest in the game.
Shade, an elven player that became famous for being an expert assassin in team battles.
Hope, a beastkin that became famous for being able to bring any ally from the brink of death and even found a way to bypass the healing negation of the cauterized effect.
He was trying to remember who Belial was... when he saw them.
He knew that devil.
When he saw Belial his memory of a powerful mage shredding through a boss like paper with wings made of thousands of needles made of shadow magic.
'It's him! That mage, i have to get that mage on my side."