Chapter 7 - Punishment

Punishment 

As informed by the system; Jake was trying to access the public domain by creating fake account. He was worried that perhaps it brought another round of commotion or the officials might investigate the owner of the account. Taking all the safe measures Jake posted the codes conversation. The people accessed and busted with the validity of the conversation. There were many ways and applications that could create false rumors. 

People were asking several questions from the person who uploaded this conversation. Jake was reading the arguments, curious questions and so on. He dared not to interrupt the present tempo. Overall this conversation opened up the (good man) mask of the two people. They were the first two presidents of the gaming world. 

Jake saw the severity of the situation and logged off. He wiped his sweat off from forehead. He was slowly able to understand this hope called system was very mysterious. It was using him as medium and uncovering some of the bad people especially those indirectly harmed. Now it was clearing in front of him. He did his task regarding punishment and the system did not cut down his earned Exp. 

Congratulations: you are now level one. With this his pain vanished completely. "The system proved true to its words." Jake commented feeling that his broken arm was no more in pain. Jake read through and came to know that he required 500Exp for level two. Now he was busy what kind of registration the system required him to go through. He opened his game and only then the revelation struck him hard like reality. Jake remained unconscious for three days in the hospital; during this time lot of things changed drastically. 

After reading the group conversation; he was still clueless about the situation. Seeing the game giving error; he switched with the server media. There all kinds of announcements were posted by the developers of the game. There were whole bunch of announcements in the previous four and half days. Jake read carefully and came to know that all the servers of the 'Sovereign Rulers' were down. Latest few links were shared informing further development. 

Jake opened the group chat again and silently scrolled down. Various gamers were talking about the five presidents and the new announcement. It was difficult to understand what they were pointing at so Jake closed the group chat and moved to check the television. There the long bulletin was on air; in this all the big news were discussed in detail. Jake impatiently went through the topic of discussion and sure enough the media conference was added in the third topic. He opened the volume and stood up. There were few things which he needed to know as to where he would register; what kind of new game they were introducing, what was the purpose of all this? 

Jake again checked the server announcements; the last announcement was made three hours ago telling that the players would be given link for the registration process as soon as the developers finalized the process. Now he was no more ignorant about the latest events. To him there was something big behind changes and the crashed servers. Patina became part of this unintentionally. 

Jake placed his head on the desk in front and closed his eyes. Things were opening up however these were getting complex instead of getting solved. The third topic began and the anchor person aired few parts of the announcement made by the gaming president. Jake prudently listened. He understood that the big bosses were trying to wash away something they intentionally committed. 

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Inside the meeting room

"I don't know; if he is alive then access him and ask him to get registered." The young president Gueman insisted. He came to know that the girl called Patina has younger sibling. Patina has been one of the famous players and her name was used by the first president. Gueman wanted this to end. 

With his means; he came to know that her brother played the same game and he was not good player because of his defected hand. The developers wanted him to not add him in the team; stating that they would loss in the very beginning of the game. 

"The game would be different from the top market games; also we will be able justify our claim." Gueman voiced out his final decision and stood up. This means the selectors have no choice but to select the fifteen years old boy Jake Lin. Out of twenty five top servers from all five games; the best and experienced players were selected except Jake Lin. He never crossed level five while the selected players were running their in-game associations. 

Three huge game portals were built. The in-game time was kept different from the real world time. Every week three teams would enter in the game portal. One of them will be eliminated; one would face the second chance and one will be winner. Winning team would proceed for level two. Apparently the whole process was simple yet many surprises were waiting for the excited players. They had been playing the latest games and bragging how many they killed and what level they achieved. 

According to the suggestions; the game was designed complex. The developers were hired on big cash. They were neutral in the clash of the companies and strictly remained under the look out of the panel suggested by the jury to ensure the fairness. 

No one can influence the developers or the panel. The preparations were going on and Jake was waiting for the registration link. The system gave twenty four hours and the time was ticking. In his eyes five hundred Exp was lot and he was worried whether he would be able collect it with few tasks. Still level three was the white dream. According to the system; his injuries would be healed at level three. He was anticipating whether his defected hand will also be healed or not. 

Time was ticking for every player. They were eagerly waiting for the link as well as the new game. Jake did not dare call the system worried that it perhaps point out one more sickness in his body. He felt his throat dry and thought to drink some water yet the screen opened up. "Do not drain yourself and drink juice else you will pass out in the middle of the game." This was shining with the red warning that means system cannot let him act careless.