2 years, for 2 years he played this pathetic game many abandoned.
Aetherborn
A VR RPG that shook the gaming world and then became unpopular quickly. The difficulty level of this gameis insane. You have to fight bosses tiers above you. Gather equipment from dungeons that changed with your strength. Fae opponents that can crush you anytime. Not to mention the demons you have to face which is directly impossible level difficulty.
And in this game, he spent 2 years working on all patterns, getting rewards, finding puzzles and missing pieces for moving the stagnated progress and finally the result.
[ Congratulations! You're the first one to beat this Game ]
Then second time. Then third time. He keep on going in the last two years. Because he got no attachments in this world. Not even his life that he is going to lose soon. He is Peter Wells, a blood cancer patient who lived in world of Aetherborn after it appeared.
To him Aetherborn allowed him to forget his pain and illness temporarily which made him seek asylum in the game. After he is diagnosed with this blood cancer, he lost his job, his girlfriend left him and he got no one to rely on, even his best friends started ignoring him.
So he chose Aetherborn despite its difficulty. He beat this Game like 50 times. On his 50th victory and admin mail appeared in the game.
[ Dear Peter,
We observed you are obsessed with the Aetherborn world. We also knew about your condition. We're willing give you another chance. Will you leave everything and become a character in the real Aetherborn world rather than a simple mimic of the game and it's fate. Will you accept our terms and become the one and only player of the real Aetherborn world. Give it a thought, because once you agree or reject, there is no going back on your decision.
- The Admin ]
Well, seems like the admin is a lunatic whose brain is filled with Isekai fantasy. Amused Peter played along. He accepted the chance while the admin message appeared again.
[ Are you sure? ]
[ Once chosen, you cannot undone what is going to happen ]
[ You'll be transported into the real Aetherborn world ]
[ That won't be a game ]
[ It's your second chance and survival ]
[ Think carefully ]
Peter got a little annoyed and clicked yes repeatedly.
[ .... ]
[ Seems like you have made your decision then ]
[ Good luck in that no hero world ]
[ You'll be reincarnated as Damian Von Brightheart ]
[ A villian who will appear in the middle of the game for players ]
[ You can still choose to quit ]
[ Are you sure you don't want to back down now? ]
Looking at the screen flashing in front of him, Peter clicked yes decisively thinking this is just another beta testing.
[ Very well ]
[ You made your choice ]
[ Good luck for your next life ]
*Boom* *loud zap*
A thunder fell on Peter. He died.
Blackrock Territory, Stormfall kingdom :
In the Mansion of Marquis Rowan Lucien Brightheart, a boy woke up with a jolt and looked around. He frowned and looked around. Then looked at his hands. ' why are they so small? Don't tell me the doctors replaced them because they're unusable from getting hit by a thunder ', Peter thought.
But as he stood up and walked to the mirror he is stunned. Because he really became a mid level villian in the game. Damian Von Brightheart, third son of Marquis Rowan, son born to the second wife, Selene Darkholm, a mage proficient in dark and fire magic.
It's highly unusual how Rowan from the Radiance side became captivated as married Selene who is from the opposite element as his second wife. Marquis Rowan, one of the supreme swords of the empire. His title The Radiant Blade isn't for show. He is a bane for evil cult who terrorised the empire.
His main elements light and fire allows him to deal with evil cult in a huge advantage. His blade purifies the demon's mana and miasma that the evil cult uses. And he loved a woman from one of the dark families. This caused quite a stir yet he is adamant with his decision.
Though his first wife Helen hated this quite a bit. She is from one of the holy families, an opposite faction to the dark families. And moreover, her husband loved Selene more than her. The cliche plot in every medieval story. Damian is born from their union.
Damian Von Brightheart, once a bright and kind person, after his mother's death at the hands of conspirators from Helen's side, he hated the nobles, this Empire and the system. He developed hatred for his own house and killed his brothers with his own hands in ten middle of game.
Damian hated his father more than anything, because Rowan wasn't able to do anything despite being one of the strongest person in the empire. He rejected the light he inherited from Rowan because of this and chose to dwell into the darkness from his mother's side. Contracting with demons, learning forbidden and taboo magic. Killed thousands, annihilated the Ashvile family that Helen belongs to.
Ultimately he fell in the hands of players who played the game. Though that fight alone almost made every gamer give up on this game. So much so that, they added team play for the boss fight with Damian. He wields both sword and magic. Combining aura and magic he formed unique Arther energy that only a handful of beings in this world can.
But he took a path of no return and was made into villain by the game creators. Aetherborn has no hero, the player himself is the saviour and protagonist of the world. Now in this real world of Aetherborn with him only as a player, will be ended up becoming the saviour of become a villain like Damian.
No matter what, he is here now. ' I thought it was a joke. Who would have thought that entity is very serious about this ', he can only smile bitterly. He became a mid level boss of the Aetherborn game it seems.