Chapter 37: Scam Or Real??
The darkness stretched on—subtle, eerie, infinite. No matter how many times he found himself here, the void of the game’s loading screen remained an unsettling sight. Yet, as he lingered, eyes fixed on the numbers before him, disbelief coiled tightly in his mind.
[Mission Completed]
[Reward: +1 increase in all stats]
[Balance: 73 Soul Cores]
After countless hours of grinding through missions that had long since blurred together, this was all that remained.
He had played nonstop—allowing himself only brief pauses for food, bathroom breaks, and the occasional nap.
His body had ached for rest, his eyes burned with exhaustion, yet he had pushed on, all for this one achievement—$7,000. What a price!
If his body had actually registered the exhaustion, the strain, the tension, he was sure he wouldn’t have been able to walk for weeks. But that was the beauty of the deluxe mode, wasn’t it? No pain. No fatigue. Just the rush of grinding, and the thrill of watching numbers climb.
But now... it was all gone. The grind was done, and he had finally completed it. However, that wasn’t the hardesr part.
He had used the Soul Cores to purchase the "Deceptive Reasoning" package before, unlocking a whole new world of possibilities within the game. But never—not even once—had he tried cashing out real currency. That was the real problem.
’ Could it even be done?’