Chapter 15: Feeding the Fire
After demolishing a bowl of fall-off-the-bone pork stew and rich braised belly, Ryan exchanged a few words with his sisters and headed back to his room, already plotting his next cash grab.
What he didn’t notice, though, was that not long after he disappeared into the room, Mia had gone oddly quiet in the living room. She paced in circles for a while, then whispered a few things to Molly before quietly slipping out of the house.
Ryan reconnected to the game, but he didn’t rush to turn in any quests. First, he opened the forum.
And immediately, thousands of new private messages bombarded his inbox like a digital landslide.
He just shrugged and hit delete—all of them, without even opening a single one.
Then he checked the numbers on both paid posts, and the corner of his mouth twitched upward.
Sales for the Dungeon Scroll teaser video had already started slowing down—after the initial spike, the first wave had passed. Still, it had earned him over a thousand bucks, money he’d have access to in about a week.
But the real prize?
The Guardian strategy guide had now been purchased by over forty users, netting him more than twelve thousand dollars.
Ryan actually chuckled aloud.
He had expected, what, ten guilds at most?