The Sneha familia

aging me, ” said the man. ”Go, find someone else. ”

”Massage is every days work. So missing it for one day isn a problem. I am not even asking him to go away. He will come back in a few minutes. ”

Shiva took the money she gave her and left.

”You little brat, ” sarcastically said the husband, ”I am the one who gave you work to do in this house, but you are listening to her. ”

***

Om, aka Shiva, came online in the game. As soon as he appeared on the platform where he had previously appeared, he saw a man bullying three girls.

”Newbies, give us the protection fee; you don want some stray attacks to stab you in the back, do you? ” said the man with a sinister smile on his face.

Though the girls were not scared, if they wanted to play the game without any inconvenience, they needed to not make enemies out of any players.

”Thats enough. ” Om came in between. At the same time, an old man who was walking by saw that and stopped to see.

”Who are you, little shrimp? ” The player put his face in front of Oms face with widened eyebrows.

”I can stand watching you bully people, ” said Om. ”Go away and fight monsters. ”

To intimidate, the player narrowed his brows. ”Lets fight then. Take my challenge. ”

Killing was illegal, but once a player accepted a challenge, killing would be fine. So not many players accept the challenge at the early stage of the game, where they should be farming EP.

Ding

”Ok. ” Om agreed.

The unknown player smirked. ”Idiot, I am level 2. Wait… ” Only then did he notice the gauntlets on Oms hands. ”Wait, what rank are those gauntlets? ”

”These? ” Shiva lifted his hands. ”They are… ”

”Wait, mister. ” One of the three girls interrupted. ”You can tell your opponent about your strengths and weaknesses. ”

”Shut your mouth, bitch. ” The unknown player shouted due to irritation.

Listening to that, Oms eyes got became dark. Without a warning, he dashed. The player tried to block it, but he couldn reach his sword in time. Om punches him with full force while shouting. ”Show some respect to girls. Waste fellow. ”

It was a one-hit KO; the player fell on his knees and vanished to become light particles.

Ding

You finished your quest to protect five people from bullying. Go to Hosam to collect your reward.>

Though killing players was a normal occurrence, a one-hit KO was rare, and everyone could tell with his speed that Om was a level 1 player.

Everyone became interested in him, not for his kill but for his equipment.

To gain equipment, one must either buy it with real money or earn it through questing. The latter was hard and very rare at the early stage of the game.

If he was wealthy, he could carry players, and if he could find good quests, he would be useful in either case. So, many people gathered around him and began to request that he join their party.

At the same time,

A few players around that village got the same notification.

Ding

”Damn it. ” A man shouted and sliced the red dog in front of him in fury.

”What happened? I Am Otaku. ” His comrade asked.

”The quest I wasted one week got taken away by someone. This useless game only allowed us to take one quest at a time. I wasted one week without doing any quests. Damn it. ”

In another place,

”Forget about it. I have a hunch that this one quest limit will be lifted at higher levels. Ill assist you with your grinding at that time. ”

These players could have finished the quest much sooner than Om, but they couldn stand by doing such a useless quest, where failure was a high possibility because of the restrictions of the quest.

They must not get help from anyone, and they must not get the victim to harm once they see the bullying, and they couldn stage a scene where they could act like they were saving people.

So, instead of trying to complete it, they focused on gaining EP and leveling up. They decided to help others only when the odds were in their favor, so they lost it. They focused too much on gaining EP while Om focused on the quest.

That would be because they knew the importance of the game, but as Om took it as a slow-money game, his patience won.