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Albert anxiously shook his right leg under his desk as he continuously took a glace at the clock behind his science teacher Mrs. Krauz. In a few minutes, Albert will be free of school. In his mind, the thought about having no more classes listening to topics he isn't interested in and no more home work or school in general was like winning an unlimited supply of ice cream. The best part was that he won't be forced to wake up in such an early time in the morning just to go to school anymore. At least until summer has ended. But the end of summer is quite a long time from now and its something someone like Albert's age doesn't really care to think about at all.

At the moment, the only thing Albert's mind is focused on is the bell to sound the alarm so that he can run out of the class room screaming.

"Come on. . ."

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"Come on. . ."

Albert stared at the hands of the clock as he impatiently nags it to move faster towards the end of the school year. As he eagerly waits, Albert felt like time was slowing down as the red hand moves forward to time of the bell. Then suddenly.

**RRIIIINGGGG**

The sound of the bell that signaled the end of class rung. Instantly the faces of every kid in One Crispy Middle School had a smile appear on their face.

"Alright! It's summer!" Albert screamed out loud. He instantly stood up and ran out of his classroom as he grabbed this things with his friends Webster and Ramirez.

While the three ran as fast as they could away from the school, they began talking about each of their plans for summer. Since the three of them have very different lives, each of their summer will be completely different.

"What are you going to do this summer Webs?"

Webster fiddled with his thick glasses. "I'm going to spend my entire summer in the deep web. Hopefully i'll find some interesting stuff."

"Oh! Like the Aliens and Big foot stuff right?" Albert laughed awkwardly then suddenly Webster turned his head and his face had an annoyed expression.

"There are other things out there that are far more interesting than some hairy creature and little gray men. Did you know that the military has an underwater base? That's why over ninety percent of the ocean is unexplored! There's something down there. . . . I must know what it is!"

"Oh . . okay . . . "

While Webster continued to mumble about his fascination with the things that he found online, Albert turned his attention towards Ramirez.

"So what about you Ramirez?"

"I'll be helping my parents out with the family business."

"What? Why don't you have something fun to do for the summer?"

"I think it's fun. Plus I get to have money!"

The three friends are very different. Webster is a very intellectual guy who likes to read about the unknown things out there somewhere, while Ramirez is a very thrift person and cares a lot for money. As for Albert all he really want is to lock himself in his room all day for the entirety of summer and play his favorite online game called 'Deaths of the Gods'. Moments later the three friends went their separate way and wont be seeing each other until they return for school.

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Albert arrived home with adrenaline rushing throughout his body and in an instant, he hurriedly took off his shoes and backpack then placed them aside. He then quickly ran to his room so that he could begin his summer by logging into his favorite online game. But when Albert opened the door to his room, he noticed something was different about scene. Albert stood there for a few seconds and tried to figure out what was off about his room. Then suddenly, he realized that his room is clean and his computer was gone. Albert's eyes widened in shock and immediately he called out for the person responsible for such cleanliness.

"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMmmm!!!"

Albert swifty ran downstairs to confront his mother about his room.

"Yes honey?!"

"Where's my computer?!"

"I was cleaning your room so I placed everything in your closet."

"What? Why?!"

"Honey your room was filthy. At least now you have a clean room to play in all summer."

Albert frowned and began walking upstairs. It irritated him that he couldn't play right away. Now it'll take him around ten minutes or more to connect everything and start the computer back up.

*Sigh*

Albert sadly sighed but there's nothing that he could do. He decided to just go into his closet and take out every part of the computer so that he can set it up. Then afterwards he can play all day and through the night since its summer time for him.

Albert opened his closet door and inside everything looked as if it was neatly put in place. He knelt down on his knees and began looking for the parts of his computer. As minutes passed by the neatly placed items were now in a mound of clutter and the only parts of his computer that he found was the keyboard and the system unit. Then moments later he found the flat screen monitor. Albert nearly has all the parts but he was still missing the wires for everything and the modem for the internet.

Albert became even more irritated since its taking him more than he expected to find all the parts of his computer. He kept telling himself over and over:

"I could be playing by now if only mom didn't clean my room."

While Albert continued to search through the clutter in the closet, the door behind him closed. Instantly everything went dark due to the lack of light source and being in a very dark tight space was the last straw. Albert stood up inside the small compartment that he's in and opened the door then began yelling out for his mother.

"MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!"

When he opened the door, he noticed that he wasn't in his room anymore. Albert looked around the surroundings and became confused because he was in a completely different room. The room that he's currently in is much bigger than his room. Albert looked around the wooden paneled floored room, and noticed that there's only a small window that's very near to the ceiling.

"What . . . is going on. . ."

Albert began mumbling to himself as he tries to back track what had just happened. He walked out of the door then stood in the middle of the room for a moment in disbelief. After a few seconds of thinking, he decided to investigate further and opened the door that's directly across the room. When he opened the door, he could see steps going up that led to the outside.

"I'm definitely not home anymore." Albert mumbled to himself as he began walking up the steps.

As he surfaces from the steps, Albert realized that he had just came out of a basement. On the top of the steps, he found himself in an alley behind what looks like a building.

"Well this is getting interesting. . .But I think I hear something."

Albert began to walk on the brick paved alley to follow the noise that he was hearing. He could distinctly hear the chattering of people nearby. Curious about the voices, Albert followed the sounds towards the street and he found people that looked like they were doing some cosplays. Everyone in the street looked exactly like adventurers from his favorite online game.

"My kind people!" Albert grinned when he saw all the people wearing the clothes that looked very much like clothes one would find in the game 'Deaths of the Gods'.

Intrigued by the people, Albert decided to mingle into the crowd and walk among them. As he walked around the street, Albert complimented the people's 'realistic costumes and props'. Albert couldn't help but be taken in by the place he's currently in, he wished that he has a camera so he could take some photos. While walking around, he noticed that places all around him had exact buildings and structures from the game 'Deaths of the Gods'. Albert was also quite impressed and surprised that there was an area that looks exactly like center of the city of Prontera in the game 'Deaths of the Gods'. While he walked around in amazement, Albert asked a man wearing an impressive looking armor what the name is the name of the place he's currently located.

"Excuse me Sir knight, what's this place called?"

"Child, don't you know where you are? You're in the dazzling capital city of Midgard! Prontera!"

Albert had a dumbfounded look in his face when the man in armor gave him the answer.

"Wait. . . What? You're not serious are you?"

The knight release a deep sigh.

"I know what you're thinking. . . and I just can't think of a better word than dazzling!"

Albert stood there still trying to take in what the man in armor has just told him. As he faded every words that the man in armor continued babbled about, he was in disbelief that he's actually in the world of his favorite online game 'Deaths of the Gods'.

When he tried to make sense in what the man in armor had just told him, everything was beginning to connect. That was the reason why everything looked familiar to him. The people, the buildings and structures were all from the game 'Deaths of the Gods. Then suddenly, Albert had the need to run back into the basement where he came out from. When he arrived in the basement room out of breath and in a state of panic, Albert instantly shut the door behind him and pinched his cheeks to see if he was hallucinating.

"Ouch!"

When he pinched his cheeks red numbers appeared and disappeared in front of him.

[-1 HP]

Albert's brow furrowed when the negative number in front of him appeared and disappeared. At the moment Albert starting to believe that really he is inside his favorite online game. But to make sure he wasn't just hallucinating, Albert decided to pinch his cheeks again.

[-1 HP]

In a quick flash the negative number appeared and disappeared in front of him again. Albert couldn't believe it. He was seeing the damage that was done to him visually.

"It's my Hit points!"

Hit points are the amount of health one has. In the game 'Deaths of the Gods' when a person is injured, the amount of damage taken by a person, will appear in front of the injured person to warn them that they've receive the damage.

"If I can see my hit points that means . . "

"Status Window!"

*Bling*

Instantly a transparent screen with Albert's character description appeared in front of him. It showed his name, his class, his level and his stats just like a character in the game 'Deaths of the Gods'. The transparent screen in front of him proved the fact that he was inside his favorite online game!

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