Gregory Neal Frost looked up from his computer as his mother called him down for dinner; he was in the middle of a real-time dungeon raid in his favorite MMORPG. He was one of the game’s strongest characters, and was attempting this dungeon with his friends. His mother usually had no problems with his gaming habits, as he maintained good grades in school, but today was different. A family friend was coming for dinner, and she wanted to make sure Greg was down early to greet them. Gregory was some of the biggest talk in the family; he was smart and somewhat athletic, being quite skilled at soccer and easily remaining top of his class in high school. The real problem was that his video games consumed huge amounts of his time, and his mom said that if he didn’t stop, he’d end up in one.

Gregory then told his friends that his mother started bugging him about dinner and that meant a maximum of fifteen more minutes before she pulled the internet. He then quickly scrolled through his spell list and cast a legendary level AOE spell which brought the life of all enemies in the area down to 10% of remaining health, and brought his party’s health up by the amount taken divided by the number of players. Filling up his team’s health bars, he killed three of the enemies to boost his mana back to full through a mana drain passive in his skill list. His friends then clicked on the dungeon door, to see that it was the boss room. Greg smiled in his chair at home, the final dungeon currently in the game, and he and his friends would be the first to overcome it.

Everybody in the party quickly clicked accept when they saw the notification, and were transported to the boss dungeon. Gregory quickly double cast the legendary spell he had just previously cast, instantly bringing the bosses health down to just 1% of its maximum. Unfortunately, the monster also had a unique passive that boosted all stats by 1000% below 10% health, which meant that the monster would now be almost unstoppable. As his friends were acting as his meat shield and current sword, Gregory had his character consume mana potions to restore the mana he had just spent. Even though his character was the strongest in the game, he still had limited resources. His character’s wisdom stat allowed him to regenerate all lost mana in just two minutes of real life time, but legendary spells could still only be cast three time per day each. Fortunately, Gregory had just learned another legendary spell before entering the dungeon, the first character to have even one legendary skill now had three. He cast the spell, freezing the boss monster for a full minute. He then switched to a sword and activated the third legendary skill he had. It only worked below 5% opponent health, and required a full minute of channeling, but would instantly kill any opponent in the game. Starting the channel, his friends continued to attack the beast, barely keeping its health down with the massive regeneration it has. Just as the skill finished channeling, the monster unfroze. It began the attack, but a second too late; Gregory’s skill unleashed and the monster dropped to 0 health. While his friends congratulated him, Gregory looked at the rewards he got. He sighed somewhat, there were two more legendary skill books, which were untradeable and considered the most powerful items in the game. He instantly consumed them and then traded out the armor he got from the kill before his mom would turn off the internet. His friends looked at their rewards with awe, as previously Greg had conquered dungeons solo, they had no idea what kind of rewards were dropped by the upper level dungeons.

As he got off, his mom once again called and said that she was turning off the internet if he wasn’t down in a minute. He quickly logged off the game, and went to wash up in the bathroom. As he came down the stairs, his mother looked at him, making sure everything was in order. His hair was still in its usually spiky appearance, almost entirely white with a few small black streaks. He was wearing the evening suit he was requested to wear when company was over; a slim fit three-piece gray suit, with a shirt of his choice, which happened to be dark blue tonight, along with a tie that has dark blue, gray, and purplish lines going diagonally across it. He sat at the table, waiting for the company and father to arrive before dinner would start. A minute later, they walked in through the front door, Gregory saw his uncle come in. This wasn’t just any uncle though, it was his European uncle who rarely came over, having last visited thirteen years ago leaving very little to Greg’s memory. He got up to greet them, before retaking the seat at the table for dinner. As usual, his parents boasted over him, but his uncle showed little interest for it, almost as if expecting at least this much. That was one thing that always made Gregory wonder, why did relative from his father’s side always seem so expectant of him. His mother’s side always swooned over his skills, from intellect to athletics, they thought him to be almost superhuman.

Still though, once he finished eating, he got up and cleaned off his plate before heading to the den to await the rest of his family. Once he got there, his uncle followed behind him and said “16 now, same age as your father and I were when we were considered adults by the family.” Gregory looked at him almost confused, wondering where 16 constituted adults in the recent past. His father then followed in and said “You needn’t tell him yet of what he is, let’s just use a small memory spell for now.” His father then moved quickly and tapped Greg on the forehead, causing him to forget these past few minutes as if nothing had happened. He had a moment of confusion before he figured that he had just nodded off for a moment and missed his father and uncle entering the room. His father then spoke again “Well, I will need to be heading to Europe for some family business; I can’t say when I will be back, but I will be. I have already informed your mother, and that is why your uncle has come today.” Before giving Gregory any time to speak, he and his brother quickly left through the front door. Walking to the kitchen, he asked his mother “Any idea when father will be returning?” His mother responded almost immediately “Not right now, though I do hope he will call within at least a week to give some answer.” He then asked his mother another question “Has he left before like this?” She gave no response but looked longingly out the window, indicating that there had been another time that this had happened.

Greg then went up to his room, and checked his phone. His friends had texted him a few times since the raid had given them such good items. There were messages about how they had gotten weapons with attack powers that would wipe out any monster they had previously faced, and other texts that said the armor would make them almost invincible to any threat. Although Greg knew that the items were powerful, he was able to create his own legendary items in the game that were even more powerful and even class specific to give even larger benefits. Still though, he appreciated that his friends were thankful to him for the items and bringing them along.

Heading to his bed, he saw a notification in his upper right field of vision. Moving his finger there, it enlarged and filled the center of his vision; it wrote out ‘An addiction to games and your two families lineage’s have given you a unique ability. You are now no longer the sum of their parts, but greater. You are a “LEGENDARY GAMER.”’

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