Rise: magic of the ages

Failure now that's a phrase I've heard before I've just turned 18 and my parents were going to boot me to the street next week even though I earned more than they did playing games and now I was preparing for the indignity of being forced out of my own family home but it was time anyway. I had just won a tournament in my favorite online game it was a little different from most games as if your character dies that's it no respawn you have to grind a new character from zero which makes having tournaments a huge thing and gives the top players something to do that is exciting. Part of the tournament was a knowledge test and each player was given 300 questions to answer without any help most of which were obscure knowledge or something that was not widely known and honestly I knew the game inside and out I even knew a couple of the languages that were used in it.

The knowledge test was mostly a preliminary test that was non fatal and would earn the participants some extra gold which most would resell later on but the second part was the battle first by teams with survivors then split up into groups and then finally the duels with the champion being the last one standing and duels did not stop going until there was a victor.

I had beaten all of the odds of spell casters winning the tournament and done so as a pure caster which is unusual in the extreme simply because I had used every skill and ability and trick I could get to maximize both my power aka damage and my capacity for mana which is fairly rare to see as you only get 150 stat points to assign in total with a few perks giving you one of two extras and that's it. Now I was the most acclaimed spell caster in any game I chose to play and I made it a point to become the arch mage in every game I played so when I earned the title in my latest game I decided to treat myself and walked to the pizza parlor only a block away from my house and everything was normal until a portal opened up ominously black with red edges and a sucking sound akin to hundreds of hoover vacuums and sucked me in.