Unrivaled

As Daniel was about to click the skip ad button on YouTube, his hands immediately stopped, his eyes focused on the screen, he was entranced by the real life depicted AI, Demons and Elves fighting, the man with a greatsword killing off the ferocious wolf and suddenly the scene change into a beautiful cathedral, people with happy smiles everywhere.

Daniel felt something he never had before, a sense of belonging. Daniel is an ordinary young man; 19 years old, and a Freshman in college. Everything about Daniel is average, he had average looks, average height, The only thing not average about Daniel was his IQ, in fact he even had a average family, which of course wanted him to be successful, expecially his mother who forced him to go to cram school everyday since a very young age.

Daniel doesn't enjoy his life, he felt like the world his very boring, he craved excitement more than anything else in the world, and the first ever virtual reality game, which has been the talk around the world for the past few months; unrivaled promised him just that, but he was facing a dilemma, his mid-term exam as a freshman in college starts on Monday, the same day the game officially launches its server.

Two days later Daniel had made a decision, while others were stressing over the mid-terms, he was waiting inside the unrivaled capsule he just bought with his next semester fund. A countdown was displayed in front of Daniel, with his heart beating really loud with every second that passed 5......4......3......2......1

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