Chapter XX - Ultimate Guide

Time passes at a much slower rate in The World than it does on Earth. The Dive Visor couldn't compress the game time at this moment, but when the Dive Pods were released, it would be equivalent of 1:24, meaning one hour on Earth was 24 hours in The World.

Marcus had already spent roughly 7 hours in game, the advancement quest compressed time in and of itself, and was about to log out anyways but he wanted to only take a small nap after uploading the free and paid versions of his guide.

"Sorry guys, we almost pulled it off!" Marcus said as he picked his mic back up and started looking at his Flutter chat. The masses of "F" being sent was staggering. Marcus started receiving small donations with "F" spamming his screen.

Marcus smiled and wiped away a tear, he had never had so much support in his entire life "Thank you all so much. As you can see I'm locked out until tomorrow morning. Keep an eye out, I'm planning on releasing a surprise for everyone here soon! Check out the link in my bio! Have a great day everyone!"

Marcus signed out not knowing the total of donations made. He didn't use a camera while streaming and unlike conventional MMOs, every VR and ID game was completely played in first person, so the fans only got to see Nobody's point of view as he streamed.

His father had set up an account for his son that helped prevent his identity from being discovered to a certain extent. I mean he had no plans of playing the game.

Shortly afterwards, he uploaded the free version of "The Tips & Tricks to The World: Order of Balance." It included tips on what every stat did, every quest in the beginner village of Vhul, as well as the three classes available to unlock at level 5.

Marcus also uploaded another behind a paywall of $40 USD titled ""The Ultimate Guide to The World: Order of Balance vol 1."

This included all the dungeons around Vhul, their drops, the difficulty differences, the different quest difficulties for the 3 beginner quests as well as the 12 classes that could be unlocked at level 20, how to create a guild and the best hunting grounds up to 20, including the contracts that one would need to complete to increase their Adventurer's Mark, and so much more.

After completing these, he sent both, for free, to Mawu and Lisa, telling them thanks for their support.

Mawu replied with their many thanks and to meet up with them in game soon.

Marcus advised that it would be 24 hours before he would be able to login. He yawned and crawled into bed as he fell asleep not knowing that due to his stream, and confirmations about "The Tips & Tricks" from the community who had experienced the game, Volume 1 was selling like hotcakes. Within an hour, over 100,000 copies had been sold, by the time he woke up, over 1,000,000 copies had been purchased.

***

Stephen had risen early and was already out of the door by the time anyone else in the house had stirred. The bombshell his son had laid on him, had him working all kinds of crazy hours to save his family.

James was his closest friend and he thought his strongest supporter. The two had been high school friends and went to the same university together. When Stephen created his own company and it started taking off, he offered James a position as his VP and the two were hailed as the dynamic duo of the business world.

They raised the company from a small business to a booming Fortune 500 Company worth Billions of USD. They both had everything they could desire but apparently, to Stephen's chagrin, James wanted more! "That greedy *******!!!!" Stephen yelled from the back of the vehicle as he was making plays within his company working to remove James from his company.

He was moving chess pieces left and right, calling in favors from outside sources and those inside. He was half-tempted to recycle the entire board, but that was a mountain of bureaucratic tape and an overall nightmare.

He wish that his son had known who voted against and who voted for him as it would make it much easier to just do away with those members, but alas his son has never really had any keen interest in his business… much to his distress.

He could only hope in the next 3 months, it would be a son who he could teach the ways to run his company and he could mentor and advise before giving him the company.

Not that there weren't any female CEOs, he knew plenty, but alas just some people are always stuck in outdated and flawed ways of thinking. He worried that if he had a daughter, she would become preyed upon and taken advantage of.

Little did he know, that his daughter would one day become one of the most ruthless and cutthroat CEOs who was an angel to those under her and the reincarnation of Skanda to those who opposed her. Hell hath no fury than a woman scorned eh?

Stephen was deep in thought as he received a notification in regards to the account he opened for his son and his jaw dropped…

***

Marcus woke up to his Pocket Device ringing as he groggily answered "uh… hello?"

"MARCUS!!!" Stephen yelled through the receiver startling him as he dropped the phone.

"What's the matter Father? Did something happen???" Marcus said as he picked the phone back up.

"Of course something's the matter!!! How did you earn close to $65,000,000 dollars in the last month hours? The bank is contacting me thinking there's fraud!!!!" Stephen yelled through the phone!

"I told you I was going to making some money…. You're the one who set up the account for me dad… I've just been play that new game I told you about!" Marcus feigned ignorance, part of him had wished he could have done all of this without his father's knowledge…

"I ain't no spring chicken Marcus, you had best start explaining right now!" Stephen demanded in a stern voice.