Nude in the Virtual World

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You stand alone, fighting off goblin after goblin. You take your great sword and chop down every green and yellow goblin in your path, each of them falling effortlessly against your holy blade.

“Yo, you’re so badass!” A larger man says covered in bulky armor and towering over you at a height of 9 ft.

“Damn, this raid is going quickly. They don’t call you the goblin slaughterer for nothing, huh?” A woman in light armor says with an elegant bow in her hands. Her skin is pinkish-red and her ears are pointed.

“Hey! He wouldn’t be alive with me healing him! Give me some of that credit!” A shorter woman says, looking a lot like a half-ling with stubby legs and arms. She is covered in a holy white cloak.

You look back at your raid-mates and smirk as you know you are hard carrying them through this raid. You look down on your wrist and check your kills.

“I got 1,258 kills! That’s a new record!” You say with a cocky smile behind your edgy looking helmet. You are plated in all black armor with spikes along your shoulders and helmet.

You and your raid-mates look up into the sky and see, “Raid Over” above the area you are in. You pump your fist into the air as you’ve completed your 100th raid this season. In your celebration, you see a chest spawn in front of your eyes, its tantalizing glow has you immediately drawn in.

“I swear if I don’t get the shield of the ancients this round I’m gonna just leave for tonight!” The man in bulky armor says.

“Don’t worry, man… It’s only a 50% drop chance,” You reply as you walk over to your chest, sword resting against your shoulder.

“Yeah, and I’ve done this raid 5 times already!” He replies.

“Calm down. If you don’t get it we can always run it again tomorrow, but I’m beat and hungry,” The woman with the pinkish-red skin says, patting the tall man’s lower back.

You ignore them for now as you bend down and open the chest. If the chest itself of blindingly bright, then the inside of the chest is like the surface of the sun in brightness. Slowly, your hard earned item floats out of the blinding light, but unlike your usual swords, armor, shields, etc, you see a weird gemstone.

This gemstone is completely clear like glass, but it flickers around as of it was glitched. The description of the item is very vague and somewhat jumbled up, but you make out the phrase…

“All will become clear when equipped…”

“Yo, HFBSlaughterer, what item did you get?” The man in bulky armor says from across the room.

“I don’t know. Doesn’t seem like it belongs in the loot pool. I think it might be one of those glitched items,” You reply as you look more intently at the clear gem.

“Wow! These items were in the old loot pool like 5 years ago when the game was still running of the MaxView 4! Must have been left over in the files when the game transitioned to the MaxView 5,” The short woman says with excitement in her eyes.

“So you’re telling me this is rare? Mmmm… wonder how much this will go for in the market?” You say to yourself. You imagine something so rare and unique would cost 10 of millions of dollars. That kind of money would be life changing.

“You’re one of those traders and sellers over at The Stock Tower?” The woman with pinkish-red skin says with disappointment in her voice.

“What? It’s just a side hustle! Besides, something like this could get me to quit my job forever!”

“You have a job? Aren’t you on your MaxView 5, like, all day?” She says, giving you sass.

“Well, yeah… but I do freelance writing on the side!” You defend yourself.

“That means he writes porn~” She says to the half-ling, making her let out a hardy chuckle.

“Whatever! Who’s the one who carried your asses in this raid? You all aren’t even max level yet?” You reply, trying to hide your offended tone.

“I guess you’re correct, but most of us don’t no-life this game. Some of us like to play other games, or have to work real jobs,” She replies with even more sass than before.

You just try and ignore them, focusing on grabbing your loot that can set you for life. You reach up to grab the gem, your hands shaking as you think of all the things you’ll buy with that kind of money.

You grab the gem, gently squeezing it between your sharp armor. But as you go place it in your inventory, the gem starts to dissolve into your armor, causing it to glitch out slightly. You look down in shock as you see your armor change shape and color over the span of a couple of seconds before stopping completely.

“What the fuck was that?” The bigger man says in shock.

“What the hell! It disappeared and made my armor glitch out!” You yell, both in confusion and disappointment as you frantically check your inventory. But alas, you find nothing resembling the clear gemstone.

“Hmmm, the game must’ve glitched out when you tried to interact with it. I guess the new hardware can’t handle the item existing, so it deleted it,” The short woman says with a hand on her chin in a quizzical manner.

“Damn mannnnnn! I was banking on that setting me up for life! UUGH! I guess it’s back to regular trades and freelance then…” You reply in defeat.

Well, what happens, happens… We got our loot, so I’m getting off!” The pinkish-red skinned woman says.

“Yeah, it was a blast playing with you Slaughterer! I’m totally sending you a friend request!” The man in bulky armor says, pulling up his menu and going down the player list.

You don’t respond as you watch the friend requests from all three of them pop up in your notifications. You’ve always had people flooding your friends list due to how skilled you are at Last Folk-tail 14. But these three seem to be pretty chill people, except the one lady with the elf like model.

You watch as all three log off, one by one before leaving you alone in the dungeon. But while the raid is done with, you decide to have a bit of fun before you log off for the night.