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December 2100

HQ Renovatio – Rome Dome – Tenth Ground: Participant Room

Enzo awakened in an enormous room of greater than 1,000 sq., it was one of many participant room of Renovatio, a room stuffed with sport cubicles, in huge occasions just like the one which Renovatio was experiencing, the administration had pressured all contracted gamers to remain in the identical constructing to be higher coordinated, this isn’t distinctive to Renovatio all of the guilds that had the means did the identical …

Enzo awakened in the midst of a number of hundred lively sport cubicles with their members inside, he ran to the elevator…

As soon as he reached the highest ground, he scanned his badge and chosen the workplaces of the CEO of Renovatio alias Edward Filius or generally known as Augustus the top of the supergroup Renovatio Imperii…

Cesar had not set foot in his workplace for no less than ten years, on the time of his final confrontation with him in regards to the Darkish Portal, many of the conferences or discussions happened both remotely or within the assembly room and Cesar now dwelling within the Martian dome, he hardly ever had the chance to come back again right here in the primary HQ of Renovatio.

Because the elevator went up, Enzo, who was exhausted, began to recollect all of the challenges he needed to endure since he and his companion had left Period, the beginning planet of the sport…

Enzo entered the room of his workplace…

Nothing or nearly nothing had modified in his workplace in nearly ten years, since his final go to.

Edward as typical was sitting at his desk in entrance of his pc working…

Enzo angrily approached him and positioned each fingers on his desk and mentioned, “Why! Why!? Why did you order us to betray Eclipse?

Then he added, “What the hell sort of thought did you need to betray members of the coalition that Lucifer and I labored so laborious to construct!

Edward answered: “It was a choice of the board of shareholders after a gathering with the opposite SuperGuilds, the Coalition of the Eternals that we created two months in the past has fulfilled its objective, we’ve got earned billions of credit by means of this group, however at present our former companions who helped us conquer the planet are asking for reparations for what your pal Apophis did to Cronos I, so let’s both comply with pay for the harm out of our personal pockets, or we determine one thing else…”

Enzo, in incomprehension and shock, answered “Edward! Are you conscious of the completely castophric state of affairs on Terra? We is not going to final per week with out many allies on this sport! We have already got over ten thousand of our personal members who’ve misplaced their ranges and needed to begin a brand new character due to Azerof! And now you inform me {that a} bunch of monetary assholes are refusing to imagine their monetary obligations, so we’ve got to kill ourselves!”

Edward, devilishly calm, replies: “Sure, actually I used to be getting ready the letter of dismissal for many who had misplaced their stage…”

Enzo, astonished, replied “How! Did you fireplace them? A few of them have been members for the reason that time of Wow II!

Edward replies: “Pay attention and perceive one important factor! World of Warcraft, Horus or every other VRMMORPG is only a enterprise, dangerous folks or sulky folks, we’ve got no place in our firm that desires to be one of the best of one of the best. Promoting GC in Credit score is simply a really small a part of our income, our most important enterprise is in PvE boosting and uncommon merchandise gross sales and particularly merchandising, we do not want a ball and chain to decelerate our rise.”

Enzo replied  “All the massive guilds have most important roosters, with members paid a number of thousand credit a month, I am unsure my companions and I are essentially the most worthwhile for your small business mannequin, but you by no means questioned my contract or my group’s!”

Edward stood up and appeared by means of the window of his workplace and mentioned “You’re nothing however a billboard, when a participant sees that ‘Cesar’ completed the primary clear on this or that dungeon, our gross sales on all our merchandise explode, everybody needs the merchandise you looted from the final boss…”

Enzo replied, “If we’re only a mercantile enterprise, why would we betray Eclipse and the Coalition? Wasn’t peace extra useful for everybody? I remind you that the majority the NPCs within the sport are hostile to us!

Edward smiled barely and replied, “The issue with Eclipse and lots of different high guilds is that they play to play, and the place high guilds fail for lack of sources, Eclipse and Apophis succeed, conquering planets, dungeons and raids. We won’t have a minor guild humiliating us like that, so we have tolerated their presence so long as it was in our greatest curiosity, however now they’re taking over an excessive amount of house and threatening our marketing strategy, so we’ve got to eradicate them.

Enzo was in a state of shock…He thought he was doing extra than simply taking part within the fattening of a giant commerce group…

Edward sat again in his chair and mentioned, “Effectively, in the event you’re carried out along with your conscience points, I’ve to arrange for the public sale of our land on Cronos I, in the event you nonetheless have a conscience, you possibly can step down, there are different individuals who will do the job for you anyway…”

Enzo did not say a phrase, he left Edward’s workplace and went again to the elevator, he felt like leaving every little thing, stopping Horus and retiring to his home on Mars…

Surprisingly sufficient, a reminiscence got here again to him, the one the place he had betrayed his finest pal Azazel in World of Warcraft II, on the time he thought he was making a noble sacrifice for the progress of his guild and to permit it to essentially accomplish one thing nice, However at present he realized that it was solely to keep away from hindering the expansion of the guild’s enterprise, even the identify of the guild or the Roman cultural references, was in all probability solely a will of the advertising and marketing division, solely the gamers of the guild believed, who did this for the PR facet to honor the Roman glory.

Within the elevator Cesar had two selections, he might go to the primary ground and take the primary house shuttle to Mars and spend some high quality time together with his household and conceal this umpteenth betrayal of his guild chief or he might return to the tenth ground and do what he could not do ten years in the past

“Preserve his dedication”