CHAPTER 3
RICH Is Born
While I worked as an anonymous low-level piece of one of the game’s most powerful guilds, my brother, robo2917, moved from guild to guild as he looked for an easy opportunity to become a high-level guild leader. He eventually found a guild that would allow him to advance by paying the guild master. It was a simple idea: Harvest lilacs, collect money, and give money to the guild master. But it didn’t take long for him to see that this arrangement was meant to make his guild master rich. He could advance, but the price was more than just too much money, because he was also paying with his dignity. It was not worth it. This led my brother to decide that he should have his own guild. Then he could be the one collecting money, ...
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