CHAPTER 16
Broken and Rebuilt
When I first walked away from the game, I was completely certain that I would never return. I had no reason to come back to a game that I already beat, and I could still e-mail anyone I knew who played the game with me. Through my first year of college, I never even bothered to check the progress of the guild. I barely ever thought about EL. I fully moved on with my life and focused on school.
Nine months after I left the game, while I was thinking about what to do with a slow summer break, I decided to come back and see how things had changed. I still didn’t want to play, but I was curious about how much my guild’s wealth had grown. I believed that the systematic advantage I had built could never be beaten. And ...
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