Hello to everyone who are reading this story of mine. My name is Kim Innae. My dad gave me this name hoping that I can hold on even during the hardest moments of my life. Well, guess what? He didn't give a wrong name. 

It all began when my first girlfriend/crush chucked me with my best friend during High school. I did a number on that bastard and broke up with that b#tch and moved on. I focused solely on studies and got good grades, got into a good university and got a new beauty as a girlfriend, heck we even planned to marry later on. My life was on a high roll. Well, at least that's what I thought. 

Once again, I got chucked and more shockingly, it was the same guy. I went, blew his face, dumped the b#tch in front of everyone and went on with my own studies. 

Years went and graduation came. 

I got hired by an IT company and work my ass off as a slave. You heard it right. A SLAVE! 

Over timing till I can't stay awake. Workload piling up so much that you could set a new world record if you climb it. 

I don't really have anybody to call as friends, so I always drank alcohol alone. 

Last I heard about those "girlfriends" of mine are that one of them married a good for nothing hobo and the other had to drop out of the uni because her grades dropped so bad that she went back to take care of the food stall with her dad and make ends meet. Well, they should've studied instead of fucking around. Not that I can complain seeing that I'm nothing but a damn slave myself. 

And thus, my daily routine continued like that. 

But one day, never did I thought that the sexy and demonic chief of our department would come to the same place I am regular at for food. Well, god finally opened his eyes and blessed me with good luck. I'M FINALLY GETTING MARRIED YOU SINGLE SUCKING SONS OF (The remaining words in these part have been censored due to excessive swearing and too bad for cancer patients and Corona patients and ya, normal folks included). 

Three months have passed. I can't believe that I actually married my department chief. The more I got to know her, the more I fell for her. Although we never had any sexual relationship, but we we're in harmony. Soon she got promoted as the CEO's personal assistant. Well I did not like this part, but nonetheless, she was happy. More like, unusually happy. Well, as long as she was happy. 

One day I had too much work to do for some reason, but I finished it so fast that it was unbelievable it was done by a human. But what was waiting for me in my home was not my beautiful sexy wife waiting for me to come home. It's that bastard once again. Yep, you guesses it right. 

I got chucked once again!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

My wife was on the couch with an expression showing that her mind was blown by an IED bomb. She was covered with jizz and the bastard was smoking beside her. When he saw me, he was completely shocked to the core. 

I was about to put him in the ICU but some guys in black suit caught me first. Turns out, he is the CEO of the company I'm working in. Son of a b#tch is the son of the company owner. The Gang group. It's a massive empire. And this bastard is his son who was living with his mom's grandparents, but now he came back to the main house and inherited everything. 

He told me everything. My wife becoming his PA and how he fucked her everyday. My blood boiled, but can't do anything. Compared to him, I'm just a leaf on the ground while he's a humongous tree. He had his guys cripple my left leg. 

Agony. I felt it for the first time in my life. I was forced to swallow my anger. I can't do anything to him. I couldn't do it. He's strong, rich and powerful. 

I soon divorced my wife, even though she cried and said how she regretted her actions and all. That day, I lost something humane inside me. I became soulless. The name my dad gave me, lost it's meaning. I moved out of our house soon after and bought a small apartment room solely for myself. 

I quit my work and stayed at home. I had a few hundred thousand to my name. So I bought a famous game which actually came out during my high school period. 

Game of Emperors. 

I just focused on studies that I totally ignored it. I bought a VR dive gear for it as well. It took me a couple ten thousands, but I can afford that. 

Since it's been a long time since the game has been released, there are a lot of strong players. Newbies like me have a hard time surviving. 

At start, they just give you a small Village with nothing but a level 1 paddy field, a town hall, ten houses and a well. You can choose where you want to locate your Village in the vast world, but only at the start. It seems that if you want to choose another place, you need to be level 50 or more and you need to have an item called [Teleportation Totem]. From what I heard, it costs 100,000 gold ED and If you are below level 50, it won't work. 

Now you may think it's just a 100,000 gold and what's so hard about getting it in a game? But that's where you're wrong. It's 100,000 ED in gold! Gold! In this game, the economy is really annoying. 

100 big silver equals 1 gold. 

100 small silver equals 1 big silver. 

500 big bronze equals one small silver. 

1000 small bronze equals one big bronze. 

Now you may ask why so many small bronze are required for a big one. The thing is, small bronze value are equal to rocks. It's just filled with impurities, but hey, it still has a value. Big bronze however, is the real currency. Even though small bronze is the lowest, but big bronze is the mainly used currency. 

If you take the tutorial at the beginning of the game, it shows you the basics of Village management such as building walls, hiring Village militia and development and trade and stuff. Plus if you take it, they give you 50,000 big bronze at the beginning of the tutorial which equals to 100 small silver, in which only 5000 big bronze will remain at the end of it. Because it will make you waste the money on building and upgrading and recruiting. But in case you don't take it. You will still get 5000 big bronze as a welcome gift. 

After that, I mean the tutorial or skipping it, you get a chance to buy special units and set defenses. You can recruit up to ten of these special units. As for setting defense, you can set and change it once every 20 levels. The advantage in taking the tutorial and not taking it is, you will get a watchtower, a wall surrounding your Village, a gate, a training camp and a trade center if you take and you won't if you don't. It's simple as that. Everyone in the game take the tutorial if they are playing for the first time, not just for the tips but also these bonuses. A beginner Village can have up to 15 defense force men or 16 if you yourself want to defend it along side your men. You can enter the Village or go on a world tour which takes days or months or years in game time or you can lead your men to attack others, it's honestly your choice. But know that over watching everything is the most fun part. That's why the game is still popular.

1 day inside the game equals 1 hour in real world. 

I learned more about the game since I had nothing else to do. I played it everyday. Forget lunch or dinner, gaming it important to me! 

I did my best and brought up my small Village to a small scale Kingdom. It was pretty fun. I lost a lot than I gained. But I did gain the knowledge and learned that player level and Kingdom are completely different. Player level makes player stronger the more level you have. While Kingdom level increases the capacity and strength of your Kingdom. The more level you have, the stronger you are. When you reach the threshold, your Kingdom will be upgraded to Empire. But just level alone isn't enough to upgrade into an Empire. You need lots of conquered land and a massive army and wealth if you want to even think about upgrading. It's a huge scale compared to the Village I had at the start. 

Village becomes bigger Village. 

Bigger Village becomes Town. 

Town becomes large Town. 

Large town becomes small City. 

Small city becomes large City

Large City becomes Capital City. 

After that, you need to conquer other Cities, big or small or Capital, to grow. 

You need at least 4 Cities, including the Capital, to become a small Kingdom. 

8 Cities to become a large Kingdom. 

15 Cities to become a small Empire. 

30 to become large Empire. 

It's not easy. It needs a long time hard work to become even a small Empire. Even if you do, someone else will come and take over you City with their military. Or an NPC kingdom will wage war at you if you become a small Kingdom. You won't have rest. Because if you become a even a small Kingdom, you enter the real game. Huge wars. Strong as fuck characters. Mind blowing strategies. Advancement in technologies. There will always be someone strong or smart. Because you need both brain and brawl to play this game. But even if you have both, others can just form an Alliance or just temporary ones to finish off the stronger players. This shows, even if you are so strong that even the heaven if afraid of you, you can't stop an army of millions. Thus everyone will form an Alliance when they reach small Kingdom scale. 

But well, I don't even have friends, both in real life and in the game. I just hole up in my turtle defense. I could care less about conquering others since if I become active in wars then other Kingdoms will target me. So I just stay quiet and grow my economy and defense while others are busy warring. 

I currently have around 12,000 troops totally and 20,000 gold EDs in my treasury. I can't move forward, so I'm trying my best not to move backwards. 20,000 gold is a lot for a small Kingdom like mine. Everyone waste money like water due to wars. Due to this, people use real money to buy gold in the game. 

100 gold costs 50,000 Won! 50,000!!!! Those rich people don't even care and just spend money like buying drinks for party. 

This world is massive. Ten times bigger than Earth. Only due to that it could accommodate millions and millions of players and NPC Kingdoms. 

And just like that, my peaceful days of lazing around and touring the world and making my Kingdom wealthier, or that's how it should've been. 

I finally got raided and it was by a well known warmonger. After him, a few others also raided me. My defenses were pretty neat but it wasn't enough to stop an army of 70,000. It was just the first guy. The rest we're around 30,000 or 20,000. Only I had less numbers. I lost 3 of my Cities in the battles. I was left with nothing but 5000 soldiers and 3000 gold and 2 Cities including my Capital. But soon after, I was targeted by a giant. A player called "Overlord". A league player. An Emperor of a large Empire. He took over whatever was left of my Kingdom in one scoop and beheaded me right in front of my soldiers who were caught and my people. It broke their morale and happiness. Thus my Kingdom met it's end that day. The soldiers and people who accompanied me from the start were all killed. The enemy soldiers raped and pillaged my cities or more like he ordered them to. It helps in boosting the army's morale big time. 

I had a chance to restart it all. But I didn't. Four years of hard work destroyed right in front of my eyes. So I gave up. It was too much to take in than getting chucked. 

After that I did a bit of research on the guys who wiped the floor on me and guess what I found? IT WAS THAT BASTARD! 

The same bastard who fucked my women. He was the Overlord guy! Damn I felt so pissed. I regretted not marching on his ass. Well, even if I did, I wouldn't have been able to do anything. He's rich, so he can buy mountains of gold. I'm just a failure. 

But I couldn't accept that. The fact my four years of hard work being destroyed in front of my eyes. I couldn't take it. 

I immediately stood up from the chair and walked towards the wardrobe. But I accidentally stepped on the chair's wheel and slipped and hit the back of my head on the table corner and fell on the floor. And it didn't end there, the place where my head landed had the wire half bitten with electricity passing through, damned vermins. And you can guess what happened next. 

Yes, I died. 

You may ask if I am dead, then who is telling the story? 

Well, guess who's back. 

Yes! 

I am reborn baby!