Mathias171035
Summary:
In the ultra-realistic VRMMO Aethelgard Online, Lee Theron has achieved everything. He's Level 100, he's the world's top-ranked Vanguard, and he's bored out of his mind. The "Meta" is stale, the guilds are toxic, and the world feels like a collection of empty pixels.
Until he decides to do the unthinkable: He tries to date the end-game.
Lady Shackrah, the Weaver of Despair, is a Level 250 World Boss designed by sadistic developers to be an unkillable engine of destruction. She has six arms, a crown of starlight, and a "Despair Aura" that melts players on contact. She isn't meant to have a heart. She isn't meant to leave her throne.
But Theron has a "trash-tier" Unique Skill called [Unflinching Devotion] that scales his stats the more he's threatened. Armed with nothing but a master-tier cooking skill, a legendary sun-hat, and enough audacity to glitch the server, Theron embarks on an escort mission that will break the game's logic and start a global player war.
Can a human tank survive a romance with a goddess of death? Or will the Game Developers-and five million angry players-delete them both before they can finish their first date?
"I didn't come for your loot, Shackrah. I came because the world is boring, and you're the only thing in it that feels real."