Life is rough. Jobs are non-existent. And far too many people live in poverty in the real world and... Read more
Life is rough. Jobs are non-existent. And far too many people live in poverty in the real world and can only find work online in VR worlds. And it’s getting worse. The old internet is unusable and hacked to pieces. The new system needs AI to run things, but most of them are destroyed. Now everyone is scrambling to get into the GENESIS ENGINE, as it becomes the new global market placeEveryone wants a piece of the new game. The guilds are competing to be the first to find the dungeons and kill the biggest monster. The corporations are claiming land and putting in their online market places. Ozzy and his friends just want a paycheck.Four friends find they are locked into five year contracts as virtual serfs in a small village, and can’t go adventuring at all to gain money and buy their way to freedom. They don’t have many choices. They can work as a blacksmith, barmaid and shepherd for all those years…or they can cheat and find ways they can take advantage of the system.When they give you a mop and not a sword, you have to find the loopholes and change the rules. Collapse
Adventure, Satire, Artificial Intelligence, LitRPG, Low Fantasy, Multiple POV, Character Growth, Virtual Reality, Multiple Protagonists, Modern Day, Alternate World, Male Protagonist, Guilds, Weak to Strong, Poor to Rich
Interesting story if you keep at it find myself waiting for new chapters all the time would be a great story to be animated if you asked me
Idk if its only me.... But the cover gives me Pirates of Caribbean vibes...
Me coming here thinking it's about an actual butcher the Micheal Myers kind
Rank: C+
I find this story very interesting not your usual Mc gets overpowered and dominates kinda story the world building is interesting and the characters have to use their wits in unique and interesting ways
It's not even bad, the world building is great., it's just that you don't care for any of the characters.There is no real problem with their contract, just their characters ingame, which they find loophole, overrall their condition are descent so no satisfaction in screwing the compagny over. Chapter 44, dropping for now.
muy entretenido e interesante
Some May Love Or Hate This...I Tried Reading It But It Not My Cup Of Tea...Am Just Lost By The First 6 Chapters
Haven’t read that far yet, but I can say that while I think it’s good, I believe most readers here won’t like it.A lot of freedom is taken away from MCs, and the plot of the story is them trying to use the scraps left to them to be proper adventurers.Kinda slow, kinda annoying, but interesting and well-written
- Chapter 1: Cheese and Whine
- Chapter 4: WALLY
- Chapter 7: A lot of Bull
- Chapter 10: Small Talk
- Chapter 13: The Great Rabbit Hunt (1)
- Chapter 16: Corporate Team Building, ACME style.
- Chapter 19: Loot!
- Chapter 22: Lost and Found
- Chapter 25: Life was good today.
- Chapter 28: Dark Currents
- Chapter 31: Have we talked to you about your extended warranty?
- Chapter 34: Barbeque and Loot
- Chapter 37: Dungeon (2)
- Chapter 40: Negotiations
- Chapter 43: Back in the saddle
- Chapter 46: Problems
- Chapter 49: New friends.
- Chapter 52: One on the way
- Chapter 55: The Price of Tomatoes
- Chapter 58: Awakening
- Chapter 61: Slow day
- Chapter 64: Cheese?
- Chapter 65: Dungeons Dark and not-so-Perilous
- Chapter 68: Weasel Attack!
- Chapter 69.3: Dawn of War (3)
- Chapter 71: Better than muffins.
- Chapter 74: A Death in the Family
- Chapter 74.3 Mourning (3)
- Chapter 76: The rise of Fearless Leader
- Chapter 79: Reborn in a new world with my oblivious barbecuing boyfriend (1)
- Chapter 82: Repentence
- Chapter 85: The Simple Shepherd
- Chapter 88: Bottoms Up!
- Chapter 91: A Sticky Wicket
- Chapter 94: Bigger than The Big Rat
- Chapter 97: Ubermaus Snack Time
- Chapter 100: Paladins to the rescue!
- 103: Loot while you can.
- Chapter 106: Opening statements
- Chapter 109: Guile and Brute Force
- Chapter 112: Wrapping things up.
- Chapter 115: Dust and noise.
- Chapter 118: Visitors from afar.
- Chapter 121: Planning Session
- Chapter 124: During a quiet moment.
- Chapter 127: Buying Tenure
- Chapter 130: Mud Wrestling
- Chapter 133: Breakfast
- Chapter 136: At the mercy of the Pit Master!
- Chapter 139: Bears, Boars, and Fursnakes
- Chapter 142: Workers with benefits.
- Chapter 145: Fool's Gold
- Interlude: Town Building Points
- Chapter 150: War of the Oaks
- Chapter 153: No plan survives contact with the enemy.
- Chapter 156: Meals and Deals
- Chapter 159: Delving Deep
- Chapter 162: When things go 'WrongjustWrong'
- Chapter 165: Swifter Returns
- Chapter 168: Don't go in the Basements!
- Chapter 171: The second meeting
- Chapter 174: Beginning College
- Chapter 177: Harsh Truths
- Chapter 180: Dungeon Prep
- Chapter 183: Brewing Sunshine
- Chapter 185: Talking with Joe
- Chapter 189: Welcome to the Smoke
- 193: Adrift
- Chapter 192: Adrift
- Chapter 196: Blackfetter
- Chapter 199: Bag Hag
- Chapter 202: Smokejammer
- Chapter 205: We have concerns
- Chapter 208: Hags and Dreams
- Chapter 210: Bugs and Baronesses
- Chapter 213: Treasure of a mundane variety
- Chapter 216: Everything is Sausage
- Chapter 219: Cut the Deck
- Chapter 222: Ship of Gold
- Chapter 225: Lookout
- Chapter 228: Shares
- Chapter 231: More Sausage
- Chapter 234: Sailing Away
- Chapter 237: These go to 11!
- Chapter 240: Congratulations
- Chapter 243: Rendering Aid
- Chapter 246: Clever Little Helpers
- Chapter 249: Follow me to Hell
- Chapter 252: Red Banner
- Chapter 255: Horse Trading
- Chapter 258: Horse Sense
- Chapter 261: Let's get the hell out of here before the damnable gods show up.
- Chapter 264: Spare the shovel, and spoil the hell pit.
- Chapter 267: Profitable Dealings with Small Town Mayors
- Chapter 270: Cleaning House
- Chapter 273: The Great Gopher Hunt
- Chapter 276: Captains Outrageous
- Interlude: Pomeline
- Chapter 281: Farthing on the Pond
- Chapter 284: The Last Hamlet
- Chapter 287: The Penalty for Getting Noticed
- Chapter 290: A Day Off, (3)
- Chapter 293: Lady Mourninglade's Apprentice (Suzette Tier 3)
- Chapter 296: Remembering Old Times
- Chapter 299: Frankly, gentlemen, I'm insulted that you didn't invite me.
- Chapter 206: The Hunting Club
- Chapter 304: When the smoke settles...
- Chapter 307: Family Reunion
- Chapter 310: Attempted Delivery
- Chapter 313: The Emperor's Birthday, (1).
- Chapter 316: The Emperor's Birthday, (4).
- Chapter 318: "No, really, I just came for a cup of coffee."
- Chapter 321: Fire Sale
- Chapter 324: Don't you lie!
- Chapter 327: The Crusade Against Ghoulish Aggression
- Chapter 330: The Red Chapel
- Chapter 333: The Rousing of Lord Alwyn
- Chapter 336: The Cost of Passage
- Chapter 339: Backstabbing, Treachery, and Dancing: The History of the Fae Realms during Peacetime.
- Chapter 342: The Captain, the Duchess, the Barmaid and the Hound
- Chapter 345: In Death Ground
- Chapter 347: Diplomacy at the Border
- Chapter 350: "I am Renegotiating the Deal"
- Chapter 353: The Proper Respect for Freckles
- Chapter 355: The Brownie Caravan
- Chapter 358: The Wheel of Eight
- Chapter 361: Disproving Bernie's Hypothesis
- Chapter 364: The Crossroads
- Chapter 367: More Legendary Loot
- Character Sheet: Ben, Tier 4, The Ingenious Imperial Courier
- Chapter 370: Madmen and Professional Mages
- Chapter 372: Midnight Cruise
- Chapter 375: Date Night
- Chapter 378: A History Lesson from Uncle Damien
- Chapter 381: Broken Quests and Unexpected Guests
- Chapter 384: Sneaky Bad Guys, and Sloppy Math
- Chapter 387: Eviction Notice
- Chapter 390: Riding the White Lightning
- Between the Old and the New: Not a real Chapter.
- Chapter 394: The Triple Witching Hour
- Chapter 397: Coffee Break
- Chapter 400: Like a Flock of Vultures
- Chapter 403: Moss Masters and Distinguished Scholars
- Chapter 406: Thunderstruck!
- Chapter 409: Generous Gifts
- Chapter 411: A Chill Wind Blows
- Chapter 413: Chicken Soup, Chamomile Tea, and the Inquisition.
- Chapter 416: Job Openings
- Chapter 418: The Curious Cooking Rituals of the Fire Flume Kobolds.
- Chapter 421: Cold as Ice
- Chapter 424: Where there's Smoke....
- Chapter 427: Surge
- Chapter 430: New Growth
- Chapter 433: Tax Relief
- Chapter 2: Sponsored by Bludgeon Brew
- Chapter 5: Welcome to Sedgewick
- Chapter 8: The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Chapter 11: Whiskey Run
- Chapter 14: The Great Rabbit Hunt, (2)
- Chapter 17: Bludgeon Brew presents "We had it all wrong."
- Chapter 20: Prelude to Chaos
- Chapter 23: Road to Ruin
- Chapter 26: Night at the tavern
- Chapter 29: Earn the Light
- Chapter 32: Drunken mornings and busy afternoons.
- Chapter 35: Naps and Rats
- Chapter 38: Drinking and Dowries
- Chapter 41: Sir Timothy's Big Adventure
- Chapter 44: Welcome Home
- Chapter 47: New hats and lost satchels.
- Chapter 50: Learning to Ride
- Chapter 53: Partings
- Chapter 56: Hot and Sweet
- Chapter 59: War and Pieces
- Chapter 62: Options
- Chapter 64.1 Falconer
- Chapter 66: Probably-Poisoned Pie
- Chapter 69.1 :Dawn of War (1)
- Chapter 69.4: Dawn of War (4)
- Chapter 72: First Strike!
- Chapter 74.1: Mourning (1)
- Chapter 74.4 Mourning
- Chapter 77: Surrender
- Chapter 80: The Butcher of Sedgewick
- Chapter 83: Chapter Digging In
- Chapter 86: Leroy
- Chapter 89: Stick, Stone, Clouds
- Chapter 92: Victory
- Chapter 95: The Charge of the Workers Brigade
- Chapter 98: The Horde Attacks!
- Chapter 101: Accounting
- 104: Collection Day
- Chapter 107: Heavy Reading
- Chapter 110: Baron of Gadobhra
- Chapter 113: Legendary Loot!
- Chapter 116: Bedtime for Bonzo
- Chapter 119: The Tax man comes calling
- Chapter 122: Cargo and Escargo
- Chapter 125: Squirrels and Bunnies and Barrows, oh my!
- Chapter 128: Thunderpunks
- Chapter 131: A Hard Days Slaughter
- Chapter 134: Minor Minion Misunderstanding
- Chapter 137: More visitors from afar
- Chapter 140: Bunnies, and Cows, and Hell-Pigs, oh MY!
- Chapter 143: Bunny Girls and Wood Sprites
- Chapter 146: Lost Lambs
- Chapter 148: Bacon
- Chapter 151: Expansion and Negotiation
- Chapter 154: A Short, Victorious War
- Chapter 157: Swift travel and a quick return
- Chapter 160: McTeeth on the Job
- Chapter 163: When you're hot, your HOT!
- Chapter 166: After the Fire
- Chapter 169: Dealing with Dryads
- Chapter 172: Lord Hound
- Chapter 175: Of Tree and Unicorns, and of Badgers who should be wary of Hounds bearing gold.
- Chapter 178: Beasts and Promises
- Chapter 181: Regrouping
- Chapter 184: Diplomacy
- Chapter 187: Pinching Penny Pinchers
- Chapter 190: Oink takes a nap.
- 192: Adrift
- Chapter 194: Salvage
- Chapter 197: Dead Man's Chest
- Chapter 200: Billy gets back to Business
- Chapter 203: Shark Hunting
- 206: The Hunting Club
- Going forward (non-story update).
- Chapter 212: Urgently needed elsewhere
- Chapter 214: Jack
- Chapter 217: Something that glitters, something old...
- Chapter 220: Mordecai
- Chapter 223: Some planning
- Chapter 226: Clubbing Crocs
- Chapter 229: Hull
- Chapter 232: Run!
- Chapter 235: The Treasures of Admiral Peerson
- Chapter 238: The Long Blue Box
- Chapter 241: Rain!
- Chapter 244: Five Captains Courageous
- Chapter 247: Clear Sailing
- Chapter 250: "Not my fault"
- Chapter 254: You can't get there from here.
- Chapter 256: Dead Man's Hand
- Chapter 259: Trade Talks
- Chapter 262: Urban Planning, Southern Style
- Chapter 265: Business Lunch
- Chapter 268: I hope you know...
- Chapter 271: End of one road, Start of Another.
- Chapter 274: North Farthing
- Chapter 277: A morning of friendly negotiations
- Chapter 279: Corporate Complaints.
- Chapter 282: Merchant War
- Chapter 285: The Barony Goes to War
- Chapter 288: A Day off, (1)
- Chapter 291: "We have multiple Code-Threes!"
- Chapter 294: Offerings to the Goddesses
- Chapter 297: Franklin House
- Chapter 300: Judgement
- Chapter 302: The Red Banner goes Shopping
- Chapter 305: After Dinner Drinks
- Chapter 308: The Proper Diet for a Training Montage.
- Chapter 311: Shepherds doing what Shepherds do best.
- Chapter 314: The Emperor's Birthday, (2)
- Chapter 317: The Emperor's Birthday Party, (5)
- Chapter 319: Why, yes, I might know where a dungeon is. Are you looking for one?
- Chapter 322: A Dragon for Myrna
- Chapter 325: A good cup of coffee before going to work.
- Chapter 328: Humbling the Nobility
- Chapter 331: Souvenir Loot
- Chapter 334: Perils of the Wildlands
- Chapter 337: An Honored Guest
- Chapter 340: Negotiations Begin
- Chapter 343: Giving the Duchess her Greatest Desire
- Ozzy Tier 4
- Chapter 348: Getting some attention
- Chapter 351: Avoiding the Bad Pudding
- Chapter 371: Madmen and Professional Mages
- Chapter 356: The further travels of Clan Brindleberry
- Chapter 359: The Terrible Assault of the Blue Boxes
- Chapter 362: A Visit with Mother
- Chapter 365: Talking with Hekate
- Character Sheet: Ozzy TIer 4
- Chapter 369: Back to the Grind
- Chapter 371: Pomeline and the Captain
- Chapter 373: One Snowy Night
- Chapter 376: Ice and War
- Chapter 379: The Growing Storm
- Chapter 382: Tea with a Black Dragon
- Chapter 385: Madmen in Mad, Mad World
- Chapter 388: Not sticking with the Plan.
- Chapter 391: Let's get this party started.
- Chapter 393: Job Interview
- Chapter 395: Casualties of War
- Chapter 398: When a Plan Comes Together...and Explodes.
- Chapter 401: Science is Loud!
- Chapter 404: The Sum of the Parts
- Chapter 407: The End of the Tail
- Character Sheet, Tier 4: Suzette, the Woman with Three Shadows.
- Chapter 412: Cold Reception
- Chapter 414: Head Lackey to Two Windbags
- Chapter 417: Teapots
- Chapter 419: Following a Cold Trail
- Chapter 423: Cleaning out the Freezer
- Chapter 425: ACME makes progress.
- Chapter 428: Huzzah, Our First Student!
- Chapter 431: Master of the Market
- Chapter 434: Creative Crafting Projects
- Chapter 3: Welcome to ACME
- Chapter 6: Who let the players in?
- Chapter 9: Death Perspective
- Chapter 12: Squirmies and Bananas and Deer! Oh My!
- Chapter 15: It's been a long week.
- Chapter 18: A knock on the Door.
- Chapter 21: Cabers in the dark.
- Chapter 24: "The first thing to understand....."
- Chapter 27: Late Night at the Tavern
- Chapter 30: Meat
- Chapter 33: Teaching
- Chapter 36: Dungeon! (1)
- Chapter 39: Adventures in bartending.
- Chapter 42: Do try to keep up.
- Chapter 45: Bacon?
- Chapter 48: Harmony
- Chapter 51: A dark and stormy night
- Chapter 54: Mixing it up
- Chapter 57: Weeds
- Chapter 60: Back on his feet.
- Chapter 63: Designing for Dungeoning
- Chapter 64.2: The General
- Chapter 67: The day before.
- Chapter 69.2: Dawn of War (2)
- Chapter 70: Knives in the back
- Chapter 73: The Battle for the Tavern
- Chapter 74.2: Mourning (2)
- Chapter 75: Walking off a cliff.
- Chapter 78: Sir Timothy in Spiderland
- Chapter 81: Suzette, the Lonely Barmaid
- Chapter 84: The Friendly Local Courier
- Chapter 87: Bunny Hunting
- Chapter 90: Definitely not part of the plan
- Chapter 93: A town in peril, and hope jogs to the rescue!
- Chapter 96: War Council
- Chapter 99: War's End
- Chapter 102: The Gangs all Here
- Chapter 105: No, you can't hit him!
- Chapter 108: Friends of the Court
- Chapter 111: The Hunter
- Chapter 114: Repairs
- Chapter 117: The Rest of it
- Chapter 120: Deals and Investigations
- Chapter 123: Civic Duty
- Chapter 126: One for all, and all for one.
- Chapter 129: The Butcher of Gadobhra
- Chapter 132: Apprentice Butcher
- Chapter 135: A Rising Power is recognized!
- Chapter 138: The Assistant Butchers of Sedgewick
- Chapter 141: Some Pig!
- Chapter 144: Things heat up
- Chapter 147: The Death of Roland, and his Journey Home
- Chapter 149: Tall Timber
- Chapter 152: Reunion
- Chapter 155: My oblivious boyfriend in another world got bitten by a radioactive cow.
- Chapter 158: Wolves in the Night
- Chapter 161: Visitor from the Stars
- Chapter 164: Burning Ring of Fire!
- Chapter 167: Chicken and Dumplings?
- Chapter 170: Town Planning
- Chapter 173: Changes
- Chapter 176: Getting her hands dirty
- Chapter 179: Makeovers and Menageries
- Chapter 182: The Bloody Baron
- Chapter 186: Tavern Politics
- Chapter 188: Normal is Boring
- Chapter 191: Welcoming Committee
- Chapter 193: Splinter
- Chapter 195: Fishing
- Chapter 198: Salad
- Chapter 201: Dues owed, deals made.
- Chapter 204: Eruption
- Chapter 207: It's a charred world now.
- Chapter 209: Bankers and Barmaids
- Chapter 211: Birds Eye View
- Chapter 215: Hammocks and Carpet Tacks
- Chapter 218: … something lost, something gold.
- Chapter 221: Friends in Low Places
- Chapter 224: Shipbreaker
- Chapter 227: Just ask Odysseus
- Chapter 230: The Proper was to roast a Crab
- Chapter 233: No where to run
- Chapter 236: Tier 3 Choices
- Chapter 239: Unfolding Events
- Chapter 242: Ship Ahoy!
- Chapter 245: Blockade Runners
- Chapter 248: Brace for Impact!
- Chapter 251: Old Smoke
- Chapter 253: You can't get there from here.
- Chapter 257: Sailing Home
- Chapter 260: Homecoming
- Chapter 263: Accountants
- Chapter 266: Lair of the Ice Wizard
- Chapter 269: Preparing for Battle
- Chapter 272: Hamlet Building
- Chapter 275: Has anyone seen our scribes?
- Chapter 278: The Long War
- Chapter 280: You had us at 'crazy'.
- Chapter 283: Sailors and Dragons and Paths Less Taken.
- Chapter 286: Death and Fertilizer
- Chapter 289: A Day Off, (2)
- Chapter 292: Going for Silver
- Chapter 295: Bacon? Not-Bacon?
- Chapter 298: Tinkers, Pirates, and Troublemakers
- Chapter 301: Safe Delivery
- Chapter 303: Pit Fight!
- Chapter 306: Choosing a Path
- Chapter 309: Legacy of Prometheus
- Chapter 312: Ducal Reunion
- Chapter 315: The Emperor's Birthday, (3)
- Announcement about the Future of my Stories. (Non-Story)
- Chapter 320: Who stole my kobold?
- Chapter 323: Gophorian Loot
- Chapter 326: Deals while Drying Dishes
- Chapter 329: Ghoulish Bargains
- Chapter 332: It's not going to work.
- Chapter 335: Congenial Conversation
- Chapter 338: One Night at the Library of Lost Time
- Chapter 341: Gone Fishing
- Chapter 344: The Illusion of Control
- Chapter 346: Kings and Klaxons
- Chapter 349: Applied Banking Principles
- Chapter 352: The Countess and the King
- Chapter 354: Life Finds a Way
- Chapter 357: Billy goes bowling.
- Chapter 360: Conversation amid the Desolation
- Chapter 363: A Bloody and Brutal Perspective
- Chapter 366: What do we want and how do we get it?
- Chapter 368: The Unca-Varn Show
- Rolly, Tier 4: The Heroic Shepherd
- Tier 4, Suzette, the Woman with Three Shadows.
- Chapter 374: Ben's 11
- Chapter 377: That time I broke a friend out of jail and flew away on an inflatable dragon.
- Chapter 380: Brownies, Knights, and Stinky Cheese.
- Chapter 383: Small eyes and ears.
- Chapter 386: Season of the Witch
- Chapter 389: Weaponizing Merchants and Merchandizing War
- Chapter 392: Hedgehogs and Picnics
- Chapter 31: Late Night at the Tavern
- Chapter 396: Chairmen of the Boards
- Chapter 399: Laws of Contagion and Similarity
- Chapter 402: Exploring Sedgewick
- Chapter 405: Vultures at Bay
- Chapter 408: They aren't making any more....
- Chapter 410: Setting up Shop
- Vacation!
- Chapter 415: Too Many Hands Making the Sausage Means Someone is Losing Fingers.
- Venn Diagrams, Sausage and Black Beans: Not a real Chapter, but does have a tasty recipe. )
- Chapter 420: Still Want to Be in Front?
- Chapter 422: Cleaning out the Freezer
- Chapter 426: He Bidged! He Budged! Today is the day!
- Chapter 429: And Everything was Going Fine...Until it Wasn't.
- Chapter 432: Shopping List
- Chapter 435: Early Morning Muster