Roan walked out of the gaming pod. He looked at the clock in his room. "Fck, he will kill me this time." He spent 24 hr in the game. The future looked grim for him. Roan walked out of the room and went down the stairs.
He looked down, only to find there was a group of people in the hall. All of them were staring up at him. 'Who are these guys?' Roan looked at the group of 5 with 4 men and 1 girl sitting on the sofa while Dhruv and Aria were sitting in front of them.
Roan walked down and asked, "Aria, what going on here?" Dhruv was staring at him, but he just avoided making eye contact.
"Sir, these are your new teammates." Aria stood up and Roan sat next to Dhruv.
He looked up at her. "What teammate?" asked in confusion.
"Do you forget the deal we made, boss?" One of them said. All the other 4 looked at Roan in suspension.
Roan looked at him closely. A man with a buzz cut and in a proper suit. "Mike?" Roan said with doubt.
Mike sighed, "haha Boss, I thought you forget about me?" He turned to four others. "See, this was my new boss."
Roan looked at 4 other. All of them were in poor condition with tattered clothes. He turned to Mike and asked, "Why are they here?"
Mike said, "Boss, these are my bandmates. My 3 brothers and 1 sister."
Roan stared at Mike. "Fcker, didn't you beg to not involve your bandmate."
Mike stared down and said, "I did not force them or anything but just told them what happen and they want to meet you."
"Hahaha," Roan laughed and turned to Aria, "Give each of them the contract with the same condition as Mike."
Aria nodded her head and handed all of them a contract. All of them read the contract, and they had shocked looked. One of them Guy looked at Mike. "This is a slave contract."
"I already told you that you just did not believe in me," Mike said.
The 2nd guy said to Mike, "You broke the band for this."
Mike shouted in an irritating voice, "Bastard, I told you he forced me to sign that."
The 3rd guys raise his hand and asked Roan, "Sir, can I ask you something?"
Roan nodded to him.
The guy spoke, "Can you change some conditions on the contract?"
Roan looked at him and said with a smile on his face, "No."
The guy nodded his head and said, "so do we get the same facilities as Mike?"
"Yup."
The only girl in the group took out a pen and signed the contract, bent her head, and said while handing the contract to Roan, "Thank you for giving us this opportunity, sir."
All 3 other guys stared at her and they did not waste any time. And signed the contract and did the same.
"Haha, welcome to my team, you all," Roan said with a wide smile.
"Congratulation brother." Clap! Clap! Both Aria and Dhruv clapped.
Roan got up and collect the contract from them and said, "No need to tense so much."
All of them looked at him and nodded their heads. Roan turned to Mike. "Make sure to take these guys with you."
Mike nodded his head. "No need to worry, boss. I will take care of my band."
Roan nodded his head and then turned to the group, "You will know your role when you reach the Gazzi city until then enjoys your time."
All of them nodded their head with a smile on their face.
Roan said in a deep voice, "1 more thing, stay away from drugs."
The girl in the group looked up. "Sir, we did that bec-"
"I don't care about your past and all." Roan looked into her eye and said in a deep voice, "From now on, you will not involve yourself with drugs."
All of them gulped down and nodded their head.
Roan relaxed on the sofa and said, "You guys can go. We will meet in the game in a few days."
They stared at him for a few mins. Some of them wanted to talk, but they just nodded and then walked out of the house. Dhruv stared at him with a frown on his head and asked, "Brother, why are you behaving in such a way?"
Roan just closed his head and asked, "What way?"
"You were so rude. You did not even ask for their name."
"Knowing their name was a drag. I am not into making things complicated for myself?"
Dhruv continued to stare at him for some time. "You are a bad team leader."
Roan started to get blank slowly.
"Yea..h I know.." Roan mumbled in a low voice and blacked out. After some time, he started snoring.
Dhruv looked at Roan, then at Aria. "Shit, I forget to lecture him."
Aria smiled and said, "Lil sir, you can lecture sir when he wakes up."
Dhruv nodded and said, "Yeah, I will do that, but…" He stared at Roan's face and mumbled, "I want to tell him something important."
"Oh, if you don't mind you can tell me that, lil sir," Aria asked in curiosity.
Dhruv looked up at her and said with a smile, "Big sis, I reached level 10 today."
Aria smiled, "wow congratulation sir."
Dhruv smiled and then looked down at his brother and asked, "Big sis, do you know the current level brother at?"
There was no reply. Dhruv looked up and stared into Aria's eyes. Aria said with uncertainty, "I think two to 3 days prior Sir was around level 15 to 20 level but.."
"Brother was quite busy in these 4 days? He even forgot the carnival." Dhruv mumbled the last part.
Aria sighed and tried to cheer Dhruv, "I will remind sir about the carnival. I know he would take you to some other place."
Dhruv smiled and said, "No big sis, no need to disturb big brother. I see why brother is so good in the game." and continued to stare at him in silence.
Aria looked at all of this with interest and said, "Yeah, sir is really hard working in the game."
Dhruv shook his head at that. "Big sis, you don't understand. This is not a simple game. It may sound absurd, but our life depends on the game right." As he said that, he looked up into Aria's eyes.
Aria looked side, avoiding the gaze.
She knew that the moment Sir Roan become a weak, useless player was the moment people would come for his life. That was the harsh truth of the life of these brothers. Their game power would decide their fate.
Dhruv smiled at getting no reply from Aria. He stood up and moved toward his room. He was always confused about why his brother choose to join a gang, but now today's incident opened his eye a little.
Those people that brother took in his team were nothing but beggars and some low-level drug dealers. He still did not know what was special about them, but the thing was all those guys were ready to become slaves to get out of that condition.
Dhruv knew that with the power his brother had, he could start his own guild or join other good respective guilds, but climbing the rank of a big guild or establishing a new guild was never simple and very time-consuming.
"Brother, choose this guild to save me," Dhruv said to himself.
He was sure that his brother choose the least time-consuming path to take him out of that hell. He still had nightmares from time to time about getting beat up by his family. They were very brutal, especially his mom.
When she beat, she did not stop until she saw the blood. He saw plenty of times how his mom beat his brother senseless even when his brother did not at all. All that time, his brother begged her and try everything to make her stop, but it always fail.
He remembered how all the other family members just laughed at his brother's suffering. They taught him it was all because brother Roan was dumb.
He did not like all that, despite that, he always thought that it was all for the benefit of his brother. If his mother was the most brutal one, then his big brother Luke was most crazy. There was not a single day he did not beat brother Roan in name of teaching him.
The other 2 also had their own way of torturing the brother. Dhruv saw all of that and always believed that the family did that for his brother's sake, but then when the brother went away from the home. All of them became crazy.
They beat him for all the little things.
He still remembered just on the 2nd day his mother went crazy again and this time her target was him. She started beating him with a stick in her hand. He did not even know what wrong he did to deserve that. He run all around the house and begged others to protect him, but all of them either ignore him or laughed at him.
Dhruv shivered, thinking about that incident. In that month, his mother only went crazy only one time, and he almost died that time. He understood all the talk about this for improvement was wrong.
Everyone in the house was a psychopath.
He knew from that day his brother was not the weakest, but the strongest person he ever knew.
'I was about to become crazy or even die in just one month.' Dhruv thought to himself and looked down. His brother lived in that environment his whole life. Getting beaten throughout his life and then come to save him. "Brother is really great."