Marcus was a rising star in finance, until his boss's petty revenge left him fired, and near broke. The woman he loved was gone. His future was a joke, his life adrift, and with nothing left to lose 

His only way out was Dominion, the world's first true VRMMO, a game that promises to become humanity's second world, where in-game gold translates to real-world wealth. For Marcus, it wasn't a game; it was a desperate last chance to rebuild his life and support his sister.

But on the day of character creation, the system glitched.

While other players were assigned random stats, Marcus was given the impossible: Maxed-Out Base Attributes and a legendary, unchangeable Luck stat of 20.

The system tried to fix him. It failed.

Now, Marcus doesn't play the game. He exploits it. Armed with a broken skill that reveals every secret and a drop rate that makes him instantly rich, he is the statistical anomaly the developers never accounted for.

Player A: "Are you for real? How is someone that lucky? Why does this crap never happen to me?"


Player B: "That's not bad, but the Guild Creation Token only drops from Level 30+ Silver BOSSES. You think you can take one of those down?"


Player B: "Yeah, exactly. Don't sit around waiting for a miracle. You gotta put in the work. They say luck is preparation meeting opportunity, so you gotta—"


Player A: "Oh, shut up. Who made you a life coach? Get off my back!"


Marcus quickly stashed the Guild Creation Token in his inventory. This thing was a treasure. He had zero interest in running a guild himself, but selling this bad boy was going to net him an absolute fortune.


He could just imagine the top players on the Leaderboards hearing that announcement; a mix of pure shock and bitter frustration. But that was their problem, not his.


Chapter 55 - Darkfire Phoenix