Leaguetopia
Chapter 2
Man : "Down this way".
Boy: "Are you sure?"
Man: "Yes its fine there is nothing to be worried about".
Two shady figure walked down a dimly lit alley. The rain was coming down heavy on the eerie scene, the streets were empty with occasional Gold Guard patrol unit coming by. The boy was accompanied by a tall man into a small room on the foot of a building as they exited the alleyway. The room was very dimly lit, torn up League posters were hung on the wall with some champions staring down. As he closed the door behind,infront of them was a man sitting on a table. There were a couple of computers and people behind him playing league.
"How much do you have? I am not here risk everyone's life for couple of dollars." Said the man on the table looking towards the boy.
"I read your rates, I have enough till Gold 5." Said the boy.
"From bronze 4 to gold 5 is 1000 Riot Dollars, are you sure ?". The man asked now that he was interested.
"Its all my family's life saving, please I wanna join the army and help my family." said the boy.
The boy placed a bundle of money wrapped up in old newspaper on the table. Guilty, but a tiny feeling of happiness arose in him as the man took the money. He knew if he were caught trying to get elo boosted it would be punishable by death. The black market for elo boosting an league account had grown exponentially as the game grew. Outcasted government officers who were caught in corruption scandals and what not were now running this underworld. But Riot knew what was going on, and they were cracking down on it at light speed. A loud bang went of in the room, everyone jumped up and started running around, smoke filled the room and soon radios were heard. It were the Gold Guards and they had found the den. The man who took the money was shoot but the boy slid out after finding a small window in the backroom.
He ran as fast as he could, jumping through the puddles as he felt the ground beneath him shift. He knew what he had done was punishable by death. He knew his time had come, but yet he kept running. It was this last bit hope in him that made him do it in the first place and it was this feeling that kept creeping back in his mind. "Just maybe, If I could get away, just maybe..". A sudden shock ran down his spine, he tumbled on the rain flooded road and hit a lightpost, falling down lifelessly. The ambient air was disturbed with the end of something significant. The Gold Guards shot him with their hextech revolvers and ended it for once and for all.
He lay there motionless, with last few minutes of activity in his brain sending shockwaves through his body. Dreaming about his family and what they could have been. What he didn't realize was with the end of him was the beginning of something big. Shockwaves were about to be send globally.
"BOY SHOT DEAD FOR GETTING ELO BOOSTED" was the biggest mistake Twitch could print out. Everyone knew now and this was going viral. Memorials had been set up worldwide in the bronze community for this boy.
"Elo Boosting is not right but shooting dead a mere child for trying to get out of a corrupt system is not right either" said one of the heads of the rebel organization that had emerged in northern Europe. Peace talks were already being proposed to this new set of people that now blamed Riot for the situation that was developing. They had couple of things to say to Riot in particular ; One, why hasn't there been an increase in climb rate as predicted by their models which stated that when people played the game so religiously they were bound to improve and climb higher. Secondly, why hasn't the "company worth trillions" improved the standards of living instead of creating a system of class that our ancestor made and dealt with its consequences? The bronze were now waking up. Twitch coined it as "The salt levels in lower elos are on a high time". But it wasn't just verbal abuse that were going towards the World of League. Riots had begun all over Europe. WoL was losing money now. Lots of it. Since the largest continent was turning against it.
The higher elos were now scared of the uprising, the fire was spreading all across the world. Riot started to cave in its home base in North America. The class system was removed and the governments were regaining the control of money all over the East. All ties from North America were cut rendering Riot useless Internationally. The United League Army was being transported to North America. Those who left the army were either executed or sent taken as prisoners. The bronze thought it was all over, an era of misery was coming to an end. But they didn't know it was going out in a big bang.
To be continued.