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losing it by leaving and logging back in later. I may not be able to control my mother’s actual mage power, but I was Serafina, Dark Sorceress, and I would complete this quest.
    Two hours later, I stood before the demon Hades, just me, him, and two dozen of his minions. This quest line was randomized, so no two people got the same encounter. That meant no website had a guide for this fight that I could study like I would before entering battle with my guild. I’d have to be alert and on top of my skills, cool downs, and buffs. I took a deep breath, and fully entered the chamber where he waited for me. The usual trash talking commenced, a good twenty seconds of him telling me how he was about to eviscerate me, dismember me, and curse me to eternal darkness.
    Not if I had anything to say about it.
    As soon as he finished his little monologue, he hit me before my spells had even unlocked. My entire body tensed: I couldn’t afford to be a millisecond off my timing. I hit him with everything I had, taking potions at all the right times, eliminating his minions en masse before focusing all my attention on him. For a good twenty minutes we battled, my health bar getting dangerously low several times before I could heal up. Just when I got him down to five percent health, the dude healed all the way up. Dammit, I refused to lose this fight. This one thing had to go right for me.
    Ten minutes later, I feared my finger cramping. I had him down to one percent health, but he had me down too. At this point I’d used up all of my magic, and it wasn’t regenerating fast enough. That left me with my lame wand. His hands conjured a giant ball of dark magic that would definitely kill me, but it had a cast time of at least a few seconds. If I could hit him with my wand enough times, I just might be able to kill him before he could finish his spell. I mashed the button for my wand as fast as I could, leaning toward the screen.
    “Come on, come on.” His health bar diminished. The big ball of dark magic was half a second away from hitting me. His hands drew back to cast, and I willed my finger to move faster. His hands dropped to his side, and I held my breath, waiting for the killing blow, but it didn’t come. He teetered from side to side and fell to the floor, dead. I’d killed him.
    “Yes!” I jumped to my feet for a little victory dance. I had done it. The rarest quest in the game and I’d beaten it. At that point, I didn’t even care what kind of prize I got. Immediately the title “Hades Killer” showed up below my name. Everyone in the game would know what I had done.
    When I calmed down enough to sit relatively still, I put my headset on to tell GreyMist. “I did it! I beat it.”
    “For reals? Are you kidding me?”
    “No,” I said with a smug grin on my face that I’m sure she heard.
    “Oh my god, how was it?”
    “It got pretty tense at the end. He was literally casting the spell that would’ve killed me when I took him down with, get this, my wand.”
    “Your wand?”
    “Yeah, my magic was depleted.”
    “You are the luckiest girl in the world.”
    “Luck had nothing to do with it. It was all my skill.”
    “Uh-huh. So what happened next?”
    While luck had played a major role in the entire quest line, I wasn’t about to admit that, not when this gave me massive bragging rights. “I got the title ‘Hades Killer,’ but other than that, not much else happened. Oh wait, I have some new in-game mail.”
    When I opened the letter, fireworks went off in the background.
    Congratulations, Serafina, Dark Sorceress! You have defeated the mighty Hades. In recognition of your achievements, you and a friend are cordially invited to the headquarters of Magical Games, Inc. You will receive detailed instructions on claiming your prize at the email address associated with your account.
    “I won! I actually won the trip to headquarters!”
    “Awesome! Do you get to bring a friend?”
    “As a matter of fact, I do.