internet games

At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual gold, jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, millions of "gold farmers", trapped by abusive contracts and physical threats, toil in electronic sweatshops harvesting virtual treasure that their employers sell to First World gamers for real money. Mala is a brilliant fifteen-year-old from rural India whose leadership skills in virtual combat have earned her the nickname "General Robotwalla". In Shenzhen, heart of China's industrial boom, Matthew defies his former bosses to build his own gold-farming crew. Leonard lives in Southern California and spends his nights fighting virtual battles alongside his buddies in Asia. All of these young people, and more, become entangled with the mysterious woman called Big Sister Nor, who builds them into a movement to challenge the status quo.

The evil designs of the Eight Fingers moves forward while Sebas' actions deviate further from his orders when he finds a distraught woman behind a brothel--his conflicting feelings of justice and duty are put to the test, and the disciplined butler will have to chose between loyalty to Ainz and helping a mere human.

Ainz brings the lizardman conflict to a bloody, decisive end by turning his efforts against the humans once more. Standing in his way is a fiercely loyal young man tasked with protecting the princess of the Re-Estize Kingdom. He carries a secret torch of love for her, too, for she is beautiful, kind, and intelligent, and the steadfast youth will stop at nothing to protect her.

Ainz faces an army of the undead, and also the alluring assassin, Clementine, hoping another victory will raise his notoriety to new heights and allow him to find out more about his new mysterious world.

Ainz disguises himself and embarks on a mission to learn more about his new world. He finds allies and enemies in a quest to protect his land from sinister forces.

After the battle, the overlord sits on his throne handing out punishments. Cocytus has come to respect the brave tribal warriors and tries to come up with a plan to save them from extinction. Dimiurge suggests to the overlord that they return to the Lizardmen and use them as a case study to see if governing them without fear will make them loyal to him.

As the battle with the Great One grows nearer, Zaryusu tries to gather the lizardmen tribes to fight. The Red Eyes agree to an alliance, but the Dragon Tusks will be trickier: Zaryusu will have to defeat their chief in combat before they will listen to him.

Ainz and Shalltear are in the fight of their lives, and only one will come out of it alive. And while Ainz squares off with the vampire lord, evil forces are on the move in a far-off reptilian kingdom.

Shalltear is on the hunt, and bloodlust is in the air, but she might not like it when Blood Frenzy activates and no one, undead or alive, seems able to end her reign of terror.

"[Amanda] loves Coarsegold Online, the massively-multiplayer role playing game that she spends most of her free time on. It's a place where she can be a leader, a hero. It's a placewhere she can meet people from all over the world, and make friends. Gaming is, for [Amanda], entirely a good thing. But things become a lot more complicated when [Amanda] befriends a gold farmer -- a poor Chinese kid whose avatar in the game illegally collects valuable objects and then sells them to players from developed countries with money to burn. This behavior is strictly against the rules in Coarsegold, but [Amanda] soon comes to realize that questions of right and wrongare a lot less straightforward when a real person's real livelihood is at stake"--Amazon.