Aria had her own reasons to once again enter the dark web. She was in dire need of money. Sophia will soon start to hunt for a job as soon as they settled down in their new apartment and she didn't want that for Sophia. If she can build the biggest investment firm of the country Z in her previous life then she can definitely do the same again in this life; may be even better. But this time, it will be for her mother and herself.
She wanted Sophia to become a boss of herself and her life; confident, poised, never bowing her head down infront of anyone. She wanted her mother to live just for herself without any coercion or oppression and that was only possible if she become financially independent.
She had spent such a life before where she was under constant persecution and mental abuse her entire past life; constantly under fear that she will be left alone in the whole world. It just that she realised the truth now. She was never alone; she just choose the wrong people to trust and paid the price for that as well. But not this time and she will also never let Sophia go on that path as well.
And to do that she needed money. Though stocks and such investments work but even they take there own time and time was something she didn't have at that moment. She had to do something fast and hacking was her best possible solution at the moment.
Wiping away the tears that had fallen; Aria's eyes shone with a burning fire of determination and persistence. She will win and completely ruin the lives of all those who had once hurt her.
She will take her revenge. Everyone will face their vengeance.
Taking deep breath and calming herself down; Aria's finger once again scrambled on the keyboard as multiple codes started to appear on the interface as she overcame the challenge to log in the dark web.
That had always been the rule.
If one can't even do this then he or she didn't deserve entering the dark web.
Aria easily cracked down the familiar challenge and quickly entered the web.
Aria smiled as she gazed at the familiar yet unfamilar interface infront of her. In her previous life, when she had joined it, it had already been upgraded and modified various times; Aria swiftly familiarized herself with this version.
Basically it was divided into three portions; the first one is the chatroom for everyone to communicate publically though they could send a message privately as well. Mostly it was for fun conversations between hackers, afterall everyone like gossip, no matter what they do.
The second is task chest in which people from all around the world post their legal as well as illegal assignments or errand they wanted to be completed. Any hacker can take on the job and get paid for it after completing the work. It was one of busiest portion of the web as the tasks were never ending no matter how many they performed.
The last part was the challenge border where either anyone can issue an individual challenge against someone or can challenge everyone all together in the form of competition. The second version was usually more famous and used as almost everyone was aware of other's level and no one wanted to waste time on individual challenges. Most of the time only those who either want to test their improvement or have a personal enmity that can't be resolved will someone resort towards the individual challenges.
Aria created her avatar as well and named it "The Erebis Queen".
Getting familiar with everything, she went to the task chest and scrutinized out all the available tasks but didn't find anything to her liking; simply because she felt that the pay was very less. Moreover, since she was a new member, there was a high chance that no one will accept her easily.
Not giving up, she shifted to the challenge border.
The interface was filled with various competitions from numerous top hackers and very little individual challenges. Aria scanned through all when a very familiar name caught her attention.
"The black emperor".
She never expected she would see his name again this early. if she recalled correctly, she joined the dark web when she was 17 and at that time black emperor was already a member of it for over 15 years and even ruled over it for more than 8 years. By that time, he had built his very own guild named "The Web Emperor guild" which hold serveral genius under its banner.
Aria gazed at the challenge under his avatar.
[The scud Challenge:
Objective:
Breach the 10 layered firewall within minimum time.
Conditions:
1. The time limit should not be more than 10 hours.
2. The challenge must be performed individually without anyone's hep.
Prize:
5 Million$]
Looking at the prize, Aria was really exuberanted. She had this weird fighting spirit in her to compete against the dark emperor. She also wanted to uncover the level of him 13 years before she joined in.
Pressing the enter key, Aria swiftly entered the base of the competition.
Alot of people had their eyes on the prize of the challenge as even at that time, the dark emperor was considered a black horse in the web and very few could compete against him. To breach his system; it definitely wasn't easy.
Everyone was curious about him and always kept there eyes on anything related him.
Just like the challenge he had posted.
Aria's entering gained quite some attention out there; especially her new avatar and profile.
[Chatroom:
Neo boss: Wow! We have a new member in the house.
Master Vein: Yes we do but definitely an over-confident one.
Dexster: I agree with @Master Vein. It hadn't even been an hour she entered but she dared to compete in the challenge of dark emperor.
Code Zero: Guys! you should check out the challenge bar. The new member is nailing it.]
Everyone quickly left the chatroom and went to the challenge box. Looking at the speed by which Aria completely destroyed the firewalls, they were dumbfounded.
The first layer...in 56 seconds.
The second....1:34 seconds.
Third...2:21 seconds.
Fourth...4:45 seconds.
Fifth...7:53 seconds.
[Chatroom:
Neo boss: Wow! How is this even possible?
Dexester: I don't believe this.
Code Zero: It seems like we have a new black horse in the house.]
...
Meanwhile, far away in the capital city,
Leaning on his chair, a ten year old boy gazed at the computer infront of him with great peculiarity and inquisitiveness; the back of his index finger of his left hand brushing against his lips, his right brow arched in mirth and leisure and a smirk on his lips as he watched how a new member in his own community is completely destroying the system he developed.
Sixth layer....9:21 seconds.
Seventh layer.....12:59 secondes.
Eighth layer.....15:43 seconds.
Ninth layer.....17:00 seconds.
Tehth layer....19:59 seconds....
The boy watched as the girl completely breached the system. After gazing at it foe entire five minutes, he finally opened his mouth.
"Heh! How interesting"
Straightening up his body, he finally press the keys on the board, transfering the prize money without a second thought; leaving behind only a single message privately before turning off his computer.
It was not that he wasn't curious about her; he just preffered to analyze the other person before making his move. Since she had caught his attention then she will definitely belong to him, under his shadow sooner or later.
Just as he was lost in his thought, the door of his room opened; entered a bautiful middle aged lady, with her arms crossed infront, sternly gazing at him.
"Andrew Smith, How many times I have to remind you to not be late for lunch. Everyone has been waiting for you for more than 10 minutes." The middle aged woman, Rose Smith said; frustrated from her son's daily habits.
"Sorry mom. I just met someone very interesting and lost the track of time evaluating him. I will make sure this doesn't repeat ever again." Andrew calmly replied; standing up from his chair and setting his clothes properly as he made his way downstairs leaving his dazed mother behind.
"Mom now you are busy daydreaming. We are getting late." Andrew reminded his mother from behind as he stepped down the stairs.
Rose woke up from her daze; gazing at her annoying eldest son back and gritting her teeth as she followed behind him.
"This hateful son of mine. He doesn't even respect his mother now." Rose mummered but Andrew still heard it but didn't care much about it. It was a daily occurance for him. He knew she didn't actually mean it but was just letting out her frustration. It was his mother's unique way of showing effection to him.