Fox Queen & My Apocalypse Payback

Charles Dawson plays Age of Magic Beasts hard enough to lead people through its fights after the game becomes real and the world starts coming apart. He is collecting the seven Spire Keys, which would bring his grandmother back. Before the world resets, his girlfriend Chloe and his closest friend Tyson turn on him and kill him. The Nightwraith King then arrives and freezes the world over. Charles wakes twelve hours before the collapse, with everything he remembers. He raises money fast, going from a player who grinds to a player who pays, and spends it in the window before the servers close. He pulls the only SSS-rank spirit pet on the server, the Nine-Tailed Sacred Fox, and signs the contract with her early. When the collapse comes the second time he has her and top-tier gear, and he goes after the people who killed him, his family to protect, and the Nightwraith King at the end of it.