There were no explosions, no alien invasions, no ticking clocks counting down to zero.
Instead, the sky simply glitched.
Pixels bled through the clouds. The sun stuttered like a corrupted file. Then… everything rebooted.
[Welcome to ArcNet.]
[Initializing User Interface...]
[Syncing Neural Core...]
Everyone in the world received the message.
Young or old. Rich or poor. It didn't matter who you were...
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The System chose you.
Some called it salvation.
Others, damnation.
What used to be reality had been overwritten. Cities transformed into dungeons, forests turned to kill zones, and the laws of physics bent to menu screens and stat points.
Level up… or die trying.
Rei Alveron was seventeen when the System activated.
A high school dropout, stuck in a dead-end city, with no dreams and no future.
But while the world scrambled to adapt...
He was staring at something different. Something no one else saw.
[You have unlocked a Hidden Trait.]
[Trait: ??? – "Unseen Variable"]
"This should not exist within the ArcNet system."
Rei didn’t know what it meant.
But something inside him whispered:
“You're not like the rest of them.”
The game has begun.
And Rei Alveron is the bug in the system.