Frame-Perfect Malice

Zaven Dalmas stood before the empire’s elites, waiting for his glorious awakening. Instead, the System branded him a 'Harmonizer' - a pacifist class utterly incapable of dealing damage. Humiliated and exiled from the Vanguard, Zaven isn't worried. As a former speedrunner of Chronicles of Oshakan, he knows every broken mechanic in the code. Slipping out of his own disgrace, he exploits a collision glitch to loot a hidden tutorial chest, snatching the ultimate class-change scroll meant for the arrogant Chosen One, Tevan. But Zaven's butterfly effect has fatal consequences. Without his scripted item, Tevan dies to the tutorial boss. Now, Zaven must shoulder the world-saving quest using integer-underflow exploits and aggro-manipulation. Told through the alternating perspectives of a world-weary Zaven and his bitter rival Vahan, the duo must navigate a lethal world using sheer game-breaking malice. Along the way, Zaven inadvertently catches the eye of a powerful merchant queen and harbors an unspoken, doomed love for a cursed royal knight. But as he plots his cold revenge against the elites who mocked him, he remains completely unaware that his most trusted confidant - the one person who stood by him during his humiliation - is secretly orchestrating the game's apocalypse. Can Zaven glitch his way out of an unwinnable betrayal?