The Lightning Rod Exploit
By @john1208
Vozhan’s peaceful morning of brewing spiced tea ended abruptly when a bolt of purple lightning blasted through his kitchen ceiling. A glowing prompt coldly informed him his Luck stat was permanently set to -999. Now trapped inside the notoriously brutal world of Zulqen, Vozhan is marked for daily atmospheric smiting. Unfazed, the quietly ruthless gamer immediately exploits a geometry glitch, clipping through a courtyard wall to dig up an elixir of infinite mana buried under a random persimmon tree - stealing the chosen hero's greatest cheat. Told in alternating perspectives between the deadpan Vozhan and the utterly clueless original protagonist, Tazliq, the story quickly spirals into chaos. Tazliq mistakes Vozhan’s glitch-abusing spasms and lightning burns for profound martial arts conditioning, eagerly declaring them best friends. Worse, an elite assassin named Chunzal develops a fanatical, yandere obsession when Vozhan's negative luck accidentally triggers and perfectly counters all her lethal traps. Armed with infinite mana and a cowardly homunculus sidekick, Vozhan must aggressively speedrun to the top of the world to cure his curse. But why does the world's anti-cheat system recognize his soul, and did his own past self engineer this exact miserable fate?
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