Shattered Save State
By @john1208
Rain hammered the cobblestones of Ostravár as Olek Ruzha slammed a bag of copper onto the smuggler's table, striking a deal that would break the world's timeline. Olek possesses a head full of speedrun tactics for a brutally depressing fantasy RPG and a burning anger at his world's predetermined, tragic fate. By clipping through a tutorial wall and buying a black-market key early, he steals the Chasm Codex - a forbidden spatial grimoire meant for the game's true savior, Danika Moroz. His plan is simple: take her cursed destiny, spare her the suffering, and save his friends. But Olek's grand heist goes sideways. Cursed with a humiliating weapon affinity for a wooden soup ladle, he must rely on obscure animation cancels and lore exploits to survive the elite Kravina Institute. Worse, stealing Danika's burden doesn't make her a rival; the terrifyingly powerful heroine falls madly, obsessively in love with him. As his strict combat professor Vlasta Kovar takes an inappropriate interest in his "unique" spatial ladle techniques, and his fiercely loyal best friend Jarek hides a fatal corruption, Olek uncovers a devastating twist. The "System" feeding him glitches isn't a game mechanic - it was engineered by his own past self from a previous, failed life. Can a glitchy ladle and a stolen grimoire rewrite an apocalypse, or is tragedy hardcoded into their souls?
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