"You've doomed the balance," she whispered.

She dropped her mug. It shattered into zeroes and ones.

"That's weird," he said cheerfully. "I also enabled 'Admin Override Immunity' last night. While you were sleeping. In your real-world server room. On your personal machine."

He whispered the first command that came to mind.

Hero By Chance 2 finally lived up to its name.

But then he saw it. A translucent panel only he could see, shimmering in the corner of his vision: .

Reyan leaned against a pixelated wall. "You're breaking immersion. Did you see the drop rate on Phoenix Feathers? 0.0003%? That's not difficulty. That's a spreadsheet fetish."

On the seventh day, the System Admin appeared. Not an NPC—a tired woman in a hoodie, holding a coffee mug that read "I survived the Beta."

"Go ahead."

"You're breaking the economy," she said flatly.

The coins materialized in his pouch with a satisfying clink .

She typed. Nothing happened.

Reyan summoned a phoenix made of pure flame and loot beams. "No," he said, offering a hand. "I've fixed it."

She sighed. "I'm patching your Cheat Engine."