It had been a week since the Portal Event.
The world had changed.
Skyscrapers now stood beside floating temples. Forests grew overnight inside cities. Beasts with neon eyes roamed the streets. Humanity had leaped into a new age—but one without instruction manuals.
Governments rebranded themselves into "Realms." Military generals became "Kings." Academies turned into training grounds for the awakened. The old world hadn't ended. It had simply evolved—with cheat codes.
And in the shadows of this chaos, Rishi Mehta was evolving faster than anyone.
Hacker of Reality
He had learned the art of subtlety. Instead of flaunting his power, he moved in the background. With a tap of "No Clip," he could phase through walls. "Time Freeze" let him rob a private bank in Switzerland—then donate all the cash to an orphanage in Nepal. "Save World State" allowed him to experiment with wild abilities and rewind if things went wrong. One time, he accidentally blew up half a stadium with Divya's gravity field cranked to x999.
"Load Game." Boom. Problem solved.
By now, he had copied over 120 skills from around the globe. Fire control, telekinesis, void jump, spectral forging, beast taming, cosmic manipulation. You name it. He could toggle it.
But it wasn't enough.
He wanted to understand what lay behind the code. Where was this system coming from? Who had written it? And most importantly—what was this Anti-Cheat?
The Rift That Opens
He sat alone at the top of the abandoned city tower that had become his base. The clouds below him glowed purple, like wounded bruises in the sky. The Trainer UI blinked, almost nervously.
[Skill Fusion Available]You may now combine copied abilities into custom hybrids. Warning: results may be unstable.
Rishi grinned. "Time to break the game."
He merged "Chrono Drift" (time jumping) with "Gravity Field." The result: Chrono Singularity—a black hole that accelerated time within, turning enemies into dust in seconds.
Next, he fused "Phase Teleportation" and "Energy Construct." Result: Teleport Blade—a sword that shifted through dimensions mid-swing, bypassing all shields and armor.
Excited, he opened a portal to a forest just outside Delhi, where mutated wolves were tearing apart scavengers.
He blinked. The world shimmered—
—and Rishi was there.
"Let's test this cheat."
He activated the sword.
One swing. Space bent. Wolves screamed. Gone.
The Anti-Cheat Awakens
But then… it happened.
His screen glitched.
For the first time, his UI stuttered.
WARNING: SYSTEM INSTABILITY DETECTEDANTI-CHEAT PROTOCOL BREACHED. A JUDGE HAS BEEN DEPLOYED.
Lightning tore the sky in half.
From it descended a figure.
Not a monster. Not a hero.
A being wrapped in black robes that crackled with raw code. Its face was a blank mask, covered in red circuit lines that flickered like warnings. In its hand was a golden staff shaped like a ban hammer.
Name: UNKNOWNTitle: Judge Class — Anti-Cheat EnforcerTier: Ω (Unranked)Status: Immune to Modifications
Rishi clicked his Trainer. Tried to pause time.
Nothing.
Tried to copy skills.
Access Denied.
"No hacks?" he whispered.
The Judge floated forward.
"YOU POSSESS THE CODE OF CREATION.""YOU HAVE ABUSED IT.""YOU WILL BE RESET."
Rishi smiled—his first genuine thrill in days. He cracked his neck and pulled out the Teleport Blade.
"Finally. A real boss fight."
The First Real Fight
The battle shattered dimensions.
Trees aged and died in seconds. Time loops exploded like bombs. The Judge moved like a ghost, slipping between moments. Every hit from Rishi was met with an equal counter—his trainer nullified each time.
It was the first time he bled since awakening.
But he wasn't afraid.
He was alive.
Then he got clever.
He couldn't hack the Judge. But he could hack himself.
In one corner of his Trainer, hidden behind a sub-menu, he found a forgotten option:
[Glitched Fusion: System Override Mode]Merge with Trainer temporarily. Risk: Corruption.
He didn't hesitate.
He clicked ACTIVATE.
His body glowed, then pixelated.
His hands became light. His eyes became command lines.
For ten seconds, Rishi became a living Trainer.
The world bent around him.
With one flick, he rewrote gravity. Another, and time snapped into stillness.
The Judge staggered.
With his final second, Rishi drove the Teleport Blade into the being's chest, whispered a line of code:"DELETE ENTITY."
The Judge froze.
Glitched.
And shattered like a deleted file.
Consequences
The world returned to normal.
But something changed.
Rishi fell to one knee. Steam poured from his body. His Trainer UI was now cracked—literally. There was a red warning:
[Corruption: 4%]Overuse of system commands is damaging your soul code. Proceed carefully.
He didn't care.
He had won.
But he knew now—he wasn't alone in the system.
And they would be back.
The Friends Start Asking
Back at campus, his friends noticed the change.
Neha stared at him. "You're not just awakened, are you?"
Aarav nodded. "We've seen you disappear. Heard rumors. Rishi… what are you?"
Divya said nothing, but her eyes were sharp. Too sharp. She had begun studying dimensional code in secret. And she had theories.
He smiled.
"I'm just lucky," he lied.
But inside, something darker stirred.
Because somewhere in the deeper code of his Trainer… a new line had appeared.
"Final Hack Unlocked: WORLD REWRITE – 0% Loaded"
He didn't know what it meant.
But he was ready to find out.
To Be Continued…