The purple Vape menu on his screen began to glitch, the text turning into unreadable symbols. Suddenly, Leo’s own avatar began to dismantle. His armor fell off, then his limbs, until he was just a floating head above the void.

He’d found it on a shady forum after losing ten matches in a row to "sweats" who could bridge faster than he could think. The script promised god-mode: infinite reach, killaura, and a "long-jump" that would make the game’s physics weep.

The default skin began to walk toward him. It didn’t use a bridge. It didn’t fly. It simply shifted across the map, frame by frame, like a corrupted video.

Leo copied the wall of encrypted code, Alt-Tabbed into the game, and injected it.