The last thing Xenon saw before his account was deleted was a message in the center of his screen:
Back in the game world, his character—a basic avatar in starter rags—stood before the "King of Blades," a player who had spent real-world thousands to sit atop the leaderboard.
Xenon wasn’t a fighter; he was a coder. While thousands of players spent weeks clicking their mice to dust just to gain a +5 Strength boost, Xenon preferred the surgical precision of an injected line of code. With a sharp click, he executed the script.
