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Gabriel Alvarez was born with nothing. A poor Hispanic-American kid struggling to survive the streets of New York, he died alone and starving—just another forgotten soul. But death wasn’t the end.

He awakens in Neo-Terra, a world where magic and technology have fused into a powerful System that governs society. Every person has a class, skills, and stats, their fate determined by the System’s rules. Yet Gabriel is different. Labeled Unawakened, he has no class, no abilities—until he discovers something forbidden.

He can hack the System.

What starts as a glitch quickly escalates into something much bigger. Gabriel isn’t the first to defy the System—there were others before him, people known as Deviants. Every single one of them was erased. Now, the Academy that once offered him sanctuary wants him dead. The Federation considers him a threat to world stability. And an ancient secret buried deep within the System is waiting for him to uncover it.

Armed with his unique ability to override the laws of reality, Gabriel is no longer a forgotten street rat—he’s a rogue element in a world that runs on rules.

And if the System wants him erased?

Then he’ll rewrite it.

Reborn in a World of Magic and Machines

Gabriel sat alone in the Academy's training hall, replaying the moment in his head. When he had tapped into the System's energy, it had felt like grasping an invisible thread in the air—something intangible yet undeniably real.

No one else had reacted like they understood what had happened. The instructor had simply called off the sparring match and told Gabriel to report to his assigned dormitory.

But Gabriel knew something was off.

His opponent, a smug noble named Leon, had suddenly become quiet. The System should have been infallible—unquestionable. Yet for a brief second, Gabriel had glitched it.

Sitting cross-legged on the floor, he opened his status screen.

[Name: Gabriel Alvarez]

[Class: Unawakened]

[Skills: Adaptive Learning, ???]

The question marks hadn't been there before. He tapped the unknown skill.

[ERROR: Skill Information Unavailable]

Gabriel's heart pounded. If the System itself didn't recognize the ability, then that meant…

I have something this world wasn't meant to have.

A slow grin spread across his face.

For his entire life, he had played by rules that weren't made for him—rules designed to keep people like him weak, starving, forgotten. But if this world's System had rules, and he could break them…

Chapter 5: Breaking the Code