Developer Options: The Glitch Part 1

Looking it over, Min-ho suddenly felt his curiosity waning when he thought of the repercussions of what he was about to do.

The contents of the screen were unanimously the same for every Z-Streamer for generations. And yet, this was the first time Min-ho was witnessing something like this.

Hesitating for a moment, Min-ho dismissed his System. He turned his gaze to his Z-Eye and reached out for it.

Once it rested on his palm, he gave it the mental command to shut down.

Of course he knew it couldn't see his System, but he would feel that much safer knowing there wasn't a literal eye watching him.

Recalling his System, he hesitated still as he stared at the option. Taking in a deep breath, Min-ho mentally selected the option and in the blink of an eye, he was standing in the midst of white nothingness.

Or at least he assumed he was standing, but when his senses came alive, he realized there was nothing under his feet and he was hovering.

Min-ho gasped.

'What the hell?' he thought.

Immediately, his fight or flight instinct kicked in, and he felt like mush when he realized there was a massive chasm beneath him with no land in sight.

Flailing his arms and breathing hard, he tried to find balance, but he only ended up rotating like a cube in a vacuum.

Not too long after he started panicking, Min-ho realized he wasn't going to fall, so his breathing and heart rate calmed a bit.

Suddenly, a strange blue light resonated above him. Looking up, Min-ho's eyes widened when he saw screens manifesting from pixels.

Within the second, thousands of screens manifested, filling the infinite space around Min-ho.

Witnessing it all, he couldn't help but gawk as he found the scenery a sight to behold.

The screens stretched into the hundreds of thousands, seemingly filling up the endless space around him, except one spot.

Where Min-ho floated.

Before he could collect himself, a sphere formed around him, expanding till it filled up the space surrounding him.

Initially gripped by fear, Min-ho thought he had been trapped inside the sphere.

But when he wished to be free of it, his body swayed, floating toward the direction he wished.

When he was out of the sphere, he let out a sigh of relief.

Turning in all directions, Min-ho was sure it was all over. But just then, a line shot out from every screen toward him.

His breath caught as they exploded toward him with the speed of a bullet.

Unable to clear the area fast enough, the lines shot into him.

He shut his eyes, seemingly accepting his fate as there was really nothing else he could do.

But as the seconds went by, Min-ho realized he didn't feel anything.

Opening his eyes, he found the lines phasing through him, completely indifferent to his presence.

Looking at the lines coming from a multitude of screens, Min-ho traced their path, only to discover every single line leading to the sphere behind him.

The lines that converged around the sphere became so much, it completely overshadowed it, so that all Min-ho could see was a convergence of thousands of lines.

Ignoring this, he found his interest piqued by the screens themselves.

Turning to the nearest one, he tried to make his way toward it. And just like the muscle memory of walking, he floated toward the screen with relative ease.

Analyzing it, Min-ho's eyes widened when he realized it actually was a System.

[Name: Sun Lee-Won, Rank: E]

[Affinities, Equipment]

[Inventory, Shop]

[Coins: 6,000]

This was a System alright, and it belonged to someone else. Suddenly, Min-ho started to feel very, very small as he looked at the vast expanse of Systems before him.

'Am I...in the center of the System?' Min-ho thought, wondering to himself if he hadn't just gone mad.

Returning his gaze to the System in front of him, his eyes narrowed to the bottom, where a different panel rested.

It was completely empty, with the only thing livening it up being the line that connected it to the sphere behind Min-ho.

'This can't be it,' Min-ho thought, then reached out a hand for it.

When his finger grazed the front of the empty screen, it expanded and so did the line, which was in fact a wire that connected it to the sphere.

The wire split into multiple smaller wires that connected to several different nodes, each with their own description.

Looking closer, Min-ho couldn't believe what he saw.

[—Views: 69]

[—Gifts: Iced Pepsi(26), Taco(13), Inspirational Tablet(5)]

[—Affinities: Longer Reach]

[—Inventory: Empty]

A sub-menu detailing most of a Z-Streamer's most guarded secrets.

Min-ho gulped.

'With this, I could find the weakness of any Z-Streamer I wanted,' he thought. Upon coming to this conclusion, a name suddenly came to mind.

'Oh Gun-hee.'

If there was anyone whose secrets he wanted to learn the most, it was Gun-hee's.

A fire lit up within Min-ho when he thought of finding any dirt whatsoever on Gun-hee. But looking up and seeing the thousands of Systems present here, he realized just how pointless it would be trying to find Gun-hee's System.

Suddenly feeling disappointed as the fire in him dwindled, he sighed.

'If only there was a search menu.'

Just then, a screen appeared before him.

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