The stone walls of the Great Library felt colder than usual as Silas scribbled his seventeenth essay on "The Molecular Density of Frost Bolts." Around him, other students were dueling in the courtyard, their levels ticking up slowly, painfully, one experience point at a time. Silas was tired of being a Level 12 Initiate. He wanted the power of the Arch-Magi, and he wanted it tonight.
He had heard whispers in the darker corners of the Magician’s Rest—a tavern where the older wizards drank fire-mead. They spoke of the a forbidden sequence of spells that tricked the magical ley lines into granting XP for doing absolutely nothing. Ro-Wizard XP Farmer Hack
As he reached Level 200, the "hack" began to bleed into the world. The tower started to glitch. The stones turned into neon green code, and the sky above shifted into a static-filled void. Silas tried to move, but his feet were stuck in a repeating animation loop. He was gaining power, but he was losing his soul to the machine. The stone walls of the Great Library felt