The Bugged System

How are systems created? Who tests them and makes sure they work as intended? Riva receives a system in her dying moments but this one is special because this system is far from complete and has more bugs than a computer game in early alpha.

It fails to save her life and revives her as an undead. Its skills are something untouched by the concept of user-friendliness. "Feature will be added in the future" is one of its favorite excuses. The only saving grace is her ability to report bugs and request features.

But Riva has her own goals. She lost the majority of her memories, yet she is sure that someone betrayed her, causing her death. Whoever it was will pay for it. She also remembers her goal of becoming someone who leaves their mark in history. Someone truly great.

Thus Riva is left with no other option, she needs to find a way to deal with the system's whims and oddities. And she slowly gets the hang of it and adapts by acquiring strategies to make bugs into usable features.

Isn't messed-up balancing great when it's to your advantage?

So what if the mana pool is reset when executing that one attack?

Isn't the fact awesome that the inventory items duplicate in case you sell them while taking them out of storage at the right moment?

And best of all, the ability to create infinite combos…

This is the story about Riva who finds a way to use that buggy mess of a system to make herself unbeatable.


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