"Free Down..." the prompt on his secondary monitor flickered. He clicked it.

The flickering neon lights of the Zero Hub interface cast a rhythmic, digital blue pulse across Ren’s face. In the world of Anime Fighters Simulator , Ren was a nobody—a player with a starter "Deku" unit and a dwindling pile of yen. But tonight, the "Zero Hub Hack" was finally loaded.

Ren watched, paralyzed, as his character automatically zipped across the map at lightspeed. Every boss in the Star Center fell before he even saw them. Legendary units—characters that players spent thousands of dollars to roll—were being sucked into his inventory like dust into a vacuum. But then, the "Zero" in Zero Hub started to make sense.