Goblin Smashing
Tokyo, 2045. For most, a future costs more than they’ll ever earn. For Rin Kazehaya, it costs everything: crushing debt, a mom kept alive in a hospital bed, and twin siblings plus Chiyo trying to hold the apartment together while he works himself sick. The only things he has left are a scooter, a busted first-gen pod at Sakura Arcade, and a desperate plan.
When Hero’s Glory Online launches its Crystal League expansion, one tagline fills the feeds: “Bring your business here.” One week. Discounted entry. Real cash for every win and every captured territory. Anyone can queue. Not everyone walks away ahead.
Rin throws in the last of his savings and logs in through a battered first-gen pod his father built. He’s betting everything on one miracle run. Unfortunately, fate has different plans. A glitch locks him into the weakest, most-mocked race in the game: Goblin.
Despite this Rin is going to prove them wrong. With nothing left but his game sense, a gambler’s nerve, and a dream nobody believes in, Rin is ready to see what happens when the weakest race in the game crashes the world’s biggest stage.
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