Kim Ji hoon stared at his tablet screen. The glow cast harsh shadows across his penthouse study. At 48, he had conquered it all. Navy SEAL missions that left scars and stories he never told. A medical degree that built a biotech empire. CEO stints turning startups into billion dollar behemoths. Even a stint training astronauts for zero G surgeries. Retirement was supposed to be easy. Golf. Yachts. Binge reading trashy web novels on shady apps. Tonights pick: some AI generated isekai slop called Heros Infinite Loop. The protag, a fellow Korean named Lee Min jun, gets truck kund into a fantasy world. Regresses with OP cheats. Hoards everything like a dragon with a shopping addiction.
"Greedy bastard," Ji hoon muttered. He swiped through chapters. "Starts with nothing. Ends with the world. Wheres the struggle?" He typed a scathing review in the apps comments: This AI crap needs debugging. Heros too perfect. Add a real underdog or its glitchy garbage.
The screen flickered. A pop up: Draft Update: Integrating User Feedback. Loading…
Ji hoons vision blurred. The room spun like a bad SEAL drill. Then nothing. Blackness. A loading bar in his mind: 47%… 89%… Error: Side Character Insertion Failed. Defaulting to Extra #47.
He woke up face down in mud. Rain pelted his back. No penthouse. No tablet. Just a thatched hut village. It flickered like a laggy video game. His body felt wrong. Younger? Weaker? Memories fuzzy. Flashes of explosions. Boardrooms. Operating tables. But names, faces, gone. Who was he? Ji hoon? The name echoed distant.
A translucent text box popped in his vision: [Draft Note: Insert Village Peasant Here. Skill: Error Correction (Useless). Delete if Irrelevant.]
"What the hell?" He swiped at it. It vanished with a glitchy spark. Standing he surveyed the scene: Medieval fantasy vibes but off. Trees clipped through rocks unnaturally. Villagers murmured in a mishmash language. Korean words mixed with gibberish elvish. One NPC like farmer approached: "Stranger the heros prophecy speaks of a great one from another world. But you… youre not him."
Ji hoon blinked. Prophecy? Hero? A vague recall: The novels plot. Lee Min jun the OP guy arrives soon. Slays a starter beast. Gets cheats. But Ji hoon? He was nothing here. No status screen. No buffs. Just a pounding headache and that weird skill.
Testing it he focused on a glitch. A floating apple stuck mid air. Error Correction. His hand tingled. The apple dropped normally. The text box reappeared: [Correction Applied: Physics Patch. +1 EXP to Useless Skill.]
EXP? This was a game? No a draft. An AIs half baked world. Curiosity gnawed: Was this the same real world as the heros? Or a parallel sim? He needed to find this Lee Min jun. Compare notes. If they were both Korean… maybe answers.
But first survival. The village elder a bearded trope with a quest marker hovering glitchily shoved a rusty hoe at him. "Work the fields extra. Or the glitches eat you."
Ji hoon gripped it. Muscles remembering SEAL grips but body protesting. Nerfed strength. As he hoed a memory fragment unlocked: Field medicine in Afghanistan. He spotted a villager with a festering wound. Ignored by the AIs lazy scripting. "Hold still." Improvising with herbs (Error Correction fixed a poison inconsistency) he bandaged it. The man gasped: "Healer? But youre no mage!"
[Correction: Health Logic Fixed. Skill Level Up: Minor Edits Unlocked. Village Rep +5.]
Word spread. By dusk Ji hoon had corrected a dozen glitches: A well that looped water infinitely (dried it to normal). A kids dialogue stuck on repeat (rewrote it to coherent Korean slang earning laughs). Humility hit hard. The man who had everything now begged for scraps. But it felt real. No boardroom politics. Just helping.
Night fell. A rumble the novels first event. A starter beast glitched into existence: A wolf with duplicated heads howling binary code. Villagers screamed. Ji hoon instincts kicking in grabbed a stick. Error Correction: Duplicate Entity. He focused. One head vanished. The wolf lunged he dodged SEAL training flashing back. A precise strike to the throat corrected to vulnerable spot.
The beast dissolved into pixels. [Major Edit: Event Resolved. Hidden Achievement: Bug Hunter. Unlock: Draft Viewer (Partial).]
A hazy vision: Lee Min jun the hero in a distant city. Greedy eyes hoarding gold from a quest. Slipping into Korean curses under stress. Hes like me… from home?
Ji hoon grinned through the pain. Curiosity burned. Hed track this hero fix the worlds messes and debug their shared mystery. But as the AI whispered [Update Incoming: Hero Buffs Enhanced] he knew greed would complicate things.