The Glitched Tutorial Boss: I Just Want to Teach You How to Dodge!
The Glitched Tutorial Boss: I Just Want to Teach You How to Dodge! is a comedy-action-fantasy webnovel set in a post-apocalyptic world where the boundary between a virtual VRMMORPG and physical reality has permanently collapsed. The story follows Arthur — designated Tutorial_Knight_01 — an NPC whose stat values underwent integer overflow after being killed millions of times during the game's launch period, resulting in combat attributes fixed at 99,999,999 alongside an intelligence stat of 1.
Following the catastrophic merge event known as the Desynchronization Error, Arthur gains full consciousness and ventures beyond the tutorial zone for the first time, interpreting the collapsed world not as a crisis but as an expanded classroom. Operating under the genuine belief that his abilities represent standard knightly fundamentals, Arthur establishes an unauthorized combat academy and proceeds to inadvertently reshape global power structures while attempting to correct his students' evasion techniques.
The narrative operates across eight story arcs spanning four hundred chapters, escalating from localized comedy of misunderstanding to an existential conflict against The Void — an anti-matter entity from outside the multiverse whose objective is the wholesale erasure of existence. Arthur's significance in this conflict is rooted in lore revealed progressively across the middle arcs: he is a Seed Character, a personality blueprint constructed by extradimensional beings called the Architects from the preserved memories of Arthar Veil, a human knight who fought The Void two thousand years prior and lost.
Thematically, the work explores identity, the construction of selfhood beyond programmed purpose, the permanence of loss in a world that once treated death as a mechanic, and the philosophical tension between the comfort of nonexistence and the pain of being alive. Its primary comedic engine rests on four structural pillars — sincere anti-climax, power disparity, the unintended consequences of good intentions, and face-slapping through oblivious virtue — while its emotional architecture builds toward a protagonist who must choose, consciously and freely, what kind of being he wishes to be.
The work targets readers aged 17–30 familiar with game-system fantasy conventions, and engages those tropes critically through a protagonist whose defining characteristic is not power, but an unconditional, unteachable sincerity that the narrative positions as the single most dangerous force in the universe.