He clicked.

He hadn’t tampered with anything. He wasn't a modder. He didn’t use cheat engines. He was a history teacher who played on his lunch break. The most rebellious thing he’d ever done was set the population limit to 500.

The system had called him a tamperer. But in the end, he’d simply outlasted the ghost. And in Age of Empires , as in history, survival is the only victory that matters.

But then, "A handle to an object was requested."