Tom was an utterly unremarkable guy. Bland job, blander apartment, and his greatest excitement was deciding between instant noodles or cup noodles for dinner. His life of masterful mediocrity gets flipped upside down when the System Apocalypse hits. No zombies, no nuclear winter – instead, his trusty plastic-wrapped noodle pots gain sentience…and ambition. Now the noodle pots, armed with magically boiling water and surprisingly vicious forks, are waging a hilarious war for global domination. Tom, in the absolute wrong place at the absolute wrong time, somehow ends up with ridiculously inflated Luck stats. As Tom dodges noodle-ninjas, navigates a world flooded with XP pop-ups, and levels up in skills like "Sauce Slurping" and "Spicy Tolerance," he discovers that luck might not be enough. The Noodle Overlords have a master plan involving microwaves and a stockpile of MSG, and only a goofball with the stats of a demigod has a chance at stopping them. With sarcastic talking cutlery, bizarre skill trees, and enough cheesy food puns to make a nation groan, Tom must somehow save the world – and figure out if a level-100 noodle connoisseur can truly compete with the might of the almighty Cup Noodle Emperor. This story is mostly AI generated, with limited editing. It is a test. Might be funny, might not be!