The Null Star's Gambit

I wake up with two things: a name, Vasya, and the visceral terror of being hunted. My pursuers are Phantoms, glitch-like beasts that consume reality itself. I'm saved from the brink by being 'Synced' into the 'Resonance Cascade,' a brutal, televised survival game where elite teams compete for unimaginable wealth and power. Thrown into this digital hellscape, I'm a 'Null' - a person with no rank, no history, and a target on my back. My only asset is a bizarre, latent ability: I can perceive and stabilize 'Glitches' in the game's code, a power that makes me an invaluable, yet disposable, tool. Four of the game's top players now vie for control over me. There's the charismatic team leader who promises protection, the cold rival who sees me as a weapon, the playful idol who hides his ruthlessness behind a smile, and the quiet observer whose gaze seems to know more than he lets on. I must play them against each other to survive, but with every choice, fragmented memories surface - glimpses of a past where I wasn't the pawn, but the mastermind. Why would I trap myself in my own deadly creation?