The Weave Architect
By @john1208
The megacity of Veridia hums with a parasitic energy, its neon glow a fragile shield against the encroaching Entropy—a creeping decay that threatens to unravel reality itself. When the Nexus, Veridia's cryptic digital-spiritual guardian, selects its champions, ordinary lives are irrevocably altered. Silas Thorne, a quiet data archivist lost in the city's labyrinthine networks, finds himself among the chosen. Each champion is granted a portion of the Nexus's power, manifesting as a suite of combat protocols and a defined Archetype: Enforcers, Sentinels, Tacticians. While his peers distribute their resonance across multiple potent abilities, Silas makes a controversial choice. He pours his entire allocation into a single, seemingly innocuous protocol: "Aetheric Weave," leaving him categorized as a mere 'Node Analyst'—the weakest of the weak. Unbeknownst to the glittering Enforcers and formidable Sentinels, Silas's singular investment hides a terrifying potential, a subtle manipulation of reality's very fabric that could either be Veridia's salvation or its undoing. The Entropy advances, and the city’s chosen stand ready, blind to the true weapon among them.
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