by Mr. Buga
To reach the Apex, I have to forget why I’m climbing. Three years ago, the System Integrated Earth and offered Elias Thorne a choice: Save his sister, or save the city. He saved the city. Now, his sister's soul is a processing unit in the Data Core, and Elias is labelled an [Anomaly]. Locked out of standard XP, Elias has accepted a Cursed Class: The Memory Eater. In Onyx City, "Will" is the only currency, and Elias is the ultimate predator. But his power comes with a mechanical cost: Erosion. To level up, he must delete himself. To gain a skill, he must burn a memory. First, he forgot his childhood home. Then, his first kiss. Soon, he will forget the very face of the person he is fighting to rescue. Elias is becoming a god, one deleted piece of his humanity at a time. And the only thing keeping him from drifting into the void is Lyra, a woman who loves the monster he is becoming and refuses to let him forget her name.
