by AceManuel
In a world where your blood defines your destiny, Silas was born empty. The High-Bloods rule the Five Cities with absolute authority. From the iron-willed Berserkers and the reality-warping Arcanists to the elusive Void-Marrow users, every human is born with a Spark of Spirit Energy. Everyone except the Dormants. Silas Vane is a Dormant, destined for a life of scraping grease in the shadow of the spires. But during the Great Resonance Test, something in Silas didn't just fail—it broke. Instead of a spark, Silas awakened the Zero-Ethic Archive: a cold, logical system that treats the sacred bloodlines of the elite as nothing more than data to be indexed, copied, and stolen. The Archive doesn't care about lineage. It doesn't care about "Spirit Purity." It only cares about Progress. Now, Silas must navigate a world that views his very existence as a glitch in the natural order. To survive, he will have to hunt the very High-Bloods who spat on him, indexing their most guarded techniques and building a power set that shouldn't exist. The gods gave them bloodlines. Silas is going to rewrite the code.
