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by Cathedral
Dear Reader, Without your consent, you have been a part of Architecture. Your schools. Your cities. Your ambitions. Your ordinary life. All of it has served as the public face of a hidden world. You have fed us for years. Your reality masks our own. Elias is the architect of your liberation. Architect: Level Zero is a dark underdog LitRPG about Elias Mensa, a scholarship student with no patronage, no proper education, and no place among the noble Houses that rule Morrow University. At Morrow, power is called architecture. The great Houses teach it through sacred doctrines: Dyer cuts, Ashford opens, Bellamy preserves, Crane rules by hierarchy, and Thorne listens to the margins. Every class is supposed to reflect the House that shaped you. Elias was shaped by none of them. So when the System gives him the weakest-looking class imaginable: Observer everyone assumes he awakened wrong. Morrow is not just a university. The houses have kept a dark secret for centuries. Now, commoners are waking. Classes are forming. The greater Architecture is finally looking in. Expect: Dark underdog LitRPG progression fantasy A weak-looking class with terrifying implications Status pages, classes, skills, titles, traits, and evolving System mechanics Brutal class politics Doctrine-based powers set in the backdrop of concrete fantasy Academy intrigue escalating into civilization-level conflict If you like stories where the magic system is also the social hierarchy with brutal action and themes of underdog, injustice, war, and philosoph then this is for you!
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