Arcane Truth: Zero-Point Deviation

[The universe is a sequence of spells, and every sequence has a bug.] For a thousand years, the Mages of the High Council and the Priests of the Holy See have agreed on one thing: Magic is a gift from the Divine, a sacred flow that must be obeyed, not understood. To question the structure of a spell is heresy; to alter it is madness. Silas was never good at obeying. Born with a "broken" mana sense, Silas couldn't feel the "grace" of the elements. Instead, he saw lines. Jagged, redundant, and inefficient lines of crystalline energy that formed the fabric of reality. While others spent decades memorizing chants, Silas realized that 30% of the standard Fireball incantation was nothing more than "spiritual noise"—a cosmic tax imposed by unknown gatekeepers. By chance—or perhaps by a fatal error in the world’s design—he discovered the Zero-Point Deviation: a fundamental flaw in the laws of magic that allows one to bypass the Divine Tax. Now, Silas must navigate a world of floating academies, ancient bloodlines, and silent gods. He isn't just learning magic; he’s debugging it. But the deeper he digs into the source code of existence, the more he realizes: The "bugs" were put there for a reason.