Mark of Deviation [Urban Eldritch Mystery | Hard Magic | Dark Progression]

Reality is a glitchy script, and every patch is written in blood. In Saigon, "Normalcy" is the ultimate luxury. Anomalies—spawned from urban rot and collective malice—constantly claw through the seams of existence. Khanh, a broke architecture student, is the only one who can see the bleeding "Origin Veins" pulsing behind the neon sprawl. One desperate act of survival thrusts him directly into the crosshairs of BARS—a shadow syndicate that "cleans" the world ordinary citizens aren't allowed to know exists. Now, Khanh is shackled to a half-billion-dong debt, forced to work as a "Cleaner" for the metaphysical elite—men who price human souls like line items on a balance sheet. But Khanh holds a fatal secret: He doesn't just purge monsters. He wields the Null Pointer—the ability to permanently delete entities from the universe's causal map. Yet power carries a brutal exchange rate. Every erasure exacts an Existential Load. Khanh can still recall his dead teammates' faces, but he can no longer feel their warmth. Bit by bit, he is collapsing into a Hollow Entity—a void where his humanity used to be. As corporate gods and international assassins hunt for the ultimate reality-erasing weapon, Khanh faces a final choice: pay off his debt as a pawn, or delete the system that owns him.