The sky bled purple.
It wasn't the sunset. It wasn't magic. It was the aftermath of a timeline fracture—a cosmic wound that never stopped weeping. Cracks etched the heavens like veins, pulsing with faint screams only the soulless could hear.
And beneath that broken sky… stood a boy.
Torn robes clung to his thin frame, soaked in black mud and ash. No system window floated near him. No class. No skills. No name.
Just a tag.
[ERROR: UNIDENTIFIED ENTITY DETECTED][FATE THREAD NOT FOUND]
He was born without a thread—in a world where every soul was tied to the Loom of Destiny.
"You shouldn't exist," the High Priest once whispered when he was only six. "You're the space between thoughts… the silence in the weave."
Even now, Null remembered that voice. Calm. Cold. Full of terror.
He'd lived nameless for fifteen years, cast off by every church, academy, and system. Other children awakened their paths at ten. He awakened nothing.
Until tonight.
Until the Riftquake shook reality—and the ground beneath him collapsed into the abyss.
Null fell.
Not through earth or air—but time itself.
Colors melted. Memories reversed. Shadows howled in foreign languages.
[!!! WARNING !!! Timeline Sync Failed!][Anchor Soul Rejected by Loom Protocol][Class Allocation: ERROR][Initializing CORE PATCH…][You have awakened: HOLLOW CORE (UNSTABLE)]
The pain was silent.Like drowning in black tar while your thoughts were peeled apart.
He opened his eyes……and found nothing.
A void. A throne of bones floating in infinite darkness.At its base, a mirror of him—eyes hollow, voice ancient.
"We are what they left behind.""They consumed the world and called it order. We consume order and call it freedom."
The reflection reached out.Null took the hand.
[HOLLOW CORE LINKED.][Skill: Devour Essence – Acquired][Skill: Echo Shell – Acquired][Passive: Identity Suppression – Active][Welcome, Sovereign Candidate.]
For the first time in his life…He felt full.
Not of emotion. Not of power. But of purpose.
And when he looked back, the mirror was gone.But the world had already begun to change.
Back on the surface, dungeons cracked open like eggshells. Cities flickered in and out of existence. Heroes screamed as their class data corrupted mid-battle.
And in the ruins of a broken chapel, the boy with no fate rose to his feet—eyes glowing with void light.
The System tried to erase him.Now, he would erase the System.
[Sovereign Path Initiated.][Begin Devouring Epoch One.]