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In a fantasy world called Eldoria, a young man named Kael lived as an ordinary NPC (Non-Player Character) in the small town of Arindale. However, everything changed when he suddenly realized that his world was nothing but a broken simulation. Every 100 years, this world would reset, and the memories of all its inhabitants would be erased. Kael, who had miraculously gained awareness, discovered that he could collect Memory Fragments—pieces of memories from previous resets. With this ability, he began to uncover the horrifying truth behind Eldoria.

But Kael was not alone. The Debug Knights, an antivirus program tasked with maintaining the stability of the simulation, started hunting him down, considering him an anomaly. Together with a group of heroines, each harboring their own secrets and motivations, Kael must find a way to stop the reset cycle before their world is erased forever.

The Last Save Point

A distant alarm cut through the cabin's strange silence – a sound like digital thunder that made the walls flicker and shift. Lira moved quickly to one of the impossible windows, this one showing a view of the forest that couldn't exist from their location.

"Seekers," she said grimly, her hand tightening on the windowsill. "Elite Debug Knights specialized in tracking anomalies through corrupted zones. They're different from the ones you faced earlier – more adaptive, more dangerous."

Through the distorted glass, Kael could see figures in black armor moving through the forest with predatory grace. Unlike the white-armored Debug Knights they'd encountered, these moved with almost organic fluidity, their forms bending and shifting to match the unstable environment rather than trying to force it into compliance.

"I remember them," he said softly, new memories surfacing like bubbles in dark water. "In another life, they hunted us through the Ruins of Old Eldoria. We didn't survive that encounter." The memory fragment pulsed in response to his words, showing him flashes of that doomed flight – the taste of fear, the sound of reality tearing apart around them.

Lira turned to him, her expression intense. "That's what makes you different. Normal memory fragments just show what happened. Yours... yours are teaching you how to survive." She moved to a section of wall that rippled like water, passing her hand through it to retrieve what looked like a map made of pure light.

"The Seekers won't give up," she continued, spreading the map across a table that kept shifting between different designs. "They're drawn to instabilities in the code – things that shouldn't exist. Like awakened NPCs. Like this cabin." She paused, looking at him meaningfully. "Like you."

The map showed Eldoria as Kael had never seen it before – not as physical terrain but as streams of data flowing through invisible channels. Patches of corruption appeared as dark spots, while lines of code formed paths between them. Their current location pulsed with a faint light, surrounded by spreading waves of distortion.

"The system is changing," Lira explained, tracing a path through the corruption. "Each reset leaves more cracks, more inconsistencies. Some of us think it's breaking down completely. Others believe it's evolving into something new." She looked up at him. "I think your return might be the key to understanding which it is."

Hidden Patterns