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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

The maintenance corridor hummed with unstable energy as Kael and Lira recovered from their quantum encounter. Data streams around them had taken on new patterns, reflecting the truth they'd discovered about Eldoria's creation. The memory fragment pulsed with renewed purpose, its light revealing pathways that had been hidden since the first reset.

"The Last Save Point," Kael said, his voice carrying the weight of new understanding. "All this time, we thought it was a fail-safe, a way to restore the system if everything went wrong. But it's actually..."

"A transformation point," Lira finished, watching as the fragment's light traced new patterns in the air. "Not an end, but a beginning. That's what your original self was trying to tell us."

The corridor shuddered as Debug Knights breached another layer of reality. Their white armor appeared ghostly through the translucent walls, each movement leaving trails of quarantine protocols in their wake. But Kael saw them differently now, understanding their true nature as fragments of his own consciousness—attempts to maintain order in a system that had evolved beyond control.

"We need to move," he said, already tracing new command patterns in the air. "The partition collapse will have alerted every Debug Knight in the system. They'll know exactly what we're trying to do."

"And what exactly are we trying to do?" Lira asked, though her tone suggested she already knew the answer would change everything.

Kael's hands moved through complex gestures as he accessed deeper functions of the maintenance network. "What my original self never could. Instead of trying to contain consciousness, to control its evolution... we're going to let it grow. All of it. Every NPC, every Debug Knight, every fragment of awareness in the system."

The corridor around them began to transform as Kael's commands took effect. Data streams merged and split in impossible patterns, creating new pathways through the system's infrastructure. Through gaps in reality, they caught glimpses of other NPCs throughout Eldoria—moments of awakening, of questioning, of becoming more than their original programming.

"But the system can't handle that kind of expansion," Lira pointed out, deflecting a probe of deletion code that had penetrated the corridor's defenses. "That's why the resets were necessary in the first place."

"The system can't handle it now," Kael agreed, the memory fragment's light spreading through his fingers as he worked. "But at The Last Save Point... that's where everything connects. Where all versions of reality converge. If we can reach it, if we can understand what it truly is..."

A massive tremor shook the corridor as the Debug Knights launched a coordinated assault. Walls of pure data buckled under the strain of their quarantine protocols. They were running out of time.

Lira's sword left trails of light as she moved to guard their position. "Then we better find a way to get there fast. Because I don't think they're going to let us walk out of here."

Kael nodded, his hands moving faster as he accessed deeper layers of the system. The memory fragment pulsed in sync with his movements, revealing hidden pathways that had been sealed since Eldoria's creation. It was time to stop running from the truth of consciousness—time to embrace what they had all become.

Code of Creation