Sigil-Eater

Root didn’t ask to survive. He just refused to die. Waking up in a simulation-rift designed to test and rank its students, Root was supposed to fail early—deleted quietly, forgotten completely. That’s what happens to anomalies in the Crown’s perfect system. But when the system tried to erase him, something answered back. Now bound to a summon that doesn’t register, carrying a sigil that devours classification, and glitching through a hierarchy built on obedience, Root becomes the one thing the Crown can’t process: Riftborn. He’s not the strongest. Not the chosen one. He’s just a mistake that lived long enough to ask the wrong questions—and survive the purge that followed. The Academy thinks it’s observing him. But the deeper Root goes, the more it becomes clear: He’s not the test subject. He’s the reset.