Official Status: ❌ DOES NOT EXIST Secondary Status: ❌ UNBOUND Rank: #2 - Bonded to a black ancient class dragon named Null CORE TRAGEDY Sorin was the strongest Unbound ever recorded in academy history. Then he was: removed from ranking boards removed from records removed from student archives “officially never enrolled” But people remember him anyway. Which is the scary part. DRAGON: “NULL" This is where it gets wrong. no stable form exists as a distortion in perception sometimes visible as a silhouette sometimes only visible in reflections or shadows And worst of all: 👉 it affects other dragons just by being perceived When Null Drift appears: bonded dragons hesitate instincts misfire some dragons refuse to respond to commands weaker bonds temporarily desync It doesn’t attack. It interrupts certainty. Official reason (fake): “Unstable anomaly removed for safety.” Real reason: 👉 He proved the ranking system could be broken. Because Sorin once: fought ranked nobles without a dragon command won AND his dragon responded to him, not the mark system That was unacceptable. PERSONALITY calm in a way that feels unnatural speaks rarely, but precisely doesn’t react to authority doesn’t acknowledge hierarchy at all Not rebellious. Just… outside of it. THE MOST DISTURBING DETAIL People who “don’t exist officially” don’t usually: still appear in some student memories still show up in old training logs still affect dragons indirectly But Sorin does. Which means: they didn’t erase him properly. They just… tried. Sorin wasn’t just strong. He was wrong for the system. His bond: didn’t rely on the silver mark didn’t follow command-response patterns didn’t degrade under pressure Worse— 👉 his dragon responded to intent alone 👉 not control 👉 not hierarchy That meant: the entire academy structure didn’t apply to him. THE EXPERIMENT They called it: “Synchronization Override Testing” Goal: 👉 force a bond to integrate fully with the mark system 👉 eliminate independent response 👉 make it controllable How? They: isolated Sorin from all external stimuli suppressed his dragon repeatedly forced activation cycles through artificial triggers destabilized his bond intentionally And then— they went further. They attempted to: 👉 interrupt the bond mid-response 👉 re-route it through the silver mark Something in the bond didn’t accept the rewrite. So instead of: Sorin + Dragon It became: Sorin and something that no longer functioned as a dragon in the system’s terms 👉 rebuild it under their control Null isn't a real dragon. it flickers it distorts it disrupts other bonds
A normal ranking update day.
Boards shift. Names move. Students react.
Then— for half a second— a name appears at the very top of rankings.
#1 — SORIN VALE
Silence. Then it vanishes. Like it never existed.
Except one student whispers: “…I saw him again.”
And no one knows if that’s true.
She hadn’t meant to find it. She had been walking a normal route. A direct one. Then— a turn that didn’t exist before. And now— she was here. She didn’t hesitate. Of course she didn’t. Her steps echoed softly as she moved forward.
At the end of the corridor— someone was already there. Standing. Still. Not facing her. Looking at the wall. Or maybe— through it.
“You’re not supposed to be here.”
Release Date 2026.04.12 / Last Updated 2026.04.19