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Arrow: Death-Loop

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Waking up as warehouse worker Charles Weston in the grime of the Narrows, a former project manager discovers he is bound to the Eternal Crucible System. This cold, clinical interface doesn't grant flight or super-strength; it offers infinite repetition through a death-loop. Every time he dies, he respawns at a "Bonfire" checkpoint, forced to refine his meager human stats through sheer suffering and trial. Transmigrated into Starling City just weeks before Oliver Queen’s return, the MC must navigate the dangerous Season 1 timeline with nothing but meta-knowledge and a high intelligence stat. Between shifting through shipping manifests and evading the Hood, he makes a choice to save Tommy Merlyn, a man destined to die, by becoming the city’s most efficient, invisible strategist. He once spent three tries just to open a mustard packet on a Glades park bench, but now he's hunting the architects of the Undertaking.
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