Voidseed Strike — Active. Unmake a small piece of a target's existence and instantly reshape it into a weapon of your choosing.
Genesis Ward — Defensive. Erase incoming damage entirely, converting it directly into a temporary shield.
Hollow Cipher — Utility. Perceive what a thing would become if unmade, revealing weaknesses no ordinary read could find.
Almond turned all three over carefully. This was new ground, and he wanted to walk it honestly.
"Voidseed Strike," he said. "Let's see what building from nothing actually costs."
[Card acquired: Voidseed Strike]
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The second trial opened onto a place where creation and destruction chased each other in an endless, looping instant, structures rising and collapsing before they finished existing.
[Stage 2: The Paradox Forge]
Half-built constructs lurched at him from every direction, formed and unformed too fast to properly track, and Almond fought them by refusing to treat either state as more real than the other.
