Artifice: Alpha 1.1 (Patreon)

Like with Recursive Wisdom Ch 1, I finished this and decided to let you guys all see it. Remember that Nier: Automata x Worm crossover idea I floated about? This is it.

Again, not replacing Essence, but one of the possible successors to it once it's finished. Essence will continue to its inevitable end.

Anyway, this is quite a bit shorter than I usually write, even shorter than the shortest of Essence's chapters. As a litmus test, I might actually need to write another two chapters before you can actually get a good idea of what this story's about and where the idea might go.