[World Merge Complete.] [Explanation: Earth has been designated as a dying world. To ensure continued survival, it has been merged with other dying worlds to create a new, sustainable environment. Expect altered geography, foreign entities, and system integration.] Basil had always been good at things. Never the best, never the prodigy, but always good enough to be around those who were. He had gone to the best engineering school in the world, but while some of his classmates made headlines with revolutionary research, he had just… passed. He was fine with that—mostly. Basil wasn’t delusional enough to think he had been robbed of greatness. Some people were just built differently. The ones who won had an obsession, a fire that burned so hot it left no room for anything else. He had ambition, but not at the cost of everything else. But when the world merged, he felt something else. A surge of exhilaration. For the first time in his life, the script had been thrown away. No more pre-written path, no more ceilings he could never break through. The world had changed.