In the slums beneath Veston, Kael fled before his mother's body grew cold. No sun. No flowers. No hope. No dreams. Winter and gang lords buried them all.
"Pray to the gods and endure for a better tomorrow," his mom said. Why would he pray to the same gods who denied him peace? Who thrust him into this nightmare? No, he'd carve a way to Veston with his own hands, and it started by breaking his promise to his mother for survival.
But the job for gang lord Garrick Vane went wrong. He was left for dead with nothing but a ledger salvaged from a submerged temple. But he refused death.
"I persist." Two words that awakened a forbidden power, an unlicensed truth anchored to belief and paid for in the warmth of his most precious memories.
Now a heretic hunted by priests who burn the unfaithful, Kael discovered the ledger tracked everything: his stress, his anchor, the price he had already paid. Every choice stresses his truth. And if his anchor breaks, he wouldn't just die: he'd become something worse.
What to expect:
- Analytical main character who thinks his way through problems.
- A deep, original system to decipher along with Kael.
- A lore-rich worldbuilding with its own religions and epochs to discover.
- Truths that aren't free entries on a stat sheet.
- No harem
Length: 1,600 – 2,000 words per chapter.
Schedule: 1 chapter daily.
Adamus_Auguste · Fantasy · 65 ch
