Caelus Thorne was born into a good family. But at thirteen, he lost it all—his parents. The cause? Unknown. The memories? Gone. But he didn't care about his past rather, he focused on the present and the future.
One day before his 16th birthday, he saw a garden of his dreams, beauty is born from rot, and death blooms in the form of blood-red spider lilies. His parents, long dead under unknown circumstances, appear in visions too grotesque to be memory—visions that tear through the veil of reality like butterfly wings made of shadow and flame.
Caelus is dying, and he’s known it for as long as he can remember. Plagued by a mysterious illness that no doctor can explain, he survives each day on willpower, ritual, and the warmth of the one person who refuses to leave his side—Uriel Evernight, heiress to a family that would rather see him gone.
Now, on the eve of his sixteenth birthday, his Affinity awakens through an unknown ritual.
After that, he found out about the unknown world he lives in, and then his journey begins from there.
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This novel lacks a system, no level-ups, and nothing else; everything must be accomplished through hard work. There is a system-like feature only to track their abilities and ranks, which will exist in their cores.
Next, there will be a lot of gore, and even in the first chapter, there is plenty of it.
The main character will be a villain, as the tag suggests, and he will not become a villain directly; rather, through the progression of the novel, he will become one he may not be in the beginning. There is only a little romance, so I didn't put the tag, and the romance is for the sake of the plot.
Chapter words:
Max - unknown number of words
Min - 1500 words