APOTHEOSIS OF THE NAMELESS

Fifteen-year-old Lucien has lost everything—his family, his identity, and any reason to keep living. War stripped him of innocence. Survival cost him his soul. When it’s finally over, he walks into the ocean, ready to disappear for good.

But something watches from the dark.

A forgotten god, born of death and silence, takes interest in the boy who no longer wants to live. Drawn to Lucien’s emptiness, the god offers him a second chance—not out of mercy, but curiosity. What happens when a soul with nothing left is given power?

Lucien wakes in a dead sea beneath a black moon. Reborn. Changed. Not alive, not dead—something in between. The world believes he’s gone. But he’s only just begun to become.

Now nameless, bound to a god who won’t explain the rules,