In the silence of Earth—abandoned, starved, forgotten—Leif Ayers wandered. One among millions left to scavenge the husk of humanity’s first home.
Then came the orb.
A breath of light in the dark. A whisper in the rust. He touched it—and the world tore open.
Dragged into a realm beneath thought, he met the eyes of infinity. Countless, watching, knowing. And from the void stepped the Prophet, a being of shifting shadow and cruel wisdom, who named Leif the Saint—the one fated to walk the Seraphic Path.
To awaken what slumbers within, Leif must bleed across the Lattice of Fate: a sacred labyrinth of living gateways and trials woven by an ancient mind. Through training, agony, and impossible choices, he will forge his soul into a weapon. He will become what he must.
But the Lattice is no mere structure. It pulses. It thinks.
It dreams in the voice of the Prophet.
And it has already begun to shape him.
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