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After the world fell, only ruins remained.

Liam Drex was born in the ashes—just another scavenger trying to survive in a wasteland haunted by shadows, silence, and stories of a forgotten god-machine.

Then he found it.

Buried beneath rust and time, the Eternity Engine—the last remnant of an ancient system—chose him. A train that travels not across land, but across realms, pulling its Passenger through trials designed to kill, evolve, or consume.

Each station is a different reality. Each trial peels away his humanity. But the deeper Liam rides, the more the train remembers him.

He’s not just a survivor.

He might be the reason it all ended.

Now bound to the system, hunted by monstrous shades, and haunted by a past even he can’t remember, Liam must climb—realm by realm—into the truth behind the apocalypse… and decide whether to reclaim the world or destroy what remains.

Eclipse Reclaimer: The Infinite Ascent

The forgotten carriage's window warped again, showing the same figure—bent, twitching, trapped in static. Liam could barely breathe as he watched it jerk and stutter, its face half-hidden in digital blur.

"That's you," Zero said softly, still sitting cross-legged on the scorched floor. "Or… the part of you that refused to forget. The train didn't delete him. It locked him here, looping the moment of collapse forever."

Through the haze, Liam saw his own face—but older, harsher, marked by exhaustion and fury. The Looper Liam slammed against the glass, his mouth moving in silent rage.

"Yes," Zero whispered. "And if he breaks through, he'll try to take your place."

Zero lowered her head. "Because he believes you don't deserve it."

The Looper's hands pressed flat against the barrier now. Static flared along the edges as he threw himself forward again and again. The barrier cracked.

Neith reached the junction between cars just in time to hear it: a scream of code that rattled her wristboard. When she checked the feed, she saw the manifest glitching:

"Two Liams?" she muttered. "What the hell are we walking into?"

Chapter 28: Memory Loopers