Wake of the dead

"I want to go to the tower."



Those six words shattered Keith's peaceful morning. His nineteen-year-old daughter Persephone stood before him with unwavering determination, acceptance letter to Phoenix Academy clutched in her hand.The Nexus Spire ,humanity's greatest challenge and graveyard.



Keith had spent years building this quiet life. University professor by day, devoted husband and father always. His wife Akira trained their daughter in secret, believing he didn't know. Their small family was perfect, normal, safe.



But the tower changes everything.

As Sephy prepares for trials that claim more lives than they spare, strange things begin happening around her. Accidents that aren't accidents. Shadows moving where they shouldn't.



Keith feels something ancient stirring in his chest, instincts he'd buried deep, power he'd sworn never to use again. He'd built this life by forgetting what he once was, by pretending the past couldn't reach them here.

He was wrong.



Some secrets are too big to stay hidden. Some enemies too patient to forget. And when his daughter's life hangs in the balance, Keith will remember exactly why certain names should never be spoken aloud.



The tower has been waiting. But so has he.



After all, even retired monsters have claws.