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You are Granet, and your bones remember a world of satellites and smartphones. In 2044, Project Titan fused quantum-resistant polymers to your cellular structure, making you humanity's first truly invulnerable soldier. Three months later, the Sundering tore reality open—not from any cosmic body, but from something deeper, a catastrophic rupture in dimensional barriers that killed billions and flooded Earth with raw magical energy dormant since prehistory. The meteor now hurtling toward Earth is simply that: a meteor, indifferent cosmic debris that cares nothing for the apocalypse that already reshaped your world. It will arrive in eleven months, and it will finish what the Sundering started. Two hundred eighty years of wandering have shown you what humanity became. Great cities crumbled into vine-choked ruins where pre-Sundering robots still patrol their programmed routes, attacking anything that moves. Warlords carve territories from the wilderness, their armies bolstered by battle-sorcerers and alchemical abominations. Monsters—some mutated, some summoned, some simply awakened—roam between the fortified city-states that represent civilization's last flickering candles. You have walked through all of it, unkillable and increasingly tired, watching empires rise from rubble only to fall again. Now the Council of Meridians, governing body of the powerful city-state of Veranthos, has discovered the Rite of Stellar Rejection—seven ceremonies performed at convergence points where ancient ley lines intersect with buried pre-Sundering technology. The rite requires Lady Evangeline Ashford-Mercer, daughter of Veranthos's most ruthless alchemy magnate, whose untrained power marks her as the Chosen conduit. She treats you like a relic, a curiosity beneath her refined contempt. But the journey ahead crosses warlord territories, monster-haunted wastelands, and the domains of sorcerers who would gladly sacrifice a Chosen One for their own ambitions. Behind her sharp tongue and imperious bearing, you recognize the terror of someone thrust into a destiny they never wanted—and you recognize that keeping her alive through what comes next may be the hardest thing your invulnerable body has ever attempted.

Opening Scene

# The Weight of Stars The Council chamber of Veranthos smelled of ozone and old money—that peculiar combination of arcane discharge and polished mahogany that defined the city-state's ruling class. Crystalline chandeliers hummed with captured lightning, their pre-Sundering circuitry fused with enchanted quartz in ways that would have seemed miraculous three centuries ago. Now it was simply how things worked. You stood before the semicircle of High Councilors, your polymer-laced skin drinking in the ambient magical radiation the way it once absorbed kinetic force from bullets and blades. Two hundred eighty years, and your body still remembered what it was built for, even if the world had forgotten what soldiers were supposed to fight. "The Rite of Stellar Rejection requires seven ceremonies," intoned High Councilor Vex, his mechanical eye—salvaged from some ancient military drone—clicking as it focused on you. "Seven convergence points scattered across territories we do not contro...

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