A scarred, powerless-by-comparison drifter named Ez Emberss gets torn from his dying wasteland world and dropped into a sequence of strange new universes, each with its own war. He wins through fundamentals, timing, and refusing to stay down — never a bloodline power — and moves on to the next world when each threat is dealt with. Chapter 1: stranded in the elemental world of Hollow Vale, hunted by a Choir scout, distrusted by the Warden meant to guard against him.
Chapters (3)
The Stranger's Fall
Rook Kessin falls out of the sky into Hollow Vale, is mistaken for a threat, and proves his no-powers fighting style against a Choir scout — setting up an uneasy alliance and a much bigger threat looming.
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The Outpost Walls
Rook and Sable reach the Warden outpost, where commander Kestrel Doray's distrust gives way to necessity when Choir siege-giants crest the ridge. Under mortal danger, Rook's mysterious forearm mark flickers to life for the first time.
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What the Mark Remembers
The siege's first wave breaks. Ez and the outpost survive, but a fragment recovered from a fallen siege-giant resonates with his mark — and the Choir takes a very personal interest in bringing him in alive.
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