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When the Veil cracks, what’s buried doesn’t stay dead… Seventeen-year-old Kael Arkan was never meant to survive the Fall. Born on the night the red moon split the sky and unleashed the first Veilspawn, Kael should have died with the rest of his village. Instead, he emerged with a forbidden power sealed inside his left eye — a cursed relic from an ancient war no one dares to speak of. Hunted by the government, feared by the people, and haunted by memories that aren’t his, Kael hides in the crumbling outskirts of Seraphiel, a city clinging to survival behind arcane walls. But when the Veil begins to tear again — letting through creatures that twist time, devour souls, and erase entire families from history — Kael is forced out of the shadows. To fight the monsters outside the wall, he’ll have to face the one inside him. Alongside Seraphina Vale, a prodigy warrior with a sharp tongue and a buried grudge, Kael is pulled into a web of forgotten gods, living weapons, and ancient conspiracies. As the city begins to burn and allies turn into enemies, Kael must decide: will he be the weapon that breaks the cycle — or the spark that ends the world? The truth is hidden in the ashes. And the Veil is thinning.
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Scions of the Cruel King

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