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The world ended when the ancient mechanism of OAKHAVEN shattered. Now, a massive, swirling void known only as the Abyssal Tear hangs in the purple sky, constantly raining debris, monsters, and a soul-fusing disease called the Echoing Strain. Silas Vance is a scavenger, a nobody from the polluted, monster-infested Outer Slums. He survives by finding tiny, glowing Hollowed Cores—crystallized souls from the fallen city. Silas is different: he can fuse these cores not to weapons, but to himself. He is chosen by a sentient AI-Mandate, "The Hollow Throne System," which gives him a unique power. He can absorb the memories and forms of the monsters he defeats, summoning them as powerful Echoes. The catches? The more cores he absorbs, the closer he gets to becoming a monster himself. Worse, the System has cursed him with the Flaw of Mandatory Silence: "If he speaks the truth, his heart will stop." Silas must fight, collect, and deceive his way to the top. To survive, he doesn't need to be a hero. He needs to build a legend—and he must do it without saying a word.

A structural engineering team is hired to renovate an abandoned, deep-sea acoustic research station built over an ancient geological anomaly that transmits a non-human, sanity-shattering sound wave.

The immediate threat of Dubois was neutralized, but the underlying conflict—the global struggle between those who seek to preserve the historical balance and those who seek to exploit it—remains very much alive.

Paris, 1928. Curator Elara Dubois prefers the quiet safety of the archives to the chaos of the real world. But when she discovers a coded journal hidden inside a centuries-old text, she unwittingly unlocks a deadly race for a lost alchemist's treasure. She isn't the only one looking. The ruthless Argentum Society is hunting for the journal, believing it holds the key to immortality. Now, chased through the shadow-filled streets of Paris, Elara must use her wits to decode the puzzle before history’s most dangerous secret falls into the wrong hands.