Gathering Shadows

After the fiery rain stops falling from the sky, the earth stops splitting apart, the rivers begin to flow, and light shines over the land once more. After a hundred lifetimes of reincarnation, the young man finally witnesses the end of the calamity. To reclaim something precious that he has lost, he makes a pact with the "goddess" who appears before him in his final moments: he will live on in another world, reborn into a new life. His peaceful days are shattered one day by the sudden arrival of a colossal beast. The mission he once bore and the fate awaiting him draw ever closer, while the gears set in motion a thousand years ago begin to turn.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.