"Kill me, quickly! This time, it has to be 0.7 seconds faster than last time!"
> Time prisoner Lu Shi uses 174 precisely timed deaths to pry open a 0.3-second opening in an eternal execution ground where he has been trapped in a loop thirty thousand times. When his palm tears through the barrier of spacetime, a liquid river of stars surges before his eyes...
> Three hundred years of humiliation erupt in a maniacal laugh.
> **"The Temporal Council? Starting today, I claim your authority!"**
> Hard sci-fi meets a desperate prison break. He stakes ten thousand deaths to usurp the authority of the gods!
