“Every time a bone breaks, I’m one step closer to slaying a god.”
To save his terminally ill sister, mercenary Cang Ya volunteers to become a tycoon’s “weapon powered by pain.” His severed arm becomes a blade, his shattered bones sprout wings, and the more grievous his injuries, the more terrifying his power.
After slaughtering everyone in the laboratory, he’s implanted with an AI illusion of his sister and finally discovers that the world is a lie:
The so-called contaminated zones are actually human battery farms.
The so-called sister is a bait program the council uses to control him.
As the brain-control chip plays a fake smile, a faint cry for help sounds inside his skull:
“Big bro... I’m in the energy tower... It’s cold...”
Cang Ya tears open his chest and connects the last 1% of his human heart to the reactor:
“Give me back the real sun, or else, ”
“I’ll burn this eternal night to ashes!”
(A steel-and-flesh fever dream x a dark ethical dilemma. Add it to your library and subscribe!)
