Tear through the veil of reality, burn with the blood of stardust: the soul-stirring opening to the Dimension Rift trilogy!
When an eerie warehouse on a rainy London night and a bustling Tokyo intersection at noon are simultaneously torn open by a nonhuman force, human civilization comes face to face with the malice of a hellish dimension for the first time. A metal fragment riddled with non-Euclidean grooves becomes the “anchor” linking the two worlds, dragging the fates of elite agent Ilya Thorne, genius stardust wielder Phoenix Thorne, and psychic warrior Raven Black into the abyss.
The soul is the lock; suffering is the key. The priests of the infernal realm use Raven’s near-shattered consciousness as a passage, turning her suffering into fuel to tear reality apart. Above the ruins of London, Ilya’s mechanical eye pierces the dimensional fog as he swings an iron fist, burdened by the dying cries of his comrades. In synchronous orbit, Phoenix burns the dangerous stardust power in the Thorne family’s blood, sacrificing her life to decipher the coordinates. Her crystallized fingertips pluck the strings of fate on the brink of annihilation. And in the depths of the infernal altar, Raven’s remnant soul becomes a blade amid endless torment. The very devotion that drives her to protect others becomes the only weapon against the infernal realm!
Even the sparks of mortal lives can burn the gods. With Tokyo Bay poisoned by nuclear radiation and Mount Fuji on the verge of eruption, Ilya wields a longbow strung with a strand of hair transformed from Raven’s stardust. Captain Sato presses his daughter’s bloodstained hair clip against the bowstring, while countless ordinary wishes, swallowed by annihilation in Shibuya, gather into a golden torrent. As a giant stardust tree rises from humanity’s shared attachments, and Phoenix’s crystallized afterimage lights up the infernal giant’s fatal weak point one final time, this battle with souls as its stakes reaches a devastating conclusion: the sacrificed become stardust beneath the deep sea
