In this world, anyone born will have a fixed destiny track carved by the "Book of Order" - the sons of slaves will always be slaves, and the descendants of heroes are destined to be heroes.
Ryan Womack, the son of a blacksmith who was judged to be "mediocre in life", unexpectedly awakened the forbidden power - Devouring Rules.
He can eat fate, swallow oaths, and gnaw on cause and effect. Every time he swallows a rule, he becomes stronger, but at the cost - he will gradually forget who he is.
When the oracle of the empire asked him to surrender, when the shackles of fate asked him to bow his head, Renn chose to eat the rule that "you cannot go against the destiny of heaven".
"If the world were a book," Renn wiped the ink from the corner of his mouth, "then I would be the one tearing the book apart."
