The Hollow World

In New Eden, an island metropolis cut off from the world by an endless wall of gray fog, survival isn’t a right—it’s a statistical anomaly. Only one in ten thousand is truly human. Everyone else is something wearing a face. Eddie thought he was ordinary until the night the city’s predators noticed him—and his body answered with a brutal system called P.U.L.S.E. When hostile intent locks on, it locks back, hijacking his instincts and turning fear into precision violence. To stay alive, Eddie is forced into the hidden war beneath the neon: Awakeners with impossible gifts, black-market “fate points” that rewrite outcomes, and Stigmata—marks that grant power at a price. Beyond the fog lurk dark-matter entities that don’t hunt bodies—they hunt meaning. Above them all sits the Zodiac Council, rewriting the city’s rules from the shadows.