by Joeythefox
Horst, a legendary hybrid gunslinger known as the Desert Wraith, bleeds out in the dust after a job gone wrong—taken down not by an enemy, but by his own cocky mistake. As death closes in, a mysterious, sardonic AI awakens him, grafting a cosmic "System" onto his body and marking him as a pawn in a galactic power's game. Now supernaturally enhanced but forever changed, Horst is found by Benny, his former partner and the only woman who ever got under his scales. She delivers a double dose of bad news: three years have passed in his exile, and the man who hired him now wants him dead. As they take refuge in Benny's fortified camp, Horst grapples with volatile new senses, a simmering vendetta, and the haunting news he must deliver to his family. But a whispered rumor in the mess tent hints at a catastrophe far greater than his personal war: a coastal town has been annihilated by a flood in a world where the oceans vanished a century ago. The System's arrival isn't just about personal power—it's rewriting the very world. With a traitor at his back, an old flame at his side, and a universe of trouble on the horizon, Horst must sharpen his new edge before the coming storm washes away everything left to fight for.
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