
by VincentCestaro
What happens when you give unlimited power to someone who just wanted to be left alone? Cade Merello spent his life staying out of the way — minimizing harm, asking nothing, expecting less. Then something from the sun kills him, and he wakes up in a world that doesn't care about dying the way he does. Civilizations that weaponize pleasure, commodify reproduction, and treat death as a scheduling conflict. Every world he enters has its own rules, its own species, and its own ways of breaking people who don't belong. Not causing harm used to be enough. Now the power won't let him stop there. What to expect: - Progression fantasy with a cultivation system built on elemental-like essences and tiered advancement. - A slow-burn power curve. - Alien worlds, alien cultures, and genuinely weird worldbuilding - not medieval Europe with magic. - Dual narrative. - Mature themes handled seriously, not gratuitously. - Written for audiobook pacing and length. Cover art done by Vadim Sadovski
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| 0 | Prologue - Earth | 0 |
| 1 | Chapter 1 - The Spawning Pool | 0 |
| 2 | Chapter 2 - The Lottery | 0 |
| 3 | Chapter 3 - Spiral | 0 |
| 4 | Chapter 4 - Descent | 0 |
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| Chapter 5 - Wrong Side |
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| 6 | Chapter 6 - Betrayal | 0 |
| 7 | Chapter 7 - Essence | 0 |
| 8 | Chapter 8 - The Coward | 0 |
| 9 | Chapter 9 - The Grind | 0 |
| 10 | Chapter 10 - The Egg | 0 |
| 11 | Chapter 11 - The Siege | 0 |
| 12 | Chapter 12 - Convergence | 0 |
| 13 | Chapter 13 - Fermata | 0 |
| 14 | Chapter 14 - Threads | 0 |
| 15 | Chapter 15 - The Gong | 0 |
| 16 | Chapter 16 - The Hunter | 0 |
| 17 | Interlude 1 - Waking | 0 |
| 18 | Interlude 2 - Reunion | 0 |
| 19 | Interlude 3 - Limits | 0 |
| 20 | Chapter 17 - Undertow | 0 |
| 21 | Chapter 18 - Crucible | 0 |
| 22 | Chapter 19 - Arena | 0 |
| 23 | Chapter 20 - The Gauntlet | 0 |
| 24 | Chapter 21 - Worldveins | 0 |
| 25 | Chapter 22 - Spawning Pits | 0 |
| 26 | Chapter 23 - Seed | 0 |
| 27 | Chapter 24 - Silent | 0 |
| 28 | Chapter 25 - Gauntlet Returns | 0 |
| 29 | Chapter 26 - Last Shadow | 0 |
| 30 | Chapter 27 - Lobotomy | 0 |
| 31 | Chapter 28 - Oops | 0 |
| 32 | Chapter 29 - Rescue | 0 |
| 33 | Chapter 30 - Tithe | 0 |
| 34 | Chapter 31 - Whisper Caves | 0 |
| 35 | Chapter 32 - Sanctuary | 0 |
| 36 | Chapter 33 - Rising | 0 |
| 37 | Chapter 34 - Genesis | 0 |
| 38 | Interlude 4 - Transference | 0 |
| 39 | Interlude 5 - Discovery | 0 |
| 40 | Interlude 6 - Exposure | 0 |
| 41 | Interlude 7 - Capture | 0 |
| 42 | Interlude 8 - Ascent | 0 |
| 43 | Interlude 9 - Invasion | 0 |
| 44 | Interlude 10 - Negotiations | 0 |
| 45 | Interlude 11 - Betrayal | 0 |
| 46 | Interlude 12 - Creation | 0 |
| 47 | Interlude 13 - Reckoning | 0 |
| 48 | Epilogue - Hollow Ones | 0 |
| 49 | Chapter 35 - Audience | 0 |
| 50 | Chapter 36 - Strategy | 0 |
| 51 | Chapter 37 - Creation | 0 |
| 52 | Chapter 38 - Spirilan | 0 |
| 53 | Chapter 39 - Contact | 0 |
| 54 | Chapter 40 - Negotiations | 0 |
| 55 | Chapter 41 - Your Turn | 0 |