by Tan Vir
To kill a god, you must first stop being human. Ashaf is a Dissector, a man who once looked for truth in the meat of the world. Now, he hunts the nine High Gods of Aethelgard. His only weapon is the Thorn of Divinity—a relic that can pierce divine skin but rots the soul of the one who wields it. With every palace that falls, the price is etched into Ashaf’s body. His skin is becoming coal-veined glass , and his memories are being "unpicked" by the very gods he slays. He is winning the war, but he is losing himself to a hollow, crystalline void. But the true horror isn't the gods—it’s the woman standing beside him. Guideau, once his sister and protector, is evolving. As the gods die, the "Asset" within her awakens—a cold, proprietary logic that sees Ashaf not as a brother, but as a prize to be contained.
