Veridian rings of recombination

The world of Veridian broke four thousand years ago. The Bridge shattered. Five territories were cut off from each other. And the civilization that could braid frequencies together collapsed into myth. Now the fragments are waking. The enemy that caused the Catastrophe is stirring. And when the world needed help more than ever, THEY started to come forward. People who carried pieces of the old power. Some chose to share their knowledge in hopes of healing what was broken. Others kept their fragments to themselves. Jax Rivers had lost everything before he even knew what he'd lost. His father disappeared nine years ago without explanation. His mother sealed the grief behind boxes in an attic. And the only thing Jax inherited was a ring that shouldn't have been warm. Then he put it on. [RING ACTIVATED. HOST IDENTIFIED. WELCOME TO THE RECOMBINATION.] And his whole life was turned around. He completed quest after quest and became more powerful, building a team, acquiring fragments, learning to braid frequencies that hadn't been combined in four thousand years — until one day the system gave him a notification he didn't understand: [SECRECY INDEX: 97] [STATUS: CONCEALED] [ENTITIES DETECTING SIGNAL: CALCULATING...] Jax thought the Secrecy Index measured how well he was hiding. It didn't. It measured how close THEY were to finding him.