Percival: Resurgence of Legacies [Remastered]

In the floating nation of Opuree, power decides where you stand, what you’re worth, and how easily the world can bury you. Mateo Hernandez has spent his whole life at the bottom... one bad day away from disappearing like society expects him to. Then his father dies.Officially, it was an accident.What Sergio left behind says otherwise: a wooden box, a trail of coded symbols, and secrets tied to a shadow network threading its way beneath the islands. As Mateo pulls at those threads, the truth begins to unravel, and so does the life he thought he understood. When the sky itself breaks open, he’s dragged into Soulbell—a brutal crater-prison where awakened wielders are thrown into the Crucible, a spectacle of survival and power. To escape, Mateo will have to grow stronger.To learn the truth, he may have to become someone unrecognizable. What starts as a search for his father’s truth turns into a descent through buried conspiracies, living weapons, and the terrifying question of what a desperate person becomes when power finally starts answering back..A dark fantasy/sci-fi story of prison survival, buried conspiracies, and a boy whose first real taste of power may destroy the parts of him still worth saving..Author’s Note: This is a full rewrite/reupload of the earlier version of the story, with major changes to prose, structure, worldbuilding, and character arcs. New Chapters 3x a Week! Current Plan: Tuesday/Thursday/Sunday upload days, and potential bonus chapters too :)