78:The Marcy of Emptiness

SYNOPSIS Title: 78:The Marcy of Emptiness Genre: Dark Fantasy, Action, Psychological, Multi-POV --- Seventy-eight ordinary people from Earth are torn from their lives and scattered across The Hollow Gleam—a brutal world of twelve warring continents, ancient magic, and creatures that have trained for centuries to dominate. Every single one of them arrives with a unique power. A power that breaks the rules of reality. A power they never asked for. Among them is Dante Castellano. A young man with an expressionless face. Hands that never leave his pockets. He is a master of every martial art that has ever existed on Earth. He can redirect any physical attack back at his enemy with twice the force. And when he fights, his kicks are so fast that the human eye cannot follow them. To most enemies, he never moved at all. But Dante doesn't want power. He doesn't want revenge. He doesn't even want to go home. He just wants a quiet life and a decent cup of tea. Unfortunately, he landed in Drakkenfeld—a continent torn apart by four hundred years of war, ruled by a Blood Emperor who has been bathing in the lives of his enemies for centuries. What Dante doesn't know is that this world is not new to him. He has been here before. A seal inside his body holds back something that once destroyed an entire civilization. His return to The Hollow Gleam was not an accident. And somewhere in the night sky, every time one of the seventy-eight dies, a star goes out. As alliances form and bodies drop, as ancient dragons wake from their sleep and vampire lords sniff the air for something they thought was extinct, one question spreads across all twelve continents: What happens when the one holding back the void decides to let go? This is not a story about saving the world. This is a story about a young man who already did—and is desperately trying not to do it again. --- Content Warning: This novel contains dark themes including war, death, slavery, and psychological trauma. Reader discretion is advised. ---