A million players put on their headsets on a Saturday afternoon.By Sunday morning, nine hundred thousand were dead.
Remove the headset, they die. Leave it on, they might die anyway.
Caleb Stone’s son, Jasper, is one of the survivors, comatose and trapped. Caleb had already missed fifteen years of Jasper’s life. Drugs and prison. Mistakes a father shouldn’t make. He’s spent the last two years rebuilding his son’s trust. Realms of the Veiled Paths was their shared passion. Now, it’s Jasper’s prison.
Caleb abandoned his son once. He won’t abandon him again. He makes the only choice he can.
He logs in.
Inside, sixteen months have passed since the Rupture. That’s what they called it. Empires have fallen. Monsters roam. And the players themselves have become tyrants and killers. Or even worse. Comfortable. Only a few hold out, searching for a way home.
The veterans are level sixty. Caleb is a level one Tamer. A joke class the developers never finished. But the Rupture changed the rules. Now, Caleb can bond beasts. Fight alongside them. Become stronger with them.
And he’ll need to.
For as he searches for his son, he discovers a truth no one else knows.
The Rupture was no accident.
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