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"I know what you are," Scar said, blade still drawn. "The last vessel said that too. Before the end."

Long Chen had survived the Great Merge on one rule: extract, trust no one, keep moving. Then the Dragon Vein Hunter System activated inside him and broke every part of that.

Now the clans want his heart. The ancient sects want his power. And something primordial, patient, and impossibly old is wearing his memories like a second skin, learning his voice, his habits, his people.

The blackouts are getting longer.

And Chen is starting to recognize what he does during them.

After watching his wife die in the first hellwave, battle-hardened tactician Li Wei inherits her power — a golden thread that bends fate itself — only to discover her dying soul came with it, slowly waking inside him with every use. Armed with the ability to rewrite probability and outmaneuver the Nine Hells, he fights to seal the Gates tearing the world apart. But the final Gate is not a location. It is forming inside his own soul — and the Hell King using him as a key has been patient for a very long time. As the woman he loved most rewrites him from the inside and his squad of young hunters edges toward fracture, Wei must choose between saving everyone and becoming something the Nine Hells have no category for.