15 Views 0 Favorites 2 Chapters 1 Chapters/Week 0 Readers 0 Reviews 8.7k Words Jun 13, 2025 ThriceRecklessSS In a world overlaid with virtual realities, humanity is divided: Divers who access digital realms and the Tethered who cannot.
Kael Augur, a nineteen-year-old suffering from Emotional Nullification Syndrome, has accepted his fate as a Tethered clerk in the Iron Concord's Remembrance Bureau. Under Darius Cresswell, a privileged Diver, Kael's days pass in predictable monotony archiving records of fallen heroes.
When a high-priority mission requires urgent retrieval from contested space, their routine assignment spirals into unexpected violence. What should have been a standard procedure reveals cracks in the Iron Concord's carefully constructed reality.
As Kael and Darius become entangled in events spanning both real and virtual worlds, they discover disturbing inconsistencies in the narrative they've
... more>> been taught to believe. The boundaries between ally and enemy blur, raising questions about the virtual layers themselves—how they came to be and what truly lies at their deepest levels.
In a society where asking questions is dangerous, Kael begins to suspect his condition may not be the limitation he believed, but something far more significant.
Where do the virtual layers end? And what awaits those who dare to find out?
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