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Seekers Codex: Beyond The Abyssal Line

*Original Story* *Strategy shōnen with seinen stakes* “Four rookies. One brutal Seeker Exam. A hard magic system that judges actions. What does it take to seek truth in a world built on lies? The gods wrote the laws. The Arcwheel turns, binding every soul to an endless cycle — live, die, repeat. But the wheel is cracking, and something ancient stirs beneath the waves. Kai Xander was meant to be a footnote in history — another nameless orphan swallowed by the ruins of a dead age. But Kai doesn’t know how to stop, armed with a flame that heals instead of destroys, hunted by monsters, fanatics, and false gods, he sets out across a shattered world to find the truth buried at its heart. In a realm where knowledge is power and faith is weaponized, one stubborn Seeker will defy fate, question divinity, and light a fire that even the abyss can’t swallow. Slow-burn character and system build until the Trial by Mercy—then Ryōiki(domain) duels and war arcs kick off. Seeker’s Codex: Beyond the Abyssal Line Copyright © Hazzybae (HennessyTheAuthor), 2025. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form without prior written permission. You do not have permission to scrape, text-mine, or use this work to train or improve any AI system or dataset. This is a work of fiction; any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental. Official channels: Royal Road, Wattpad, WebNovel, and Scribble Hub. DMCA/Permissions: [[email protected]]
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Vain:Origin

... “Chaos is all you will bring, and oblivion is truly all that awaits if you continue down this path. Worse still, you shall drag the young and lost down with you to the same end. You must have realized by now that we have been abandoned. Our worlds are collapsing before our eyes. Countless lives despair and halt. Yet ■} refuses to raise a finger. It's futile to struggle so much, even when you know the nine pillars were compliant with their own execution. I thought you, of all, would understand. There is only one way to ■}, and that way is death. Yet perhaps you are no different from the Effigiēs. Those who believe they know all will always fear what cannot be known. I will not stand in your way, but I will ask you the question you once put before them. When all is finished, and you stand before ■}, what will you testify? What right shall you claim? How will you speak of the life you have lived, Cosmo?” What does it mean to be Creation? Haunted by an unforgivable sin, Cosmo, raised from birth by V.E.I.L., the universe’s most formidable military order, secretly embarks on a journey to find the answer beyond reason or time. When he returned with a newfound desire to climb to the top of the world, he was saddled with a group of outcasts down on their luck and abandoned by the world. Driven by a sense of kinship, he decided to undertake the responsibility of bringing them to the top of the world along with himself… by any means necessary.
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The Wolf King: Ash and Crown

The Wolf King: Ash and Crown is a dark, mythic origin story set within the wider B.U.D.D.I.E.S. Universe, chronicling the brutal creation and rise of Fenrik Solvhar Emberfang—the being who will one day be known as the Wolf King. The story begins on Helios-77, a quarantined research world where Fenrik exists not as a legend, but as Test Subject 100876: an alpha black fire wolf pup imprisoned in a B.U.D.D.I.E.S. laboratory. Subjected to relentless experimentation with a super-soldier serum derived from arcane water and synthetic strength compounds, Fenrik is deemed a failure and discarded. When his body is thrown into an incinerator, the researchers believe the experiment has ended. Instead, it begins. The incinerator awakens Fenrik’s dormant curse—an ultra-rare condition known as flame rabies—triggering a violent metamorphosis. He survives the fire, grows into a towering wolf of living flame, and discovers a terrifying new ability: the power to assimilate the strength, traits, and essence of those he kills. His first human death completes his transformation, forcing him into an upright werewolf form and severing his last ties to innocence. As Helios-77 collapses into chaos, Fenrik becomes both predator and protector. His bite creates others like him, not mindless beasts but wolves bound by instinct, loyalty, and shared survival. From these beginnings, the First Pack is born. Together, they learn to hunt, to grieve, and to endure in a world of frozen wastelands, ruined cities, and impossible biomes left behind by abandoned science. Fenrik’s journey is not one of heroism, but of inevitability. He confronts apex predators that rival him in size and terror, loses packmates to the brutal laws of nature, and learns that power carries a cost measured in blood and memory. When he defeats an ancient ice-beast and creates Ulric Snowfang—the first non-wolf apex to join the pack—Fenrik establishes a fragile balance between fire and ice, dominance and restraint. Throughout the book, Fenrik slowly learns language, history, and the truth of what was done to him through recovered audio logs and shattered facilities. These revelations shape the foundations of Lupine doctrine: memory must be preserved, cruelty must be answered, and no pack is ever disposable. By the end of Ash and Crown, Fenrik is no longer merely a survivor of experimentation. He is a ruler forged by fire, loss, and choice—a king without a throne, crowned in ash, carrying the weight of his people and the promise of a future that will one day shake empires across the multiverse. This book serves as both a tragic origin and a warning: the Wolf King was not born a monster. He was made.
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