Soulstrung — Threading the Dead

They burned his soul on an altar — and called it his crime.

Kael was the youngest squire his order ever raised. Then the man he called brother fed Kael's soul to a sealed demon, pinned the sin on him, and rode home a hero.

Now Kael is a heretic on every wanted poster. No aura. No name. Working as monster bait on the edge of the Ashlands, where his life is priced at thirty silver.

But a burned-out soul leaves something behind: an empty vessel. And in the Ashlands, where three hundred years of the dead still whisper, an empty vessel is the one instrument they can play.

The dead have skills. The dead have grudges. Kael can thread them — seal the echoes of the fallen and wield everything they were, on strings of silver lightning no one else can see, learn, or survive.

The Church calls it heresy. The knights call it impossible. The dead call it a bargain.

Kael calls it a ledger. And everything received gets repaid — with interest.

What to expect:

• Weak-to-strong progression where every power has a price
• An anti-hero who keeps receipts — and a magnificently rude 300-year-old dead mentor
• No harem, no system screens. Slow-burn revenge done cold