The Proving

They were the best of Earth’s children before they ever knew they’d been chosen.

At fifteen years old, five strangers were pulled into Ashvale — a simulated world built to forge Earth’s Champions for a war humanity didn’t yet know it was fighting. Twelve years of trials, Tiers, and Awakenings would pass inside the simulation. Only four years would pass outside it.

They graduated as something more than soldiers, and less than they used to be — bound together by battles no one on Earth could fully understand, and by a boy named Ren, who arrived among them already a mystery: no file, no family, no explanation for why he existed at all.

Now the real war has begun. The Choir has come to collect on a bargain struck twenty years before any of them were born, and the price of losing is everything. As the Severance grinds toward its final match, old secrets refuse to stay buried — and Ren will learn that the truth of who he is was never a secret at all. It was a promise.

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