From Ashes to Empire

Darius Kane wakes up face-down in an alien world, his body miraculously healed from a fatal blow, under the gaze of two strange moons. He remembers the asphalt of Philadelphia, the steel-toed boot that ended his life, but here, only a vast, unknown plain stretches before him. When he drinks from a stream, luminous patterns bloom beneath his skin, a terrifying new power awakening within him. But the water holds another secret: massive, three-toed footprints circle the bank, twenty times over, proving he was watched, hunted, while he lay vulnerable. Now, with no weapon and no memory of how he arrived, Darius must confront the monstrous presence lurking in the shadows, a creature that has patiently stalked him. Will this impossible second chance be his salvation, or merely a prelude to a more brutal end?

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