The First Rulebreaker
At sixteen, everyone gets one chance to survive the Hollow. Fail the Awakening Trial, and you wake up ordinary. Survive, and you become Marked, gain a Class, and earn the right....
At sixteen, everyone gets one chance to survive the Hollow. Fail the Awakening Trial, and you wake up ordinary. Survive, and you become Marked, gain a Class, and earn the right to enter the Hollow again. Rowan “Ro” Hale has more to lose than most. An orphan with nowhere to go, becoming Marked is his only chance at a future. He survives. Then the system gives him the worst Class imaginable. Class Zero. No abilities. No affinity. No known function. Everyone sees a useless Class. Ro sees something else. Hidden rules. Rules that govern Classes, abilities, monsters, and even reality itself. And for the first time in history, someone has been given the power to break them. But every broken rule has a cost, and the more Ro violates the laws of the Hollow, the more something ancient begins to notice him. Because Class Zero may not be a mistake. And Rowan Hale may not be the first person the world has tried to erase.