Arc 1: The Forgotten Truth
CHAPTER 000
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Intro
In a dystopian future, humanity has learned to extract emotions and memories—bottling them into a digital form called Ethers. These Ethers are traded like cryptocurrency: joy is expensive, pain is cheap, love is priceless but rare. The poor sell their memories to survive. The rich buy experiences they never lived.
People no longer value life itself—only the feeling of it.
VOLUME 1: THE FORGOTTEN TRUTH
In the shadows of a city that never sleeps, where memories are traded like stocks and guilt is more valuable than gold, Asher Vale is the best at what he does: extracting souls, packaging pain, and turning trauma into currency.
But when his latest trade unlocks a memory sealed deep within his own mind, he becomes the hunted.
Unwillingly thrown into a war between the keepers of the past and the manipulators of the future, Asher must navigate a world where nothing—not even your own mind—can be trusted.
What he discovers could unmake him… or save everyone.
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