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Ashen Reach

Marcellus_wright
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In a broken world ravaged by bioengineered monsters known as Vireborn, society has collapsed under the weight of plague, war, and corrupted science. Governments have fallen, trade has ended, and what remains of humanity teeters on the edge of extinction. Amid the ruins of civilization, a boy named Jaziel “Jazz”, once a frail, discarded child, is raised in a lab and transformed into a kinetic soldier. Jazz is haunted by questions about life, justice, and whether “freedom” has any real meaning left in a world ruled by monsters—both human and inhuman.In a broken world ravaged by bioengineered monsters known as Vireborn, society has collapsed under the weight of plague, war, and corrupted science. Governments have fallen, trade has ended, and what remains of humanity teeters on the edge of extinction. Amid the ruins of civilization, a boy named Jaziel “Jazz”, once a frail, discarded child, is raised in a lab and transformed into a kinetic soldier. Jazz is haunted by questions about life, justice, and whether “freedom” has any real meaning left in a world ruled by monsters—both human and inhuman.
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Chapter 1 - Prologue

Freedom,

What is it, really? A right? A dream? Or perhaps a lie we keep telling ourselves to soften the truth.

One word—yet it splinters into a thousand meanings depending on who speaks it.

Some call it the absence of restraint. Others say it's justice, fairness, or the right to choose.

But consider this: in a world with no laws—where you can steal, murder, and violate with impunity—would that be freedom? Or is it simply chaos parading in freedom's name?

Maybe true freedom cannot exist without justice. Maybe freedom, as we imagine it, has always been a contradiction—a condition humanity was never meant to reach.

In this story, freedom is not a destination.

It is a shadow on the wall.

A haunting echo in a world that has already collapsed under the weight of its own delusion.

Here, freedom… is fiction.