MALADA : The Odyssey of Keanu
Cain Iskar, an orphan struggling to reach the highest echelons of human society, lost everything he achieved because those at the top didn't want a mongrel among their midst.
Disillusioned and driven to the edge of sanity by the hidden truths of the world and the deliberate schemes of the top seats of power, he throws a final retaliation. To leak the heinous secrets of the world and lay bare the atrocities that those in charge committed.
His whole life was nothing but a staged drama by the very people he hated the most.
His name was just an insult that meant a caged traitor in the old tongue of the ruling 'shadows'.
The shadows that hosted the people with the 'lineages' that granted them an authority of mana, the wretched people of EmberWake of the Pholz clan.
Cain also held a lineage that granted him an 'authority', but he couldn't control that power; he didn't even have the slightest idea how, as Cain was the last of his clan and lineage.
He was given the name 'Keanu' by his late mother before her last breath, before she was murdered by 'Ravanan Pholz', the patriarch of the shadows, the knowledge of which was given to him by the perpetrator himself, to torture him mentally, as he was already physically broken.
Cain himself died in the fallout of a clash between Ravanan and another monstrous 'Inhuman'; Cain wasn't even strong enough to withstand the aftershock of their exchange of blows.
In his dying moment, Cain wished he could see Delilah one last time, to drown in her enchanting blue eyes, to feel her golden hair in between his fingers. He would give the world to go back in time and enjoy the childhood that they shared. If only Cain were less ambitious, then maybe, just maybe, he could have a happy life with her.
As the light in Cain's eyes died out, as his soul left his body, only for a brief moment, he was surrounded by a white space, where a voice spread out saying:
[By the authority of 'Sleep', I, the apostle of the Prime Illusionist and the beneficiary of 'Dream', grant you a link to your previous world up the cycle of Reincarnation. Play the part that the 'Triad of Existence' had defined for you.]
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Additional tags: #LateRomance #SingleFemaleLead #StrongFemaleLead
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45000+ words for free.
At least 1000 chapters.
Publishing schedule: Every day between 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM GMT+8
1500+ words per chapter, at least one chapter daily.
[ There could be a few-day gap in publishing, or the schedule may be changed temporarily due to my semester exams; to compensate for that, I will write an extra chapter in my semester break ( For a Year more, I have to juggle between two degrees, then I can publish without sacrificing my sleep and focus on one degree(yahoo!), details about extra chapters or change in publishing will be shared in Author's note and discord.]
This is only the first novel focusing on one world and one character of a universe I want to create before passing out; I will be glad (and sell my soul to write well) if you hop in on the adventure. (and pray for my health :)