The Rune King of Chaos
The Rune King of Chaos
Synopsis
In the mighty nation of Zephyliya, a person's worth is determined by a single thing: their Rune.
From the simplest elemental Runes to the legendary Imperial Runes that command light, darkness, time, and reality itself, every citizen is judged by the power engraved upon their soul. The gifted are celebrated. The powerful are revered. The weak are forgotten.
And those without a Rune?
They are treated as less than human.
Dante Hayes was born as an anomaly.
A boy with no Rune.
No magical affinity.
No future.
No place in the world.
Adopted by the noble Hayes family, Dante briefly experienced kindness through the man who saved him from the streets and gave him a name. But that happiness was short-lived. When his adoptive father was mysteriously murdered, six-year-old Dante was framed for the crime and condemned without trial.
For ten years he suffered inside Zephyliya's prisons, enduring cruelty, isolation, and endless torment for a crime he never committed.
When he was finally released, Dante believed fate had given him a second chance.
He befriended a kind young woman named Daniella, gained admission into the prestigious Zephyliyan Rune Academy, and dared to hope that he could finally belong somewhere.
Instead, he found a world even crueler than the one he left behind.
Mocked for his strange black-and-white hair.
Feared for his unnatural eyes.
Bullied for his lack of Rune power.
Used by those who claimed to be his friends.
And betrayed by the one person he trusted most.
Broken in body and spirit, Dante is captured and tortured by his fellow students until he reaches the edge of despair.
It is there, in the darkness between life and death, that something answers his suffering.
A voice.
Ancient.
Forgotten.
Filled with hatred.
The voice belongs to Zelar Arguvs, the legendary Rune King of Chaos.
Once hailed as humanity's greatest champion, Zelar defeated the dreaded Celestial One and saved the world from annihilation. Yet instead of receiving honor, he was betrayed by the very empire he fought to protect, imprisoned for thousands of years, and erased from history itself.
Now the forgotten king has found someone who understands his pain.
Someone abandoned by the same world.
Someone ready to break.
As the seal imprisoning the ancient destroyer known as The Celestial One begins to weaken, Dante is offered a choice:
Continue suffering.
Or embrace the power of Chaos.
When the heavens tremble and the Capital of Zephyliya falls in a single night of blood and fire, the world witnesses the birth of a new nightmare.
No longer the innocent boy who begged for acceptance.
No longer the helpless outcast everyone despised.
Dante Hayes becomes the vessel of Chaos.
The harbinger of ruin.
The enemy of gods and men alike.
Now, with the armies of the Celestial One marching across the world and humanity scrambling for survival, Dante declares war on everything.
The monsters who destroyed his life.
The empire that betrayed the truth.
The world that rejected him.
And humanity itself.
In a world where power defines destiny, the boy born without a Rune will become the most terrifying existence in history.
And before his journey ends, the world will learn a terrible truth:
The greatest monster is not born.
It is created.
BOSSAB · Fantasy