"YOU PASSED THE TRIALS UNSCATHED!" Theo asked, with disbelief all over his face. "AND ALSO WAS SAVED BY A SENTINEL, HOW?" I shrugged nonchalantly, "I HAVE A WAY OF SURVIVING." IN AVALON, SOME LEGACIES ARE WRITTEN IN BLOOD, OTHERS BURN IN ASH Kaine Ashen never wanted to be a hero, he just wanted to survive. Orphaned by the Empire during an attack on his village. Kaine has to figure out a way to live without both of his parents. Born as a Denied, a faction of people oppressed by the Gifted, the other half that possess Essence, a fundamental brick of magic in them. Kaine finds a way to harness his own magic from a crystal his mother gave him him before he death. The Eldritch Stone, a stone of great powers and also a great curse attached. Caught by the Empire harnessing magic, he is sent to an Academy to the Mystics, a set of elementals with extraordinary powers that our feat that of a normal gifted being. With his friends, they tackle and fight off an impending doom on the horizon, The Necros, a bloodthirsty cult rules by an unknown antagonist. Will Kaine and his friends save the empire in time, or will he die trying with the weight of his ancestors with him?

"WELCOME TO YOUR GREATEST NIGHTMARE!" The automated voice beeped through the coms, the voice cold and lethal. When a corrupted video game gets released on the Internet causing in the mysterious deaths of players. Jin, a local video game player gets an email from a secret company to test the gameplay for a huge sum of money. Jin has no other choice but to accept, but the catch is— No one has ever survived Deadplay.