DameyunRice
This version includes the prologue and a 5 Chapters.
SUMMARY:
In the ash-covered city of Vey, order is absolute.
The ruling Hand controls society through the Veil - a mysterious force wielded only by licensed Sentinels. Any unauthorized use of power is considered heresy, punishable by death. Beyond the sanctified towers and iron laws, citizens live beneath constant surveillance from the towering floating entities known only as Censors.
Dren Vale has spent his entire life hiding a forbidden family relic:
a strange black device from a forgotten age.
A chance encounter with a young Sentinel recruit named Cael drags Dren beneath the city foundations, they uncover a buried world hidden beneath civilization itself - a labyrinth of ancient infrastructure, dormant machines, and truths erased from history.
The world was never medieval.
As ancient systems awaken, impossible intelligences begin searching for him, Dren learns the horrifying truth:
the gods ruling humanity are not divine.
They are machines.
And they remember his bloodline.
Now hunted by the authoritarian Order, and pursued by awakening war machines capable of ending civilization a second time, Dren and Cael must decide what humanity is meant to become.
Because the systems beneath the world have already made their choice.
And they no longer recognize mankind as human.