What would you do if you knew there were enemies near the ones you love?
If you had to choose between hiding your true self to live the simple life you wanted and risking everything for the sake of everyone, what would you choose?
Only one night changes everything for Samantha Daley, a now 20-year-old Cashier from the Philippines.
The woman knows that her wish of having a quiet life is over. Her past, a burden she thought she'd escaped, reemerges, revealing her true destiny: to be the world's savior, the last bastion against a force that has plunged her own world into darkness.
Samantha is thrust back into a role she never wanted, wielding a power she never sought. But as she embraces her destiny, she grapples with a moral dilemma: can she truly be the unshackled force she's meant to be? Can she sacrifice her ideals to vanquish the evil that threatens to consume her own world? The world who gave her so much pain. The world she used to call home.
The Reign of the Unshackled begins, but will it bring salvation or unleash a chaos that eclipses even the darkness she's vowed to defeat?
She is a mystery, a blend of the familiar and the unknown, and a puzzle waiting to be solved.
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" Don't be fooled by what you see, my dear. I might wear a smile, a mask of kindness, even a touch of innocence. You might see a fragile, powerless creature, but that's just a surface, a facade. The truth runs deeper. And if you're truly determined to uncover it, to know the real me, be sure you're ready. Because what you find might not be what you expect. It might be something you wish you never knew. "
No one ever knows the whole story...
Nestled deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, something is emerging. Kept in absolute secrecy, it seeps into a fading town, quietly shared from person to person. For Alden Bensen, a directionless high school graduate, this discovery could mean an escape from his empty existence. To Rachel DuValle, perpetually underestimated and dismissed by the world, magic represents a chance to become something much greater than herself.
In the face of an unsuspecting world, their decisions shape the growth of a budding society discovering untold power. This potent force offers anyone the power to change humanity forever - or send it cascading into swift and total annihilation.
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The Last Science is an ongoing science-fiction / low-fantasy web novel series. New chapters will be posted on Fridays for as long as it takes to tell the whole story. For Wattpad only, chapters are split up by individual scenes-if you would prefer the whole chapters in single pieces, please visit my homepage or another site where I post this story, thanks!
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