When Alex, a struggling programmer, stumbles upon a mysterious spiral code, he unknowingly unlocks a doorway to unimaginable horrors. What begins as a simple line of code spirals into a waking nightmare-a descent into grotesque monsters, perverse rituals, and psychological torment. As reality bends and his sanity unravels, Alex must confront the terrifying truth: the Sleeper, an ancient, malevolent force, has been waiting for someone to awaken it.
Dreams bleed into reality, loved ones are twisted into abominations, and hope is devoured by the spiral's unrelenting pull. With each passing moment, Alex is forced to question what is real and whether he can escape the nightmare-or if he's already too late.
Enter a story where the line between dream and reality dissolves into chaos, and the horrors of the subconscious claw their way into the waking world. The Sleeper's Spiral will leave you breathless, disturbed, and questioning your own reality.
Trigger Warning: This story contains intense psychological horror, graphic imagery, and disturbing themes. Read at your own risk.
FORMER TITLE: Élan: A Youngblood World
"Beware that you become not the very monster you ought to slay."
Five friends embark on a quest to thwart an all-out cryptid-human war ... while the human-clothed creature among them resists the urging hunger to ravage his companions.
When the Cardinal Empire and Nyrhaea's time-forsaken creatures declare war on the human world, an immortal dark entity in the guise of a human, a broken swordsman, a spoiled electric-manipulating technocrat, an unhinged fire-breathing boy, and a magic-less girl whose very existence defies the Laws of Mahika, venture to stop the apocalyptic war. All the while dealing with the complications of entering adulthood.
With the grotesque inside him growing hungrier by the day, threatening him of the looming hour he'll fulfill destiny's bidding to be the key to the end of the world, the entity resorts to a mysterious girl who could only be his last hope to free him from the shackles of fate--an antidote given not without an undefined price.
But how long can he endure to bury the roots of the calling past? And what are they willing to risk to liberate a world beyond saving where trust, sanity, and long-term camaraderie are put to the test?
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Contains a few depictions of blood, violence, and dark psychological elements.
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