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In Aethel, Resonance defines all life. A power shaped by one's deepest Goal. But the Iron Guild learned how to break that law.
Raised in their Dream Farm, Kael is their perfect weapon: a Resonator with an artificial Goal, conditioned to enforce their monopoly with merciless precision.
Yet when his first mission forces him to face blood, fear, and lies, Kael discovers the cracks in his own programming. His true Goal stirs beneath the surface, one that may destroy the guild... or himself.
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