“Echoes of the Abyss” Before time began, a god sought perfection—and destroyed himself. His shattered heart scattered across the newborn world, birthing mana and the power of creation itself. From its fragments rose the Celestial Hearts—pure vessels of light, granting humans the power to shape reality. But legends whisper that when the deity died, his final breath carried despair, rage, and sorrow. From that agony, something else was born—an unseen corruption sleeping beneath the light. Thousands of years later, on a world without mana, Aiden Cross lives a life of violence and survival. An orphan turned street enforcer, he has long since stopped believing in gods, fate, or miracles. Until the night of his death— —and the moment his eyes open to a world painted in light and blood. In this new realm where power flows from the heart, Aiden begins at the bottom, with nothing but instinct and will. As others reach toward the heavens, his path leads him toward something far deeper— toward the whispers of the fallen god, and the forbidden truth of Corrupted Mana. What happens when light itself begins to rot? And when the soul of a broken man becomes the vessel of a god’s curse