He took no pleasure from this. None at all. But Wynn had been murdered and come back from his grave screaming, had found a world so utterly insane that to ponder made him sick, and decided that enough was enough. Enrolled in a school after some of his illegal dealings are discovered, and pulled into a wide, complicated web of incomplete information and untrustworthy allies, Wynn finds himself at the crossroads of three bloody destinies, desperately holding off a weight too big for his shoulders. Something's got to give. ••••• Murdered and resurrected for mysterious purposes, Wynn only had three goals in life. Three reasons to stay on the odd planet of Aether-3, where fiction was fact and people lied to your face all the time. One, keep up his secret identity, since it served him very well. Two, keep himself away from anything long-term troublesome. Three, find out the truth about his resurrection... and who he had to kill for it. This whole thing with magic? This whole thing with schools? This whole thing with missions? He'd never expected any of it. But it didn't matter. The third goal was the only one that really mattered, anyway. He'd run through whatever he has to get to it.

Jason isn't anything special. He's smart, but he's no Einstein. Fast, but he's no runner. Keen, but no debater. And his social skills aren't quite up to par — being hated or feared by almost everyone you know will do that to you. But it wasn't all bad. Okay, it was. But he took solace in a few aimless things — in heading to the old library by the town fountain and reading the days away, chatting with the only friend he had left and pretending to be somewhere else. Unfortunately, that woman turned out to be a goddess. As it so happens, before choosing champions to represent them from all sorts of different worlds, the gods will incarnate into those worlds and interact with their chosen.Then, they will take those champions away, together with a few dozen others — a process called the Dislocation, meant to repopulate their world with new souls. Taken to a mercilessly cold world where war brews at all times, marked by what is universally recognised as a vile and evil goddess, and armed with nothing more than the game-like power to grow all Champions get and the strange power to consume souls, Wynn has to do exactly three things. Survive. Cut down the many who would see him fall. And find out the truth behind the Dislocation. ______ It was not that he didn't want to be good. He did. He'd wanted so desperately to be good, to feel like he was worth something — but sometimes, when the world kicks you down for long enough, you take in some of the venom they projected on you. It's not that Jason didn't want to be good. It's not that he didn't want to be a hero, to prove everyone wrong. But you do not give traumatized children the power to grow without limits from carnage and repetition and not expect it to go south. This little Alice wasn't lured into the rabbit hole — he was pulled down from above by those who watched him. And Jason — who now calls himself Wynn — will set this wonderland on fire to find out why. ____ OR: What would really happen if you gave an angry, traumatized child the power to grow as if they were a character from a videogame and threw them into a merciless fantastical world.