In the ancient continent of Aflocia, where bloodlines of power determine worth and the strong devour the weak, Garfield Van Turner was born into one of the most prestigious clans. Once hailed as a prodigy and praised as the next patriarch, Garfield’s fate took a cruel turn. His immense pool of mana—far greater than any other Van Turner—became both his curse and his chain. His body slowly broke under the crushing weight of it, his talents shattered one by one, until he could wield nothing. From the pride of the family, he became its disgrace.

Despised by his father, overshadowed by his prodigious sister Rose, and mocked by the heirs of other wives, Garfield’s life collapsed entirely after the death of his mother. In the shadow of the Turner mansion’s endless expectations, his name became synonymous with failure.

But fate had already chosen him for another path.

In the cold stillness of a training hall, Garfield encountered a mysterious Being—an ancient entity with power so suffocating it warped reality itself. The Being called him child of endless mana, yet unable to use it, and extended to him a cryptic blessing. This moment ignited the spark of his descent into darkness.

Cast away, Garfield abandoned the academy and sought self-discovery. His journey led him to Louzvel, where he shocked the world by slaying a dragon through sheer manipulation of mana. The feat earned him the title of Duke, brought him into the presence of King Athur Louzvel, and gave him access to the legendary Holy Internal Rein Library. Yet power breeds enemies. Betrayed and framed, Garfield was stripped of his status and sent as a slave to the Northern Continent.

Chains could not shatter his ambition. In frostbitten pits, Garfield began his forbidden research—twisting man and monster into grotesque hybrids. Bought by the calculating Earl of Grantham, Garfield perfected his craft in secrecy, creating a dragon–human hybrid from the Earl’s own son. When the manor burned, Garfield vanished into exile.

Haunted and relentless, he carved a new base beneath a ruined temple, until his existence was uncovered by holy orders and hunters. Weakened but unbroken, he fled into the desert, where monstrous serpents and scorpions fell before his fiery wrath. There, amid the endless sands, he discovered whispers of an ancient ruin—the Tomb of Suffering.

Its true name: Tomb Maizel.

Within the tomb’s walls lie secrets of the Forgotten Sons, thirteen direct descendants of the Forgotten God, a deity erased from all memory. Maizel, the Seventh Son, left behind a labyrinth of trials and forbidden knowledge. But the Being that follows Garfield grows strange, its voice glitching when speaking of this Forgotten God—hinting at a truth so terrible that even divine remnants dare not utter it.

As Garfield delves deeper into Tomb Maizel, torn between his cursed bloodline and his cold ambition, he inches closer to the truth of fate itself—and to the throne the world has forgotten.

Back in the tomb, Garfield sat before the mural again. The Library had given him tools. The experiments had given him proof.


Now he returned to the inscriptions he had first touched.


 "Child… there are truths that do not belong to mortals."


"Then I'll steal them," Garfield replied.


And as his hand pressed against the erased fourteenth name, something shifted. A crack split the wall, and faint whispers bled out—clearer now. Words that were not words.


The Being howled, glitching, its voice fracturing:


 "DO NOT—MENTION—THE FORGOTTEN—"


But Garfield only smiled. His path was set. The Tomb Maizel was no prison. It was his crucible. And from its depths, he would rise—not as heir to Turner, not as Duke, not even as man—


but as something the Architects themselves had once feared.


Chapter 15 - Whispers of Maizel