Crimson Dominion of The Godless System
Sam is a quiet fourteen-year-old boy from the slums of Earth who awakens a rare spatial power—and with it, the shattered memories of Nova Almond, a betrayed prince murdered a decade ago by his best friend on orders from the cosmic Emperor who rules humanity. As Sam's soul fully merges with Nova's, he discovers a cache left by his sister Nora containing three fragments of the legendary Godless Crown, which awakens a personal System that grants quests, rewards, and the power to grow beyond the universe's natural laws. With his first soul fragment locked in a monster-infested dungeon, Sam recruits the shy but powerful Priscilla to help him reclaim it, unsealing his Frost Manipulation and beginning his slow transformation into the silver-haired, gold-eyed prince he once was. Entering Sky Tower Academy, he meets the fierce and guarded Katherine, forging complicated alliances and rivalries with Heaven's Chosen while hunting the remaining Crown fragments and his scattered soul pieces across Earth and beyond. As Sam's power grows and his silver hair returns, he attracts the attention of the Church of Light, the interplanetary Heavenly Court, and finally the Emperor himself—forcing him to flee Earth with Priscilla and Katherine, reuniting with his surviving Shadow generals, and building a rebellion from stardust and vengeance. The Godless Crown completed and his bloodline fully purified, Sam confronts his betrayer Genesis, defeats the Emperor, and dismantles the tyrannical system that destroyed his family—only to face the ancient Abyss demons and the cosmic Elder Principles that threaten all of reality. Rising from fugitive to Monarch to Sovereign to something beyond gods, Sam must decide whether to repair the Universal System, replace it, or transcend it entirely. Through decades of war, loss, and sacrifice, Sam learns that his journey was never truly about vengeance—it was about healing, about the family he builds from ashes, and about the throne he finally claims not through blood but through the love of those who chose to stand beside him. In the end, the Cold Prince becomes a king, the quiet boy becomes a legend, and Nova Sam-Almond finally comes home.
"The universe is vast and cold and utterly indifferent to our suffering. But we are not indifferent. We are not cold. We are the fragments of shattered crowns and broken souls, and we will build something new from the ruins of everything that tried to destroy us.
This is not a story about vengeance. It was never only about vengeance.
It is a story about coming home."
— Nova Sam-Almond, The Crimson Dominion of the Godless System