Under a sun that bleeds
In the year 2176, humanity’s first steps into deep space bring it face to face with something unknown and hostile. Seraphina Valecrest, a genetic and cellular researcher, is asked by her lover, the owner of a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate, to develop a chemical weapon capable of disintegrating cells completely. It is meant to be humanity’s answer to an enemy that does not yet have a name.
She spends ten years on the project. Ten years refining, testing, failing, and trying again until the weapon is complete.
Her reward is a bullet to the head.
Death does not end her story. Instead, she awakens before the goddess of love, who offers her a second life out of guilt and pity. Seraphina accepts without hesitation. Only after the choice is sealed does the goddess reveal the truth. The god above has personally chosen the world she will be sent to, a world already collapsing under an unending catastrophe. Regret comes too late.
She is reborn in Erythraea, a world ruined by a recurring phenomenon known as the Crimson Descent. At the end of every month, the sun turns blood red, bathing the land in light that twists living beings. Humans with weak resistance are transformed into Sanguivores, zombie like creatures that grow stronger the longer they are exposed to the red sun. Civilization has shattered, leaving behind isolated survivors, broken cities, and faith warped by fear.
Granted the power to create non living matter, command time within a limited range, and retain all knowledge within an inner archive, Seraphina walks through a dying world frozen at the age of twenty one. She does not age. She does not decay. While everything else rots beneath the crimson sky, she remains unchanged.
She is not a savior by choice. She is a researcher placed inside an apocalypse, trying to understand what happens when life is pushed past its limits.
