Destroying the World for Fun
When The Pulse rewrites biology, it also rewrites society: a world with familiar continents and unfamiliar borders fractures overnight as powers bloom in a minority—and everyone else learns what it feels like to be prey.
In the South of Sain, Rory survives the new age the same way he survived the old one: by refusing to be human about it. Scarred, underfed, and already hollowed out by abuse, he awakens time manipulation.
Power does not make him a hero; it was a weapon that lets him turn his twisted mind into reality. Gangs evolve into warpacks, prisons empty into the streets, and “law” becomes whichever monster is strongest today.
In the North, the collapse wears holy symbols. Churches and mosques harden into armies. Prophets appear. Miracles become tactics. A religious war ignites as extremists and protectors both claim they’re saving souls.
And in the cracks is Loria — an abandoned orphan who stopped believing in gods long before they started murdering nonbelievers. She awakens space manipulation and sees the world in black and white. She's playful, violent, and brutally selective about who deserves mercy.
Two broken narrators. Two regions collapsing in different ways — one into gang rule, one into theocracy — and a hidden danger: even supernatural abilities must have a cause behind them, as well as a system they follow.
A dark web novel ruthless survival, escalating abilities, faction wars, twisted romance, and protagonists who aren’t here to save the world — only to outlive it.
