In the System
by Petr Zhgulyov
Book 1: City of Goblins
Release - October 7, 2020
Prologue
Everything once
created will die someday. Our world is no exception. The heat death of the
universe... For most, this fact is too far in the future and too doubtful to
worry over. Having accepted one's death, it is much easier to accept the
destruction of all and sundry. There were god-like beings, however, who could
last until this moment and had no desire to obediently await the inevitable. It
seemed that one of them had found a solution. If the problem was that energy
gradually disperses in space, would it not be better to gather it all himself?
A desire of madness, even for a deity.
The Devourer began
a war, consuming star system after star system, waging battles against his own
kind and taking their power... Slowly, too slowly. The universe is enormous and
most of its inhabitants had no desire to be consumed, and so it came about that
everyone took up arms against him. There came a moment when the Devourer
realized that he was bound to lose, but he did not admit defeat. Instead, he
destroyed himself and created the System. The Great Game, which drew in
countless worlds and continued to constantly spread. A Game in which his
enemies continued what he had started.
A System that would
allow the universe to come to its end, and then, using the energy absorbed over
billions of years, create the world anew.
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