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Gilded Ashes

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"You will suffice." That's what whispered in Raizen's mind the night a Nyx slaughtered his village - right before the creature dissolved into golden ash at his feet. He doesn't know what spoke. He doesn't know why it chose him, or why it led him to an unconscious girl in the forest with no memory of who she is. All he knows is his parents are dead, his home is gone, and he's too weak to do anything about it. So he runs to the only place that'll take him: the Underworks. An underground city of rust and desperate souls living below Neoshima's gleaming walls, where Nyx hunters - Gravers - buy chipped weapons with their last coins and drag themselves back from contracts with missing limbs. Where a few come back and most disappear in the dark alleys. But Takeshi - a scarred veteran and legendary assassin with a mechanical arm and a wall full of mysteries - takes him in. Gives him a roof. Gives him a chance. Introduces him to the Rust Room, where a former Phalanx warrior named Kori teaches him the deadliest of weapons are nothing without the deadliest of techniques. Then Takeshi gives him a choice: stay in the Underworks and become another Graver with a death wish, or aim higher. Train for the Lotus Academy - where Vanguards learn to master Eon, the mysterious force that turns ordinary fighters into the only ones who can truly fight nightmares and live to see more. But the voice that saved him hasn't spoken since that night. And Raizen's starting to realize - it's still watching. [- On break until 8th May, will continue writing then -]
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RESIDENT EVIL PHANTOM GENESIS – REQUIEM

For five years, the world believed the Ghost was dead. Following the eradication of Mother Miranda and the destruction of The Connections, Alen Wesker—the natural-born son of Albert and Alex Wesker, and the ultimate biological anomaly—retreated into the shadows. Living in secret at the frozen Shaolin sanctuary of Mount Song, China, Alen has traded his bloody crusade for the quiet life of a father and husband. Held together by a surgically implanted CIED pacemaker to regulate his scarred heart, and wielding a lethal, state-of-the-art black-and-gold titanium prosthetic arm, Alen thought his war against the ghosts of Umbrella was finally over. He was wrong. When his AI, Trinity, intercepts highly classified FBI and CIA data packets, the fragile peace of the Lotus Temple is shattered. A terrifying new bio-hazard is emerging in the American Midwest, distressingly close to the ashes of Raccoon City. Victims are being found with rapid, post-mortem necrosis, bleeding yellow irises, and symptoms that defy all known T-Virus or Mold pathology. The government is burying the outbreaks under a black-ops initiative known only as Project Elpis (Hope). But the true catalyst for Alen’s return is the identity of the first victim: Alyssa Ashcroft, a veteran investigative journalist and legendary survivor of the 1998 Raccoon City incident. Alyssa was one of the few to synthesize and inject the original "Daylight" vaccine—a permanent cure to the T-Virus that permanently altered her genetic code. Now, her murder points to a horrifying reality: the architects of Project Elpis are harvesting the Raccoon City survivors. And their next target is Alyssa’s daughter, Grace Ashcroft, an active FBI technical analyst who is being deliberately kept in the dark by corrupt Bureau superiors. Grace’s blood holds the inherited Daylight antibodies—the genetic key required to stabilize the Elpis pathogen and unleash a perfect, symbiotic nightmare upon the globe. With Chris Redfield and the Hound Wolf Squad preparing to assault the region loud and blind, Alen knows a military hammer will only cause the conspirators to burn the evidence. The situation requires a scalpel. Defying the strict medical warnings of his wife, Dr. Rebecca Chambers, Alen steps back into his black tactical gear. Armed with his silenced weaponry, his mind-hacking "Cognitive Dominion," and his devastating cybernetic arm, the Ghost deploys to the epicenter of the conspiracy: the abandoned Wrenwood Hotel. Operating purely in the shadows, Alen must outmaneuver the corrupt FBI task force, trace the legacy of the Daylight vaccine, and uncover the mastermind behind Project Elpis. He is not there to arrest anyone. He is there to protect Grace Ashcroft, dismantle the conspiracy from the inside out, and execute the final architects of Umbrella's sins before the dawn. The Ghost is back. And God help anyone hiding in the dark.
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