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10 Ways To Climb The Tower

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Forty years ago, the "Rigid" game manifested, and the world became a graveyard of unawakened souls. ​Kaelen is a cog in the machine—a 25-year-old porter hauling the "dead weight" of heroes through lethal dungeons. But the heaviest burden he carries isn't the gear; it's the nine other voices screaming inside his head. Broken by years of dungeon trauma, Kaelen’s Dissociative Identity Disorder has reached a breaking point. ​The cure isn't medicine. It's Ascension. ​When Kaelen finally awakens, he doesn't just gain a skill—he gains an arsenal. Ten personalities. Ten unique powers. One body. As he climbs the Tower to reclaim his mind, he realizes the higher he goes, the more the Tower mirrors his own fractured soul. The truth at the top might be more terrifying than the madness within.
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The Weaver of Star-Steel

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