The Soul Ledger of the Void Warden

They called him the weakest student in three hundred years. They were wrong about everything else, too. Five hundred years ago, the sky tore open and the Void Rift let monsters called the Abyssborn pour into the world. The Order of Wardens has hunted them ever since — sealing rifts, burying secrets, and repeating the same story so many times that no one questions it anymore. Alden Blackwood was supposed to be a footnote. Dead last in his class. First to wash out. Until the night a forbidden relic called the Soul Ledger chose him — a system that turns every kill into permanent power, at a price no other Warden has ever been warned about. Now every monster he harvests brings him one step closer to strength the Order has never seen... and one step closer to a truth it has spent five centuries erasing: the Abyssborn were never invaders. They were people. And something above the sky wants it to stay that way. Follow Alden through the Rift Trials, the Order's hidden hierarchy, and a continent-spanning war he never asked for — as he claws his way from Blackthorn Academy's dead last to the one person capable of exposing the lie the gods themselves built the world on. Power has a price. Alden Blackwood is about to find out exactly what he's willing to pay.