Introduction: When Asmodeus returns, the world falls still.Humanity collapses into a shared vision of judgment鈥攅ach soul weighed, each flaw laid bare by a god who offers not salvation, but a second chance. When they awaken, they are changed. The world is different. Silent. Fractured. Alive with things that should not exist.Every man, woman, and child wakes beside a grimoire鈥攂ound not by paper, but by soul.Raven wakes hungover, bruised, and alone鈥攈is godfather missing, monsters stalking the streets, and a magical book that seems to think he鈥檚 the punchline of some cosmic joke.With only the clothe on his back and a lot of bad instincts, he sets out to protect the only family he has left鈥攁nd maybe, figure out why the grimoire marked him before anyone else.But as the ether spreads and creatures from forgotten cycles rise again, Raven learns this new world doesn鈥檛 reward mercy. It rewards survival. And the path Asmodeus has set isn鈥檛 an easy one to walk.The reckoning has just begun....