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Across a wounded world of ruined cities, corrupted forests, and ancient ruins, a restless boy becomes a reluctant vessel for a truth older than empire: the darkness threatening all things is not merely evil, but a wound fed by sorrow, violence, and unhealed memory. Driven from home, tempered by friendship, rivalry, love, and loss, he learns that power alone only deepens ruin. Beside loyal companions — a steadfast girl, battle-scarred guardians, healers, rebels, and outlaws — he journeys through captivity, war, awakening, and near self-destruction toward a harder revelation: mercy, endurance, and human connection may heal what force cannot.