"When gods fall... who will rise?"
One billion souls.
One collapsing multiverse.
One final war.
The gods have spoken. The balance of existence is broken. To preserve creation, only one million may remain.
From more than 100,000 galaxies, every living world sends a quota of champions. Warriors and scholars. Criminals and children. Outcasts and prodigies. All taken into an unfathomably vast trial world, where magic is law and death is only a door.
Among them is Mateo, a broken young man with no revealed power and no chosen fate. He is soul linked to Earth. If Earth loses every one of its chosen, Earth is erased.
But something stirs inside him. Something the gods did not expect. As ancient truths begin to unravel, the question is no longer who will survive.
It is who was meant to ascend.