The First Great War was never the end. It was a door.
And behind it waited a truth stitched from circuitry, betrayal, and old blood.
Aelina stood at the heart of that truth. Not quite human, not merely engineered. She was the impossible child of love and experimentation, carrying a power even she feared to name.
To save her, Kirana and Zephyr crossed the void to Kaelion, the pulse of Edena's new empire. With Kaelar, Lyra, and the others, they breached Erevos, the hidden citadel where Edena kept its darkest answers.
There, they found Aelina.
And they found Eudora.
A weapon in human shape. A perfected echo of Aelina, built to erase the original.
Steel met bone. Light burned metal. The real Aelina was freed, but Kirana and Zephyr were forced to hold the line against Eudora's ferocity. They endured until the final heartbeat allowed no more.
But salvation came with a cruel twist.
The Aelina they carried home… wasn't her.
She was a dormant weapon, quiet as a shadow, waiting to ignite.
Zephyr dragged the clone into hyperspace to stop her awakening. Kirana plunged after him, refusing to be left behind. They vanished into a fracture of time, leaving their friends staring into the widening dark.
Far beneath Erevos, President Caius Dalthar smiled.
He tightened his grip on the real Aelina, stripping memories, reshaping her for Edena's war machine. And Eudora, sharpened with second-generation enhancements, marched toward Earth like a promise of ruin.
The war has only begun. Families torn. Identities broken. Hope thinning, but not yet gone.
Where have Kirana and Zephyr landed?
Can Aelina reclaim herself before Edena rewrites her completely?
And when Eudora rises, whose world will she burn first?
The Eden — Volume Two begins.