The Devourer's Vengeance

Zeke, a legendary Hexa-Saint Warrior, was betrayed and executed by his five comrades—the newly formed Penta-Saints—on the 34th Floor of the Divine Tower. In his final defiant act, his soul-bound artifact, the Chronos Eye, violently ripped his essence from his body and hurled it ten years into the future. He wakes in a broken vessel in the 1st Floor Slums, his body failing and his left eye socket empty, a wound inflicted by the ruthless mercenary Kael. To survive, Zeke fuses the Chronos Eye into his eye socket, gaining Precognition and the involuntary Divine Trace Vision. The vision guides him not to a treasure, but to a hidden tomb and a chaotic source of forbidden power. Inside, Zeke finds a petrified heart fragment and a journal detailing a cataclysmic downfall. Reading the journal initiates a violent Successor's Trial in a desolate mental realm. There, Zeke learns the devastating story of the Fallen God who once wielded this ultimate power. To earn the strength he desperately needs, Zeke accepts the Fallen God's final, desperate bargain: he will carry out the Fallen God's ancient, incomplete revenge. In return, Zeke receives the Forbidden Authority—the innate power to Devour and copy any skill or power he encounters—the ultimate tool for his own long-awaited vengeance against the Penta-Saints. With two vengeances now resting upon his fragile soul, Zeke rises from the muck, ready to begin his blood-soaked ascent.