Heart of the Sky Shattered Realm
The sky has been broken for centuries.
Fragments of land drift above the clouds, ancient ruins float in silence, and strange crystal storms scar the horizon. People survive among the wreckage of a world that once held gods — but no one remembers what shattered it.
Seventeen-year-old Walliam D’Heart is an orphan from a forgotten cliffside village, known more for staring into the abyss than for belonging anywhere. He’s always felt something strange inside his chest — a second heartbeat, slow and heavy — but he has learned to ignore it.
Until the sky falls.
A living crystal crashes from the heavens, and when Walliam touches it, the shard bonds to him — awakening a power not seen since the world broke. He can shape energy into weapons, sense fractures in reality, and survive forces that should kill him. But the crystal is not a gift.
It is a piece of something ancient.
Something watching.
Walliam’s awakening draws the attention of the Collectors, inhuman beings who hunt the fallen shards, and beyond them, a figure whispered of in myth — the Shard King, a former scholar who fused himself with too many of these crystals in a desperate attempt to “fix” the world. Now more living crystal than man, the Shard King believes suffering exists because reality itself is flawed — and he intends to rebuild it, no matter the cost.
To do that, he needs the one thing he cannot create:
The shard inside Walliam’s heart.
Forced to flee his home, Walliam joins a reluctant band of allies: a sky-thief who trusts no one, a disillusioned priestess who doubts her faith, and an exiled giant warrior seeking redemption. Together they cross floating cities, cursed forests, and fractured seas, uncovering the truth behind the Heartshards — fragments of a primordial cosmic being that shattered itself to create life.
Using the shards grants incredible power.
It also cracks the soul.
As kingdoms prepare for war over the returning crystals, monsters born of magic corruption roam the land, and ancient dragons stir from beneath ice and cloud, Walliam learns the terrible truth: he is not just a wielder of a shard.
He is the Living Heart — a vessel capable of reassembling the godlike force that once held reality together.
Both savior and weapon.
The Shard King offers him a choice: join him, end pain, and reshape the world into something perfect — or resist, and let suffering, chaos, and death continue.
But Walliam begins to understand what his enemy cannot:
A world without pain may also be a world without choice.
In a final battle above the ruins of the First Heart, where gravity fails and reality fractures, Walliam must decide whether to become a god… or destroy the power of gods forever.
His choice will not just change the world.
It will decide whether humanity keeps its freedom — or loses it in the name of peace.
