The Star Eater

Nathan was the joke of Greyhaven.

The chubby kid who trailed Isolde, the school’s untouchable goddess, for three years straight. The errand boy for Leopold’s cosplay club, laughed at behind his back for thinking he ever stood a chance. The nobody whose grades were garbage, whose only shot at a decent high school was a long-shot basketball scholarship. Everyone wrote him off. Nobody looked twice.

Until the night the stars fell.

Stranded miles from home, abandoned by the club he’d broken his back for, Nathan walked right into the Starfall Dew—and walked out with something awake inside him.

The Concord tested him. They labeled him a Yggdrasil Line awakening—rare, precious, a once-in-a-generation prodigy worth grooming. Wren, his quiet classmate and secret bloodborn, walked him into a hidden world of bloodline politics, war-beasts, and the Hourbound Grove: an abandoned training ground where time runs twenty times faster, packed with forgotten beasts and lost relics.

Everyone thought they’d found a new talent to mold, to leverage, to eventually discard when he outlived his use.

They had no idea.

Nathan doesn’t train like other bloodborn. He consumes.

Every fallen beast he tears through in the Grove. Every bolt of enemy power thrown his way. Every drop of Starfall Dew he pulls from the sky. He devours it all—and grows stronger by the minute. The Yggdrasil Line is just a mask. Buried deep inside him slumbers the bloodline of a titan—one so ancient and so destructive, its very name was erased from every official record. The same titan that once shattered the Nine-Sphere Citadel itself with a single blow.

Power like that doesn’t stay hidden forever.

The Raging Gale wants to recruit him as a weapon. Sebastian of the Order of the Deathless holds his mother’s life hostage to force him into the Grove’s deadliest depths. Even the Concord’s own Wardens see him as nothing more than a future keystone to seal away for eternity.

They all think he’s prey. They all think he’s a tool.

They’re about to learn exactly what happens when you try to cage the Star Eater.