The hollow child
Damien was born into silence—and raised in chains. Shuffled between abusive foster homes and forgotten by the world, he became a ghost in his own life. When the child care system tried to give him a second chance, no one wanted the boy who never smiled, never cried, and stared into nothing.
He aged alone in an orphanage, unwanted and unclaimed, until the world stopped trying to fix him. By the time Damien turned seventeen, he had already lost two emotions: **Joy**, buried deep beneath trauma, and **Trust**, shattered by every hand that touched him.
Now on his own, Damien drifts through a cold and uncaring world. He feels no connection. No warmth. No hope. Until the night lightning struck—not just his body, but something inside his soul. From that moment on, Damien could no longer feel **pain**, and time itself seemed to avoid him.
As years pass, he realizes he is becoming something else. Something eternal.
He isn’t the only one. Across the world, ancient immortal gods rule in secret—beings who have long forgotten what it means to be human. But Damien, with his hollow soul and emotionless gaze, is different. He doesn’t fear them. He hunts them.
With each god he slays, he regains a piece of something… but it’s not normal joy. It’s a twisted satisfaction—raw, cold, and primal. A joy shaped by revenge and clarity.
Alone, feared, and never understood, Damien begins carving a new legacy. One quiet, bloody step at a time.
And with every strike, he leaves behind a whisper of wisdom:
**"The soul is not broken when it feels nothing—only when it stops asking why."**
In a world ruled by forgotten gods, one boy with no emotion may become the most feared legend of all—not because he feels nothing… but because he chooses to.
