SILENCE AFTER THE GODS
Synopsis: The Name of My Silence After the Gods
In a multiverse where reality is a thin veil and fiction a palpable force, Ken, an orphan broken by the cruelty of a world that has always rejected him, wakes up naked and amnesiac in the heart of the Cursed Desert. It is not a resurrection, but an absurd transposition into a universe where the gods are princes to be slaughtered and the concepts of freedom invisible chains. Here, each being has a unique capacity, a reflection of his deepest essence, of his very soul. Ken discovers his own: PREDATOR, a monstrous power that allows him to absorb the capacities of the dead, linking them to his being, nourishing a double soul - one immaculate, the other abysmal.
Pursued by Zian, an implacable Exorcist of the Celestial Court whose duty is to annihilate "strangers" from other worlds, Ken is thrown into an incessant cycle of death and survival. But he is not alone: Ashen Ryū, a "perfect weapon" escaped from a brutal orphanage, shares his fate. Together, these two "anomalies" discover that this world is not a simple parallel dimension, but an "eating world", a cosmic cemetery where entire universes are absorbed, their fragments scattered in time and space.
As he progresses through the levels of ability - from Sleeping to Divine - Ken not only acquires powers, he reveals himself. His quest, born of an absurd childhood dream to "understand everything, surpass everything, reshape the world by its will", is transformed into a metaphysical odyssey. He crosses the path of Elaria, the last of the great mages, whose thirst for knowledge has led her to the limits of the forbidden, and Wei Long, the Protective Martial God, the embodiment of order, chosen by Heaven to maintain balance at all costs.
Every fight, every revelation pushes Ken to confront not only gods and concepts, but also the insidious truths of his own existence. His favourite phrase, "At the end of the account, only me remains", becomes the mantra of his sovereignty, a declaration of radical independence that goes beyond any notion of freedom or rebellion.
The novel culminates in an unprecedented confrontation: Ken against the Author. A fight that transcends dimensions, where fiction turns against its creator, and where the protagonist seeks to destroy the very source of his story to reach an ultimate form of liberation. Is it an end or a new beginning for the one who, by dint of having overcome everything, has come to understand himself as the beginning and the end?
"The Name of My Silence After the Gods" is a novel that deconstructs the very foundations of narration, questioning the nature of reality, will and ultimate power. It is an existential odyssey for those who dare to look beyond words, where silence contains all stories, real or fictional.
