The Void Heart Devourer
In the world of Elarion, a person's fate is decided at birth.
Everyone possesses an Aether Heart—the source of their talent, status, and future. Those born with powerful hearts are destined to become rulers, while those without one are treated as less than servants.
Akseli Vainio was born without an Aether Heart.
As the last heir of the once-glorious Vainio Clan, he became the family's greatest disgrace. Mocked by nobles, abandoned by his own blood, and rejected by the fiancée who no longer wanted a worthless husband, Akseli spent eighteen years living as the world's biggest failure.
Until the night he was murdered.
His death shattered an ancient seal hidden within his body, awakening the Void Heart—a forbidden power sealed away for thousands of years.
The Void Heart can devour Aether Hearts, steal cultivation, and turn the strength of others into its own.
But every heart it consumes slowly erases Akseli's humanity.
Now, hunted by the Seven Great Clans and haunted by the voice of the ancient Void Emperor, Akseli must choose...
Will he fight to remain human...
Or become the monster the world feared all along?
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Chapter: Chapter20 :Towards the Ashen MountainsDawn was just breaking when Akseli opened his eyes.The campfire in front of him had been reduced to embers that were slowly fading. Morning mist hung low among the trees, making the forest feel even quieter than the night before.He stood up immediately.His instincts told him something had changed.The birds that usually chirped at sunrise were nowhere to be heard. Even the wind seemed to have ceased its blowing.The silence felt unnatural.Akseli reached for his sword.His gaze swept across the perimeter of the camp.There were no traces of monsters.No signs of an ambush.Yet, that was exactly what made him even more alert."Why is it so quiet..."he muttered softly.He extinguished the remaining embers and continued his journey northward.The further he walked, the more the trees began to change.The trunks that had previously been green were now blackened as if scorched by fire. The leaves were a pale gray, while the ground beneath his feet was filled with small cracks that emit
Last Updated: 2026-07-17
Chapter: Chapter 19 – Toward the Ashen MountainsThat morning, the sky over Greyhaven was still cloaked in a thin mist. Dew clung to the leaves, while the cobblestone streets began to fill with hunters preparing for their missions. The sound of carts and the chatter of adventurers filled the air, creating the usual lively atmosphere. Yet for Akseli, the morning felt different. Ever since waking from his dream the night before, his mind had been filled with a single name he couldn't forget.The Ashen Mountains.He stood for a long time in front of the inn window, gazing at the silhouette of the mountains, which appeared faint behind the fog. For some reason, there was a strange sensation pulling him there, as if something had been waiting for him for a long time."Are the answers really there...?"The question kept circling in his mind.After putting on his coat and buckling his sword at his waist, Akseli headed down to the Guild hall. As usual, Walter was already there. The middleaged man was reviewing several mission reports, occas
Last Updated: 2026-07-16
Chapter: Chapter 18: Shadows Behind the GuildThe sun began to dip toward the west as Akseli and Darius emerged from the Blackroot Forest. Akseli’s steps were heavy. His clothes were shredded, and dried blood stained his arms and shoulders. Strapped to his back was a leather pouch containing proof of his mission's completion.Darius cast a quick glance at the young man."You're in pretty rough shape.""Still able to walk.""That’s more than enough."Akseli simply nodded. He was too exhausted to speak. Every step sent a fresh wave of pain through his ribs.Soon, the walls of Greyhaven came into view in the distance.The gate guards immediately noticed their condition."Damn...""Were they attacked by a pack of monsters?""That kid is badly hurt."One of the guards quickly opened the gate."Get inside, quickly. There’s a healer at the Guild."Akseli offered a brief word of thanks before continuing toward the Hunter’s Guild.As the guild doors swung open, the room fell silent.Dozens of hunters turned in unison.They recognized Aksel
Last Updated: 2026-07-15
Chapter: Chapter 17: Blood BaptismThe sound of Goblin horns still echoed through the trees of the Blackroot Forest.WIIIIIIT!!From behind bushes and tree trunks, a dozen Goblins emerged one after another. Their red eyes stared greedily at Akseli as they raised their crude weapons. Akseli gripped his sword tighter, his eyes darting to calculate the number of enemies before him.Five in front. Four on the right. Several more were already circling behind him.They were far more numerous than the Guild’s mission report had indicated."So this is the trap..."He took a deep breath, forcing himself to stay calm. Panic would only make him die faster.The first Goblin lunged, swinging a stone axe. Akseli dodged, shifting half a step to the side.Srak!His blade flashed, leaving a long gash across the Goblin's chest. But before he could finish it off, two others attacked from different directions. Akseli retreated immediately, choosing to maintain his distance rather than counterattack.The Goblins let out shrill, mocking lau
Last Updated: 2026-07-14
Chapter: Chapter 16: Iron Rank HunterMornings in Greyhaven always began with the rhythmic clanging of blacksmith hammers echoing from every corner of the city. Trade carriages rumbled in and out of the main gate, while hunters crowded the streets before the sun had even fully risen.In front of the Hunters’ Guild, Akseli stood, gazing at the small badge in his palm.The badge was crafted from grey iron, featuring a wolf’s head engraved in the center.Below the emblem were two simple words:Iron Rank.Though it was merely the lowest rank, Akseli gripped it tightly.For the first time since leaving the Holy City, he felt he had achieved something through his own efforts."Still staring at it?"Rowan’s voice sounded from behind.Akseli turned and offered a faint smile."It still feels like a dream."Rowan chuckled."That’s how every newcomer is."He patted Akseli on the shoulder before walking into the guild."Come on. You have things to take care of."Akseli followed him inside.The guild hall was far busier than the day b
Last Updated: 2026-07-13
Chapter: Chapter 15: The City of GreyhavenDawn slowly broke over the Ashen Forest. Sunlight pierced through the gaps in the giant trees, banishing the mist that had blanketed the woods since the night before. The sound of birds returned, as if the lifeanddeath struggle of the previous night were merely a dream.Inside the cave, only embers remained of the campfire. Brom stretched, groaning softly."I feel like my bones are about to fall apart."Finn chuckled. "Be grateful you can still complain. That means you’re not dead yet.""If you were the one who got hit by that Shadow Bear, you'd know how it feels."Luna shook her head as she packed away her bow. "Fighting first thing in the morning, are we?"The atmosphere felt much lighter than the night before. Although their bodies were still covered in wounds, at least they had managed to survive.In the corner of the cave, Akseli slowly opened his eyes. His right shoulder still throbbed with pain from the Shadow Bear’s blow. He moved his arm cautiously; the pain was still there,
Last Updated: 2026-07-12
Chapter: Chapter 58: Deleting the IRSThe void of the Multiversal Revenue Service was crumbling, and frankly, Nicolás couldn’t be happier.The Grand Auditor, a construct of infinite, unyielding cold, stood in the center of a swirling vortex of literal shredded bureaucracy. He wasn’t a god anymore. He was just a massive, blinking notification of an Unhandled Exception."Accept the liquidation!" Nicolás screamed, his voice amplified by the raw, unmetered mana he was channeling directly from the city's newly decentralized infrastructure. He didn't have his Aura of Apathy anymore; he was stripped raw, a man holding a match inside a mountain of TNT.Renata was a blur of silver-tipped violence, her movements cutting through the white noise of the null-zone with such precise anger that every stroke sent shockwaves through the Auditor’s logic core. "Buy them out, Nicolás!" she roared, dodging a lunge from a phantom blade made of interest rates. "Spend every last bit of the experience debt you’ve been hoarding! Bankrupt the entity
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Chapter: Chapter 57: The Void AuditThe void wasn't an empty space; it was a hungry, vibrating, static-drenched cage. It was the "Accounting Null-Zone," a realm where things that weren't supposed to exist—erased variables, tax-evading gods, and corrupted software—went to be digested by the universe’s own immune system.Nicolás drifted, or perhaps he was merely imagining that he was moving. There was no ‘up’ or ‘down’ here, just the infinite, cold glare of raw, uninterpreted reality. Beside him, Renata flickered like a candle flame caught in a windstorm, her essence struggling to maintain its shape in a space where even the concept of ‘physical form’ was considered a clerical error.The Auditor emerged from the mist of white noise, his form finally stripped of the suit, the facade, and the executive pretension. He looked like a tear in the sky—a jagged silhouette defined only by what was missing. He was growing. Every passing second in the null-zone expanded him, turning his presence from an annoying manager into a primo
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Chapter: Chapter 56: Filing for BankruptcyThe sky was a shattered mosaic of administrative nightmare. Fractured spreadsheets floated through the upper atmosphere like bioluminescent jellyfish, each column vibrating with the agonizing, distorted scream of the Grand Auditor, who was currently drowning in Hans’s bottomless ocean of trivial grievances and forgotten grocery lists."The loop won’t hold him forever," The Manager muttered, his voice ragged as he clutched a datapad that was actively overheating. "He’s evolving his processing speed. He’s cutting through the ‘1998 Annual Tax Discrepancy’ file like it’s butter."Nicolás stared at the hovering interface—a sprawling, luminous nexus of Admin Rights he’d ripped from the System Child’s heart. His hands felt cold, steady, and detached from his body. Behind him, Renata was adjusting her armor, the silver plates chinking with the rhythm of a woman preparing for an impossible heist."We don’t need it to hold him forever," Nicolás said, his tone icy. "We just need it to hold him l
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Chapter: Chapter 55: The Family PlanThe sanctuary felt like the inside of a glitching GPU. Static ribbons, fractured remnants of the Grand Auditor’s stalled data—crawled along the frescoed ceilings like iridescent worms, occasionally sparking with the smell of scorched ozone. Above them, the giant, pixelated ‘Pause’ icon in the sky hummed with the high-pitched drone of a trillion concurrent computations."We have thirty minutes before his primary sub-processor gets through the childhood poetry archive," Nicolás remarked, propping his boots on the remains of a decorative pedestal. "Hans is efficient. He intentionally left the metaphorically messy stuff, he diaries and the tax audit disputes from the afterlife,to be processed in the latter half of the queue."Renata Vancroft, her iron-hued armor shimmering with a dull, residual luster, didn't bother looking up at the sky. She was checking the seals on her mana-link. Beside them, the "Child",now resembling a slightly agitated mass of levitating fiber-optic cable, shivered
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Chapter: Chapter 54: The Prime Minister's PloyThe reality-void was not dark. It was a sterile, screaming white—the visual equivalent of a terminal error message. Nicolás and Renata were suspended in a silence so absolute it made his teeth ache, two blips of existence drowning in the erasure. The Grand Auditor was somewhere just beyond the threshold, his looming, geometric hand prepared to execute the final Delete command on the entire Sanctuary project.But Nicolás was counting. Not time, but loopholes.Beneath them, drifting through the vacuum like a discarded fragment of a nightmare, was the one asset the Grand Auditor hadn’t factored into the equation: Hans’s disaster-recovery server."Hans," Nicolás rasped, the effort of manifesting his voice in a collapsing reality burning like bile in his throat. "Pull the trigger. Before I lose the ability to have an opinion on current events."Somewhere in the fraying edges of the world, shielded by layers of obfuscated data, Hans was trembling, his fingers dancing over a keypad that vibr
Last Updated: 2026-07-13
Chapter: Chapter 53: Foreclosing RealityThe Sanctuary was turning into a monochrome schematic.It wasn't a transition; it was a deletion. The lush marble floors of the palace terraces weren't just cracking—they were bleeding into lines of code, eroding from solid stone into grey, vibrating pixels. Nicolás watched as his favorite chair—the one he’d enchanted for weeks—suddenly rendered into an "Error 404: Object Not Found" icon before dissolving into the void.The Grand Auditor didn't move, yet he seemed to occupy the entire visual spectrum. He was the horizon, he was the floor, he was the inevitable debt-collector at the end of every timeline. When he exhaled, the sound was like the air rushing out of an airtight room, dragging the heat and color of the garden into his lungs."It’s not enough, Nicolás," the Auditor whispered, his voice resonating from a dozen different dimensions simultaneously. "You’ve dumped the backlog of an entire civilization into my central mainframe. Do you know what happens when you overwhelm the fo
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