When the Black Siren Wailed

The System arrived without angels, fanfare, or mercy. One second, Denver was choking under wildfire smoke and late-stage civilization. The next, black towers punched through the skyline, every screen bled red, and the dead began screaming with borrowed voices. Safe zones appeared across the city, but the price of entry was written in blood: survive the first wave, awaken a class, and choose who gets left outside the walls.

Elias Voss, a disgraced search-and-rescue medic haunted by the people he failed, awakens as a Gravebound Warden—a class that grows stronger by protecting the dying and bargaining with the restless dead. Hated by survivors, hunted by factions, and stalked by a cathedral-sized monster that whispers his name, Elias must turn a collapsing hospital into humanity’s last foothold.

But the System is not a game. It is an invasion protocol. And every level Elias gains brings Earth closer to something waiting on the other side of the black towers.