The dimensional system is stable. The exchange holds. The Spirit Guard stands.

And Lucien Black, Spirit Hunter, stands at Spirit [847] — beyond every framework human civilization has ever developed to measure what a person can become.

But open development is not the same as finished.

In the deep void, Gate Six’s Monarch has found something...

The exchange holds. The gates are sealed. The war is over.

Or so they believed.

Eighteen months after Lucien Black established the exchange arrangement with the Void Monarchs, something has changed. The monthly sessions at Gate One are growing harder to sustain. Two Monarchs have stopped responding. And deep in the void-adjacent space,...

Gate Seven is sealed. Eight hunters have been brought back from the void.

Lucien Black is the world’s first S-rank hunter in over a decade—and the first Spirit Hunter in living memory.

He thought the hardest part was over.

He was wrong.

Across five continents, veteran hunters are vanishing from inside standard formation gates—and coming back...