The warnings went unheeded. Fifty years before collapse, a child was marked with prophecy—[The Ones Beyond seek the world and its Sparks.]—and he was not unique. Around the globe, children carried identical visions, driven toward madness by knowledge of an inevitable future. Their pleas were silenced. Rejected. Entombed. Then the world shattered. The planet erupted. The universe fractured. Dimensional Gates ripped open across existence. Monsters descended. Everything transformed—and survival became precious. Uriel awaits execution on death row, a criminal condemned by crimes no one would mourn. His final night arrives. A stranger emerges—serene, impossible, completely out of place. "I come from the future." No salvation offered. No redemption promised. Only a proposal. Fate's gifts always carry a cost. "Shall we forge a bargain?"