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Marked by the Crucible

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The Crucible was designed to test humanity. Presumably by a higher power. Some theorise a god was responsible. Others theorise it is simply a reaction of cosmic scale similar to the creation of a black hole. Through all the theories that stretch across the universe, one truth remains. Its existence tests life itself against the harbingers of death. Daemons. When ordinary young man Abel Garden finds himself within the confines of a tomb after unknowingly stepping through a gate, he is forced to confront a terrible truth head on. Survive or die. As this horrifying realisation befalls a man who has grown accustomed to subtle luxury and the revolution that is the digital world, his mind begins to change, his heart begins to harden, and the man that comes out of the crucible may not be the same man that once entered.
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