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PALIMPSEST by killy

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A locked room murder in fog choked 1879 claims the life of the greatest detective the world has ever known. Three hundred and twelve years later, Orion Kael opens his eyes in a vertical megacity of neural implants and cognitive tiers with no memory of his past yet armed with a mind that unravels every mystery before him. Enrolled at the elite Cognos Academy as the first unassisted Void tier prodigy in decades, Orion partners with the brilliant Mira Solace to investigate a string of impossible deaths. Each case pulls him deeper into a web of temporal anomalies, ancient journals, and a clandestine Chronarch Cabal that has manipulated time for generations. As the evidence mounts, Orion realizes he is not investigating a crime. He is investigating himself. Harlan Quill did not die. He transferred his consciousness forward to close the greatest loop of all, one that demands Orion solve his own murder across centuries or watch the future he fought to create unravel. In a world where intellect is ranked and time itself is weaponized, one man must become both the hunter and the hunted. The loop closes here, which means of course that it also opens.
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