Every hundred years, the gods choose five heroes to compete for humanity's future.
This generation's favorite? Prince Caelum — beautiful, beloved, unstoppable. The entire continent already worships him as their savior.
Then Priestess Seraphine witnesses him execute innocent civilians without hesitation.
Worse: the gods protect him.
Desperate and faithless, Seraphine turns to the last candidate anyone believes in: Lucien Vale — a sarcastic outcast cursed with a catastrophically failed divine blessing, mocked as "the broken Chosen," abandoned even by his own family.
He was never meant to survive the trials. No one expects him to matter.
But as kingdoms fracture, prophecies unravel, and heaven itself begins hunting them, Seraphine uncovers the pattern buried in forbidden histories:
Every golden hero in recorded history became a tyrant.
And the gods engineered it that way.
Now she has one impossible mission: keep the "wrong" Chosen One alive long enough to break a cycle that has destroyed humanity for millennia.
Even if it means betraying heaven itself.
