When humanity is dragged into an alien tournament designed to harvest worlds, survival is offered as a lie disguised as competition. Michael Thomas, an ordinary man forced into an extraordinary transformation, becomes something the empire did not plan for-someone who can change without surrendering himself. As ancient rulers tighten their grip on reality itself, a fractured pilot, a defiant AI, and enslaved regents converge around a single question: is power taken through domination, or earned through unity? What begins as a fight for survival becomes a rebellion against the very laws of conquest-and a challenge to an empire that has never faced a future it could not control.
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