The Cycle of the Serpent

By V.W. Black

Eight eras. Eight failures. One correction.

From the frozen steppes of 10,000 BCE to the glass towers of 2026, humanity has always faced the same test: When the resources run low, do we share, or do we hoard?

And eight times, we have failed.

In The Cycle of the Serpent, V.W. Black weaves a terrifying and beautiful tapestry of human history, revealing the secret mechanism that governs our rise and fall. In every age, when greed and cruelty reach a breaking point, an Entity awakes. It is not a god. It is not a demon. It is the immune system of the planet.

It chooses a vessel-a grandmother in the Ice Age, a slave in Pompeii, a soldier in Stalingrad, a CEO in the future -and marks them with a scar in the shape of an Infinity Loop.

Through their eyes, we witness the moments when civilization breaks:

The Great Sleep: A shaman freezes the world to stop a tribe from eating its future.The Obsidian Heart: A slave girl in Pompeii triggers Vesuvius to end the gluttony of the Empire.The Plague Bearer: A peasant in Feudal France becomes the vector of the Black Death to balance the ledger of the rich.

The Legion Protocol: A tech CEO in 2026 uploads her rage to the cloud to break the digital wheel.

Spanning 12,000 years, this anthology is a dark, gripping exploration of the thin line between survival and extinction.

The library is closed. The Cycle is ending. Are you the Ninth Vessel?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1067400818
• ISBN13: 9781067400811
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: V.W. Black
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 1.21 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"