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In a world where shadows hunger for souls and gods play chess with mortal lives, an orphan thief holds a destiny that could shatter the heavens—or doom them all.
When Dunce, a street urchin with hands swift enough to steal bread but too tender to kill, is snatched from the filthy alleys by the alchemist Gorith, he believes his fate is sealed. Gorith seeks to forge a god-slaying weapon, and Aidan’s pure heart is the final ingredient. But destiny intervenes when Aidan frees Hades Vincent, the continent’s most feared assassin, from his prison of enchanted ice.
Grieving and vengeful, Vesper drags Aidan to a desolate mountain fortress. There, under the assassin’s merciless tutelage, Aidan is sculpted into a weapon of shadows. He learns to dance with daggers, to melt into darkness, to sever a life between heartbeats. Yet within his blood whispers a stubborn kindness—a light that refuses to be extinguished. This paradox torments Vesper: "Can a blade forged in hell cut a path to heaven?"
As Aidan journeys toward vengeance, he gathers broken souls like shattered mirrors reflecting his own fractured truth: Mystic Moon, the cardinal’s daughter who wields divine magic like a secret rebellion; Rock, the stone-skinned warrior shielding a gentle spirit; and Stella, an elven princess whose songs soothe the ghosts haunting him. Together, they face necropolises choked with undead abominations, traverse forests where trees whisper lies, and duel bishops corrupted by a hidden god.
But Aidan’s true battle rages within. When The Divine King unveils his birthright—"You are Mandos, the Death Incarnate. My blood and Vesper’s, conceived to end an eternal war"—Aidan’s world fractures. To embrace his power as Mandos could save a dying cosmos. Yet it would demand the sacrifice of those he loves, and the erasure of the boy who wept over a stolen loaf of bread.
The Merciful Reaper novel is a popular light novel covering Eastern genres. Written by the Author Hongqing_Mu . Read The Merciful Reaper novel online for free.