class divide · hidden identity · high society · clandestine investigation · cyberpunk · aristocratic · industrial dystopia · BL romance · forbidden curiosity
The year is 3024. High above, the Zenith Reach shimmers in blinding white, a sanctuary of floating glass and silent surveillance where every breath is regulated. Below, the Abyss is a sprawling, neon-soaked scar of a city, where tangled copper veins and smog-choked alleys house the forgotten. Caelum, the scion of a High Arbiter, knows only the sanitized propaganda of the heights. But when stolen prototypes vanish from the Reach's strongest vault, he casts aside his nobility. Wrapped in a heavy charcoal cloak, he descends into the humid, chrome-plated chaos of the lower wards. He finds himself drawn to 'The Onyx Pulse,' a subterranean club where the air is thick with narcotic smoke and the low, mournful wail of holographic jazz. Amidst a sea of masked mercenaries and gravity-defying drifte…