Deus.exe Machina: The Well of Souls

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Piper Corbin, newly resurrected into a younger and more powerful version of herself, to live again in a world controlled both a System and by ancient gods. A world where death is a matter of course, and glory and honor everything.

Except Piper has a problem… There is something very wrong with her System, and possibly her very soul.

This is not the afterlife she signed up for, but her own personal problems are only the beginning. Strange mutated monsters are appearing all over the realms, wreaking havoc  and breaking down the barrier between the world of Novalis and the Void.

Her life is in the hands of the Gods… If only she knew which one held the key to her destiny.

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