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Beast Slayer Online, Volume 7: Neverdawn
by CaffeinatedTales
Language: English
Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Dark
Content Rating: Older than 13
The moon has stopped moving.
The dead are living the same night again.
And dawn will not come.
Lannor survived the first descent of the Bloodmoon. He expected another night of blood and steel.
Instead, Cathedral Ward seals its gates before sunset.
Patients transform between heartbeats. Hunters turn savage with weapons still in hand. Homes become slaughterhouses, clinics become laboratories, and the sacred blood that promised healing spreads corruption through Yharnam.
But the Beast Plague is no longer the city's greatest horror.
Time itself is broken.
The moon hangs frozen above the spires. When the night ends, the dead return, the streets reset, and the Hunt begins again.
Only a handful remember the cycles. They remember families dying, hunters descending into madness, and every attempt to change the night ending in failure.
Then Lannor arrives.
Only he is new.
Only he saves those meant to die.
Only he has changed the Hunt.
To break the cycle, Lannor must follow the Old Blood to its source. His path leads through the Healing Church, the Forbidden Woods, and an academy where scholars once tried to elevate humanity beyond its mortal limits.
He will face a father consumed by the beast within, a doctor offering salvation through inhuman transformation, living shadows, unseen creatures, and hunters who have died too many times to fear death.
Every victory draws him deeper.
Every answer makes the world more terrible.
Through Insight, Lannor begins to perceive what mortal eyes were never meant to see: the structure of spells, the nature of divine weapons, monsters clinging to cathedrals, and dreams vast enough to reshape reality.
But Insight does more than reveal the gods.
It allows the gods to look back.
The Great Ones are divided. Each longs for an impossible child, and each would condemn Yharnam rather than let a rival succeed. One has trapped the city in time to prevent the birth. Others are stretching the night toward rituals of their own.
Beyond a moonlit lake waits the being at the center of the cycle.
Reaching it will require more than witcher steel.
Lannor must master the Hunters' art of Quickening, wield Insight as a weapon, and enter a dream within a dream. There, using the combat experience of a Space Marine, he discovers the knowledge needed to become something beyond a witcher.
Yet killing the master of the cycle may not bring sunrise.
It may only remove the final barrier holding back the Bloodmoon.
If Lannor escapes, he will return to a world that continued without him. Four months have passed. Aretuza has a new headmistress, spies watch the roads, and a forbidden laboratory awaits the knowledge inside his mind.
A city has died through the same night countless times.
A god has trapped time to prevent a birth.
And the witcher who breaks the loop may unleash everything it was holding back.
Neverdawn is the seventh volume of Beast Slayer Online, a dark fantasy LitRPG adventure filled with endless-night horror, brutal monster hunts, time-loop mysteries, cosmic gods, forbidden blood rituals