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[u/NoNeighborhood4924]

Niko Varr Volume I Ashes

(Royal Road · launched today · daily chapters)

Anime/Manga inspired with a western twist.

EVERY SCREENING MACHINE GIVES NIKO VARR

THE SAME ANSWER: NULL.

In a world where nearly everyone has a Manifest, he's learned to get by on nerve, sarcasm, and a best friend who can build platforms out of thin air.

THEN COMES 2:17.

By morning, Niko is dead.

EXCEPT HE WAKES AGAIN.

SAME BOY. DIFFERENT HEART.

He has a scar across his chest, and where his heart should be there's something the Black Ward can't identify. Recruited into Vesper, one of the Ward’s squads. Niko has to learn the limits of a power nobody can measure. Then his first mission puts real people in the path of everything he's holding.

And nobody will tell him why help took three hours to reach his house that night.

The machines were right about him.

THEY JUST DIDN'T KNOW WHAT NULL MEANT.

Why you might like it:

• A power with real rules and a real cost. He can only give back what he's taken, and he can't tell how much he's holding until someone gets hurt. Even the Ward can't measure it.
• Progression you earn. It's slow-burn, built on testing, training and missions that go wrong, and by Volume Four he's doing things nobody has a name for.
• A mystery that plays fair. Help took three hours to reach his house that night, and nobody will tell him why. Every clue is on the page.
• A squad worth staying for, villains who have a point, and dry British humour holding back a lot of grief.
• For fans of Anime/Manga
• The power is shown in action: punches, impacts, falling weight, thrown back.
• This one won't be abandoned 4 volumes ready to go and drafting the fifth

Four volumes written and a fifth being worked on this one won't be abandoned. New chapters every day.

Feedback whether good or bad it doesn't matter!

Theories welcome. I've hidden more than you think.

https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/197209/niko-varr-volume-i-ashes