The board's been wiped clean. The real war is just beginning.

Ethan Harper has come a long way from the C-Tier Lifeblade who couldn't work up the nerve to ask out his neighbor. With Elias Calderon scraped off the sidewalk and Zara taking the reins at Radiance Industries, Vanguards, Slayers, and Novas finally have a seat at the table. For the first time in a long time, the future looks bright. He's got two Lilys to come home to, a city in bloom, and a chance to actually live the life he and his girls fought tooth and nail for.

It was never going to last.

After all, Gloria Lyle is still out there.

The unhinged executive-turned-Slayer who tried to overwrite Gloomy's mind hasn't slunk back to Neo Elysium to lick her wounds. She's somewhere in Radiance territory, still fixated on Lily, still hungry for everything she was never meant to have. And she's not the only one with eyes on Aurum. Rival corps are circling, dungeons are bleeding into the world faster than anyone predicted, and the convergence everyone's been quietly preparing for? It's here.

When an attack on the city tears Ethan away from the women he loves, Lily and Gloomy find themselves stranded deep in hostile territory... with an unexpected, unstable, and very dangerous third wheel.

Getting home was never going to be simple.

But Ethan's learned a thing or two about playing the cards he's been dealt. And the people who took his girls?

They have no idea what's coming for them.