New Cycle: Volume 3 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798271569333)

In the desert empire of Zartania, the wanderer Vyx and his AI companion Talos find a kingdom of silk and smoke built atop a sleeping machine. Beneath Emperor Sung Lao's opal palace, an ancient vault hums-a relic that responds to blood, memory, and will.

When the emperor's brothers conspire with the digital ghost of a long-dead queen, the vault's awakening turns a royal wedding into a war. Shadows of the old world rise, alliances fracture, and tragedy reshapes the empire's future.

Armed with the emperor's final gifts-a Writ of Open Path and an Echo Key-Vyx and Talos set out toward the east, chasing the traitors into the wasteland known as the Black Citadel, where life and machine become one nightmare.

Zartania is a story of power, loss, and the fragile bond between man and machine in a world still learning how to remember itself.