Outlaws of the Dead

OUTLAWS OF THE DEADChapter 1: Where a Drunken Man Offends Heaven and Earth AlikeIn the age of Kalyug—the cosmic prison of the Dead Worlds where forgotten souls endure endless cycles of suffering—the law of the gods is absolute. Purana, the Infinite Consciousness that birthed twelve divine realms and twelve sacred races, has no mercy for those who break its order.But in a tavern that drifts between shattered timelines, a brute named Bhairav is about to do something monumentally stupid.Drunk on celestial wine and having just devoured a six-legged cosmic chicken with his bare hands, Bhairav raises his mug and speaks words that will echo across the multiverse:"To the garbage of Kalyug. If Purana doesn''t want us—then maybe it''s time we went back and took what''s ours."The patrons laugh. They shouldn''t.Because something ancient stirs in response. Reality cracks. The air bleeds green light. And the Seal Keepers—Heaven''s crystalline enforcers—begin their descent.Now Bhairav must run through the spaces between worlds, hunted by beings of pure law, haunted by dreams of a golden city he''s never seen, and joined by a chaotic inventor whose gadgets explode more often than they work. Somewhere in the Dead Worlds, eleven others are stirring from their own forgotten sleep.A prophecy whispers... One day, the law will fall, for the law forgot mercy.The rebellion has begun—not with destiny, but with drunken rage and cosmic audacity.