Elijah is dying. Afflicted with terminal cancer, his days are limited.  So, after deciding to spend his remaining time with family, he boards a plane and sets off for the Pacific Northwest to be with his sister.  However, along the way, Earth is transformed by the touch of the World Tree, injecting it with magical Ethera and connecting it to a much larger universe via the System.  More importantly for Elijah, it also causes his plane to crash, stranding him on a deserted island.  But all ...

It has been ninety years since the Initialization, when Earth was inundated by a galaxy-sized cloud of nanites called Mist.  With it came a system by which people could upgrade and improve themselves to superhman levels, but it came with a cost.  Billions dead.  A world overrun by monsters.  Cities abandoned and destroyed.  And over it all, powerful alien overlords await for the opportunity to swoop in and exploit Earth and its people for all their worth.   Follow Mirabelle in this pos...