AETHAL: The Cold Side of Light

The signal under the town has found a machine big enough to answer it.

Now, Eli Voss has to find a way to tear it down.

Eli is done running from the secrets of the dead. After learning the true depth of the tragedy that built Collinsville, his search for answers leads him to a hidden basement—and to the ghost of a records keeper who has been waiting over a century for someone to finally look. What she reveals shatters everything Eli thought he knew about the world. The ancient entity he has been chasing isn’t just hiding in the crowd; it’s actively building a massive, four-story replication of his father’s original machine, and the physical structure is already forty-two percent of the way to ready.

But the final countdown has begun.

With Nadia fully stepping into the fight after witnessing the impossible truth, and Marcus hacking their tracking tech to follow a shifting target in real time, the trio must plan a dangerous midnight infiltration. The site is a fortress, guarded by human patrols and a wall of aggressive spirits acting as an early warning system. To stand a chance at stopping the machine before the barrier is ripped completely open, Eli will have to push his raw abilities past anything he has ever explored.

From a quiet kitchen table where three years of silent grief finally break, to a catastrophic point-blank showdown where the steel framework itself begins to scream, Eli must risk everything to protect the living world.

Some doors must be destroyed.