The Duck with an AX to Grind

Book 4

The Autarchy has taught the world to beg for its own erasure.
Every broadcast now preaches a single gospel: to kneel is to be made holy.

In the ruins of Moon Hollow, Lee Chungho-half teen, half weapon-discovers a relic forged from the Furnace's waste: an ax that erases whatever it touches. With each swing, he feels more powerful...and less human. The weapon sings in his bones, whispering the same promise as the Autarchy itself: Erase your pain. Erase yourself.

As Yuna, Ji-Eun, and the shattered Remnant struggle to survive, Chungho battles the voice inside him-the lure of becoming the very god of annihilation he fights against. Villages pray to vanish, rebels call him savior, and even hope begins to sound like poison.

But somewhere beneath the metal growing in his chest, a single truth still burns: remembering is resistance. In a world that worships forgetting, memory is the last act of defiance.

The Duck with an Ax to Grind is the story of a weapon learning to remember, of faith buried under ash, and of a soul fighting to stay its own-even as the blade hums for its name.