The Gilded Zero

In Jagoro City, time isn't just money. It's the air you breathe. And someone just pulled the plug. Jagoro is the "Gilded Zero"—a masterpiece of marble and surveillance where crime is extinct and the elite live in a timeless sanctuary. But the city's perfection is a predatory lie. Beneath the glittering Zenith Spire, a massive circuit hums, powered by the stolen lifespans of the forgotten. Captain Malcolm Barrowman has spent his career protecting this "sanctuary." But when he finds a high-security transport vehicle—the "Bastion"—sitting empty in the middle of a cordoned plaza, he realizes the city's armor has finally cracked. There was no break-in. The cargo simply ceased to exist. Three brothers. Three weapons. One impossible heist. Milas, Mark, and Mihairib—known to their creators only as the Eye, the Shield, and the Hand—are the "Specimens." Born in a laboratory and bound by a shared frequency, they were designed to navigate the "Zero Space," a grey-scale dimension where time stands still. They have spent fifteen years as ghosts in the machine. Now, they are coming for the one thing the city cannot afford to lose: its future. As the "Integration" looms and the mysterious Shadows begin to liquidate the city's human assets, the brothers must execute a final, desperate theft. But in a city that can rewrite reality and siphons your heartbeat to keep the lights on, the price of freedom might be the very lives they are fighting to reclaim. The clock is ticking. But in Jagoro, the clock belongs to the enemy.