On the lip of every potion vial sits the story's bargain: take a Sequence, gain an ability, and accept a narrower margin for error. Every gain bites back. Power is not a prize here; it is debt, compounding whenever a Beyonder climbs toward the upper Sequences.Rarely does a fantasy ladder punish appetite so methodically. Each of the 22 pathways makes advancement path-dependent: potion digestion rel...More