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Arcana of the Forsaken

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One night, black tarot cards begin appearing in the hands, mailboxes, and locked rooms of chosen individuals across the world—each branded with a name already etched into fate. At midnight, the chosen are dragged into The Covenant, an inter-dimensional survival game of horror instances, each ruled by a sentient tarot card. Clear the trial bound to your card, or become part of the next deck. The cards are not random. They are judgments. Criminal psychologist Liang Zeyan receives The High Priestess (Upright)—keeper of hidden truths. Calm, precise, and unreadable, he has built a career profiling fractured minds while concealing his own shadow, Yanluo—ruthless, hyper-aware, and violently protective. Inside The Covenant, Yanluo grows stronger, as if the system recognizes him. Psychology student Shen Wuyou draws The Fool (Reversed)—traditional tarot often symbolizes recklessness or foolish risk. But in his case, it represents a man who walks toward the abyss to measure its depth. Detached and unsettlingly perceptive, he studies each lethal instance as if it were a puzzle box. Where others see horror, he sees structure. Where others panic, he experiments. As trials tied to The Lovers, The Devil, and The Tower force betrayal and revelation, Liang’s calculated protection of Shen deepens into obsession. Meanwhile, fragments of a buried myth resurface: the seventy-eight cards are shards of a shattered ancient consciousness—the Arcana Entity—once divided to stop it from overwriting reality. The Covenant is not a game. It is a reassembly ritual.
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