Yellow Jacket

Yellow Jacket
SUMMARY
If the world hadn’t already ended, Warren Smith would’ve become a serial killer.
He was built for it cold, precise, methodical. Not driven by rage or trauma, but by a hunger for control. A creature of discipline and detachment. In the old world, he would’ve been studied. Hunted. Locked away.
But the old world is long gone.
Centuries ago, something broke, everything broke. Civilization collapsed under its own weight, swallowed by unchecked ambition, mass failure, and rot. The cities fell. The satellites died. People learned to fear silence because silence meant they’d been forgotten.
And then, hundreds of years later, came the System.
Sold as a cure. Marketed as salvation. A new architecture to stitch the ruins back together. Embedded in human minds through chips and fragments, it offered power, skills, survival. It promised to lift the desperate into something more than just broken survivors.
It lied.
The System was never built to save anyone. It was a leash. A filter. A machine designed to manage what was left not fix it. It turned people into data. Into stats. Into expendable roles with preset fates.
But Warren wasn’t part of that design.
He’s what the System missed. What it couldn’t see. An Aberrant unregistered, unreadable, ungovernable. He moves through the shattered world not as a man, but as something becoming legend. A ghost in the mist. The silence before the violence.
He doesn’t crave recognition. He doesn’t ask for power. He takes it quietly, completely, and without permission.
Because Warren doesn’t survive the System. He dissects it. And what he builds from its broken parts is entirely his own.
Even in a world of collapse and cruelty he’s the one thing still coming for you
Vaeliyan and Class One of the 93rd have already shaken the foundations of the Citadel. What should have been a single year of blood and trials has already turned into a legend whispered through the halls. But that was only the beginning.
Four more descents into the Ninth Layer lie ahead. Each one pulls him closer to the truth about Lord Barcus, the shadow who set the board long before Vaeliyan ever arrived. Those descents will not just test his class, they will strip them bare, revealing who can endure and who will be left behind.
Beyond the Citadel’s walls, forces stir. Friends move with uncertain loyalty. Foes gather, sharpening their blades against his name. And above it all, the gods themselves tilt their gaze, choosing this moment to act, weaving their hands into the threads of mortals.
The Shatterlight Trial looms on the horizon, a crucible of violence and revelation. Vaeliyan must prepare as he has never prepared before, for if he falters, it will not only consume him, but everything he has managed to hold together.
And if all of that were not enough. Winter comes. And with it, the Red Widow rises. You can also read this novel here: Read free novels online
Chapter list
- Book 3 Chapter 8: I Will Weaponize An Instructor
- Book 3 Chapter 9: Group Tactics
- Book 3 Chapter 10: Your Pain Is In Good Hands
- Book 3 Chapter 11: The Fifth Wave
- Book 3 Chapter 12: This Is Extortion
- Book 3 Chapter 13: Tiger-Based Motivation
- Book 3 Chapter 14: The Fist of The Legion
- Book 3 Chapter 15: We Are Legion
- Book 3 Chapter 16: You Are Mine Now
- Book 3 Chapter 17: The Drinks Thing
- Book 3 Chapter 18: Rubber Ducky
- Book 3 Chapter 19: I REGRET NOTHING
- Book 3 Chapter 20: Wooden Rings
- Book 3 Chapter 21: The Stampede
- Book 3 Chapter 22: History
- Book 3 Chapter 23: Sink Into The Darkness
- Book 3 Chapter 24: Class One Of The 93rd
- Book 3 Chapter 25: My Money Has Money
- Book 3 Interlude: Witnesses and Stats
- Book 3 Chapter 26: Bringer of Plenty
- Book 3 Chapter 27: Students
- Book 3 Chapter 28: Anything Goes
- Lore drop: EYNIOBB CORPORATE MEMORANDUM
- Lore drop: Legion Report: The Twelve Princedoms
- Book 3 Chapter 29: Don't Mess With Alorna
- Book 3 Chapter 30: The Wasp
- Lore drop: The Vault of Faces
- Lore drop: The Bone Relay
- Lore drop: Shrines of The Red Widow
- Lore drop: The Husk Market
- Lore drop: The Neuman Floating Battleships and Soul Skills
- Lore drop: Skinner Crows Flesh-Nesters of the Branthorn Bog
- Lore drop: The Moss Mothers Healers of the Quiet Places
- Lore drop: Sugar Beetles Sweetness of the Forgotten Fields
- Book 3 Chapter 31: Cookies
- Lore drop: The Stilt-Walkers Keepers of the Reefside Bogs
- Lore drop: The Fish Slap Dance Ocean Village Revelry
- Lore drop: Tanglecrabs Root-Legged Ambushers of the Reefside Bogs
- Lore drop: Glow Toad Ale Drunken Light of the Marshes
- Lore drop: Drunken Styll
- Lore drop: The Two Missing Continents
- Lore drop: The Whispering Cave
- Lore drop: Tallo the Fool of Knives
- Lore drop: The Blind River
- Lore drop: The Brine Throne
- Lore drop: The Bone Road
- Lore drop: Inkwater Marsh
- Lore drop: The Mudhole Choir
- Lore drop: The Sunken Spires
- Lore drop: The Singular Forests of Hemera