Arena Duel: I Summon Gods to Save the World
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Jack Mercer leverages lost divine names to summon gods against mage overlords who erased all memory of them.
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Graduate student Jack Mercer is torn from his research into a realm where mages have held humanity in bondage for three hundred years. The tyrants secured their reign by systematically erasing every divine name from records, forcing the old gods into a dormant silence that left the population defenseless.
Jack discovers he alone retains the forbidden nomenclature. Each true name he speaks pulls a slumbering deity back into the world, directing celestial wrath at the mage hierarchy that believed its dominance was absolute.
Key points
- Mages have enslaved humanity for three centuries
- Divine names were purged from all memory
- Jack summons gods by speaking their true names
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