Daivik Bhagat

In the Hunters Quarter of North America, nineteen-year-old Vecna is already a legend, famed for surviving a brutal encounter with the soul-devouring entities known as the Soul Eaters. But no amount of training could prepare him for the psychological trap of Moral's Kingdom. Investigating a routine anomaly, Vecna is pulled through a portal into a localized reality where time is deeply fractured. In this strange dimension, his phone displays an impossible clock ticking down a twenty-seven-hour day, governed by an ominous text: BD.
Here, the rules of survival are absolute-lock the windows, cover the mirrors, never confront the staff, and hide from the dark. Breaking the rules results in fatal "mistakes." Desperate to break the loop, Vecna infiltrates the royal fortress, defeats an army of phantom soldiers, and confronts the tragic King Moral. To win his freedom, he shatters the cursed iron pocket watch anchoring the dimension, collapsing the entire simulation into ash. But escaping the rift is only the beginning. Waking up in a real-world hospital, Vecna realizes the curse didn't stay behind-it used his mind as a bridge.
The hospital staff's eyes are bleeding into pitch-black voids, the walls are warping, and the impossible countdown is running out on his own phone. Having already made four catastrophic errors, Vecna is down to his final lifeline. Returning to the safety of the Hunters Quarter, Vecna and his closest allies must race against the setting sun to unravel the Zero Slices Paradox. To destroy a collective demonic entity that has no individual heart, Vecna must face his deepest fears, invite the shadow completely unshielded, and force the loop to process an absolute mathematical impossibility. Horror Hunts and the Deadliest of Vecna is a relentless, atmospheric psychological thriller that blends gritty supernatural action with reality-bending suspense.
Will Vecna shatter the code of the curse, or will his fifth mistake trap humanity in a permanent nightmare?