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A Raging God Returns
by Hunter X Johnson
Language: English
Categories: Fiction » Adventure » Action
Content Rating: All Ages
When massive matter-antimatter blasts near Neptune announce the arrival of the advanced alien civilization known as the Paradigm, humanity is given a terrifying ultimatum: adapt or die. The Paradigm, spread across thousands of planets and boasting a population of trillions, reveals they seeded Earth’s ancestors thousands of years ago, but now views the planet’s rigid religious belief systems as a curse that must be purged. To enforce compliance, they utilize Cubes of Doom to spread surveillance nanobots, executing millions of citizens deemed unproductive, criminal, or obstructive. Failure to change means total societal eradication and the reseeding of the planet.
Everything Brendan Murphy, David Cohen, and Ashlyn Murphy believed about their lives and faith implodes overnight. Brendan, an aspiring Catholic Priest struggling with his sexuality, David, a rabbinical student training as a doctor under a prophetic mentor, and Ashlyn, a sharp pre-med student heading into cardiology, are selected and ripped from their lives. They are transported to the colossal Paradigm ship orbiting Jupiter to participate in the mandatory “Developmental Path.”
To survive this forced evolution, the trio must transcend human limits, mastering advanced powers, instantaneous long-distance travel, telepathy, and commanding an implanted Artificial Intelligence. Their rapid education involves submitting to a unique biological interface—the sentient, parasitic Neruk worm—which accelerates their ability to access sixteen levels of consciousness and communicate across dimensions in mere weeks, a path usually taking decades. They discover the painful truth: the great prophets of Earth’s past (including Jesus and Buddha) were merely earlier students of the Paradigm who misinterpreted their advanced mentors as "Gods."
The trio is quickly thrust into a horrifying galactic war that the Paradigm is ill-prepared to fight. Their survival depends on forming an unlikely alliance with the XaX, a powerful, trillions-strong insect civilization that lives in highly advanced underground cities and is currently battling two relentless, predatory enemies: the Drunduh (voracious creatures that suck the soul from sentient beings) and the ancient, malicious Sugigoth Overlords.
Recognizing the trio’s unparalleled potential—including unique genetic coding hidden in another dimension and an intrinsic, untrained ability to teleport across the entire universe (the state of Qumull)—the XaX name them the “Blessed Ones,” the saviors foretold in their ancient prophecies. Brendan, David, and Ashlyn fight alongside their XaX allies in massive starships against the superior weaponry of their cosmic foes. They suffer horrific acid burns and are even killed in the line of duty, only to be resurrected by the XaX with enhanced bodies and technology hidden in transdimensional space.
Leveraging their terrifying new powers, they lead the alliance to victory against the immediate enemy, exposing corruption within the Paradigm's ruling Council and revolutionizing its obsolete government. From struggling religious students to the Chancellors of the Paradigm, this talented trio must now determine the fate of trillions, navigating political treachery, cosmic threats, and profound spiritual questions about the true nature of God and self, lest their entire civilization succumb to the ultimate predators.