The system has been trying to tell Reed something his entire life. Now the only thing standing between him and the answer is a sealed god, a usurper, and the man who called him worthless.

Reed Altius was the Hero's punching bag — a Summoner whose "junk" skill spat out wet boots and dead rats while Callum Drayne took the credit and the glory. Then they left him to die in a dungeon, his skill evolved to Mythic, and he started summoning legendary dead women from the system's sealed archives.

Now the war he started is coming to a head.

The Lord Seneschal — the quiet hand behind twelve years of treason, the man who commissioned Reed's death — has barricaded himself sixty feet beneath a cathedral, ringed by four hundred of the Crown's soldiers, racing to slam the seal shut on the system's voice forever. If the reseal finishes, every soul the system ever kept goes back into the dark. Including Sielle. Including Vessa. Including all of them.

Reed has hours. Every legal path is dead. The only way to the seventh layer runs straight through the Crown's army — the exact trap the Seneschal needs to brand him the monster he was always accused of being.

And somewhere across the river, Callum waits with a stolen sword and one last story to tell.

To save the women who came up out of the dark for him, Reed will have to descend past six hundred years of buried dead, face the thing the Church burned a whole bloodline to silence, and finally hear the end of a sentence the system has been trying to finish since the day a summoning circle first laughed in his face.

The junk was never the verdict. It's time to find out what it was.

This is the explosive series finale of Betrayed by the Hero's Party.