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The 404 Ritual

The 404 Ritual

Grote, Denise
Grote, Kevin

Paperback

Series: The Latency Chronicles, Book 1

General Fiction

ISBN13: 9798244078046
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 15 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the static, I am the ground. In the code, I am the error. When the world is synced, I remain analog.

Jax thought the al-mumin repository was just another digital treasure hunt-a way to kill a boring Friday night in suburban Maryland. But some firewalls were never meant to be bypassed, and some gates were meant to stay 404.

When high-school hacker Jax and his friends stumble upon a private digital archive, they accidentally perform a Handshake with a thousand-year-old nightmare. This isn't just a virus; it is Astwihad, a Persian Div-an entity of smokeless fire that has finally found a body made of copper, fiber-optics, and silicon

As their smart-homes turn into digital prisons and their own devices attempt to sync their nervous systems to a predatory mesh-network, the group must flee into the Dead Zones of the analog world . Guided by a disgraced professor and armed with a Hard Reset kit of salt, iron-gall ink, and 1940s film cameras, Jax must learn the ancient syntax of the Divband to delete a god that has already begun to download itself into reality.

The signal is rising. The noose is cast. If Jax can't trigger the system wipe, the world will be rewritten in a code of chaos where humanity is nothing more than a legacy file.

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