{"id":94,"date":"2026-08-27T22:18:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T22:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:22:30","slug":"soul-craft-the-reborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Soul Craft: The Reborn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-144\" src=\"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/605777ef-1ac9-40ac-af42-56b880f845c0-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1914\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/605777ef-1ac9-40ac-af42-56b880f845c0-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/605777ef-1ac9-40ac-af42-56b880f845c0-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/605777ef-1ac9-40ac-af42-56b880f845c0-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/605777ef-1ac9-40ac-af42-56b880f845c0-768x574.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/605777ef-1ac9-40ac-af42-56b880f845c0-1536x1148.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/605777ef-1ac9-40ac-af42-56b880f845c0-2048x1531.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kael Martin had never been to the Gauntlet.<\/p>\n<p>He had heard the stories, of course. His parents had told him everything\u2014about the Gray Suburbs and the Endless Office, about the Mirror Mall and the Hungry Garden, about the Clockwork City and the Bridge of Echoes. They had told him about the Dullthings and the Desk Jockeys, about the Auditor and the Rose of Self-Hatred. They had told him about the monsters they had faced, the memories they had confronted, and the weight of grief that had nearly crushed them.<\/p>\n<p>But they had never taken him there.<\/p>\n<p><b>Book 1:<\/b>\u00a0Cain&#8217;s descent into Hell, learning to feel, surviving the Gauntlet.<br \/>\n<b>Book 2:<\/b>\u00a0Cain&#8217;s return as a guide, teaching others, confronting and healing the ancient darkness.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\nBook 3 (this book):<\/b>\u00a0Twenty years later. Cain and Echo have built a life together. They have a son, Kael. But the Gauntlet is not finished with them. A fugitive has escaped\u2014a soul who should not be able to leave, carrying secrets that could unravel everything they have built.<\/p>\n<p>Kael is curious, restless, and desperate to prove himself in this final round of LitRPG adventure surrounding the Gauntlet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-142\" src=\"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/kael-alone.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/kael-alone.png 676w, https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/kael-alone-300x246.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>The final level is not the end. It&#8217;s the beginning of everything.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kael Martin had never been to the Gauntlet. He had heard the stories, of course. His parents had told him everything\u2014about the Gray Suburbs and the Endless Office, about the Mirror Mall and the Hungry Garden, about the Clockwork City and the Bridge of Echoes. They had told him about the Dullthings and the Desk [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soul-craft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145,"href":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mugenmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}