The Duck that Moved the Mountain

Book 2 The Autarchy has turned faith into fuel-and humanity into spectacle. Lee Chungho, once a boy, now a hybrid marked by a serpent tattoo, struggles between the weapon they made him and the son his parents raised. Hunted through ruins and mountains with only Yuna, an old fighter, and Ji-Eun, a child survivor, he discovers the Autarchy's darkest truth: believers are not destroyed, but remade into corporate "saints" for the world to worship. When Chungho reaches the Tower and sees his own parents displayed as living gods, he must decide what it means to love, resist, and remember in a world where even memory is rewritten. The Duck that Moved the Mountain is a brutal, luminous tale of faith, rebellion, and the war for identity in a future where the body is property-and the soul is the last battlefield.