Bosloe's Creative Chaos
Luxtro and Scrug Wars by Bosloe
available on RoyalRoad
When a star vanishes without a trace, astrophysicist Brian Nace detects the impossible anomaly from an Antarctic observatory. Meanwhile, in the newly formed void, a gene-core hatches.
Luxtro, an Androcous; a cosmic Space Dragon; is born starving and desperate, driven by a System to consume and grow. Its purpose: to defend a universe facing existential threats from beyond.
As Brian's investigation uncovers unnatural patterns in the data, a foreign presence invades his mind, branding him with a title and a terrible duty: Progenitor. He is now the unseen guardian of the very creature whose birth he witnessed, bound to guide a legend's growth in a silent war for reality's survival.
Harmonious Scrug was done with adventure. He'd traded his sword for a plough, his battles for a family, and his glory for a quiet life on his farm. But when his cows begin dying inexplicably—and then his family falls to the same mysterious fate—Harm loses everything.
Left with nothing but grief, rage, and questions, Harm discovers his tragedy may not have been an accident. In a territory where corrupt officials bleed farmers dry and rivals prosper while good men suffer, someone wanted him destroyed. And they succeeded.
But they made one mistake: they left him alive.
Now the retired hero must become something darker. Without even his legendary blade Florence to his name, Harm will forge new alliances, hunt for answers, and confront those who took everything from him. Yet as he descends into vengeance, he faces a choice: honour the man his family loved, or embrace the monster his enemies created.