Echoes of the Aether

She wakes with no memory, only a strange power to read the final moments of the dead. In an interstellar empire governed by a flawless AI, death is a lie—souls are uploaded to a perfect digital afterlife. But her gift exposes the horrifying truth behind this paradise: it's a prison for consciousness. Branded a flaw in the system and hunted by relentless forces, she must evolve her power from simply reading cosmic data to rewriting the laws of existence itself. Allied with a conflicted noble who secretly fights the system, she embarks on an epic journey through virtual worlds and star-strewn battlefields. Her destiny is not just to survive, but to challenge a god and decide if a finite, feeling life is worth more than a perfect, cold eternity.