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📖 A Very Brief Summary 📖

This story is about Arete of Syracuse (the protagonist) who was on a journey to find a mysterious Teleios of Eretria. Travelling with her servant Matea, her maternal cousin Agave and a former hetaira named Pryne. Throughout their journey, they discovered the conspiracy behind the Emperor Nero's eugenic system.

This story explores the topic of human advancement. Tracing the idea back to the Greco-Roman world, the idea of eugenicism started when humans attempted to achieve perfection through breeding enhancements. However, The Three Elders realised that they couldn't afford waiting on the natural process of evolution. Thus, they came out with the idea of experimentation through the building up of monstrosities using different body parts of animals and attempting to achieve immortality through taking over the younger human bodies.

⛔ This is an alternate historical low fantasy. There shall be no historical accuracy whatsoever...

This book contains sensitive material relating to:

🚸 LGBT content🚸 Violence🚸 Gore🚸 Blood🚸 Torture🚸 Body horror🚸 Fat-phobia🚸 Skinny-shaming🚸 Ableism🚸 Transphobia🚸 Child sexualization🚸 Child abduction🚸 Child murder🚸 Grief🚸 Parent death🚸 Sexual assault🚸 Genital mutilation🚸 Slavery🚸 Child slavery🚸 Mentions of incest🚸 Talk of suicide🚸 Stockholm syndrome🚸 and PTSD

🚫 Do not read if you're weak! There are complaints that some readers suffered insomnia after reading! (Although I'm not 100% sure they did).

📛 Manage your expectations! 📛 The reason this hasn't been taken down by RR simply because the triggers are delivered through fade-to-black method. So please do not expect to see any explicit contents in this story.

"The world itself abused us to a level unimaginable! Yet we have to learn to love the world! Simply to live! To make our life a little easier, a little happier. So what is wrong with that? Are you expecting me to go against the emperor when he is the one and only reason I became the empress?" Said Sporus.

"You will get all the ancient Greco-Roman shits in 300 the movie! And far worst than that!" ~ Anonymous Reader

"This is truly an ultra feminist tale in an patriarchal world." ~ Anonymous Reader