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The Beast Within – Yulong (Book Two)

JJWaka
The choice has been made—the Noctusborn has awakened. But the price only becomes visible now. Elandor, the former King of Kaelon, now walks as a creature of darkness through the nights of Melandor. He hides in the bodies of the living, tears families apart from within, makes entire villages vanish. In Yulong, no one suspects the danger—until a blood-drenched rider arrives with a warning, and no one listens. Until Liyen, the archer, sits in a cell with a truth no one believes. Until Yaoming stays behind, so that others might flee. Every choice is a sacrifice. Every rescue has its price. The clock is ticking. And this time, time itself becomes the enemy. (Book Two of "The Beast Within" series—a direct sequel to "The Awakening of the Noctusborn") An OPTIONAL lore companion book is available on my WebNovel profile. TikTok.com/@jjwakawaka pinterest.com/jjwaka1144/ instagram.com/jjwaka414 Copyright 2026 JJWaka & Wayne Shao. All rights reserved. This work is protected by copyright. Any reproduction, distribution, translation, adaptation, public performance, or other use—even in part—is prohibited without the express written permission of the authors. Publication of this work is reserved exclusively for the authors—regardless of platform, medium, or format. Any further publication or use by third parties, even for non-commercial purposes, is strictly prohibited. All characters, plot lines, texts, musical compositions, sound recordings, visual elements, and other creative content are the intellectual property of the authors.
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Rio only wanted to see how the story ended. Instead, he woke up inside it. Not as the protagonist, not even as a supporting character—but as someone who barely existed in the narrative. An extra with no importance, no future, and no place in the story’s direction. At least, that’s how it was supposed to be. Now in the body of Rio Valen, a disgraced noble exiled from his own house, he finds himself in a region the original story barely touched—one driven as much by advanced technology as it is by arcane power. And buried beneath it, something far worse. The facility he wakes up in shouldn’t exist. The experiments conducted there shouldn’t have succeeded. And whatever was placed inside him was never meant to survive. As fragments of memory return—both his own and the life he inherited—Rio begins to understand the situation he’s in. The world still follows its original course. The key figures are still moving toward the same future. But his existence doesn’t fit anywhere within it. Even so, people begin to notice him. Not because of who he is—but because of something they can’t quite explain. A presence. A flaw. Or something far more dangerous. Some approach out of curiosity. Others, for reasons he doesn’t understand. And a few, simply because staying away isn’t an option. With no role to follow and no clear path ahead, Rio is left with a simple choice: Stay invisible and survive. Or step into a story that was never meant to include him. Because in a world that already has its main character— an extra that shouldn’t exist might be the only thing that can change it. **The cover used is temperoray, I hold no credits towards the art**
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