A summary of Roman Prokofiev’s "Incarnator" Automatic translate

This book is a fantasy novel at the intersection of post-apocalyptic, cyberpunk, and LitRPG genres, opening the "Stellar" series. Created in 2019, the story’s protagonist begins his journey without memory, reborn in someone else’s dead body in the middle of a world devastated by the fall of fragments from the Black Moon. He is forced to discover the laws of a new reality step by step, battling mutated monsters and gathering mystical energy.

Awakening in a Dead City

The story begins with a disembodied entity awakening inside an alien cryogenic capsule — the "Black Sarcophagus." The hero floats in mid-air, completely unaware of his past. He soon spots a squad of armed men under attack by a giant centipede and a mysterious black substance. The dark liquid instantly consumes and revives the dead, transforming them into zombie-like creatures. The squad perishes, and the survivors’ transport is completely destroyed by a giant roc.

The entity discovers it can manipulate the energy of creation known as Azure. Having accumulated the necessary charge, the hero inhabits the body of a deceased, fair-haired youth, Sven Greyholm. The new host was codenamed Grey. The revived hero escapes from a devastated crater into an abandoned metropolis engulfed by a lush jungle. He discovers the ability to absorb the energy of slain creatures, transforming it into neurospheres for body mutation.

Miko’s neural network activates in Gray’s mind. The charming virtual assistant provides valuable information about the new world, its enemies, and the technologies of the Utopian era. Gray finds a short video message from his past self in the system interface. The doppelganger asks him to return to the distant City and activate an ancient mechanism in the Tower of Emptiness. He reveals that he deliberately erased his own memory to protect himself from a global threat.

Battles for survival

While exploring the ruins, Gray encounters Darkness-infected pursuers and is trapped by a giant, predatory shrub. A powerful neurotoxin kills the host. The Incarnator’s disembodied spirit gathers Azure around an old crater, then returns and heals Sven’s body. Soon, an explosion of incredible power devastates the metropolis, incinerating entire city blocks. Gray escapes into the underground sewers, but is buried under rubble.

To escape the rubble, he expends his accumulated energy to strengthen his bones and activates the "Ra" source of magical light energy. In the dark dungeons, he is attacked by an armored necromancer, the Flesh Eater. Gray dies again in a brutal battle, but before his death, he manages to throw a thermal grenade straight into the monster’s throat. Another resurrection allows him to gather a huge supply of Azure and acquire the monster’s genetic material.

The Incarnator is armed with an ancient knife, "Fenrir’s Fang." A spectral fire wolf emerges from this artifact in moments of mortal danger. With its help, Gray fights his way through hordes of aggressive water leeches and enormous predatory slugs. Resurfacing, he attempts to cross a river swamp. The young man perishes in the web of a giant spider and is then swallowed by a water Hydra.

New allies

The giant Roc bird kills the Hydra and carries its carcass high into the mountains to its vast nest. There, Gray’s spirit resurrects his body and absorbs the water monster’s priceless genetic material. To escape the avian predator, he leaps to his death from a cliff. Another reincarnation occurs in a dense forest. The Incarnator gains the ability to quickly heal wounds and continues its journey toward civilization.

Soon, he rescues a young girl named Tara Jessica Lee from a swarm of sentient mutant rats. Tara makes a living by scavenging pre-war scrap and lives in the fortified settlement of Angelo. She mistakes Gray for an amnesiac messenger from a distant City. Together, they travel to the fortress on an old hover motorcycle. Along the way, the new allies fight off an attack by bandits, commonly referred to as "Roamers."

The hero learns that the cruel Rogues have conspired with mutated rats led by a demon king. Reaching Angelo’s fortress, located in a giant rock pit of an old spaceport, Gray meets the local leadership. Commander Knox and the old artifact specialist Rico conduct a background check on him. The Incarnator decides to conceal his immortality from his new acquaintances, posing as an ordinary tribute fighter.

The Impending War

Gray and Tara visit an ancient black Monolith, where the hero gains access to Stellar’s global terminal network. Rico crafts a deadly poisonous sword for Gray from the claw of a slain Necros. He asks him to deliver the implants recovered from the bandits to the City. The parts are marked with the special symbol of Technomancer Oskal — a mad renegade Incarnator, long believed dead by all wastelanders.

Gray and Tara take up duty in Angelo’s lower technical level. The relationship between the partners develops into a passionate affair. Gray takes Gray to the abandoned museum of the legendary Incarnator Angel. It was he who founded their impenetrable settlement three centuries ago. The protector’s armored suit is kept there, awaiting its time. Angel has departed for the Black Moon, but people still believe in his return.

Suddenly, a massive Rogue Convoy besieges Angelo. A swarm of rats breaks through a drain into the lower caverns. Gray sends Tara for reinforcements, while he single-handedly holds off hundreds of mutants. He perishes again and again, resurrecting in the darkness of the underground passages. Incinerating hordes of rats with magical blasts of light, he recovers a Black Moon shard from the body of the giant crab Flector.

The last battle and captivity

Returning to the upper levels, the young man sees that the Rogues have successfully breached the fort’s defenses. The Avenging corvette hangs ominously in the sky, and enemy paratroopers mercilessly fire at the defenders. The invaders’ heavy assault bot is obliterating the Angels’ fortifications with intense plasma fire. Gray and Tara desperately try to destroy it. The bot fires back, mortally wounding the girl with a direct hit.

Tara dies in Gray’s arms, begging him to immediately don the silver Angel armor. Blinded by grief, the Incarnator uses the recovered Black Moon shard as a power source for the armor. He dons a silver exoskeleton and soars into the sky. The flying suit provides devastating firepower and protection from kinetic weapons. Gray effortlessly destroys the combat robot.

The hero then descends like a fiery meteor on the Rogue vanguard, crushing their heavy military equipment. The corvette "Avenging" suddenly retreats, abandoning the battlefield. Angelo’s defenders rejoice at their salvation from the skies, but their joy of victory is short-lived. Technomancer Oskal, personally leading the assault on the Convoy, seizes Gray’s armor with an energy whip. The suit’s bionics instantly shut down, and the hero plummets to the ground.

The book ends with a scene where a wounded and bound Gray hangs on the wall after yet another death. A man in a blue cape mockingly calls him "Angel," hinting at the captive’s deep connection to the legendary Incarnator, who abandoned his costume in the museum.