Eric N. Lard Dawn of the Construct

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Earth is a prison and youre living in it. Its called The Construct and its keepers carefully manage the rise and fall of humanity in order to extract soul energy to fuel the galactic expansion of an alien race... but well get to that. When an enigmatic magic known as the Astrig Kaa turns Davrys life upside down, he finds himself in a struggle to save humanity, not only in his own time and place but throughout Earths untold histories as well - histories replete with mechanized armor, steampunk airships, wolf-borne goblins, and creatures crafted from the very void between worlds. Now Davrys dreams have become a playground for this world-bending chaos. When he saves the girl of his dreams, in one of his dreams, he inadvertently brings her back and must figure out what the Astrig Kaa is trying to tell him and why the keepers of the Construct want so badly to kill a crippled girl from the future. The answer to these questions may be the only hope that humanity has, not just to escape its prison, but to survive as a species.