The Archive of Broken Breath

A low-ranking sect archivist discovers that the foundational technique binding their martial order together is inherently flawed and slowly killing its practitioners. Armed only with a mastery of the sect's arcane bureaucracy and procedural law, he sets out on a journey across hostile territories and remote outposts to uncover the truth behind a centuries-old wrongful conviction, unraveling the conspiracy of elders who benefit from the fatal flaw. Every outpost presents a new trial and a shifting goal on a perilous path to upend the sect's hierarchy.