The world didn’t fall overnight. It decayed—quietly, relentlessly—until the line between man and monster vanished. No one could stop it. No one even knew *what* it was. But in the deep places of the earth, beyond the reach of corrupted skies and broken governments, a child was born. Unregistered. Unseen. Unnamed. They called him **Kael Varin**. Raised in silence. Trained like a weapon. Taught never to trust the stars above. Whispers say he was engineered to be humanity’s last shield. Others say he was never meant to exist at all. Even Kael doesn’t know which is true. Now, at seventeen, he is sent into the world for the first time—with nothing but a black coat, a burning mark on his palm, and a single mission: **Find the source. Eliminate the evil. Don’t look back.** But the world has changed since he was hidden away. The monsters wear human faces. And the closer Kael gets to the truth… the more he begins to wonder: **What if the real threat… is him?** --- *He was born to save us.* *But what if he was created to end us instead?*