In a world where bloodlines define power and the divine are long dead, one boy is born with nothing-no lineage, no gift, no glow.

At Aeternum Institute, a fortress-school built to forge heroes and weapons alike, Vodak Raines is the anomaly every prodigy mocks-a powerless student in a city that worships strength. Until the day a mission goes wrong... and something ancient answers his cry.

A pulse.

A whisper.

A system.

The Embryon System awakens within him-cold, calculating, divine. It grants him impossible strength, but at a price: survive its trials or be consumed by the god sealed in his blood.

Now, hunted by the academy that fears him and haunted by a presence older than the world itself, Vodak must master the power he never asked for-before it masters him.

As rivals rise and monsters tear through the veil between worlds, the last spark of the forgotten gods flickers to life once more.

And the vessel who carries it... is no longer human.