Humanity’s end was supposed to come from wars and famine.
They were wrong.
The true reckoning rose from the sea—a nightmare continent called Nyxterra, where science is a lie and silence gives birth to monsters. To step away from the light is to be erased. Yet, from this hell came a twisted opportunity: "strains," mutations that rewrite body, soul, and mind, offering power at a terrible price.
Gray is a nobody, a ghost surviving in the ruins of the old world. He possesses no strain, no power, and no future. Until he recieves a job offer.
Both a death sentence and a lifeline.
The job is simple: go where the light withers, complete a mission, and try not to die. Most recruits—the powered, the enhanced, the desperate—don't survive. For a baseline human like Gray, it’s suicide.
But in a world that has already taken everything, what does he have to lose? By accepting, Gray isn't just risking his life. He's gambling his very humanity against the darkness, hoping to find in the world's most terrifying place the one thing it stole from him: a reason to live.
My bad I'll fix it right now.
Where Light Withers
Fantasy · Dude_272910