The Apex Below
At Astra Academy, a single touch of an Ability Stone determines your destiny, ranking you among the powerful or casting you aside. But when Kai, a hopeful first-year, places his....
At Astra Academy, a single touch of an Ability Stone determines your destiny, ranking you among the powerful or casting you aside. But when Kai, a hopeful first-year, places his hand on the stone, it remains cold, inert, revealing nothing but a devastating truth: he is the lowest ranked student in history, a null in a world defined by power. Humiliated and cast into the academy's forgotten corners, Kai soon uncovers a terrifying, forbidden secret about his own unique ability: he can replicate and absorb the powers of others, blending them into something entirely new. As he masters these stolen martial techniques and begins his impossible climb, the academy's elite will stop at nothing to protect a system he is destined to shatter.