The Fourth Vector

At exactly 3:17 PM, gravity stopped working. For three impossible seconds, the world floated. Cars lifted. Buildings groaned. People hovered between life and death. Then gravity returned — violently — and everything fell back into place. Everything except Kai Mercer. Seventeen years old, broke, and trying to survive a life that never gave him control, Kai becomes one of the first to awaken something no one can explain: the ability to manipulate pressure itself. He can bend force, redirect impact, and crush or protect with a single thought. But power in this new world isn’t random. It follows a system. Every awakened person has slots — limits to how much pressure their mind can control. Most awaken with one. Rare individuals awaken with two. Kai awakens with four. And people with four slots don’t survive. Hunted by a secret organization known as the Hunters, forced into brutal training by a man who lost his own son to the same power, and watched by a calm, terrifying rival who believes evolution requires sacrifice, Kai is pushed into a war he never agreed to fight. Because the Hunters don’t just capture awakeners. They break them. They study them. And they use them to unlock something buried deep within reality itself. As Kai struggles to control abilities that can collapse lungs or save lives with equal ease, he learns the truth: power isn’t about strength. It’s about clarity. Every emotional spike makes him more dangerous. Every mistake leaves a trail the Hunters can follow. Every new slot brings him closer to becoming something no longer human. Worse, the system inside him is changing. The deeper Kai goes, the more he sees the Tree — a structure that shouldn’t exist, offering evolution at a cost no one has survived paying. Now, with his family in danger, enemies closing in, and his own abilities threatening to tear him apart from the inside, Kai must decide what kind of power he will become. Because in this world, gravity isn’t the strongest force. Clarity is. And evolution has already begun.

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