
by Paballo Legodi
In a world where the strong devour the weak, what happens when the prey grows teeth? Hidden beneath the surface of a society ruled by invisible hands, teenagers outcasts are forged in the fires of a brutal war they never chose. Survivors of calculated cruelty, they are no longer victims — they are the perfected accidents of a madman’s experiment. But escaping one nightmare only ushers in another. From blood-soaked streets ruled by gangs to the sterile corridors of global conglomerates, the battlefield expands. Survival is no longer enough. The future itself is at stake. As biological horrors awaken and betrayals cut deeper than blades, they are forced to confront a terrifying truth: To destroy a monster, you must become something worse. Empires will rise. Empires will fall. And in the chaos, they must decide — Will they break the cycle that created them… Or become the predators they were born to hunt?
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