After The Age of Man

When an asteroid struck the Earth, it brought something with it. Creatures born of alien biology that evolved faster than humanity could fight them. Continent by continent, the Kaiju devoured the world. Now twenty million survivors cling to existence in Borealis Prime, a mega-city at the top of the world, ruled by six Great Houses and defended by walls that grow weaker every year. Humanity's last weapon is the Eaters. Rare individuals born with a genetic mutation that allows them to consume Kaiju flesh and absorb their power. Trained, ranked, and weaponized, the Eaters are the only force the monsters cannot evolve around. Ren has no surname, no family, and no memory of the life he had before a Kaiju attack left him stranded in the Wastelands at age eight. He survived two years alone in the dark, eating what he killed, becoming something that shouldn't exist: a ten-year-old boy with the power of a Grade 3 Eater. Rescued and raised in the slums of Borealis Prime, he carries only a first name and the fractured image of a crest he cannot place, burned into his memory from the night he lost everything. Ren enters the ETF Youth Training Program, where the children of powerful Houses train alongside conscripts with nothing but their genes to offer. Surrounded by prodigies, rivals, and enemies who see him as either a threat or a tool, Ren must fight his way up through a system designed for people who had every advantage he didn't. But the crest in his memory belongs to someone. The blood in his veins tells a story he hasn't learned yet. And the war outside the walls is changing in ways that no one, not even the Four Pillars who hold humanity's fate on their shoulders, is prepared for.