Ambition is a sharp blade, and in the hands of the brilliant, it carves away at the boundaries of ethics until only raw desire remains. Victor Vale and Eli Cardale were never intended to be heroes; they were merely two roommates at Merit University whose intellect outpaced their morality. Their shared fascination with the physiology of near-death experiences led them to a terrifying hypothesis: that the human spark, when strained to the absolute breaking point, can ignite something unnatural. They believed that by systematically engineering a brush with death, they could bypass the limits of biology and emerge as something "ExtraOrdinary."

Ten years after their research moved from the theoretical to the experimental, the consequences of that arrogance have manifested in a cold-blooded hun...

Ambition is a sharp blade, and in the hands of the brilliant, it carves away at the boundaries of ethics until only raw desire remains. Victor Vale and Eli Cardale were never intended to be heroes; they were merely two roommates at Merit University whose intellect outpaced their morality. Their shared fascination with the physiology of near-death experiences led them to a terrifying hypothesis: that the human spark, when strained to the absolute breaking point, can ignite something unnatural. They believed that by systematically engineering a brush with death, they could bypass the limits of biology and emerge as something "ExtraOrdinary."

Ten years after their research moved from the theoretical to the experimental, the consequences of that arrogance have manifested in a cold-blooded hun...