With it came fresh technology, clean energy, and new talents.

It also brought its enemies . . .

Now, nearly a century later, the bloodthirsty creatures known as the apexes reign supreme, while humanity clings to survival behind the walls of a few fortified supercities.

Hope still survives. It is written that an Endar, someone capable of existing beyond the boundaries of time and space as we know it, could eliminate the insidious threat of the apexes once and for all.

Caul Bato is not the Endar-but he is different. With the help of his estranged father and a teenage girl learning to harness the power of a wielder, Caul may have what it takes to find the world's champion before it's too late.