An ancient leviathan awakens beneath Zurich. A secret academy opens its gates. And a broke outcast discovers he carries the world's most dangerous bloodline.
Eighteen-year-old Caelen Vance was just trying to survive night to night in the wet alleyways of Zurich. But when a rogue monster attacks and his dormant S-Class kinetic powers involuntarily detonate, Caelen is yanked out of obscurity and dragged into Valence Academy-a high-tech, gothic fortress for elite monster hunters.
He isn't welcomed as a hero. He's classified as a liability.
Teamed up with Evelyn Thorne, a fierce heiress wielding a rune-forged blade, and Rian Kuroda, a cold corporate lightning prodigy, Caelen must navigate lethal combat exams and internal academy politics. But as subterranean pressure drops and the city's Aether grid begins to fracture, Squad 7 uncovers a terrifying global conspiracy: corrupt hybrid syndicates are harvesting hybrid blood, rigging combat trials, and deliberately waking the ancient Primordials.
To survive the academy and save his squad, Caelen must master his volatile gravity manipulation-before the sea leviathan beneath the lake claims him first.
Filled with high-octane action, secret societies, elemental magic systems, and fast-paced academy trials, Aether Awakening is the epic first installment in The Primordial Covenant series.
