Every artificial Awakened, once their training at the academy was complete, was required to register with the Guild of the Awakened.
The ambition that burned within each of them was always the same: to grow stronger, accumulate wealth, and live a better life.
And so, every day, many ventured forth to challenge the Gates.
Speaking of Gates, the city hosted numerous ones.
These Gates were dimensional rifts that led to new worlds, but not all of them were equal.
Only S-Rank Gates could truly be considered entire worlds of their own. The others, though vast and dangerous, did not seem to house a full ecosystem.
Unlike the rest, S-Rank Gates were not just enormous—they held within them creatures that seemed to live in full-fledged civilizations, intelligent beings comparable to humans.
And what was even more dangerous, these rifts couldn't be closed easily. To seal one required the destruction of the entire world it connected to—an impossible feat.
