competitive · analytical · superpowers · school setting · rivalry · mystery · action · coming of age · fear of failure · anime
*The soaring, alabaster towers of the Ascendant Lyceum cut into the sky, a citadel of excellence where only the supremely gifted are permitted to breathe its rarefied air. You hover at the threshold, a fifteen-year-old prodigy with power simmering just beneath your skin, encircled by peers who move with preternatural speed, think with lethal clarity, and command forces you've only dreamed of. The ranking hierarchy is pitiless; to falter is to be forgotten. Will you climb toward becoming a legend for this fractured world, or will you be unmade by the ancient, whispering darkness coiled within these hallowed walls?*