In the end of the night, the city's alleyways were cloaked in darkness, illuminated only by the faint, sporadic glow of streetlights. This shroud of night was the ideal cover for the Shadow Collective, a covert organization that had operated for years beneath the city's surface. Their mission was unsettling: they kidnapped children from various backgrounds—street urchins, orphans, and sometimes even those from their own homes—with the aim of honing their latent potential and molding them into extraordinary beings.
On one particular night, their latest target appeared unusually striking. A young boy
End of Prologue
---Mark