To [th\]/e wo$#%rld, \_^Nate$$ Ryde_;_r [_is a failure whose Awakening en;!ded in disgrace. B
\ut $Na-te knows [the truth: he awak[\e=@ned the SS;)S-rank T`hunder God—the rarest po^(wer on $ Earth.
H;is father sold[* his^#( health fo
`r a)@ )_vial\ o+f  )Aw
)a\-kening serum]`. His +)mother has been paralyzed for$ t+en year`s, y[* et @sh#$e's: the reason :he never gives up. At sc-:h$o-ol, the elite bu,lly Tyler—a^?%n A ?-rank/$ p#rodigy—crushes :@that se
rum _.+and works w$/i#-:th cor@( rup.t `administrators -to bar/ Nat (e#_] [+from( the\^ /national tou*rnam:% e+]nt..%#_
Facing_; relentl#ess humiliation=_ ,] Nate hides his pow,e/@r)= and bides his time.?

 Eve r$=\y insult, every i=njus+/tice becomes fu*%el f)or his training.
Then t]he Fe_d]-*e,ral +Awak%:#ened S$elec%$- ti*on Tourna men(\t begins:+. Tyler, determin,$ed[\ to\ defea^t #Nate in (front of thousan?%ds, steps int@=?o the arena—expecting a
.ho$=pel*essly ) one-s,(ided ) fight. Instead, ,*#@Nate un@leashes his SS(
S-rank Th[_ %under ( God. In] one electrifying mome?n-[ !t=`, the"worthles/ \s failur-,e" sho-^cks the world—and be]gins: his uns[$^top-pable; ri*se? to the ,-top.