In ]the un-dergroun:d arenas of a wasteland( %
metropolis,( Ryker, _$an F-ra,.[nk underd/o  g, ri=sks h@is life in b/rutal b=$ _are-knuckl(e f!i (?ghts to save his sist?); er, Lena, from a fatal #genetic disease.
Driven to the brink, he swallows an ominous In:,sect King eg-g offe[#red ;
 by t%]:he _ Bl@=
ack Marke\ )#t King, unle^-ashing a te$.rrify
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ing p.^ower wi]th[+in  ,hi
m
self. Armed ?wit*h t[!his monstrous a ,b) ,ility, Ryker defies class prejud[*i]ce a \ nd cl_aws h$\ _is way up t;;% he ranks , only to [fin*d h
im self s\(tea?`di#$ly mutating into !%somethin/g^= inhuman.
As the d)!ark tru \:th comes _
*to l^ight, he di- s$c overs that his`
#siste]r's il
 l#ness #a;
][nd his parents' deaths are tie\!/%d to a siniste!(=r imper[@
]ial [
conspir[ a(c/y di`sguised#=, as+ human-i%/#nsect*( hybrid?$.izati[
on. With@ wa(^;r and a\?+ relentl
es\)s s :*warm engu)lfing th e/ ci \ty, can Ryk*er—on the v].erge o(#?f =@$complete$-[ #metamor?phosis—cli=,ng to his fading human#it@
y _:and(;!, sa\ve,+ the (o
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