The Way Of The Voice
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At the turn of century, a war ravaged Earth. With more than half of our population wiped out, an unstoppable army ravaging the surface, we had no choice. We used the nukes. Though we won, and life as we know struggles on, the discovery shocked us all. The Aeterna, the all-powerful government that utilizes both fearsome technology and arcane magic to protect it's civilians is always shrouded in ambiguity. Their only appearances are during selection tests, where they take the prodigies, valedictorians, olympians, our best and brightest, and offer them the greatest gift of all - immortality.
The only catch is, they have to stay Aeterna forever. And teenaged Ryder Swift, despite all the propaganda, knows something can't be right. We won the war, didn't we? Tired of his boring and mundane life, he seeks something interesting, but what chance does an average human being with no powers or abilities have? It was only when Avril Stryker - beautiful, intelligent, mysterious - arrives where the finds his entire life and everything he has known challenged.
And nothing was ever the same.
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