ASORA: From The Blood Of The Shadows

FORMER TITLE: Élan: A Youngblood World

"Beware that you become not the very monster you ought to slay."

Five friends embark on a quest to prevent an approaching cryptid-human war. Meanwhile, the human-clothed creature among them resists the hunger to ravage his companions.

In a world where magic holds the essence to life, there is still no telling where fate determines your place will be.

When the Cardinal Empire of Nyrhaea and its time-forsaken creatures declare war on the human world, an immortal dark entity in the guise of a human, a grieving swordsman, an electric-manipulating technocrat, an unhinged fire-breathing boy, and a magic-less girl whose very existence defies the Laws of Mahika, venture to stop the prophecied, apocalyptic world war. All the while dealing with the complications of entering adulthood.

With the grotesque inside him growing hungrier by the day, threatening him of the looming hour to fulfill destiny's bidding to be the key to the end of the world--and death is an impossible remedy to attain--the entity resorts to a mysterious girl who could only be his last hope to achieve freedom from the shackles of fate. An antidote given not without an undefined price. But how long can he endure to bury the roots of the calling past?

And what are they willing to risk to liberate a cruel world beyond saving that hangs in the state of trust and sanity?

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Contains a few depictions of blood, violence, and eldritch elements.

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