Rivalries
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MatureOngoing2h 15m
Last published Fri, Jun 20, 2025
THE ERUDITE is a televised intellectual bloodsport where the brightest minds are broken and remade. Five schools. Ten competitors. Three months of psychological warfare disguised as academia. The prize? A future gilded in prestige - if you survive the unraveling.
SAGE CALISTA enters with a mind like a scalpel and desperation like a noose. She knows the cost of losing - her mother's fading breath, her own hungry hands. Every word she speaks is a calculated strike. Every glance is a betrayal waiting to happen.
ICARUS KIER arrives as if born to burn. All golden arrogance and calculated cruelty, he fights like victory is his birthright. But in the quiet, when the cameras cut, his hands shake with the weight of being flawless.
They were never supposed to kneel for each other. Never supposed to carve their devotion into each other's ribs like a new kind of scripture. But the Erudite doesn't care about supposed to.
"Win," he whispers against her throat, "But if you have to lose, let it be to me."
In the end, the Erudite only asks one question: How much of your soul are you willing to trade for the answer?
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