Kalkiayan

Nine times, Vishnu descended to save the world.
The tenth time, he comes to end it. But first, they made him human.

The year is 2099.
The sacred rivers run black with poison. The air is thick enough to choke on. Children have become rare - and in gleaming laboratories, a corporation called Vritra grows replacements in artificial wombs, playing with forces older than they know.
In the scriptures, they speak of Kali Yuga - the age of darkness, the final age, when dharma crumbles and humanity forgets what it once was. They speak of a prophecy: that when the world reaches its lowest moment, a final avatar will descend to end the cycle.
They have been waiting for five thousand years.
In a village hidden between the folds of time and space, a woman dies giving birth as soldiers burn everything around her. The child survives - pulled from blood and fire by an immortal who has waited since the age of Rama for this moment.
His name is Kalki.
Raised in a secret ashram under the protection of beings who have walked the earth for millennia, Kalki grows in innocence while shadows gather. Ancient demons stir in the realm beneath. A man who believes himself humanity's savior falls deeper under the influence of something far older. And the seven deathless guardians - warriors, sages, and kings cursed or blessed to live until the end of time - must decide how much truth the boy can bear.
Because the prophecy promises a destroyer. It says nothing about whether the destroyer gets a choice.
Kalkiayan draws from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Puranas, and the Kalki Purana - weaving ancient prophecy into a story of gods and monsters, corporate greed and cosmic reckoning, and one boy who must become something more than human to save what remains of the world.
Or burn it all so something better can grow.