Neesa Lhian Henderson has always been ordinary. Born and raised in a quiet countryside town, she's spent her life blending into the background-too unremarkable to stand out, yet too restless to settle. With a degree in architecture but no job prospects, she's back in her hometown, grappling with a life that feels painfully stagnant.
Everything changes when a mysterious email from an organization called Atlas Vanguard offers her the chance to escape the monotony. What starts as a vague proposal quickly spirals into a whirlwind of danger, mystery, and transformation. Neesa is thrust into a secretive world, training alongside an eclectic group of recruits: a tech prodigy, a disgraced actor, a biochemist, and even a survivalist, each with their own baggage and talents. Together, they face grueling trials designed to test their limits, uncover hidden strengths, and forge unbreakable bonds.
As Neesa navigates this underground society, she discovers truths about the universe that shatter her understanding of reality. But the stakes are higher than she ever imagined. With threats lurking in the shadows and her own fears threatening to consume her, Neesa must rise beyond her ordinary beginnings to protect the world from dangers no one else can see.
Her journey is just beginning, and survival is anything but guaranteed.
In the war against the Huaxia Federation, a brutal conflict for humanity's survival, a squad of soldiers emerges as a beacon of hope: The Vanguard, Pilots of Atlas. Riley, a soldier imbued with pyrokinetic abilities, pilots the towering Paladin armor. Alongside him are Miller, wielding arcane energy as the Arcanist, Williams the hulking juggernaut, and Jones, a cloaked spectre with the power of invisibility. They fight alongside the Atlas, hulking mechanized exoskeletons wielded by the Allied Central.
This story follows The Vanguard on a mission to the Yellow Sea, a critical front in the war. Here, they face off against the Huaxia's trench warfare tactics, brutal Kaiju bio-engineered monstrosities, and the enemy's elite sorcerers. The battle is a desperate fight for survival, testing the limits of The Vanguard's abilities and forcing them to confront the true cost of war.