30 parts Ongoing The government hides a secret too terrible to admit: the Nightside Laboratory. Hidden from the world, it is a place where children from the quiet village of Eldrethale are kidnapped, aged ten to thirteen, stripped of their identities, and subjected to horrors no one should survive. Their memories are erased, their names replaced with cold code numbers, and their bodies twisted through experiments designed to turn them into living weapons.
Inside the lab, steel walls glisten with blood from failed tests. Machines hiss and clank like monsters, chemicals burn their skin, and electrodes tear through muscles and nerves. Children scream endlessly, alone in dark cells or strapped to tables, forced to endure pain, fear, and starvation. Every day brings new torment: combat simulations, chemical injections, sensory overload, and isolation. The cries of the innocent echo through the corridors, mingling with the metallic stench of blood, yet the scientists only watch and record, uncaring.
Among them, four boys - Ray, Rex, Riley, and Ren - struggle to survive. Though pushed to the edge of human limits, scarred, bleeding, and broken in every way imaginable, they cling to the faintest remnants of their humanity and to one another. The shadows of the lab whisper promises of revenge, and in the deepest sublevels, where the floor is slick with blood and shadows twist like living things, a spark of rage begins to grow.
One day, the children of Eldrethale will rise from the nightmare. One day, the blood spilled in silence will demand its price.
