Bathala Strain

NOTE: Please note that BATHALA STRAIN is a GRAPHIC NOVEL. There are at least 20 images and sometimes multi panel IMAGES in each CHAPTER.

DISCLAIMER:

The World of Bathala: Strain is set in a version of the modern-day Philippines. To create a realistic and immersive experience, this story contains references to real-world brands, people, pop culture, public figures, and events.

However, all original characters, organizations, and plotlines are purely products of the author's imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is coincidental.

Reader discretion is advised.

TRIGGER WARNING:

Bathala Strain a "genre-blending speculative fiction novel" explores mature and sensitive themes, including violence, body horror, trauma, grief, religious imagery, supernatural horror, psychological distress, death, abuse of power, morally complex experimentation, and LGBTQ+ elements. Reader discretion is advised.

ABOUT:

After the COVID-19 pandemic, the world did not return to normal. It fractured.

What began as a global health crisis became the Great Mutation, a silent genetic revolution that rewrote the DNA of a chosen few. In the Philippines, these survivors became known as Bathala Strain Users, humans gifted with reality-defying abilities that come with a brutal physical Toll.

As modern medicine faces collapse, the WHO and private paramilitary powers turn the archipelago into a hunting ground. With a $1,000,000 bounty on every recorded SSR-class anomaly, the post-pandemic world becomes a deadly gold rush where neighbors can become informants, bodies become commodities, and survival has a price.

The pandemic did not end.

It started choosing winners.