The First Rigors (Mask Sky)

In Limbo, talent is currency, and free will is the last thing the academy cannot price.When the First Rigors identify five exceptional recruits, with Zorain and Viridis among them, Limbo moves fast. Sections watch. Recruiters circle. Instructors close ranks. Before the rest of the academy can decide what the five are worth, the Overseer isolates them for special training inside a system built to rank talent, harden loyalty, and turn pressure into value.But the real danger is no longer the competition.Something is moving through Limbo’s sealed machinery. Records shift. Routes fail. The Mask Sky behaves wrong. As hidden contamination spreads through the academy’s controlled world, the five recruits at the center of it all are forced to confront what Limbo really intends them to become:students, assets, or weapons.Because if the machine training them is already starting to break, Limbo will not stay a school for long.It will become the first battlefield in a much larger war. Read more