Chapter 1: [1] What Makes a Hunter
What makes a hunter?
Is it strength to shatter mountains? Power to close dimensional rifts? The raw courage to stare into alien realities and not flinch away?
Or perhaps... it's something simpler.
The will to survive. The strength to stand up one more time. The reckless hope that keeps you fighting when everything seems lost.
Three billion dead in five years.
That's what the history books say about the Cataclysm. When reality cracked open like an egg, spilling horrors into our world. When the gates appeared, torn between dimensions, leaking crystalline power that changed everything it touched.
Some humans transformed, awakening to abilities beyond mortal limits. Others... weren't so lucky.
But humanity survived. We always do.
We built new cities from the ashes. Places like Nexus Point—mankind's answer to cosmic horror. Three islands of crystal and steel rising from the Pacific, where hunters train to fight the darkness bleeding through reality's wounds.
And at its heart stands Catalyst Academy, where a new generation learns to close the gates, one dimensional tear at a time.
"If you seek power, hunt the gates."