Umexa

In an age of myth, Zulazar the Necromancer was the shadow to Princess Elara's light. He was the end, she was the beginning. Bound by a love that defied the laws of reality, Zulazar abandoned his dark throne to serve her vision of peace. But humanity is a fickle master. Driven by greed and fueled by whispers of paranoia, Elara's own subjects turned against them, murdering their "Holy Princess" and sealing the Necromancer in a tomb of starlight.However, this was hardly the end.Ten centuries later, the ruins of Elara's kingdom have become a corporate war zone. The descendants of the original rebels have risen as The Infinity Ascendants, a global conglomerate that treats human potential as a commodity and seeks to engineer a new godhood from the desecrated remains of the past.But the Ascendants have made a fatal error. They have sparked the ire of Dr Vasilievich, a genius weapons engineer with a score to settle and a cybernetic daughter, Cyan, built for war. To bring down an empire, the doctor reaches into the shadows of history to wake the one force the world has forgotten to fear.Zulazar has returned. But the man who once sought redemption is gone, replaced by a soul hardened by a millennium of agonizing vigil. With Cyan at his side, the Necromancer will infiltrate the Ascendants' elite academies, masquerading as a student to dismantle their "Golden Age" brick by bloody brick.

In the modern age, the high-tier necromancer Zulazar finds himself navigating the absurdities of academy life...where the cafeteria food is as toxic as the student politics. But the mundane is quickly eclipsed by a new player, one Sara Tarsoul, the legendary "Cigara Blade Goddess".Engineered by the ruthless Nebulus Incorporated to be a living promotional tool for the tobacco industry, Sara is a prodigy fueled by high-octane enhancement and bound by a grotesque leverage...her father's very heartbeat.When a petty corporate executive goes too far, Zulazar's "dark soul" is stirred. What begins as a brutal intervention in a penthouse suite evolves into a lethal alliance. From clandestine raids to magically-induced shopping disasters at the Azure Galleria, Zulazar must prepare his growing, unwanted entourage for the impending War Games.

Julissa Redfield, the seemingly composed Student Council President, has shed her mask of bureaucratic efficiency. Consumed by a "vicious adoration" for the necromancer Zulazar and a thirst for vengeance against the Infinity Ascendants, she has orchestrated a clandestine alliance that will flip the board on the Academy's elite.But as Zulazar and his loyal followers (the lethal Sara, the tactical Cyan, and the perpetually overwhelmed Lime) navigate the final rounds of the War Games, the "circus" officially comes to town. A massive psionic assault by the rogue psychic Ninseers has turned the Grand Arena into a nightmare of "jester zombies", transforming tens of thousands of spectators into mindless, smiling puppets. While Zulazar tears through the psychic static to dismantle the "ringmaster", a greater threat looms on the horizon. The Auguststein, a sentient, segmented fortress piloted by the disembodied head of the war-obsessed Blanbert, is on the move.