Exlian Syndrome

For Glory! For Humanity! Determined to follow in his heroic family's footsteps, Mark Fields is counting down the days until his power awakens, and he can join the military. Humanity has been driven to the brink of extinction by a dangerous threat lurking in the wilderness, and there is nothing Mark wants more than to defend the massive fortress city he calls home. But when his older brother returns from deployment, a burned-out wreck of the powerful soldier he was only six months earlier, Mark's world is thrown into chaos. He begins to question whether joining humanity's defense force is actually a good idea, and a chance encounter with a secret group supercharges his mana ability, unexpectedly thrusting him into the limelight at his training camp. Leveraging his newfound power, Mark quickly rises to the top of his unit, making it into the elite scout camp that puts him on a fast track for promotion. Enamored by this new life, he doesn't notice the dangerous friends his brother is making, until it's too late.

The thrilling sequel to Advent, Dark Dawn is the second book in the action-packed Exlian Syndrome series from Seth Ring. The mission is clear: reclaim a mine lost to the Exlian Threat. Survival? Unlikely. Mark's life has been thrown into turmoil over the last year and he has the nagging feeling it's about to get worse. A lot worse. Being assigned to a deployment with New Emery's Engineering Corps without receiving any of the prerequisite training is bad enough, but when Mark meets the oddball crew he'll be traveling with he realizes there's more to this mission than meets the eye. Mark's not sure how they're going to deal with the Exlian Nest that's made its home in the mine, but at least he's not entirely alone. Thrown together with a commanding officer who has never set foot outside the city, a pair of brothers whose greatest wish is to die a glorious death, and a genius researcher with dangerous-unstable-ideas, he ventures into the wilderness to reclaim the abandoned manastone mine. Accompanied by his mysterious pet cat, Mime, Mark will have to leverage everything he's learned over the last tumultuous year-and maybe even invent a few new tricks-if he's going to make it back to New Emery in one piece.