Ascended

ASCENDED

He promised evolution. What they got was extinction. Investigative reporters Kyler Maddox and Tasha Leone sneak aboard a luxury passenger jet carrying the world's most elite, hoping to expose the kind of corruption that keeps the rich untouchable. But when the oxygen masks drop, everyone onboard succumbs-convulsing, whispering, changing. They crash the plane.

They survive.

But what came down with them didn't die in the wreckage. The Breath: a designer inhalant said to unlock human potential.

Instead, it unlocked him-a being known only by those who've seen their own reflections betray them. Merric D'Angelo is not a man. He is memory. Pattern. Seed.

And he doesn't need followers-he just needs to be remembered. As cities fall silent and mirrors crack with unseen screams, Kyler and Tasha uncover a horrifying truth: this isn't the beginning of an outbreak. It's the harvest. Because once you breathe him in... You don't belong to yourself anymore.