STEM: The Underground City
~When dust turns to gold~
Following an invasion by a reptile-like species called Khalgora in the year 2043, humanity is forced to take a final stance in a gruesome confrontation that threatened it's existence into an apocalyptic demise.
After decades of tactical execution of all its skills and resources man triumphs over beast. But only barely. With stenches of death and wails of suffering, the earth is left desolate, infertile with an atmosphere deteriorating at an alarming speed. The only habitat lies below.
Year 2311.
Welcome to STEM city.
STEM (an abbreviation for ' Safe Territorially Erected Megalopolis'), is an underground Empire and home to the surviving earth inhabitants, sheltering them from the harsh conditions of the rubbled earth's surface.
But even in this city where intellectual geniuses wheeled a minor underground refuge operation to a major megalopolis, slums existed.
These slums like any other, are regions with insufficient supply of amenities from the Megalopolis' authority leading to hunger, suffocation and high rate of death by major lung diseases.
Diana and her brother Axel are twin siblings who were born and brought up in these slums, lose everything but even in this great abyss of darkness, find a ray of hope, Polaris.
Polaris academy is an institution erected by the collaboration of the major pillaring powers of STEM to raise potential superhumans in skills such as martial arts, elemental abilities, advanced sciences and much more, all to help in the exploration of the earth surface now being roamed by foreign beasts who pose a threat to the underground empire.
In a world where the weak were preyed on and only the strong thrived, two poor kids with no background find themselves in this academy among astoundingly skilled minds from powerful families fighting for the same spot as them. Can they survive the competition and level up or will they return to the hell they came from?
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~Excerpt ~
" Attention all factions, report to the portal station in an hour.
A live Khalgora is loose in Flouresce, we need to contain it before any damage is done to civilians.
Go!" The message set all students of Polaris in an uproar.
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What happens when humanity's mortal enemy is able to infiltrate this fortified empire?
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A/N: cover obtained from the internet. All credits to the creator(s).
MarcyGold · sci-fi
