Power ranks E to SSS. SSS has never existed—until a slum boy awakens it.
His dad sold blood for 3 years to buy Nate's Awakening Compound. Brooke pours it on the floor: "Lick." He does, and tri-color lightning erupts—history's first SSS. Nobody believes it. Tyler's A-rank is worshipped as genius; Nate is mocked as E-rank trash.
When the dean hands Nate's only test slot to Tyler, everyone corners him. He raises his glowing fist: "I'm S-rank."
Their 'sewer rat' is about to burn them all.
