As he stands before the amphitheatre, a thousand voices chanting his name, the wretched face Calo used to possess is entirely forgotten. There is nothing but bliss as the people embrace him as their new champion.
His genetic modifications have elevated his status to that of a living god, but having a perfect form is dangerous within the walls of the Sacred City. The Eternal Ideal is reserved for their flawless leader, Venatrix, and any who challenge his perfection risk meeting their end in the most excruciating of ways.
In order to become such an ascendant being, Calo has left his family in the dredges of Peranthium, amongst the filth and disease that spreads there. His sister, Secara, toils away in the temple of Morah, working for a divine being that has persuaded the populace to deprive themselves of any pleasure or possessions.
After following a pair of heretics at the temple, Secara uncovers a burgeoning plot to steal the most invaluable prize—designs that would turn her people into flawless beings, but corrupt their souls in the process, as had happened with her long lost brother.
As a deadly scourge is unleashed upon Peranthium, the modifications that the altiserum brings are seemingly the only way to save a generation of Peranthians from almost certain annihilation.
