Static in Neon Vale

In the neon-drenched undercity of Neon Vale, survival isn’t earned through strength—it’s bought, engineered, or stolen. Alice Green was born into a bloodline the world tried to erase. When corporations executed her parents to harvest their genetic legacy, Alice survived by becoming invisible—another forgotten child beneath a city powered by beast-core technology and corporate control. But Neon Vale never truly forgets. And neither do the machines that once obeyed her ancestors. When strange system malfunctions begin following her presence, Alice is forced into the Nexus Military Academy under a false identity. There, cadets are trained to hunt biomechanical monsters born from corrupted power cores and fractured realities known as Tear Zones. For most recruits, the academy is a path to status or survival. For Alice, it’s something far more dangerous. It’s access. As she struggles to master abilities she doesn’t understand, Alice discovers that her connection to machines may be older—and