SSS-Rank: The Slum-Born Thunder God

Nate Ryder has been dismissed by everyone as a failed awakener, yet he secretly carries the dormant power of an SSS-class Thunder God. In a world where talent buys privilege and the weak get trampled, his father sold blood for an awakening serum that wrecked his kidneys, and his bedridden mother is the only reason Nate keeps going. At school, the elite prodigy Tyler Ashworth and his cronies bully him, frame him, and destroy the serum his father paid for, while corrupt administrators try to keep him out of the Federal Selection, his one escape route. Nate swallows every insult and trains in silence, but when he finally steps into the arena marked as the lowest-grade awakener, a single thunderclap shakes the sky.