Ren is nobody from nowhere, until Alpha Academy drags him into orbit and drops him into weaponized simulations designed to break futures before they begin. His only real edge? A lethal, half-awake power in his chest... and Elliot, the quiet genius who somehow moves in perfect sync with him, like they've been training for this their whole lives. When a classified Soul-Binding protocol snaps them and their squad into a single combat unit, everything changes. Deadlier trials. Smarter enemies. Living armor. DripKits loaded with cursed tech.If they can't master their bond, the Academy won't just fail them. It will erase them.---The Codex gathered these gifted minds, not to control them, but to guide them, to refine power into purpose. Over centuries, it moved unseen through history's architecture: behind universities, research colonies, and eventually the orbital academies of the space age. Its agents trained those whose abilities threatened to outgrow their empathy. Their mission was unchanged since the first inked character on the first scroll: preserve balance, protect humanity, and prepare for the next convergence.For every few centuries, the universe whispered a rare alignment, two souls who would bind. Their connection was beyond blood or thought, a fusion of potential that amplified both into a single superconscious force. The Codex called them SoulBound, the universe's correctional mechanism. When humanity strayed too far from its own nature, the SoulBound appeared, not to rule, but to restore.Now, as mankind reaches beyond the solar frontier, settling asteroids and mapping exoplanets, the Codex remains in shadow, patient, eternal, watching the stars for signs of imbalance. For in every era of human advancement, progress casts a longer shadow. And when that shadow grows deep enough to swallow the light, two souls will rise again, bound by fate, born to bring balance to the evolving species that dared to call itself enlightened.