Nate Ryder is believed by everyone to be a failed awakener, but in truth, he has awakened the world's top SSS-level Thunder God talent. Born into a poor family—his father a mechanic who sold his blood to afford a serum and his mother bedridden for years—Nate endures relentless bullying from A-rank prodigy Tyler Ashworth and the academy's corrupt administrators, who crush his father's hard-won serum and try to strip him of his right to compete.