The Kulay basin was built to endure, not to fight back. Agar’s core missed the memo. Safe behind a living barrier, four hundred slime girls live a soft, interconnected life of peace—until a rigid, sci-fi empire of rival slime girls arrives to extract their magic.

When the high-tech Eukaryon scouts breach the tree line, Agar’s small, translucent core ignites without her permission. The violent surge of hidden power pushes the threat back, but it paints a massive target on her back. Agar has no idea what ancient magic her gel body is carrying, and she is running out of time to figure it out.

Alongside an impossibly resilient friend, a mentor who knows too much, and an enemy assessor who just falsified a scouting report to buy them time, Agar must learn to fight.

The Archaean way doesn't produce soldiers. But to survive, these slime girls will have to learn to fight their own kind.