Ignis

<p><strong>The floor is lava. The sky is ash. The only way out is up.</strong></p><p>Kael wakes up on a crumbling stone platform suspended over a sea of molten rock. He has no memory of how he arrived only the booming voice of a mechanical Game Master announcing the start of the Ignis Protocol. The rules are simple: Master the flames or be consumed.</p><p>Thrown into a colossal arena where the environment itself is the enemy Kael must navigate a deadly gauntlet of shifting tectonic plates acid jungles and clockwork nightmares. But in a game designed to turn humans against one another Kael refuses to play by the rules. Instead of fighting for solo survival he forges an unlikely alliance with a massive laborer named Bram a sharp-eyed gardener named Elara and a cynical businessman named Vance.</p><p>Together Team Alpha must ascend through fifty harrowing zones battling bio-mechanical guardians and solving lethal puzzles. As they climb from the Magma Rapids to the Gravity Spires they discover that Ignis is more than a sadistic game-it is a brutal recruitment test for a dying world waiting outside the arena walls.</p><p>To survive the final test Kael must transform a group of strangers into a family tame the mechanical beasts sent to destroy them and prove that compassion is stronger than fire.</p>