Introduction: Puns, Guns and Existential Dread.Darcend is a world almost overrun with Shades, twisted monsters that feed on negative emotions. Against them stand the Mythics, humanity's superheroic last line of defence.  These heroes use their souls' powers to keep humanity's light from being extinguished.Lost and forgotten in the kingdom's orphanages, Tom Walker had almost lost hope in becoming a Mythic until an accident unlocks his power of super-speed, but at the cost of his leg. Now stuck with his soul attached to a super powered criminal, he's noticed by the headmaster of Telum, a world renowned Mythic school, and given a place where he can learn to fight in a team, mask his emotions and understand how to kill Shades effectively… on the condition that he can convince his old roommate to also join....