The Performance Appraisal Apparition has arrived. Miss your KPI, and your senses are stripped away; rank last, and you disappear on the spot.
Workers, managers, tycoons, and soldiers are all thrown into the same assessment. Money can't buy a way around the rules, firepower can't touch the supernatural, and power means nothing here.
For the first time, the people who designed the assessments face elimination for ranking last. For the first time, those at the top stand under the same ruler as those at the bottom.
But this is only the beginning.
The Privilege Apparition comes calling through contracts, personal connections, and vested interests. The networks people once took pride in become its hunting map.
The Overtime Apparition doesn't need a boss to tell you to keep working. The moment it sees that you want to stop but your hands keep going, it stands behind you.
The Debt Apparition targets everyone who smiles and says, “I'm fine.” If you fall, the price will be paid by the people you most want to protect.
There are no chosen ones, only a group of ordinary people standing before the rules alongside those who have always looked down on them.
Then a warm, white light descends, sheltering everyone.
The crowd kneels and calls it a god.
No one dares ask: Is this light a savior, or just another apparition that's finished eating?
(Not a wish-fulfillment novel. In the early stages, humanity suffers one defeat after another under the oppression of the Performance Appraisal Apparition and the Privilege Apparition. It is not until the chapter on the Apparition God in Volume Three that they begin to fight back in earnest. The greatest apparition of all is the system that turns against humanity.)
