Starlit Arena

An extraterrestrial visitor announces the chance of a lifetime. Be taught extraordinary powers, see the stars, and win rewards beyond your dreams. Will you be chosen?

The world is abuzz, but Samer hardly has time for pipe dreams. One final exam stands in the way of graduating college and starting the job he needs to pay for his mother’s medical care.

Yet the morning of his test, the enigmatic interstellar emissary appears to him, an offer in hand. The terms of the alien’s entreaty are simple. Live and train on a deluxe space station and battle other recruits for the chance to join the alien’s retinue. But why Samer, of all people? Is there a catch? For the chance to save his family, Samer must put his doubts aside and accept.

Samer’s journey reveals it’s not just him, but all of Earth in the crosshairs of greedy galactic forces. Can he find a way to outwit his duplicitous alien benefactor...or will he fail and relegate humanity to a footnote in cosmic history?