{"title":"Volume #2 The Downtrodden","description":"\u003ch3 data-start=\"235\" data-end=\"283\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-start=\"239\" data-end=\"283\"\u003eThe Downtrodden: Volume II — “Awakening”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"285\" data-end=\"552\"\u003eNearly twenty years after something ancient and unholy was unearthed in the American South, the world is finally paying the price. What began as whispers of miracles and power in Golden Hine has exploded into full-blown chaos, and the world will never be the same.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"554\" data-end=\"790\"\u003eAs strange, serpent-like creatures erupt across the country, fear spreads faster than the plague. The faithful call it prophecy. The scientists call it mutation. But those who know the truth understand: \u003cstrong data-start=\"757\" data-end=\"788\"\u003ethe Nephilim have awakened.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"792\" data-end=\"1161\"\u003eIn Georgia, \u003cstrong data-start=\"804\" data-end=\"824\"\u003eShade and Junior\u003c\/strong\u003e discover that the strange pulse they felt wasn’t a dream — it changed them. Power flows through their blood, binding them to something far older and more dangerous than they could ever imagine. Together with their friends, they must decide whether to hide, fight, or embrace what’s inside them before it consumes everything they love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1163\" data-end=\"1527\"\u003eMeanwhile, \u003cstrong data-start=\"1174\" data-end=\"1199\"\u003eReverend Lionel Black\u003c\/strong\u003e’s deal with the divine, or the damned, spirals out of control, as his congregation’s “miracles” twist into horrors. 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