DARKZ2

“In a world where the strong climb, the weak are thrown to the depths. I didn’t climb, I was thrown… and I kept falling...until the Abyss stared back.”When the world ended, the tower rose from the earth, and humanity was forced into a game of survival against nightmare-fueled monsters. Machines stopped working and amidst the chaos, Xior Arden, a broken orphan boy with empty eyes was cast into the lowest depths of the Abyss.There, the weak don’t die quickly. They suffered and so he did suffer.But the Abyss chose him.With the power to absorb runes from fallen monsters, evolve his body into higher forms, and steal the essence of the creatures he kills. Xior begins to climb the tower, not as a hero. But as the thing which the Abyss itself fears:A Monarch born in the dark.***Additional Tags: TowerClimbing, Anti-hero, System, Revenge, WeakToStrong, MorallyGreyProtagonist, CunningProtagonist, ArrogantProtagonist***

Court-martialed, disgraced, and abandoned by the world he once served, a former special operations commander awakens inside a novel he himself wrote.Reborn as the doomed son of a noble family, a villain fated to die within a month.Armed only with fractured memories and a ruthless instinct for survival, he begins drafting a private manual consisting of rules for living in a world governed by gods, bloodlines, and betrayals.As orthodox churches tighten their grip and forgotten gods stir beneath the empire’s foundations, the academy becomes a battlefield disguised as education.Secret orders hunt what they do not understand. Villains plot within villains. And every role he plays brings him closer to a fate he was never meant to survive.When a sealed god begins to descend and the price of stopping it demands blood, the rules he wrote for survival are tested one final time.