Kai is the hardest working warrior in his generation… and the unluckiest. In a world where most people receive magical skills, classes, or cultivation, Kai has nothing but his wits and his strength. His only choice will be to forge a new path against fate, no matter where it takes him.Savage monsters pour endlessly from the wasteland, threatening the survival of civilization itself. They say that human strength isn’t enough and only those gifted with destined powers have a chance of making a difference. Kai is hungry to fight in that war, to be someone who matters. That hunger will take him across a world stranger and more terrible than he could possibly have imagined.What to expect: * "Strong to stronger" slow burn. The MC is an underdog for many chapters before earning his unique ability. * Stats exist as a natural part of the world. They aren't introduced until several chapters in when the MC unlocks spiritual sight. * Different magical abilities exist in different regions and balancing them is an essential part of the system. * Chapters post Monday-Thursday.
Character Growth Drama Eye Powers Game Elements High Fantasy Magic Male Protagonist Monsters Portal Fantasy Rank System Skill Assimilation Special Abilities Strong to Stronger
- Chapter 1: The Trial Begins
- Chapter 4: Spiritual Sight
- Chapter 7: Awakening a Class
- Chapter 10: Second Sunset
- Chapter 13: Final Noon
- Chapter 16: A New Side of Monskon City
- Chapter 19: Blood Potions
- Chapter 22: Not the Intended Preparations
- Chapter 25: The Second Feast
- Chapter 28: What's Left Behind
- Chapter 31: Zae Zin Nim
- Chapter 34: Beyond the Frontier Wall
- Chapter 37: Scorn and Marriage
- Chapter 40: The Lower City Tournament
- Chapter 43: The Monster Pit
- Chapter 46: One Final Variable
- Chapter 49: Fragments of a Life
- Chapter 52: The Crossroad of Frontier Travelers
- Chapter 55: Monstrous Awakening
- Chapter 58: Starting from the Bottom of the World
- Chapter 61: Mana to Qi
- Chapter 64: The Mercantile Life
- Chapter 67: The Corinin Mercenaries
- Chapter 70: Accusations and Deception
- Chapter 73: A High Clan Party
- Chapter 76: Long Term Cultivation Plans
- Chapter 79: The Irunian Menace
- Chapter 82: The Agony of Excess
- Chapter 85: Bidding for a Breakthrough
- Chapter 88: Final Transactions
- Chapter 91: Morality Fruit
- Chapter 94: Idiocy in the Face of the Apocalypse
- Chapter 97: The Spoils of the World
- Chapter 100: The Defense of Monskon City
- ONE DAY HIATUS
- Chapter 105: The Unstoppable Oversights
- Chapter 108: The Last Dregs of the City
- Chapter 111: Aftermath at the Edge of Life
- Chapter 114: New Life, New Hunt
- Chapter 117: The Scale of the World
- Chapter 120: Ranking the Krysali
- Chapter 123: A Feast for the Elite
- Chapter 126: Entering Unbalanced Streets
- Chapter 129: Monster Core Specialists
- Chapter 132: Three Crystalliers vs One Barbarian
- Chapter 135: The Greatest City in Krysal
- Chapter 138: Working Toward One Hundred Thousand
- Chapter 141: Diamond Crystallier vs Diamond Crystallier
- Chapter 144: The Last Dragon in the Desert
- Chapter 147: The Great Yulthens Auction House
- Chapter 150: The End of Qi Condensation
- Chapter 153: Yulthens vs Rosemount
- Chapter 156: The Consequences of Good Deeds
- Chapter 159: Meeting the Lower Krysali
- Chapter 162: The Edge of the Crystal
- Chapter 165: A Conversation of Fists
- Chapter 168: The Void Witness
- Chapter 171: Returning to a Different City
- Chapter 174: Acid Physique
- Chapter 177: Trying to Build on Nothing
- Chapter 180: Hunting Acidlances
- Chapter 183: Reintroduced to the Maneater
- Chapter 186: True and False Names
- Business Week: Release Schedule Poll
- Chapter 189: Through Eyes of Poison
- Chapter 192: Against the Myogenecon
- Chapter 195: Acid and Ore
- Chapter 198: Revolution Stumbling Forward
- Chapter 201: The Battle for Slaerta
- Chapter 204: A City Falls Without a Blow Struck
- Chapter 207: A Meeting with the Elites
- Chapter 210: Final Considerations, Final Offers
- Chapter 213: No Battle Plan Survives
- Chapter 216: Different Last Stands
- Chapter 219: Breathing Over the Edge
- Chapter 222: Interludes Beta (END OF ARC)
- Chapter 225: Approaching Crimson Tides
- Chapter 228: The Waters Around Rosemount
- Chapter 231: Demons and Demonic Arts
- Chapter 234: The Jungles of Rosemount
- Chapter 237: Ranking the Qi Across Rosemount
- Chapter 240: Chakra and the Human Body
- Chapter 243: Beginning a Clandestine Mission
- Chapter 246: The Boons of the Elves
- Chapter 249: Cultivating Poison and Steel
- Chapter 252: Solutions for the Frontier
- Chapter 255: Chakra and Immortality
- Chapter 258: The Thunderbird
- Chapter 261: Hunting Pegasi
- Chapter 264: A Different Sort of Earth Soul
- Chapter 267: The Disaster at the Elven School
- Chapter 270: Investigations Great and Small
- Chapter 273: Infiltrating the Obelisk Facility
- Chapter 276: The Insane First Crest
- Chapter 279: Demonic Terms of Entry
- Chapter 282: Deep Study of Dual Cultivation
- Chapter 285: Intersections in Traeton
- Chapter 288: Old Enemies, New Friends
- Chapter 291: Power Brittle As Glass
- Chapter 294: Shopping for Political Capital
- Chapter 297: A Voyage of Revelations
- Chapter 300: Consequences of Returning Home
- Chapter 303: Revisiting Relationships
- Chapter 306: Calculating Monstrosity
- Chapter 309: Balancing Training and Politics
- Chapter 312: Strength in the Earth Union
- Chapter 315: Rumblings in Irun
- Chapter 318: Training a Brigade
- Chapter 321: Raid Brigade Upgrade
- Chapter 323: Final Breath Before the Training Plunge
- Chapter 326: The Truth about Hybrid Classes
- Chapter 329: Trouble in the Coiled Empire
- Chapter 332: A Continent Tilting Toward Chaos
- Chapter 335: Demonic Sex and Violence
- Chapter 338: The Obvious Solution
- Chapter 341: Rapidly Declining Conditions
- Chapter 344: Pet Names and Pet Projects
- Chapter 347: The True Impact of Actions
- Chapter 350: Over the Cliff
- Chapter 352: Apologies Between Old Friends
- Chapter 355: The Cowardice of the Greatest
- Chapter 368: End of the Honeymoon
- Chapter 371: Hunting the Great Cetae
- Chapter 374: Navigating the Sects of Cloudspire
- Chapter 377: Joining an All Female Sect
- Chapter 380: Power Within the Pits
- Chapter 383: Between the Manticore Factions
- Chapter 2: Meeting the Competition
- Chapter 5: Measuring Up
- Chapter 8: The Second Day of the Hunter Trials
- Chapter 11: A Rough Hint
- Chapter 14: The Purpose of the Hunter Trials
- Chapter 17: Advanced Spiritual Sight
- Chapter 20: The Unexpected Hunt
- Chapter 23: Venturing From Monskon City
- Chapter 26: Walking The Path of Steel
- Chapter 29: Forgotten, Not Lost
- Chapter 32: Picking up Pieces
- Chapter 35: A Conversation Between Adults
- Chapter 38: Not the Intended Advancement
- Chapter 41: Glowing and Burning
- Chapter 44: The Isulfr
- Chapter 47: A Duel of Different Honors
- Chapter 50: Civility of Another World
- Chapter 53: The Truth of the Laborer Class
- Chapter 56: Fragments Coming Home to Roost
- Chapter 59: Impossible Souls
- Chapter 62: Qi to Mana
- Chapter 65: Surprises Down the River
- Chapter 68: Arrival at Rayakan
- Chapter 71: A High Society Hunters Guild
- Chapter 74: Turning a New Page
- Chapter 77: Trade and Monstrous Training
- Chapter 80: Claws Against Steel
- Chapter 83: A Peasant's Reward
- Chapter 86: Silver and Steel
- Chapter 89: Exiting like Entering
- Chapter 92: The 99 Power Limit
- Chapter 95: The Last Moments for Mortals
- Chapter 98: In the Wake of Gods
- Chapter 101: An Inevitable Revelation
- Chapter 103: The Air Above Monskon City
- Chapter 106: End of a Rivalry
- Chapter 109: The Balance of Human and Monster
- Chapter 112: Farewell to Goralia
- Chapter 115: The Claw Tyrant
- Chapter 118: New Directions, New Journeys
- Chapter 121: Crystallier Evaluations
- Chapter 124: Weak in the Spiritual Knees
- Chapter 127: Three Greetings in New Laeneria
- Chapter 130: Checking in and Moving On
- Chapter 133: Off to Yulthens
- Chapter 136: Seeking a Merchant Patron
- Chapter 139: Facing Another Cultivator
- Chapter 142: The Rush for the Golden Dragon
- Chapter 145: Building Against Fate
- Chapter 148: Fleeing From Family
- Chapter 151: Crystalliers vs Monstrous Abilities
- Chapter 154: An Experimental Seduction
- Chapter 157: The Truth of the Crystal Mines
- Chapter 160: Rockbat Soup
- Chapter 163: Kindling a Blue Flame
- Chapter 166: Training the Underclass
- Chapter 169: Four Steps Out of the Mines
- Chapter 172: Two Paths Nearly Touching
- Chapter 175: Acid Cultivation
- Chapter 178: From Acid to Crystal
- Chapter 181: From Disobedience to Resistance
- Chapter 184: Beyond the Limits of the World
- Chapter 187: Unmasking the Servant of Romastir
- Business Week: Discord and Announcements
- Chapter 190: Jealousy in the Mines
- Chapter 193: Cultivating Differences
- Chapter 196: The Poison Between Relationships
- Chapter 199: The Workers Rise Up
- Chapter 202: Trouble in the Wake of Victory
- Chapter 205: Cultivator vs Cultivator
- Chapter 208: Steady Steps Toward the Inevitable
- Chapter 211: The Very Limit of E-Rank
- Chapter 214: Crystal Defenses Crumbling
- Chapter 217: Truth in Smoke
- Chapter 220: The Heart of Poison vs The Heart of Crystal
- Chapter 223: Into the Blue Expanse
- Chapter 226: The Blood Current
- Chapter 229: Three Powers Against a New Continent
- Chapter 232: The Great Powers of Rosemount
- Chapter 235: Bone and Fear
- Chapter 238: The Lowliest Elf
- Chapter 241: True Power Revealed
- Chapter 244: Fighting a Bone Artisan
- Chapter 247: Spatial Rings and Spatial Arrangements
- Chapter 250: Advancing at the Oasis
- Chapter 253: Looking Beyond the Earth Soul Stage
- Chapter 256: A Seductive Proposition
- Chapter 259: Thunderous Plans and Schemes
- Chapter 262: One Final Gambit, One Final Hunt
- Chapter 265: The Great Unicorn Hunt
- Chapter 268: Through the Coiled Empire
- Chapter 271: Claw Against Claw
- Chapter 274: The End of Intelligence Operations
- Chapter 277: Demons and Their Prey
- Chapter 280: Chasing Down the Savage Creed
- Chapter 283: Hunting Moon Scorpions
- Chapter 286: Facing Down the Savage Heart
- Chapter 289: Different Kinds of Formations
- Chapter 292: Escaping Before the Final Beat
- Chapter 295: A Voyage of Cultivation
- Chapter 298: Home Isn't Home
- Chapter 301: Reuniting With an Old Friend
- Chapter 304: Implications in the Rain
- Chapter 307: Joining the Frontier Elite
- Chapter 310: The Challenges of the Earth Union
- Chapter 313: The Immortal Slime
- Chapter 316: New Mercenaries, Old Friends
- Chapter 319: Developing a Revolutionary Physique
- Chapter 322: Irun's Deepest Secret
- Chapter 324: Reconsiderations of Body and Soul
- Chapter 327: Saying Farewell to the Anomalies
- Chapter 330: Lamia Counter-Ambush
- Chapter 333: The Gifts of the Primal Loom
- Chapter 336: Glimpses of Chaos in the Commonwealth
- Chapter 339: Tangled Aftermath
- Chapter 342: Intimate Recovery
- Chapter 345: The Absolute Limits of Control
- Chapter 348: A Final Elven Appeal
- Book 1: Official Amazon Launch
- Chapter 353: The Battle over the Superweapon
- Chapter 356: Last Angles on Rosemount
- Chapter 369: The Geography of Cloudspire
- Chapter 372: Meeting the Bloodcoral Sect
- Chapter 375: Hunting Horns and Mission Marks
- Chapter 378: The Pits of Strength
- Chapter 381: Advancement in the Pureflower Sect
- Chapter 384: Two Manticore Factions
- Chapter 3: Noble Brawl
- Chapter 6: The Challenge
- Chapter 9: A Different Kind of Test
- Chapter 12: The Direboar
- Chapter 15: The Wages of Effort
- Chapter 18: Corinin Clan Secrets
- Chapter 21: Delving into Classes
- Chapter 24: Aquagorgon
- Chapter 27: Grasping a Path
- Chapter 30: Smuggling Foreigners
- Chapter 33: Reaching the Frontier
- Chapter 36: Social Paths Upward
- Chapter 39: A New Mood
- Chapter 42: What Training Means
- Chapter 45: Ambiguous Recovery
- Chapter 48: The Final Stroke of Fate
- Chapter 51: Wilderness Etiquette
- Chapter 54: Fate Plays Dice
- Chapter 57: An Unexpected Reunion
- Chapter 60: The Silver Demon Feeds
- Chapter 63: Three Different Tiers
- Chapter 66: The River's Strangest Bandits
- Chapter 69: The Truth about the Blackblood Physique
- Chapter 72: The Great Corinin Vault Heist
- Chapter 75: Hangover of Loot
- Chapter 78: Different Breakthroughs
- Chapter 81: Tracking a Gomodo
- Chapter 84: Rebuilding Estates and Souls
- Chapter 87: Monstrous Hunger
- Chapter 90: All Loose Ends
- Chapter 93: Many Levels of Fear
- Chapter 96: Beyond the Highest Peaks
- Chapter 99: Home, One Last Time
- Chapter 102: Clans Atop the Walls
- Chapter 104: A Windy Rematch in the Clouds
- Chapter 107: Impossible Limits
- Chapter 110: Formless True Forms
- Chapter 113: Interludes Alpha
- Chapter 116: Fusing Monstrous Abilities
- Chapter 119: Entering the Krysal City States
- Chapter 122: An Uncomfortable Servant
- Chapter 125: New Shrouds and New Directions
- Chapter 128: Omilaena the Maneater
- Chapter 131: A Perfectly Polite Party
- Chapter 134: Final Savage Moments
- Chapter 137: The Dowager Orillia
- Chapter 140: Placing Bets on the Greatest in the Nation
- Chapter 143: Policing the Desert
- Chapter 146: From Golden Flame to Golden Coin
- Chapter 149: Negotiating for the Next Battle
- Chapter 152: Surrounding the Thief
- Chapter 155: Zae Zin Nim and the Brightwind Sect
- Chapter 158: The Aftermath of the Cultivators
- Chapter 161: The Physique of the Underclass
- Chapter 164: Searching for the Old Man
- Chapter 167: First Glimpse of the Sky
- Chapter 170: The Grim Truth Along the Frontier
- Chapter 173: Into the Acid Pits
- Chapter 176: A Feast Between Two Women
- Chapter 179: Experimenting on Cultivators
- Chapter 182: Endless Paths Falling Away
- Chapter 185: Qi and Mana and Chakra
- Business Week: Books and Covers
- Chapter 188: Negotiating Underneath Cities
- Chapter 191: One Month of Hunting
- Chapter 194: Cultivating Jealousy
- Chapter 197: The Shadow of Death
- Chapter 200: Planning a War
- Chapter 203: A Different Sort of Crystallier
- Chapter 206: The Ratio of War
- Chapter 209: Spiraling Toward a Decisive Victory
- Chapter 212: The Battle for the Five Great Crystals
- Chapter 215: A Long Forgotten Rivalry
- Chapter 218: Crystalliers to the Brink
- Chapter 221: Arrivals and Departures
- Chapter 224: Charting a Course Between Continents
- Chapter 227: Bloody Fragments in the Current
- Chapter 230: Roseport at Last
- Chapter 233: Chakra-Engorged Thugs
- Chapter 236: Jungle Elves
- Chapter 239: Braving the Forge Tree
- Chapter 242: Negotiating an Elven Alliance
- Chapter 245: Struggling with Coordination
- Chapter 248: The Sapphire Wind Oasis
- Chapter 251: Approaching the Inverted Oasis
- Chapter 254: Final Trials on the Reeds
- Chapter 257: The Bludshard Elves and the Deep Vital Pool
- Chapter 260: Consuming Another Sort of Wings
- Chapter 263: Choices, Limits, and Thresholds
- Chapter 266: Hunting New Opportunities
- Chapter 269: The Citizens of the Commonwealth
- Chapter 272: Consuming for a Heist
- Chapter 275: Forward is the Easiest Direction
- Chapter 278: Prey and Not Prey
- Chapter 281: Meeting the Savage Creed Elders
- Chapter 284: Yoni and Lingam
- Chapter 287: The Meeting of Continental Powers
- Chapter 290: A Real Warrior of Rosemount Arrives
- Chapter 293: Phases of the Aftermath
- Chapter 296: A Voyage of Hunger
- Chapter 299: The Hundred Zephyr Rings
- Chapter 302: Opposing Landings, Opposing Receptions
- Chapter 305: Blitzing the Southern Water Palace
- Chapter 308: The Real Truth of Phases
- Chapter 311: Cultivating Mana with Qi
- Chapter 314: The Final Duels in the Earth Union
- Chapter 317: Against the Birtaegalese Mercenaries
- Chapter 320: Male and Female, Irunian Style
- Announcement
- Chapter 325: The Highest Level of Strategy
- Chapter 328: A Quiet Voyage in the Storm
- Chapter 331: The Consequences of a Battle Between Great Powers
- Chapter 334: Intercepting the Exchange
- Chapter 337: The Kama Altar At Last
- Chapter 340: New Strength Against the Demons
- Chapter 343: Savage Demons, Savage Creed
- Chapter 346: Talking to Demons
- Chapter 349: Beginning the Suicide Mission
- Chapter 351: Armored by Bonds
- Chapter 354: Combined Might Against an Insanity Weapon
- Chapter 357: Interludes Gamma
- Chapter 370: An Introduction to the West Coast
- Chapter 373: Bloodcoral Medallion
- Chapter 376: Advancing in the Bloodcoral Sect
- Chapter 379: The Thundering Scorpion Champions
- Chapter 382: From City to Sect to Tribe