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