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In Marvel As Dante

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After a tragic death at the hands of his bathroom tile, an MMA fighter finds himself in front of an eldritch God looking for an (unwilling) schmuck to steal from one of the most dangerous beings in the Marvel Universe-- the Pheonix... Poor Axel is not doomed, however. He was granted the powers of one of his favorite game characters-- Dante Sparda...but the god never specified which version. --- Few warnings going in. 1. My fanfiction is being ratioed because people don't understand where it's going from the get-go, so allow me to remedy that. He will start weak and become substantially stronger over the course of 100 chapters or so. If that doesn't jive with you, I suppose this is not your story. 2. He makes mistakes--as do all reasonable protagonists. 3. HE IS NOT DANTE. He is a person with his powers. Don't expect a 1:1 personality mapping. You will be disappointed.
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SOVEREIGN PROTOCOL: Rise Through System

Aren Vale had one year left. One year to escape the cycle of survival jobs, eviction notices, and the slow drowning that came from being gutter-born in the sovereign state of Veltrion. He'd tried before. Dropped out of Aetherium Academy's Ascension Year at seventeen, working nights, sleeping through days, watching his grades slide from promising to invisible. Six months later, he hit bottom in a free clinic with exhaustion and a letter that said: Thirty days. Pay or vacate. Then he woke up again. One month before exams. Body younger. Memories intact. A second chance without explanation. And something else. Something waiting. [SOVEREIGN PROTOCOL INITIALIZING...] A system that doesn't grant power—it reveals capability. No combat levels. No fantasy mana. Just tasks, growth, and the brutal mathematics of impact: help yourself by creating value for others. Learn faster. Decide smarter. Build something that lasts. But Veltrion doesn't reward merit easily. The Spire-lords hoard opportunity. The Lattice of finance and power runs on connections Aren doesn't have. And his "non-cooperative" withdrawal from Aetherium left bridges burned, doors closed, and administrators who remember his name. The system offers structure. Stability. A path from Stage 1 Foundation to Stage 5 Sovereign through knowledge, business, and social impact. What it can't offer is trust. Relationships. The willingness to need someone. Aren has thirty days to re-enroll, rebuild, and prove the statistics wrong—the ones that say ninety-four percent of users abandon the Protocol within ninety days. He's been abandoned before. By institutions. By people. By his own hope. This time, the system stays. The question is whether he can. Progression | Contemporary | Psychological | Drama From gutter to Spire. From invisible to undeniable. From potential to protocol.
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