The world ends in a single moment.

When the Mass Outbreak Event shatters reality, portals tear open across the globe, unleashing monsters that drive civilization to collapse. As cities burn and order crumbles, a game-like System activates across humanity, granting survivors levels, skills, and abilities, and forcing the world into a brutal new set of rules.

Eighteen-year-old Jagger Ashton is dragged into this new reality where monsters are only part of the danger. Humans, twisted by power, fear, and desperation, prove just as deadly. Every encounter pushes Jagger closer to the edge, testing his sanity and the fragile line between control and corruption.

Jagger begins to uncover a terrifying truth.
The Outbreak was not just an invasion. It was a selection process.
The System is preparing the world for something far worse.

And whatever is coming… it wants strong survivors.

To survive what lies ahead, Jagger must confront the power festering inside him and choose whether to master it or surrender to it entirely.

The golden light descended from the clouds in a single, silent column. It made no sound, stirred no dust, but the air itself seemed to be still as it passed. It hit Jagger's body, surrounding him in golden light that poured over him like liquid sunshine.


A myriad of notification panels exploded in front of him.


[All negative status effects have been cleansed!]


[1x Elite Rank gift box has been added to your inventory]


[3x mid-grade Health Potions have been added to your inventory]


[New title has been acquired: Herald Slayer]


Golden light flooded through every torn fiber of him.


Chapter 95 - Orders to Stay