SURVIVAL OF THE WEAKEST TO BECOME THE STRONGEST

“When the world ended, only the ruthless survived.” On the day of the apocalypse, the skies bled red and humanity changed forever. Those who adapted evolved. Those who didn’t became monsters. Arden, an orphan crushed by a lifetime of oppression, awakens to the new world with nothing but weak stats and a single stroke of luck—a shadow manipulation skill born from slaying a monstrous serpent. Shadows bend to his will, but power alone isn’t enough. In a world where beasts devour flesh, the dead rise as zombies, and evolution decides who thrives or dies, Arden must claw his way from the weakest of the weak… to the strongest of all. The path is merciless. The blood will never stop flowing. And in the shadows, an empire awaits.