Graveborn Gladiator

When burnout game designer Callum Vale dies under suspicious circumstances, he wakes in the corpse-pit beneath the imperial arena of Veyrath with a cracked System window hovering over his eyes and the worst starter class imaginable: Graveborn. His body is dead, his stats are broken, and the Empire brands undead as monsters to be harvested for cores. But Callum knows systems. He knows exploits. And when the arena throws him against beasts, nobles, assassins, and other desperate players, he starts turning every limitation into a build path no one has ever seen.

Each victory earns him loot, skills, and fragments of a forbidden patch note that suggests Veyrath is not a fantasy world at all, but a live-service afterlife designed to farm souls. To escape the arena, Callum must form a party of condemned champions, defeat impossible bosses, and climb from corpse to legend before the gods running the System notice the glitch wearing a gladiator’s chains.