Respawn Sovereign

When washed-up esports prodigy Callum Vale dies saving a stranger from a subway collapse, he wakes beneath a blood-red moon with a glowing interface carved into his vision: Welcome to the Shattered Ladder. Every human soul on Earth has been drafted into a ruthless LitRPG world where cities are dungeons, monsters drop currency, and survival depends on choosing a Class before the first night ends. Callum receives the worst starting option imaginable—Glitchbound, a broken Class with corrupted skills, unstable stats, and a death penalty no sane player would risk.

But Callum discovers what the System calls corruption, he can exploit. Failed quests reveal hidden routes. Broken loot evolves. Death itself becomes data. As he gathers a party of misfits—a shieldmaiden medic, a goblin merchant prince, a cursed beast-tamer, and a noble assassin hiding her true level—Callum climbs toward impossible power. Yet the Shattered Ladder is not a game. The final boss has already beaten Earth once, and Callum’s respawns are awakening something ancient inside him.