Respawn Thief: The Zero-Level King

When failed speedrunner Cassian Vale dies during a midnight marathon, he wakes beneath a blood-red sky with a cracked interface burned into his vision: WELCOME TO EIDOLON. Everyone summoned to this brutal game-world receives a class, stats, and a tutorial weapon—everyone except Cassian. His status screen lists him as Level 0, Classless, Worthless, with a single glitched skill: Steal Respawn.

In Eidolon, death is temporary for heroes, permanent for monsters, and profitable for the System. Cassian discovers he can steal one trait, skill, or memory from anything that kills him, turning every defeat into progression. But his power comes with a terrifying price: each stolen respawn attracts the attention of the Crowned Admins, godlike raid bosses who run the world like a pay-to-win empire.

To survive, Cassian must gather a broken party of outcasts, exploit impossible dungeons, and climb from bug to boss-killer before the System patches him out of existence.